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The Faurisson affair was an academic controversy following publication of a book, Mémoire en défense (1980), by French professor Robert Faurisson, a Holocaust denier, and the inclusion of an essay by American linguist Noam Chomsky, entitled "Some Elementary Comments on the Rights of Freedom of Expression", as an introduction to Faurisson's book.
Faurisson has since been convicted under French law for his Holocaust denial on several occasions, including in October 2006, when he was sentenced to a three-month suspended sentence by the Paris correctional court, for denying the Holocaust on an Iranian TV channel.[1]
The Faurisson affair damaged Chomsky's reputation in France, a country he did not visit for almost thirty years following the affair. Translation of his political writings into French was delayed until the 2000s.[2][3][4]
- ^ "Peine avec sursis pour Faurisson". Libération. 4 October 2006. Retrieved 9 June 2010.
- ^ Birnbaum, Jean (3 June 2010). "Chomsky à Paris : chronique d'un malentendu". Le Monde des Livres. Retrieved 8 June 2010.
- ^ Birnbaum, Jean (3 June 2010). "Il ne cache pas son mépris pour les intellectuels parisiens". Le Monde des Livres. Retrieved 8 June 2010.
- ^ Aeschimann, Eric (31 May 2010). "Chomsky s'est exposé, il est donc une cible désignée". Liberátion. Archived from the original on 26 September 2012. Retrieved 8 June 2010.