If There Was A Nobel Prize For Lies...

No lies by Chomsky are to be found in this article, it's laughable the way the words are twisted and individual quotes are taken out of context. If anyone is being dishonest, it's Alan Dershowitz, known for doing so on many occasions, always to the benefit of his agendas, one of them being a pro-Israel Zionist.

For example:

Chomsky has said in interviews that "we don't even know their names," referring to the arrested militants. But a quick check of newspapers reveals that their names are Osama and Mostafa Muamar, whose father is Ali Muamar, a notorious Hamas leader.

In English speaking countries probably wouldn't be taken literally. That indeed is the only case for mistruth in the article, and clearly would have to be represented in a completely dishonest way itself, i.e. lying.

Harold Pinter is far from naïve. Here is a section of his Nobel acceptance speech from 2005:

I was present at a meeting at the US embassy in London in the late 1980s.

The United States Congress was about to decide whether to give more money to the Contras in their campaign against the state of Nicaragua. I was a member of a delegation speaking on behalf of Nicaragua but the most important member of this delegation was a Father John Metcalf. The leader of the US body was Raymond Seitz (then number two to the ambassador, later ambassador himself). Father Metcalf said: 'Sir, I am in charge of a parish in the north of Nicaragua. My parishioners built a school, a health centre, a cultural centre. We have lived in peace. A few months ago a Contra force attacked the parish. They destroyed everything: the school, the health centre, the cultural centre. They raped nurses and teachers, slaughtered doctors, in the most brutal manner. They behaved like savages. Please demand that the US government withdraw its support from this shocking terrorist activity.'

Raymond Seitz had a very good reputation as a rational, responsible and highly sophisticated man. He was greatly respected in diplomatic circles. He listened, paused and then spoke with some gravity. 'Father,' he said, 'let me tell you something. In war, innocent people always suffer.' There was a frozen silence. We stared at him. He did not flinch.

As much as Dershowitz has every right to disagree with Chomsky, it's disingenuous to portray him as manipulating innocent academics.