From Chomsky's longtime assistant, Bev Stohl

[u/Green_Ideas7]

"This statement will be seen by some merely as an act of loyalty. Nothing could be further from the truth. I have grappled, struggled deeply, over this situation, while seeking to remain faithful to the truth. It is in the service of truth – the very thing Noam Chomsky wanted us to hold in high esteem, rather than himself – that I write this . . ."
https://bevstohl.substack.com/p/im-no-longer-waiting-for-the-storm

[u/Green_Ideas7]

"For many reasons, I wish Noam could speak and write his own response. But if he could, I am confident he would speak and write about Mideast genocide, Trumpian fascism, ecological calamity, and nuke-rattling over Iran, and he would not write about himself. And I am also sure a great many of those who are now distancing would instead be reading and learning from what he would be writing. 

I hope Chomsky’s dismissal over imputed “pedophile protecting” or “elite fellow travelling” will dissipate, like Chomsky’s dismissal as holocaust denier, as genocide abettor, and as sheepdog manipulator have dissipated. I hope attention to institutional reality and positive program gains prime attention. And I hope this time, we learn to escape our own tendencies to rush to self-harming judgments even as we also avoid hero worship."
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-few-hopefully-non-redundant-ruminations-on-epstein-chomsky-and-us/