Chomsky has a long tradition of whitewashing human right abuse - in 1977 he did just the same thing for Khmer Rouge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide_denial#Chomsky_and_Herman
That Wikipedia section does not provide any evidence of Chomsky whitewashing the Pol Pot genocide; it only provides evidence of people trying to claim that. Look at Chomsky's books themselves rather than how people try to interpret them.
The image of text you've pasted is not denying or whitewashing the Uighur genocide.
The text is missing context (interviewer? audience?), but presumably it's to a US audience, holding more political responsibility in Palestine than in China.
> The text is missing context
This is indeed a problem though - I've double checked and Chomsky generally acknowledges human right abuses in China, so this comment seems to be just part of his traditional anti-US rhetoric.
Just one more quick comment: what I find disappointing (but not surprising) is that Falun Gong organ harvesting gets so much less Western mainstream media coverage than Xinjiang:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Gong_practitioners_in_China
There are *some* recent (2019) media articles:
See also: #TigrayGenocide (ongoing)
@kravietz
I wouldn't call it "anti-US rhetoric". Opposing the military and economic foreign policy of your country is not opposing "your country", it's rather carrying out one's ethical obligations as a citizen of your country, generalising the Hippocratic oath: "First do no harm."
Something like "anti-US-foreign-policy focus" would be better, or better yet would be "anti-one's-own-country's-foreign-policy focus".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath