Aaronovitch and his fellow complainants objected to the correction, arguing that Prof Chomsky "most certainly does seem to believe that ... Srebrenica was not a massacre". He had in the past put that case, they said, "directly and unambiguously".

In his adjudication Mr Willis disagreed, finding that Prof Chomsky had said nothing in the interview to justify the claim that he had put massacre in quotation marks. "Nor in the long complaint from David Aaronovitch and others is there a direct quote from Chomsky that supports an opposite view."