Norman Finklestein
Historian and Political Scientist; Professor Emeritus
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Book(s):
- “The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering”
(May 14, 2024) - “Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom” (July 27, 2021)
- “Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict, New and Revised Edition” (May 17, 2003)
- “Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History” (June 2, 2008)
- “Method and Madness: The Hidden Story of Israel’s Assaults on Gaza” (January 13, 2015)
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Social Media:
NOTABLE QUOTE
“… According to the partition [ UN resolution 181 ], the Jewish Community would comprise approximately 56% of Palestine, that is to say, 56% was allocated to the Jewish Community, even as the population was 600,000. And 44% was allocated to the Arab population, even as its population was about 1,300,000.
[…] the Arab side formerly did not accept the partition resolution on two grounds. Ground number one, they were the indigenous population. Ground number two, they were the majority population. The Jewish side formally accepted the partition, but they were still determined to control or gain territorial control over the whole land of Israel, which the Zionist movement regarded as belonging to it based on several grounds. I’m not going to go into them.
In any event, the conflict quickly degenerated after the partition resolution. It quickly degenerated into open warfare, not just between the two communities in Palestine, but also with the neighboring Arab states …”
ABOUT PROFESSOR NORMAN FINKLESTEIN
Norman G. Finkelstein received his PhD from the Princeton University Politics Department in 1987. He is the author of many books that have been translated into 60 foreign editions, including THE HOLOCAUST INDUSTRY: Reflections on the exploitation of Jewish suffering, GAZA: An inquest into its martyrdom, and most recently, I ACCUSE! Herewith a proof beyond reasonable doubt that ICC Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda whitewashed Israel. He is currently writing a book tentatively titled, I’ll Burn That Bridge When I Get To It: Politically Incorrect Thoughts on Cancel Culture and Academic Freedom
In the year 2020, Norman Finkelstein was named the fifth most influential political scientist in the world.
(source: Bio from normanfinkelstein.com.)
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Norman Gary Finkelstein (born December 8, 1953) is an American political scientist and activist. His primary fields of research are the politics of the Holocaust and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Finkelstein was born in New York City to Jewish Holocaust-survivor parents. He is a graduate of Binghamton University and received his Ph.D. in political science from Princeton University. He has held faculty positions at Brooklyn College, Rutgers University, Hunter College, New York University, and DePaul University, where he was an assistant professor from 2001 to 2007.
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Finkelstein rose to prominence in 2000 after publishing The Holocaust Industry, a book in which he writes that the memory of the Holocaust is exploited as an ideological weapon to provide Israel a degree of immunity from criticism. He is a critic of Israeli policy and its governing class. The Israeli government barred him from entry to the country for ten years in 2008. Finkelstein has called Israel the “Jewish supremacist state”, and views it as committing the crime of apartheid against the Palestinian people. Through personal accounts in one of his books, he compares the plight of the Palestinians living under Israeli occupation with the horrors of the Nazis. Finkelstein’s most recent book on Palestine and Israel, published in 2018, is Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom.
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Finkelstein has described himself as a “forensic” scholar who has worked to demystify what he considers pseudo-scholarly arguments. He has written scathing academic reviews of several prominent writers and scholars who he says misrepresent facts in order to defend Israel’s policies and practices. His writings have dealt with politically charged topics such as Zionism, the demographic history of Palestine, and his allegations of the existence of a “Holocaust industry” that exploits the memory of the Holocaust to further Israeli political interests. He has also described himself as “an old-fashioned communist”, in the sense that he “see[s] no value whatsoever in states.”
Finkelstein’s work has been praised by scholars such as Noam Chomsky, the political scientist Raul Hilberg, and historian Avi Shlaim, and his advocates and detractors have remarked on his polemical style…”
(source: Bio from wikipedia)
