Norman Finkelstsein - the terrible

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Anti-Defamation League | Former Depaul Professor, Norman Finkelstein to Speak at KinderUSA Fundraiser | Midwest

Finkelstein to Speak at KinderUSA Fundraiser

April 26, 2012

Norman G. Finkelstein, an anti-Israel academic whose career has been marked by a vitriolic hatred of Zionism and Israel, is scheduled to be the "Special Guest Speaker" at the 10th anniversary celebration of KinderUSA, an organization whose stated mission is to "alleviate the suffering of children and their families in Palestine and beyond." The May 5 event in Long Beach, billed as: "A Decade of Giving," is endorsed by the Los Angeles-based Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC). In a press release for the event, MPAC's Senior Advisor Dr. Maher Hathout said, "I think everyone who comes will walk out informed and inspired as well...you will listen to perspectives that you will not hear on CNN or the official media that is always giving us our narrative. It's about time to hear the narrative coming from ourselves to ourselves."

To learn more please check out ADL Access– a blog that is focused on extremism.
https://chicago.adl.org/former-depaul-professor-norman-finkelstein-to-speak-at-kinderusa-fundraiser/

Denial: Norman Finkelstein and the New Antisemitism
by Alan Johnson
August-2018
https://fathomjournal.org/denial-norman-finkelstein-and-the-new-antisemitism/

Did Norman Finkelstein Just Deny the Holocaust?

AUG 1, 2020, 10:26 PM

Kevin Berk
Honestly, at this point, things such as this should not be surprising but somehow Finkelstein always finds a new way to make me sick

Now, to be fair, Dr. Norman Finkelstein did not specifically state that the Shoah never happened. What Finkelstein did was question or excuse others for questioning the number of victims and the means by which they were killed, which according to the International Holocaust Remembrance Association is Anti-Semitism in the form of Holocaust Denial as it is "Denying the fact, scope, mechanisms (e.g. gas chambers) or intentionality of the genocide of the Jewish people at the hands of National Socialist Germany and its supporters and accomplices during World War II (the Holocaust)." This occured when he in this video stated:
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/did-norman-finkelstein-just-deny-the-holocaust/

Alexander, Edward; Bogdanor, Paul, eds. (2017) [2006]. The Jewish Divide Over Israel: Accusers and Defenders. Abingdon, Oxon, London & New York City: Routledge. p. 154. ISBN 9781351480499.

The Verdict of the Historians To any serious reader, it is clear that The Holocaust Industry is not a courageous exposé by a marginalized dissident but a toxic stream of defamations, falsifications, and fabrications aimed at his fellow Jews.
That is also the verdict of historians. According to Ronnie Landau, it is "an ideological rant masquerading as scholarship... a dance on the graves ...dance on the graves of the Jewish dead." According to David Cesarani, its "flimsy" argument "rests on the misinterpretation of history and questionable use of sources" and is "distorted by a venomous dislike of the 'American Jewish elites.' According to Omer Bartov, it is "an ideological fanatic's view of other people's opportunism" by a writer who is "reckless and ruthless in his attacks." According to Israel Gutman, it is "a lampoon, which takes a serious subject and distorts it for improper purposes. I don't even think it should be reviewed or critiqued as a legitimate book." According to Hans Mommsen, it is "a most trivial book, which appeals to easily aroused antisemitic prejudices." According to Ronald W. Zweig, "Finkelstein's falsifications" are in danger of becoming "the twenty-first century version of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion."

Such a bill of indictment would give pause to an honest author. But what is the combined weight of the historical profession when set against the antiJewish conspiracy theories of Norman G. Finkelstein?

... This is surely self-evident to the neo-Nazis who sing his praises, to the Holocaust deniers who republish his books on their websites, to the legions of enthusiasts eager to hear that the wicked Zionists are the source of all the evils that beset the human race. In Finkelstein's mental universe, Israeli Jews are a "parasitic class," but Hezbollah terrorists are the paragons of liberation. In his scholarly judgment...
https://books.google.com/books?id=cDwrDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA154

Bartov, Omer (August 6, 2000). "A Tale of Two Holocausts". The New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/06/books/a-tale-of-two-holocausts.html

Landau, Ronnie (July 21, 2000). "A grubby story?". The Spectator. p. 30.
http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/22nd-july-2000/31/books
https://books.google.com/books?id=66rhAAAAMAAJ&q=masquerading

Paterson, Tony (February 18, 220). "German outrage at Holocaust book". The Daily Telegraph. London.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1323166/German-outrage-at-Holocaust-book.html

Paraded by a Wikipedian infamous long time hater, portraying Middle East conflict as "non-Jews"... vs Jews.
[Quote ..."was dismantled by several studies since the end of the war, and was definitively buried by MNorman Finkelstein's 2018 analysis of the Israeli lies. Contemporary newspapers only represent news feeds from the IDF as part of its win the minds and hearts of goys, and has no place here."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/972379035]
http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/259923
Nishidani anti Jewish hate campaign on Wikipedia
Submitted by Terry, SF (United States), Aug 14, 2020
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