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Norman Finkelstein

Norman Gary Finkelstein (born December 8, 1953) is an American political scientist, activist, professor, and author. His primary fields of research are the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust, an interest motivated by the experiences of his parents who were Jewish Holocaust survivors. He is a graduate of Binghamton University and received his Ph.D in political science at 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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As Israel becomes like South Africa, it's increasingly becoming a pariah state, being excluded from culture at large.

Culture, Increasingly, Israel, Like, South Africa, State

Every victory of Hezbollah, I celebrate.

Celebrate, Hezbollah, Victory

My parents often wondered why I would grow so indignant at the falsification and exploitation of the Nazi genocide. The most obvious answer is that it has been used to justify criminal policies of the Israeli state and US support for these policies.

Criminals, Exploitation, Parent, Parents, Support, Used

Judging by opinion polls, Israel has bigger problems than me. It is among the most hated countries on the planet. It should stop acting like a lunatic state. Once it carries on like a normal country, I will be happily redirect my energies elsewhere.

Country, Crazy, Hate, Lunatic, Normal, Problems

State terrorism - and yet the Israeli invasion Goldstone investigated is still commonly referred to as the Gaza War.

Gaza, Terrorism, War

September 11 was a godsend for Israel. It could now conjoin its merciless persecution of the Palestinians with Bush's War against Terror. But my impression is that it wasn't altogether successful.

Israel, Palestinians, Persecution, Successful, War

The Holocaust has proven to be an indispensable ideological weapon. Through its deployment, one of the world's most formidable military powers, with a horrendous human rights record, has cast itself as a "victim" state, and the most successful ethnic group in the US has likewise acquired victim status.

Holocaust, Indispensable, Military, Rights, Status, Successful

The Holocaust industry has always been bankrupt. What remains is to openly declare it so. The time is long past to put it out of business.

Bankrupt, Business, Holocaust, Long, Openly, Past

I don't feel particularly attached to Israel - 'nationalism,' as Noam Chomsky said, 'is not my cup of tea' - but I feel no particular need to demonize it.

Attached, Israel, Needs, Particularly, Tea

Why should these Palestinians, who have lived in Jerusalem for hundreds of years, be evicted from their homes so that Jews from Brooklyn can live in them?

Brooklyn, Evicted, Home, Homes, Hundreds, Years

There's nothing Israel can do without US support. It can't breathe without US support. The US bankrolls everything, and it's just silly to think that Israel can do anything without the support.

Breathe, Israel, Nothing, Silly, Support, Thinking

International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.

Achieve, Determination, Fighting, International, Self

There's no question that public opinion is changing, and if you're a person of the left, your goal is presumably to try to mobilize public opinion to affect elite policy; and I think now there are unusual, unprecedented opportunities to do so.

Goal, Opportunity, Policy, Question, Thinking, Unprecedented

They used to say Palestinians fight like heroes, now they say heroes fight like Palestinians

Fight, Fighting, Hero, Heroes, Like, Used

The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours.

1967, Arab, Holocaust, Israel, Neighbours, War

It's utterly hypocritical for Israelis to wonder aloud why Palestinians don't pursue a non-violent strategy. One obvious reason is that, whenever they have, Israel brutally represses it.

Aloud, Israel, Palestinians, Strategy, Whenever, Wonder

Goldstone has done terrible damage to the cause of truth and justice and the rule of law. He has poisoned Jewish-Palestinian relations, undermined the courageous work of Israeli dissenters and-most unforgivably-increased the risk of another merciless IDF assault.

Cause, Goldstone, Justice, Law, Relations, Risk

I earn - I'm not - I don't want to claim I'm a scholar of great stature, but I have made a certain reputation for myself, I've published several books, I've never been able to get a permanent teaching job.

Book, Claim, Jobs, Scholar, Teaching

I think Israel, as a number of commentators pointed out, is becoming an insane state. And we have to be honest about that. While the rest of the world wants peace, Europe wants peace, the US wants peace, but this state wants war, war and war.

Israel, Number, Peace, Pointed, Thinking, War

I'm politically on the left, no question about it. I oppose sweatshops, I oppose exploitation of labour in the third world.

Exploitation, Left, Politically, Sweatshops, World

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