Finkelstein radio interview with Bob McChesney
The interview is here: http://www.will.uiuc.edu/am/mediamatters/ Streaming version of it is here: Real Player MP3 download of it is here: Mp3
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Norman G. Finkelstein
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Archive for August, 2005
The Real Issue Is Israel’s Human Rights Record
A statement by Norman G. Finkelstein upon publication of Beyond Chutzpah Professor Alan Dershowitz of Harvard University is currently best known for his advocacy of the “most excruciating” torture against terrorist suspects such as a “needle being shoved under the fingernails.” The alleged purpose of this torture is to extract a truthful confession but its [...]
Read more →Dershowitz in super-panic mode
Editor’s note: A brief reply by Finkelstein is appended below. See also Who Was Maryla Husyt Finkelstein?. STATEMENT OF ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ http://www.law.harvard.edu/ Norman Finkelstein, and his publisher University of California Press (UCP), have undertaken a systematic media attack on me in order to generate publicity for an anachronistic and irrelevant book that would otherwise [...]
Read more →THE BLACKLISTING BEGINS…
These bookstores have rescinded invitations to host an event for Beyond Chutzpah: 1) Harvard Bookstore, 1256 Mass Ave, Cambridge MA 02138 Harvard Bookstore contacted University of California Press and scheduled an event for September 29, 2005. The bookstore has now rescinded the invitation. You might want to express your opinion of this courageous defense of [...]
Read more →J’accuse
It’s a dispute that involves just about every emotive issue you can think of – Israel, Palestine, human rights, freedom of speech. Gary Younge dissects the academic battle that has gripped America In his landmark book, Democracy in America, the 19th-century French intellectual Alexis de Tocqueville commented on the fever pitch to which American polemics [...]
Read more →The First Review of Beyond Chutzpah – and it Ain’t Bad
Finkelstein, a political science professor and author of The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering, has conducted a rancorous public feud with Harvard Law professor and pro-Israel stalwart Alan Dershowitz over the latter’s The Case for Israel, and here expands his arguments into a vigorous polemic on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The first [...]
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