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BEYOND CHUTZPAH : ON THE MISUSE OF ANTI-SEMITISM AND THE ABUSE OF HISTORY


In this long-awaited sequel to his international bestseller The Holocaust Industry, Norman G. Finkelstein moves from an iconoclastic interrogation of the new anti-Semitism to a meticulously researched expose of the corruption of scholarship on the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Bringing to bear the latest findings on the conflict and recasting the scholarly debate, Finkelstein points to a consensus among historians and human rights organizations on the factual record. Why, then, does so much controversy swirl around the conflict? Finkelstein's answer, copiously documented, is that apologists for Israel contrive controversy. Whenever Israel comes under international pressure, another media campaign alleging a global outbreak of anti-Semitism is mounted.

Finkelstein also scrutinizes the proliferation of distortion masquerading as history. Recalling Joan Peters' book From Time Immemorial, published to great fanfare in 1984 but subsequently exposed as an academic hoax, he asks deeply troubling questions here about the periodic reappearance of spurious scholarship and the uncritical acclaim it receives. The most recent addition to this mendacious genre, Finkelstein argues, is Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz's bestseller, The Case for Israel.

The core analysis of Beyond Chutzpah sets Dershowitz's assertions on Israel's human rights record against the findings of the mainstream human rights community. Sifting through thousands of pages of reports from organizations such as Amnesty International, B'Tselem, and Human Rights Watch, Finkelstein demonstrates that Dershowitz has systematically misrepresented the facts.

Thoroughly researched and tightly argued, Beyond Chutzpah lifts the veil of contrived controversy shrouding the Israel-Palestine conflict, enabling readers in search of a just and lasting peace to act on the basis of truth.

Antisemitismus als politische Waffe: Anhang (German translation of the Appendices; PDF)
German edition of Beyond Chutzpah.

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Praise For The Book

"Accurate, well-written, and devastatingly important."

-- Daniel Boyarin,
Professor of Talmudic Culture,
University of California at Berkeley


"The scholarship is simply superb. Finkelstein has clearly done his homework, and consulted and mastered a breathtaking range of material: primary sources and documents, scholarly works, reports old and new, correspondence with relevant individuals, and numerous other sources too. He has left no stone unturned."

-- Mouin Rabbani,
Senior Analyst,
International Crisis Group
Contributing Editor,
Middle East Report


"A very solid, important and highly informative book. Norman Finkelstein provides extensive details and analysis, with considerable historical depth and expert research, of a very wide range of issues concerning Israel, the Palestinians, and the U.S."

-- Noam Chomsky,
Institute Professor,
M.I.T.


"A brave and daring challenge, meticulously researched. Must reading for anyone committed to a just and enduring peace in the Middle East."

-- Amy Goodman,
host of Democracy Now!


"A vigorous, intelligent, succinct and powerfully argued analysis that is difficult if not impossible to reproach."

-- Sara Roy,
Senior Research Scholar,
Center for Middle Eastern Studies,
Harvard University
05.12.09 :: Finkelstein in Austin
05.12.09 :: The Gaza Massacre
03.12.09 :: Fertile imagination
12.31.08 :: War myths exposed



What we can do: On Gaza, West Bank, East Jerusalem & the Occupation: On the Lobby & "the New anti-Semitism" On Hezbollah & Hamas: Finkelstein on Israel: QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Video: On the place of civility
in academic life
(10.18.2007)
Finkelstein's talk at the academic freedom conference

Tenure Denial Letters
(June - November, 2007)

On How Actual Survivors Were Cheated by
Jewish Organizations:
Finkelstein on Jimmy Carter: Israeli civil libertarian's introduction to German edition of Beyond Chutzpah. (03.27.2006)

Communication for Middle East Journal. (02.19.2006)

Alleged Errors in Beyond Chutzpah. (2005)

MEMRI NAZIS (again) (10.23.2006)



New evidence of old lies (2005)
Under the heading DIABOLICAL PLOTS, I stated in Beyond Chutzpah...







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