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Norman G. Finkelstein
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Letters To Finkelstein
FROM A CORRESPONDENT
Letter from a Muslim
Dear mr Finkelstein, Today I’ve seen an incredible video at Facebook of you at the waterloo university in the us, giving your opinion about the holocaust/Palestinians to a girl in the audience. I found this so amazing that i took some time to search your information and send you this email to show you my [...]
Read more →Letter from Wall Street
I went down to Liberty Park yesterday, a lively scene despite rain. Did you hear about the NYT reporter arrested on the bridge this weekend? She confirms that police ushered demonstrators onto the roadway before arresting them. I’m sensing a shift in mainstream attitudes — even my eight-five-year-old mother-in-law was cheering us on — she’s [...]
Read more →Letter of the Day
Thanks you Mr, Finkelsein, Thank you so very much in your efforts to bring justice and truth back into the light. LINKtv has been intrumentl in that awareness. You may be a new hero for this reck-neck isolationist gun totin American. Im a derelict in quest of sovereingty and slowly beome aware of our need [...]
Read more →From a correspondent — How does one reply?
Hello Mr Finkelstein I would like to begin by stating that i truly appreciate you as a person and your work. You are a true inspiration for all people all over the world who stick up for their rights or for the rights of others , that don’t have the possibility to speak for themselves [...]
Read more →Free view of my latest youtube for the best response
Mr Finkelstein, As a soldier who served in Iraq, winning there a medal for valor, as a Jew, and as a person who grew up in Tel Aviv, I have to say that you are dangerous, dishonest, and your opinions border on treason. I can’t believe that a Jew would have your opinions. The flotilla, [...]
Read more →A correspondent’s meditations
Dear Dr. Finkelstein, I came to New York yesterday to hear you speak at NYU. First I want to say thank you for your dedication commitment to clinging to the truth. Second, I made the trip from Baltimore, where I currently reside, because of some of the things that I heard you say in the [...]
Read more →A correspondent on Gandhi, BDS and other topics
Dear Norman Finkelstein, I have never written a fan letter before, and to an academic and dissident it seems even more out of place. But, I feel compelled to do so to you. I do considered myself a “fan” of Norman Finkelstein—or rather, as I would like to think of myself, a colleague in training. [...]
Read more →On the youtube lady who cried and the youtube commentators who vomited: A close friend reflects
Referring to your film “American Radical”, I recently saw a scene from it which has become especially famous for your excellent response and handling of the situation, namely the “Crying Girl” scene, on youTube. I then read several hundred of the comments and was utterly aghast for several reasons. Unfortunately, the great majority of the [...]
Read more →Letter from a new friend
Dear Dr. Finkelstein, I hope this letter finds you in good health. I am a Saudi students currently pursuing my studies here in the US (Colorado in specific) and I am aiming to become a journalist. This past year I have had to deal with many issues that made it literally the worst year of [...]
Read more →Gaza witness
Dear Norman, I attended a lecture last night by Erik Fosse, who worked alongside Mads Gilbert at Shifa hospital in Gaza during the Israeli attacks. It was heart-wrenching stuff, and he showed photos and told stories which both saddened and infurieted everybody in attendance. He told us how he had worked at that hospital several [...]
Read more →From a Lebanese friend
Hi Norm , I just came back from the South ….What a scenery !!! What nature !!!!and definitely what people … Will tell you one story : A man had a daughter from a previous marriage and 3 children from a 2nd marriage . Anyways,during the 2006 War the daughter left her mom to be [...]
Read more →Worthy cause
Dear Friends, “When I see 1.4 million trapped in a situation of collective punishment, without rights, I have to raise that, and I will go on raising it.” These are the words of Mary Robinson, a former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and former president of Ireland, who was one of the few outsiders [...]
Read more →Worth pondering
Ponder the following: What if the Obamas had paraded five children across the stage, including a three month old infant and an unwed, pregnant teenage daughter? What if John McCain was a former president of the Harvard Law Review? What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class? What if McCain [...]
Read more →No comment
From: r.alsukhni[at]hotmail.com To: normangf[at]hotmail.com Subject: FW: [Fwd: SHAME ON U ARABS !!!!]. Thanks to the jew supporters of Palestinians Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:04:39 -0300
Read more →Family Values
From: “Ramzi & Zeina” zeina_ramzi[at]yahoo.com Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 2:42:14 AM Subject: Denied the right to go home (text in e-mail) June 21, 2008 I am Palestinian – born and raised – and my Palestinian roots go back centuries. No one can change that even if they tell me that Jerusalem, my birth place, [...]
Read more →To Ehud
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 15:28:03 -0400 From: ghossein[at]optonline.net Subject: a Jew with a gun ! To: normangf[at]hotmail.com To Ehud, “a Jew with a gun, a land that i made my own…” On May 27th, Haaretz published an editorial titled: “Who’s Afraid of Norman Finkelstein”? Why should a scholar, an “old style Jew without a [...]
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