THE HOLOCAUST INDUSTRY: REFLECTIONS ON THE EXPLOITATION OF JEWISH SUFFERING (Second Edition)

		Raul Hilberg, most distinguished historian on the Nazi holocaust and member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, comments on the first edition of The Holocaust Industry: "When I read Finkelstein's book, The Holocaust Industry , at the time of its appearance, I was in the middle of my own investigations of these matters, and I came to the conclusion that he was on the right track. I refer now to the part of the book that deals with the claims against the Swiss banks, and the other claims pertaining to forced labor. I would now say in retrospect that he was actually conservative, moderate and that his conclusions are trustworthy. He is a well-trained political scientist, has the ability to do the research, did it carefully, and has come up with the right results. I am by no means the only one who, in the coming months or years, will totally agree with Finkelstein's breakthrough." More of Hilberg's statements on The Holocaust Industry and Finkelstein here.
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"Informing Finkelstein's analysis is a universal ethics... He, and not the Jewish organizations he criticizes, is following the example set by the great Jewish prophets."



"...clever, explosive, sometimes even wryly funny."



"... a short, sharp and copiously noted polemic."



"... his basic argument that memories of the Holocaust are being debased is serious and should be given its due."



"... Finkelstein has raised some important and uncomfortable issues... examples cited can be breathtaking in their angry accuracy and irony."



"Finkelstein is at his best when he skewers those who would sacralize the Holocaust..."

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07.16.10 ::

Ten years ago this past month my book The Holocaust Industry was published. It evoked outrage from the Jewish-Holocaust-Israel establishment and marked the beginning of the end of my academic career. I lost my job at Hunter College right after its publication and Depaul University cited it as grounds for denying me tenure in 2007. Much of the outrage was directed at the chapter entitled The Double Shakedown, in which I documented the Holocaust industry’s blackmail of European governments in the name of “needy Holocaust victims” and then the shakedown of Holocaust victims by the Jewish organizations that pocketed the “Holocaust compensation” monies. Although controversial then, it has now become a commonplace how corrupt this racket was. Nearly all the principals in the Holocaust shakedown racket — Rabbi Israel Singer, Alan Hevesi, Burt Neuborne, Neal Sher, Melyvn Weiss, Edward Fagan, Avraham Herschson — have been exposed as crooks. A central role in this racket has been played by the Claims’ Conference. I post below a recent chapter in the sordid saga. I would enter one caveat however: the biggest crooks are not those who embezzled money from the Crooks’ Conference but those who run it, in particular the filthy Greg Schneider. Out of deference to the memory of my late parents, I categorically oppose the death penalty (both my parents vehemently opposed it), but out of respect for their memory I also certainly wouldn’t mind if all these characters were hoisted on the nearest lamppost by ropes around their necks.

07.10.10 ::

Why am I not surprised?

06.07.10 ::

Page Six of the New York Post reports that Mark wrote this article while getting serviced in his Upper Eastside jacuzzi. He then went out for pizza with the “high-priced” call girl. (She paid for her slice.)

06.02.10 ::

Now let’s all sing together, “If he only had a brain.”

04.03.10 ::

Get off your phony moral high horse

03.04.10 ::

Deutschland Uber Alles

03.02.10 ::

I am shocked, shocked!

02.06.10 ::

Please post under: In landmark revision of Rome Statute, International Criminal Court Lists Elie Wiesel alongside Apartheid as a Crime Against Humanity

01.31.10 ::

“we are frankly at a loss to understand why Jew-hatred and anti-Israelism continue to thrive” — Let me help you: If I dropped white phosphorus on my neighbors’ home in the name of the Jewish people, I suspect they wouldn’t love me or Jews either.

01.29.10 ::

EXCELLENT

01.28.10 ::

FINKELSTEIN ON HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY

01.27.10 ::

Here’s a fool-proof method to stop the spread of anti-Semitism: Israel should re-christen itself the “State of the Vandal People.”

01.27.10 ::

In embarrassing diplomatic row, Wiesel denounces German Chancellor Merkel: “She promised to pay me two million dollars per word. I spent all night with my dictionary connecting words randomly to soak these Nazis for every dollar I could squeeze out of them. Now she says that she promised to pay me two million LIRA per word.”

01.27.10 ::

Date: The year 2050 Setting: In the past 40 years Israel has nuked almost every country on the planet Script: Invoking the memory of the Holocaust for the 100th consecutive year, Prime Minister Bibi Jr. warns world that Nauru poses existential threat to Israel — “If we don’t obliterate it now, the evil will spread.”

01.27.10 ::

Annual Jewish Agency report shows that 42% of West Europeans tell the truth

01.27.10 ::

Foxman donates 26 of his 37 chins to the memory of THE HOLLOW-CAUST

01.05.10 ::

Holocaust Hucksters Inc. to Sue Estate of Abraham Lincoln for Holocaust compensation; class-action lawsuit on behalf of 27,553,364 needy Holocaust victims alleges that former president used Jewish slave labor to build his log cabin

12.28.09 ::

Mickey Mouse sends Donald Duck to Jerusalem to speak on anti-Disneyism

12.26.09 ::

Climatologists reconvene in emergency session at Copenhagen; Delegates to discuss effects of disappearance of Auschwitz sign on polar ice cap and carbon emissions; UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon expresses “concern” after Israel threatens to nuke Amazon rainforest if sign isn’t returned

12.25.09 ::

Washington to convene international conference on missing Auschwitz sign. Workshops include: Ben Bernanke, “Impact of the Auschwitz sign’s disappearance on the elasticity of the long-term business cycle and short-term interest rates”; Stanley Fish, “A Lacanian analysis of the Auschwitz sign as a discursive Foucauldian trope”; Dominick LaCapra, “A Derridean analysis of the Auschwitz sign as a discursive Lacanian trope”; Elie Wiesel, “There was only one Holocaust. (May I have my honorarium now?)”; Abraham Foxman, “Contrasting and comparing the disappearance of the Auschwitz sign with the atomic bombing of Hiroshima”; Tom Friedman, “The Auschwitz sign’s disappearance as a metaphor for high-tech industry in Shanghai”.

12.18.09 ::

Leading Mickey Mouse scholars to meet in Jerusalem; announce plans for global protest against proliferation of anti-Mickey Mouse-ism; Abe Foxman also warns against rising tide of anti-Donald Duck-ism — “Not since the 1930s have fans of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck faced such a dire threat”; but Minnie Mouse publicly rebuked by Elie Wiesel after she alleges that threat against her husband worse than The Holocaust

10.21.09 ::

Wherever and whenever there is a buck to be made I must do something to honor the memory of the money I lost to Madoff. Am I living in fear? I must alleviate my bank account. If there’s a gullible audience, the show must go on.

10.13.09 ::

Anti-semitism: it’s spreading everywhere

10.11.09 ::

Oren on Golstone: Worse than Achmadinejad…worse than Holocaust deniers….worse than Auschwitz…worse than beet borscht

10.09.09 ::

Would they allow depictions of a hook-nosed Jew in a campaign poster opposing more synagogues?

09.25.09 ::

Gideon Levy on Holocaust-mongers in High Places

06.18.09 ::

Where are Burt Neuborne, “Rabbi” Israel Singer, Edgar “I speak for the Six Million Dead Jews” Bronfman, and all the Holocaust hucksters now?

06.18.09 ::

Jewish groups urge those displaying Palestine flags to be deported to Saskatchewan

05.26.09 ::

One loony people, one loony state, one loony leader

05.12.09 ::

Avnery on the Israeli prostitution