Israel Arrests Outspoken Academic Norman Finkelstein
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well now...
http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/norman-finkelstein-arrested-in-israel/
Nice argument....a must watch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDe65-nF3FQ
"And the American academic Norman Finkelstein has been arrested and ordered deported from Israel. Finkelstein arrived in Tel Aviv earlier today on his way to the Occupied Territories. He was immediately detained and told he is banned from Israel for ten years. He’s expected to be deported tomorrow. Finkelstein is known one of the most prominent academic critics of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza."
http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/norman-finkelstein-arrested-in-israel/
Nice argument....a must watch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDe65-nF3FQ
"And the American academic Norman Finkelstein has been arrested and ordered deported from Israel. Finkelstein arrived in Tel Aviv earlier today on his way to the Occupied Territories. He was immediately detained and told he is banned from Israel for ten years. He’s expected to be deported tomorrow. Finkelstein is known one of the most prominent academic critics of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza."
Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg
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and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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Now that's democracy in action!
Looks like his main contention in his latest book was spot on...
http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Chutzpah-Misuse-Anti-Semitism-History/dp/0520249895/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211669884&sr=8-1
'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 part of the book examines what he feels is a growing tendency of pro-Israel commentators to use spurious charges of anti-Semitism to deflect and discredit legitimate criticism of Israel. The second, much longer, part is a line-by-line debunking of The Case for Israel, which he compares to Communist apologetics for Stalinist Russia. Rebutting Dershowitz's claims about Israel's "superb" human rights record, Finkelstein cites human rights organizations like Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the Israeli group B'Tselem to document Israeli abuses in the occupied territories, including killings of Palestinian civilians, torture of Palestinian prisoners and home demolitions. Lengthy appendices flesh out his explosive assertion that Dershowitz plagiarized the historical research and interpretations (but not the actual phrasing) of Joan Peters's From Time Immemorial. The Middle East conflict rarely inspires calm discussion, and Finkelstein duly pillories his opponents as perpetrators of "hoax" and "fraud" who lack "ordinary moral values" and whose behavior resembles anti-Semitic stereotypes. Inflammatory rhetoric aside, he does raise serious questions about the veracity, scholarly methods and fairness of Dershowitz and others. More important, he presents a wealth of evidence on the human rights situation in the occupied territories, so often ignored in American debate on these issues. Exhaustively researched and meticulously-if intemperately-argued, Finkelstein's book is a formidable challenge to the conventional wisdom on the Middle East.'
Olmert questioned on 'corruption'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7416274.stm
And the killing continues...
Five killed in Gaza incursions
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7416379.stm
Testimony: Soldiers blow up door of family home, killing the mother, and leave body with her children, Gaza, May 2008
Samira a-Daghameh, 13
http://www.btselem.org/english/Testimonies/20080507_killing_of_Wafa_a_a_Daghameh.asp
Just watched this. Spot on. I only actually heard of this fella a few days ago when reading Michael Neumann's book.
I'll have to check out some more.
Edit: Just downloading this now...
http://www.mininova.org/tor/193689
and this..
http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3538742/Hot_House__10000_Palestinian_Prisons_in_Israeli_Jails_(1h38)
Finkelstein speaks cold hard reality in massive doses.
Now you know why they want to shut him up so badly.
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg
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israels treatment of Palestinians (christian and muslim) = apartheid
this is the 60 year anniversary of Palestine being " wiped off the map"
http://www.mininova.org/tor/193689
'The facts are not complicated. Finkelstein dispels the ideological fog surrounding this historic conflict.
Finkelstein lays out the history of the Israel/Palestine conflict with clarity and passion, arguing that any other similar conflict would be perfectly understood, yet this one exists beneath a blanket of ideological fog. Finkelstein cuts through the fog with indisputable historical facts, optimistic that the struggle is winnable, and that it is simply an issue of justice.
Norman Finkelstein was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1953. He is the son of two holocaust survivors. He received his doctorate from Princeton University, for a thesis on the theory of Zionism. He is the author of four books, including The Holocaust Industry, his writings have also appeared in many prestigious journals. Currently, he teaches political science at DePaul University in Chicago.'
mucho gracias, hermano
he had a voice that was strong and loud and
i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
eager to identify with
someone above the crowd
someone who seemed to feel the same
someone prepared to lead the way
thanks that was an excellent youtube clip! that guy nailed it
he had a voice that was strong and loud and
i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
eager to identify with
someone above the crowd
someone who seemed to feel the same
someone prepared to lead the way
Someone posted a little bit about Norman Finkelstein (I think Byrnzie) and the end said that he teaches at DePaul, but that must be a year old. He stopped teaching there after he was denied tenure (Dershowitz campaigned for that and the board ended up denying him tenure, claiming there was no outside influence...) so I believe he resigned. just a heads up on what's been going on with him.
Norman Finkelstein is amazing though.
Also, there is this website dedicated to him - http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=11&ar=1057 - and there's some really interesting stuff here.
Part one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-FLIBkTg8g&feature=related
Part two
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbDMam_jGVk&feature=related
Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_j2XH4tOK4&feature=related
Part four
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5cYaCWfWNY
Part five
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQUXuixbYdU&feature=related
Part Six
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEa8JBlCnx8&feature=related
http://onebigtorrent.org/torrents/3406/Democracy-Now-20030924-The-famous-Norman-Finkelstein-vs-Alan-Dershowitz
This is the full version (2 parts conjoined in one file) of the famous debate at Democracy Now! (http://www.democracynow.org) between professor Alan Dershowitz at Harvard and professor Norman Finkelstein at DePaul university.
'The debate - probably the most famous episode of Democracy Now! - ultimately led to Finkelstein losing his tenure at DePaul after a massive lobbying campaign against him, spearheaded by Dershowitz. Professor Noam Chomsky at MIT later called Dershowitz' campaign "a jihad against Finkelstein". (Part one - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8ENawcSliA - Part two - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBclWDYuoxI ) The debate itself is about Dershowitz book The case for Israel, where he defends Israel's foreign policies. Finkelstein calls the book "a collection of fraud, falsification, plagiarism and nonsense". After having watched the debate, one can only agree.'