Norman G. Finkelstein
Norman G. Finkelstein is the author of A Nation on Trial (with Ruth Bettina Birn), named a notable book for 1998 by the New York Times Book Review, and Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict.Blog
The Palestine Papers—comment and historical context
Al Jazeera and the Guardian and Al Quds (Arabic) newspapers yesterday released over 1600 confidential documents laying open the last decade of Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. The papers go well beyond refuting the threadbare myth that the Israelis have had no 'partner for peace', and show rather how weak and incompetent officials betrayed Palestinians by offering to surrender "virtually everything except their salaries", as Tariq Ali puts it on the London Review of Books blog. As Ali notes, it is well worth revisiting Edward Said's prophetic 1994 article for the LRB in which he described the Oslo accords as a "Palestinian Versailles" in the light of these revelations.
Norman Finkelstein on The Holocaust Industry for "Cross Talk"
Recorded earlier this year to mark sixty-five years since the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops, in this CrossTalk video, Peter Lavelle asks his guests what the legacy of the Holocaust is today. Is its memory being abused? Does Israel use Holocaust as a blackmail weapon? Norman Finkelstein, author of The Holocaust Industry and Israel W. Charny discuss the issue in a heated debate.
Books
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Beyond Chutzpah
A meticulously researched exposé of the corruption of scholarship on the Israel–Palestine conflict.
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The Holocaust Industry
Controversial indictment of those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for their own gain.
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Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
A fully updated new edition, by the author of The Holocaust Industry.