Norman Finkelstein
✓ Source-basedstableAmerican political scientist (born 1953)
Norman Gary Finkelstein is an American political scientist and activist. His primary fields of research are the politics of the Holocaust and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Finkelstein at the University of Leeds in 2009
Finkelstein in 2005
Cover of the revised Finkelstein-Birn edition of A Nation on Trial
Finkelstein's public feud with jurist and academic Alan Dershowitz lasted for years and had a negative effect on Finkelstein's academic career
Finkelstein's tenure at DePaul University, Chicago, ended with a vote against granting him tenure. Weeks of protests ensued on campus in support of granting him a position at the university
Terminal 3 of Ben Gurion International Airport. Attempting to enter Israel in 2008, Finkelstein was detained at that airport for 24 hours and then deportedIn their own words 10
For the past 20 years the people of Gaza, half of whom are children, have been immured in a concentration camp. Today they breached the camp's walls.
Finkelstein's Substack entry (October 7, 2023), as cited in Barbara Kay "The useful idiots trotted out to bash Israel", National Post
That said, sometimes I feel that Israel has come out of the boils of the hell, a satanic state.
"Norman Finkelstein: Israel is committing a holocaust in Gaza", Today's Zaman (19 January 2009).
My parents -- we lived in Brooklyn, NY, we owned a house -- my parents were difficult people, they didn't get along with anyone.
Source: Talk at Santa Cruz, CA (October 23, 2006).
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