Normal Finkelstein?

This time they (Grit TV) went too short. It was like they only just got started before they wrapped it all up.

I think what this guy has to say deserves some more time.

I caught a glimpse of some of his ideas here at CD in a Chris Hedges essay:

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/15-0

Rock on Norman, you have the courage that so many don't have to go against the grain and pay the tremendous consequences of the academic roadblocks that the pro-zionists have erected to block your tenure. If Ilan Pappe was in the US, he would have been not only denied tenure, he might have been arrested for defamation. In any other country in the world, including Israel, you would have been fully tenured because its only in this hypocrytical country (for now that is) that speaking out against Israel stigmatizes you.
Peace.
TS.

It is reassuring that fellow Jew, Norman Finlelstein, speaks the truth. GOOD Jews don't support Israeli arpartheid.

Bring America Back !!!!

****Isn't it just like capitalist America to raise such a stink about Palestine and Israel Real Estate settlements ?

****14 Months ago Israel slaughtered 1500 at Gaza, including over 300 innocent children. No sympathies from King George, nor from Team Obama. Factually, as Obama danced at his inauguration, the IDF proudly marched out of Gaza leaving their Genocide behind.

****(see Commondreams 1/12/2009 "The First Mistake: Barak Obamas Silence on Gaza) The Big Mistake continues.

If we cannot cry for 300 Dead Gazan children, then how can we find tears to shed for houses and real estate ?

The values and priorities here are Wrong Footed, and even the earthquakes and tsunamis should teach us where our prioritites need to change !!! But no, lessons not learned.

***J-street.org did a poll showing that the overwhelming
majority of American Jews are in strong support of Israel's
actions and Genocide at GAZA !

Can't cry for the dead kids, You can't cry for anything, and you have the sensitivity, passion, and nerves of Animals.
That includes Bush, Cheney, Obama, Emanuel, Clinton, Biden,
and the rest of the Cabal currently so rudely offended by
housing settlements. !!!!!!!!WAKE UP AMERICA !!!!

As a fellow Jew, I am proud of Norman Finkelstein and am ashamed of an Israeli government that would purposely lie to discredit the Goldstone Report......But, they do that all the time.

How much power Rahm Emanuel, an Israeli Citizen, has in the Obama Administration should have been discussed before his appointment and his objectivity should have been easily discredited. After being in the Clinton Administration Rahm Emanuel was able to amass over 15 million dollars in two years....He claimed he was a good consultant.....Who was he a consultant for?

The Brits, prior to World War I, had agreed to set up a Zionist state behind the backs of the Arabs who had been promised the return of all their lands, including Palestine. The Brits wanted a colony in the middle of the Arab oil fields......Tony Blair being named the negotiator was just one more slap to all Arabs. The United States will eventually use Israel to gain control of all the Arab Oil.

Laura Flanders is usually right on, but she should have cut Norman Finkelstein more slack. She just didn't let this fellow go full stride to telling the truth about Israeli abuse of power and oppression.

AD

Wow, I'm not sure it Finkelstein is gutsy or suicidal. Perhaps, both.

Reading a little of him on wikipedia, I can see that he needs to be constantly watching his back. I hope I'm wrong, but I get the feeling he's going to meet up with an accident. A Zionist accident.

Godspeed, Norman. The most dangerous thing in the world is to tell the truth.

This fellow's immediate family were victims of Holocaust. How can people be so silly as to call him a self hating Jew. He knows the real deal. George Soros who personally escaped the Holocaust has faced some of the same BS, since he doesn't go for all this Israel right or wrong weirdo non sense.

AD

I heard Finkelstein speak back in the early 1990s. The campus Zionist student organization packed the lecture and dominated the discussion period with back-to-back-to-back hostile questions and accusations. He handled them all articulately and reasonably. Their rising anger and his calm rational answers stood in dramatic contrast. This was when Rabin (the "nice" Israeli Prime Minister) had ordered Israeli soldiers to break bones in the legs and arms of Palestinian protesters. One of Finkelstein's statements that I remember was his strong assertion that the Holocaust does not justify the breaking of even one Palestinian bone. In my opinion, he is one of the heroic figures of our era: intelligent, brave, and persistent in trying to end the Israeli policies that are unjust, unlawful, inhumane, and endangering to Jewish people everywhere, including my own family. Everyone should buy a couple copies of his book, putting some of them into libraries.

I know Norman from college days and he was and is the real deal. I always knew he would be recognized one day as a (North) American hero, and am glad to see that he is receiving some personal recognition in his lifetime, although personal recognition is certainly not his mission. May his voice and his views be heard far and wide. Gey gezundt Norman.

alwaysamazed

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