Norman G Finkelstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 541716 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Norman G Finkelstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Norman G |
| FAMILY NAME | Finkelstein |
| SIGNATURE | FINKELSTEIN N G |
| AFFILIATIONS | DePaul University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Method and Madness
Knowing Too Much
This time we went too far
For the Palestinians who live in the narrow coastal strip of Gaza, the December 2008 Israeli invasion was a nightmare of unimaginable proportions: IN the 22 day long action 14000 Gazans were killed, several hundred on the first day alone. And yet, while nothing should diminish Palestinian suffereing through these frightful days, it is possible something redemptive will emerge from the tragedy of Gaza. For, as Norman Finkelstein outlines in a conc…
Civility and Academic Life
The essay focuses on whether academic freedom is compatible with prescribing a code of conduct outside the classroom. I first look at the Bertrand Russell case. Russell was denied a teaching post at City College of New York because of his expressed opinions on morality and religion. Russell maintained that insofar as he was appointed to a teaching post in logic and mathematics, his opinions on morality and religion had no relevance in assessing h…
Beyond Chutzpah
Meticulously researched and tightly argued, Beyond Chutzpah points to a consensus among historians and human rights organizations on the factual record of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Norman G. Finkelstein exposes the corruption of scholarship and the contrivance of controversy shrouding human rights abuses, and interrogates the new anti-Semitism. This paperback edition adds a preface analyzing recent developments in the conflict, and a new aft…
T he C amp D avid II N egotiations
This article, excerpted from a longer essay deconstructing Dennis Ross's book on the Palestinian-Israeli peace process from 1993 to 2000, focuses on the Camp David summit. In particular, it examines the assumptions informing Ross's account of what happened during the negotiations and why, and the distortions that spring from these assumptions. The article demonstrates that, judged from the perspective of Palestinians' and Israelis' respective rig…
Beyond chutzpah
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-I…
Abba Eban with Footnotes
Prospects for Ending the Occupation
First the Carrot, then the Stick
uring June 1967 war, Israel occupied West Bank and Gaza, com JLy pleting Zionist conquest of British-mandated Palestine. In war's aftermath, United Nations debated modalities for settling Arab Israeli conflict. At Fifth Emergency Session of General Assembly conven ing in war's immediate aftermath, there was near unanimity on the with drawal of armed forces from territory of neighbouring Arab states occu pied during recent war since everyone agree…
Oslo
Securing Occupation
As a formal document, the Wye River Memorandum breaks no new ground.Its stated purpose is merely to reaffirm and ‘facilitate implementation’ of ‘prior agreements’.Nonetheless, the Memorandum illuminates the process set in motion at Oslo and dispels lingering illusions.In these remarks, I will first sketch the crucial historical background
A Nation on Trial
"Goldhagen's "Hitler's Willing Executioners
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen’s 'Crazy' Thesis
The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict after Oslo
Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
First published in 1995, this highly acclaimed study scrutinizes popular and scholarly representations of the Israel-Palestine conflict. It begins with a novel theoretical interpretation of Zionism, and then moves on to critically engage the influential studies of Joan Peters, Benny Morris, and Anita Shapira. Carefully rehearsing the documentary record, Finkelstein also challenges the dominant images of the June 1967 and October 1973 Arab-Israeli…
Réflexions sur la responsabilité de l'État et du citoyen dans le conflit arabo-israélien
Norman Finkelstein, Reflections on Collective Responsability in the Arab-Israeli Conflict Contrary to widespread belief, Israeli citizens accept the repressive measures carried out against the Palestinian population. Not only do the Israelis share responsibility for the policy of a democratic state, but also for the acts of those directly implicated in the implementation of that policy. Israeli public opinion has not, however, been more unanimous…
Israel and Iraq
On August 25, 1990, the New York Times ran as its lead editorial a comprehensive indictment of Iraq entitled "The World v. Saddam Hussein." It argued that the Iraqi leader was becoming a war criminal in the "classic Nuremberg sense." Indeed, the editors suggested that Hussein was in a class of war criminals virtually all his own, having violated "most of the Nuremberg Principles" with his "crimes against peace," "war crimes" and "crimes against h…
The Ordinary, the Awful, and the Sublime
A ten minute drive from Bethlehem, Beit Sahur is a labyrinthine village of solid new concrete structures rising out of a deep valley with terraced hills. Its fifteen thousand, mostly Christian, residents inhabit a universe poised between the traditional and the modern, the balance moving tentatively but steadily towards the modern, however. A married woman is still expected to live with her husband's family and give her full attention to them; bu…
More on the Responsibility of the Left; Media Double Standards; God Bless The Revolution!; One World System or Two
After reading Prudence Posner's letter in the May 1984 issue of MR, I wanted to add a few thoughts I have had on the subject. Like Posner, I am a supporter of MR's position on full employment. I like the distinction she makes between anticapitalist and anticorporatist theory leading respectively either to full-employment-type movements or democracy-in-workplace-type movements. I think that one additional point that could be made is that these two…
Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
First published in 1995, this highly acclaimed study scrutinizes popular and scholarly representations of the Israel-Palestine conflict. It begins with a novel theoretical interpretation of Zionism, and then moves on to critically engage the influential studies of Joan Peters, Benny Morris, and Anita Shapira. Carefully rehearsing the documentary record, Finkelstein also challenges the dominant images of the June 1967 and October 1973 Arab-Israeli…
A Nation on Trial
Securing Occupation
As a formal document, the Wye River Memorandum breaks no new ground.Its stated purpose is merely to reaffirm and ‘facilitate implementation’ of ‘prior agreements’.Nonetheless, the Memorandum illuminates the process set in motion at Oslo and dispels lingering illusions.In these remarks, I will first sketch the crucial historical background
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen’s 'Crazy' Thesis
T he C amp D avid II N egotiations
This article, excerpted from a longer essay deconstructing Dennis Ross's book on the Palestinian-Israeli peace process from 1993 to 2000, focuses on the Camp David summit. In particular, it examines the assumptions informing Ross's account of what happened during the negotiations and why, and the distortions that spring from these assumptions. The article demonstrates that, judged from the perspective of Palestinians' and Israelis' respective rig…
Abba Eban with Footnotes
Prospects for Ending the Occupation
Israel and Iraq
On August 25, 1990, the New York Times ran as its lead editorial a comprehensive indictment of Iraq entitled "The World v. Saddam Hussein." It argued that the Iraqi leader was becoming a war criminal in the "classic Nuremberg sense." Indeed, the editors suggested that Hussein was in a class of war criminals virtually all his own, having violated "most of the Nuremberg Principles" with his "crimes against peace," "war crimes" and "crimes against h…
More on the Responsibility of the Left; Media Double Standards; God Bless The Revolution!; One World System or Two
After reading Prudence Posner's letter in the May 1984 issue of MR, I wanted to add a few thoughts I have had on the subject. Like Posner, I am a supporter of MR's position on full employment. I like the distinction she makes between anticapitalist and anticorporatist theory leading respectively either to full-employment-type movements or democracy-in-workplace-type movements. I think that one additional point that could be made is that these two…
The Ordinary, the Awful, and the Sublime
A ten minute drive from Bethlehem, Beit Sahur is a labyrinthine village of solid new concrete structures rising out of a deep valley with terraced hills. Its fifteen thousand, mostly Christian, residents inhabit a universe poised between the traditional and the modern, the balance moving tentatively but steadily towards the modern, however. A married woman is still expected to live with her husband's family and give her full attention to them; bu…
Israel and Iraq
On August 25, 1990, the New York Times ran as its lead editorial a comprehensive indictment of Iraq entitled "The World v. Saddam Hussein." It argued that the Iraqi leader was becoming a war criminal in the "classic Nuremberg sense." Indeed, the editors suggested that Hussein was in a class of war criminals virtually all his own, having violated "most of the Nuremberg Principles" with his "crimes against peace," "war crimes" and "crimes against h…
Réflexions sur la responsabilité de l'État et du citoyen dans le conflit arabo-israélien
Norman Finkelstein, Reflections on Collective Responsability in the Arab-Israeli Conflict Contrary to widespread belief, Israeli citizens accept the repressive measures carried out against the Palestinian population. Not only do the Israelis share responsibility for the policy of a democratic state, but also for the acts of those directly implicated in the implementation of that policy. Israeli public opinion has not, however, been more unanimous…
The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict after Oslo
Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
First published in 1995, this highly acclaimed study scrutinizes popular and scholarly representations of the Israel-Palestine conflict. It begins with a novel theoretical interpretation of Zionism, and then moves on to critically engage the influential studies of Joan Peters, Benny Morris, and Anita Shapira. Carefully rehearsing the documentary record, Finkelstein also challenges the dominant images of the June 1967 and October 1973 Arab-Israeli…
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen’s 'Crazy' Thesis
Oslo
Securing Occupation
As a formal document, the Wye River Memorandum breaks no new ground.Its stated purpose is merely to reaffirm and ‘facilitate implementation’ of ‘prior agreements’.Nonetheless, the Memorandum illuminates the process set in motion at Oslo and dispels lingering illusions.In these remarks, I will first sketch the crucial historical background
A Nation on Trial
"Goldhagen's "Hitler's Willing Executioners
First the Carrot, then the Stick
uring June 1967 war, Israel occupied West Bank and Gaza, com JLy pleting Zionist conquest of British-mandated Palestine. In war's aftermath, United Nations debated modalities for settling Arab Israeli conflict. At Fifth Emergency Session of General Assembly conven ing in war's immediate aftermath, there was near unanimity on the with drawal of armed forces from territory of neighbouring Arab states occu pied during recent war since everyone agree…
Abba Eban with Footnotes
Prospects for Ending the Occupation
Beyond chutzpah
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-I…
T he C amp D avid II N egotiations
This article, excerpted from a longer essay deconstructing Dennis Ross's book on the Palestinian-Israeli peace process from 1993 to 2000, focuses on the Camp David summit. In particular, it examines the assumptions informing Ross's account of what happened during the negotiations and why, and the distortions that spring from these assumptions. The article demonstrates that, judged from the perspective of Palestinians' and Israelis' respective rig…
Beyond Chutzpah
Meticulously researched and tightly argued, Beyond Chutzpah points to a consensus among historians and human rights organizations on the factual record of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Norman G. Finkelstein exposes the corruption of scholarship and the contrivance of controversy shrouding human rights abuses, and interrogates the new anti-Semitism. This paperback edition adds a preface analyzing recent developments in the conflict, and a new aft…
Civility and Academic Life
The essay focuses on whether academic freedom is compatible with prescribing a code of conduct outside the classroom. I first look at the Bertrand Russell case. Russell was denied a teaching post at City College of New York because of his expressed opinions on morality and religion. Russell maintained that insofar as he was appointed to a teaching post in logic and mathematics, his opinions on morality and religion had no relevance in assessing h…
This time we went too far
For the Palestinians who live in the narrow coastal strip of Gaza, the December 2008 Israeli invasion was a nightmare of unimaginable proportions: IN the 22 day long action 14000 Gazans were killed, several hundred on the first day alone. And yet, while nothing should diminish Palestinian suffereing through these frightful days, it is possible something redemptive will emerge from the tragedy of Gaza. For, as Norman Finkelstein outlines in a conc…
Knowing Too Much
Method and Madness
Political science (11 works) · Law (8 works) · History (7 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Arab-Israeli conflict (5 works) · History (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works)