American - Educator | December 8, 1953 -
My original interest in the Nazi holocaust was personal. Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis.
Norman Finkelstein
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I think sometimes we underestimate just how vulnerable Israel is on the public-relations front. That's why they spend so much money on propaganda. And that's why they panic every time they feel like they're losing the propaganda war.
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People have to liberate themselves, because liberation is not a single act. It's a question of eternal vigilance. Otherwise, you'll just become enslaved by someone else.
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I don't want to pretend to be a prophet or a saint. I'm very conscious of my limitations. I know my flaws. But I don't like lying.
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International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.
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Indeed, the field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense if not sheer fraud.
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The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours.
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Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.
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When I was a young man, my mother said to me, 'You can't be a communist without being a militant atheist.' So I had to be a militant atheist because I wanted to be a communist.
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I'm politically on the left, no question about it. I oppose sweatshops, I oppose exploitation of labour in the third world.
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Every victory of Hezbollah, I celebrate.
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I had been a Maoist, and then when the Gang of Four was overthrown, I was completely distraught. I was bedridden for three weeks; it was a very painful experience for me. Not only because I had been wrong, but because I felt really embarrassed that I had been lecturing and pontificating with such self-confidence.
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