Zionist Hate mail
First my own comments. I am sorry that Professor Finkelstein is under attack. These insults that you see below are posted at the Professor's website. They are barbaric, unwarranted.
There is a consistent theme in these insults: that Jews are superior, more intelligent and more gifted by God, that all gentiles hate all Jews, and for no reason at all. These Zionists who are writing these letters do not see reality, they have been brainwashed from the time of their birth into believing in twisted logic.
What these vulgarities below prove is the nature of the Zionist, and that is what the Palestinians are having to deal with every day of their lives because these European Zionists stampeded towards Palestine and invaded it.
YEAR 2007
- any institution inviting you fascist bum is dishonoring itself.
- you are nothing but a liar and a nazi jerk .
- go to hell (COMING).
AGUIMONT , CANADA
what crazy nazi shiit are you up to now, you blathering psuedo-intellectual?
I've just gone to your website, Mr. Finkelstein - or should we change that to Schicklgruber?
Why do you blatantly lie so much and distort facts and history, Normie? Maybe you've never met a Holocaust survivor. Or maybe worms grew in what is left of your brain.
Thanks for giving aid and comfort to David Duke and to those who deliberately target Jewish women and children in Israel, the Islamonazis of Fatah and Hamas. I thought Dershowitz might have been exaggerating about you - now I know he's telling the truth and more.
So tell me, Normie, how much is Duke - or the Nazi Collaborator George Soros paying you to print your lies?
Alan Rockman
Norman,
you've been a true hero for a long time. i just saw the video on the Iranian confrence. good luck in Cambridge tomorrow. i'm sure you'll do great.
what else can i say. you're a great man...keep up the good fight...
b
You know, Norman, after reading the drivel that I just received from yet another toady of yours, it confirms that the only people you could attract as followers are even less worthy than you, and that's a stretch.
The late Menachem Begin once said about Bruno Kreisky: "He's a man who hates his father and his mother."
That has a familiar ring to it, don't you think?
My advice to you is to try to make your life meaningful by being proud of your Jewishness, instead of ashamed, as you are. It's not too late to turn over a new leaf.
as a result of you lack of response i must tell you this.
you're just a low life cocksucker who was born
to 2 very unfortunate people. 1, as holocaust victims, and 2 as
mother and father to you. actually if they are no
longer alive, that is to their benefit, as they do not have to
hear their son defaming their mother and father and jews in
general, with particular emphasis in israel. you would agree
no? so now some advice to you. you should hope that you
never cross my path. of course how would you know if you do?
well, those are the chances in life. because you would receive a
very stern lecture. know what i mean?
Dear Professor
I heard your [video:] talk at Stanford.
you sir, are an intellectual coward. You hid behind written questions so no one could verbally challenge you. Your facts were wrong and your logic childlike. But more than that you are a moral coward. You've heard of the syndrome where moral weaklings are afraid to stand up and fight their enemies? Instead they identify with them. Slobber over them, trying to gain favor. Think that's what you're doing with Islamonazis? Ring a bell with you, normie boychik? If your mother and father think that your vile use of Holocaust history to slander Israel is something to be proud of, if they think their little norman is so brilliant and so noble, then they too retch of the same stink that encompassses your cowardly soul.
Dear Mr. Finkelstein:
In my opinion, the only thing potentially worse than a traditional anti-Semite is a self-hating Jew.
I understand you believe you have some academic qualifications that entitle you to be called something other than Mr. but from the content of your talks, it strikes me that such qualifications would give you credit where it is not due.
I am familiar with various personality disorders associated with children of Holocaust survivors. One of these is an attachment disorder which relates to one's parents. Unfortunately I think yours relates to your entire people.
Rest assured that had you and I been captured by the Nazi's, we might have been on the same train. However in my case I would have taken some Germans with me and died with my self-respect intact. You would most likely have begged for your life only to be slaughtered like an animal with the other 6 million.
Your life is very sad. Shame on you.
Were you not so dishonest, I would be happy to provide you with my full name and contact information so that we could have a dialog. However you are not worthy.
DBT
Hey shitface:
That "palestinian" terrorist who commited a terrorist act in Eilat on Jan. 30, 2007... is he your student?... I wouldn't be suprised if he is...
Editor's Note: From the Stanford student who accused Finkelstein of being a Holocaust denier in the school paper.
'I truly want to understand what happened to you? What could possibly have made you into such a hate-filled' angry' bitter person' bent on so much destruction? You cry against aggression' yet you seek to destroy anyone who disagrees with you. You are offended by charges that your viewpoint is deeply flawed' yet you whimsically attack others' projecting what you claim is done to you unto others. What is the "rose bud" that you have lost and which you are chasing your entire life? I understand that growing up with Holocaust survivors for parents means that you are contending with terrible demons. But can't you see' you have let those demons torment you into spiritual self-destruction.
You think that by bringing down Israel you will find rest? You don't see some great truth which others don't' Norman. You have become an agent of an ideology that generates its seductive energy from evil' not goodness' anger'not love' destruction' not creation (look' for instance' at what Fatah and Hamas are doing to each other in Gaza at this very moment). In reality'Norman' many of those who you think idolize you' despise you. For them you are a Kapo and a Kuffar - a useful fool who has betrayed his people and so has no honor. You wouldn't be the first one' nor the last. The fascist brand of Islam you are an instrument of will be defeated (as European Fascism and totalitarian Communism were before it) and' unless you take urgent action to turn your life around' your memory will sink into a faintly unpleasant obscurity with it.
In the meantime' do not think for a moment you can intimidate me with your sinister cartoons' sarcasm and insults. That you spent so much time and effort ridiculing me on your website suggests that you fear my message' which means that it resonated with you at some deep level' and that you are deeply insecure in the views you currently present to the world.
All your money (made from what industry exactly Norman?) and your infamy (achieved at what cost to others Norman?) will not intimidate me' nor cover up for your basic emptiness. You are a bad historian' Norman' you are no scholar' but an activist - a lost man of energy seeking meaning in this world.
Seek help. Go sit by the Sea of Galilee for a week and hopefully you will hear it: your soul. Faint' submerged by mountains of anger and bitterness' but still there. Listen to it' and with the help of G-D' it will guide you away from your current state of inner turmoil' to a healthier place. However lost' however tormented' you Norman' are a member of the Jewish People' and so you are a part of "Knesset Israel" - that community which is neither a race' nor a nation' nor a religion per se - but which has shaped this world in profoundly important' moral ways' and which has began a new chapter of rejuvenation with the birth of the modern State of Israel in 1948. We are bound to each other by this' the deepest of bonds' and the fact that we are fellow Jews' gives me hope that you are not entirely beyond help.
Hey you, lowlife crum:
Watch this:
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=2274705n
I just want to add, that I despise renegade traitors like yourself, Chomsky, Lilienthal, and all you Germanic "Jews" who got refuge from Germany (the Germans didn't want you) in Palestine, though you were all antizionist commies from the beginning (starting with Karl Marx.) Now you all scribble for HaAretz, and rags like that. You think to curry favor from the gentiles, but the only ones you impress are the neoNazis and their fellow travellers, who would gas you last, just like they did with the Judenrat leaders.
To Hell With You,
Jack Garbuz
Hey you, crum:
Have you requested a raise from your Hamas and Hizbullah employers this year? It's 2007 - the inflation might eat up your scrubby existence. You better ask for some raise... every little bit helps.
- any institution inviting you fascist bum is dishonoring itself.
- you are nothing but a liar and a nazi jerk .
- go to hell (COMING).
AGUIMONT , CANADA
what crazy nazi shiit are you up to now, you blathering psuedo-intellectual?
I've just gone to your website, Mr. Finkelstein - or should we change that to Schicklgruber?
Why do you blatantly lie so much and distort facts and history, Normie? Maybe you've never met a Holocaust survivor. Or maybe worms grew in what is left of your brain.
Thanks for giving aid and comfort to David Duke and to those who deliberately target Jewish women and children in Israel, the Islamonazis of Fatah and Hamas. I thought Dershowitz might have been exaggerating about you - now I know he's telling the truth and more.
So tell me, Normie, how much is Duke - or the Nazi Collaborator George Soros paying you to print your lies?
Alan Rockman
You know, Norman, after reading the drivel that I just received from yet another toady of yours, it confirms that the only people you could attract as followers are even less worthy than you, and that's a stretch.
The late Menachem Begin once said about Bruno Kreisky: "He's a man who hates his father and his mother."
That has a familiar ring to it, don't you think?
My advice to you is to try to make your life meaningful by being proud of your Jewishness, instead of ashamed, as you are. It's not too late to turn over a new leaf.
as a result of you lack of response i must tell you this.
you're just a low life cocksucker who was born
to 2 very unfortunate people. 1, as holocaust victims, and 2 as
mother and father to you. actually if they are no
longer alive, that is to their benefit, as they do not have to
hear their son defaming their mother and father and jews in
general, with particular emphasis in israel. you would agree
no? so now some advice to you. you should hope that you
never cross my path. of course how would you know if you do?
well, those are the chances in life. because you would receive a
very stern lecture. know what i mean?
Dear Professor
I heard your [video:] talk at Stanford.
you sir, are an intellectual coward. You hid behind written questions so no one could verbally challenge you. Your facts were wrong and your logic childlike. But more than that you are a moral coward. You've heard of the syndrome where moral weaklings are afraid to stand up and fight their enemies? Instead they identify with them. Slobber over them, trying to gain favor. Think that's what you're doing with Islamonazis? Ring a bell with you, normie boychik? If your mother and father think that your vile use of Holocaust history to slander Israel is something to be proud of, if they think their little norman is so brilliant and so noble, then they too retch of the same stink that encompassses your cowardly soul.
Dear Mr. Finkelstein:
In my opinion, the only thing potentially worse than a traditional anti-Semite is a self-hating Jew.
I understand you believe you have some academic qualifications that entitle you to be called something other than Mr. but from the content of your talks, it strikes me that such qualifications would give you credit where it is not due.
I am familiar with various personality disorders associated with children of Holocaust survivors. One of these is an attachment disorder which relates to one's parents. Unfortunately I think yours relates to your entire people.
Rest assured that had you and I been captured by the Nazi's, we might have been on the same train. However in my case I would have taken some Germans with me and died with my self-respect intact. You would most likely have begged for your life only to be slaughtered like an animal with the other 6 million.
Your life is very sad. Shame on you.
Were you not so dishonest, I would be happy to provide you with my full name and contact information so that we could have a dialog. However you are not worthy.
DBT
Hey shitface:
That "palestinian" terrorist who commited a terrorist act in Eilat on Jan. 30, 2007... is he your student?... I wouldn't be suprised if he is...
'I truly want to understand what happened to you? What could possibly have made you into such a hate-filled' angry' bitter person' bent on so much destruction? You cry against aggression' yet you seek to destroy anyone who disagrees with you. You are offended by charges that your viewpoint is deeply flawed' yet you whimsically attack others' projecting what you claim is done to you unto others. What is the "rose bud" that you have lost and which you are chasing your entire life? I understand that growing up with Holocaust survivors for parents means that you are contending with terrible demons. But can't you see' you have let those demons torment you into spiritual self-destruction.
You think that by bringing down Israel you will find rest? You don't see some great truth which others don't' Norman. You have become an agent of an ideology that generates its seductive energy from evil' not goodness' anger'not love' destruction' not creation (look' for instance' at what Fatah and Hamas are doing to each other in Gaza at this very moment). In reality'Norman' many of those who you think idolize you' despise you. For them you are a Kapo and a Kuffar - a useful fool who has betrayed his people and so has no honor. You wouldn't be the first one' nor the last. The fascist brand of Islam you are an instrument of will be defeated (as European Fascism and totalitarian Communism were before it) and' unless you take urgent action to turn your life around' your memory will sink into a faintly unpleasant obscurity with it.
In the meantime' do not think for a moment you can intimidate me with your sinister cartoons' sarcasm and insults. That you spent so much time and effort ridiculing me on your website suggests that you fear my message' which means that it resonated with you at some deep level' and that you are deeply insecure in the views you currently present to the world.
All your money (made from what industry exactly Norman?) and your infamy (achieved at what cost to others Norman?) will not intimidate me' nor cover up for your basic emptiness. You are a bad historian' Norman' you are no scholar' but an activist - a lost man of energy seeking meaning in this world.
Seek help. Go sit by the Sea of Galilee for a week and hopefully you will hear it: your soul. Faint' submerged by mountains of anger and bitterness' but still there. Listen to it' and with the help of G-D' it will guide you away from your current state of inner turmoil' to a healthier place. However lost' however tormented' you Norman' are a member of the Jewish People' and so you are a part of "Knesset Israel" - that community which is neither a race' nor a nation' nor a religion per se - but which has shaped this world in profoundly important' moral ways' and which has began a new chapter of rejuvenation with the birth of the modern State of Israel in 1948. We are bound to each other by this' the deepest of bonds' and the fact that we are fellow Jews' gives me hope that you are not entirely beyond help.
Hey you, lowlife crum:
Watch this:
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=2274705n
I just want to add, that I despise renegade traitors like yourself, Chomsky, Lilienthal, and all you Germanic "Jews" who got refuge from Germany (the Germans didn't want you) in Palestine, though you were all antizionist commies from the beginning (starting with Karl Marx.) Now you all scribble for HaAretz, and rags like that. You think to curry favor from the gentiles, but the only ones you impress are the neoNazis and their fellow travellers, who would gas you last, just like they did with the Judenrat leaders.
To Hell With You,
Jack Garbuz
Hey you, crum:
Have you requested a raise from your Hamas and Hizbullah employers this year? It's 2007 - the inflation might eat up your scrubby existence. You better ask for some raise... every little bit helps.
YEAR 2006
You are simply a disgusting human being. Regardless of any point you think you do or don't make you can't hid your true disgusting colors. Your joy is debasing others, though you sometimes try to couch under some 'academic' guise, if you are not in incendiary arguments and generating 'heat' you would simply fade away and be ignored. On top of that you consistently lie, the only question is why others haven't nailed you on them yet? My friend took your class and said just about everyone found you insulting and boring. It's not shocking why you are such a miserable lonely guy.
Mike N
Hey schmuck:
How come you couldn't make it to that conference in Teheran? Your buddy, David Duke, was there, other Holocaust deniers were there... all lowlives were there except you. What's the matter? The pay wasn't too good for you? Next time make sure you attend conferences like that - you'll feel at home among those people, and you don't even have to impersonate yourself into all that scum, because you ARE scum.
Hello scumbag:
How come the iranians didn't invite you to their Holocaust deniers conference held in Tehran? If I were you I'd be offended. Even David Duke quoted you on a few occasions there. What a wonderful and appropriate claim to fame for you!!! Happy New Year, scumbag, and let's hope that you won't live long enough to see your next birthday.
riem
Hi, you'll be pleased to learn that KKK'er David Duke quoted you today on national TV as questioning the Holocaust. Proud of yourself? Too bad you didn't go to the ovens. I'm Jewish, but I would have enjoyed seeing that, you scumbag
Hi there,
Just want you to watch the introduction to your interview on lebanese television which states that only 50,000 people died in the Holocaust, popularly believedin the middle east. Secondly watching the interview you sound like a retard, are you, I know people in USA are pretty stupid but I have to say big up to the USA for giving PHD's to retards.
Have a great shabbos, if you know what that is, if not let me enlighten you, it is the day of rest from sunset on friday, until sundown on saturday the 4th of the 10 commandments and one of 613 mitzvahs G-d (remember him - he created the universe)
See you in gehinnom
(hell)
rob
I am proud that as a Jew even in the face of hate and violence against Israel, that is obvious and voluminous,that we still have the intellect to include authors such as yourself ,to criticise our own actions.It amazes me that Jews still find it possible to find fault in our actions,particularly that there is such a huge and disproportionate attack on Israel,that does not need the assistance of a Jew. We are truly a great nation of people.Keep attacking Israel,this will go down in history as being the clear distinction between those who hate Jews and Jews themselves.In the Palestinian case,historians will never be able to find self criticism of thier actions against Israel,or thier own men ,women and children.Even though there is no doubt that Palestinians have brought to thier own people more violence,and hate than any Jew could ever imagine,on an enemy sworn to thier destruction.You are an example of how we shine as a people.Even when we are attacked by a Jew,when even that Jew would not be spared by the people whose "cause"he is defending.Unprecedented and unbelieveable.
I am doing a project where I track the list of Jews who criticize Israel and Jews,versus Muslims,including Palestinians who also are self critical.So far it is the Jews who are winning this contest,as all Palestinians who criticise thier own have either been killed and called "traitors"or are hiding from a fatwa against them.Many have changed thier names and have moved to the United States.
In the name of all of the six million who have died in the holocaust,keep up your attacks on Jews,and you can include my family in that list.After all it was Jews like yourself that rounded up other Jews on behalf of the Nazis.And we still survived and brought humanity to the world.
Thankyou
Shlomo
Hi there
All I have to say is that whilst reading your work throughly I find it an absolute disgrace the way you make up and exploit lies. We as the Jewish Nation, a light unto the nations, persue truth unlike most Arabs and other nations of the world. You being a Jew (obviously ex-communicated by now, thank G-d) are pathetic because your works are based on misinformation and ignoring Arab terrorists who blow their babies and children up and use them as human shield.
The time will come in Olam Hazeh v'Olam Ha'ba where you will pay the ultimate price. Let's see if you have the courage to reply because a pathetic humans like you generally are cowards.
Yours sincerely
Nicholas
You are an enemy to the Jewish people. Probably one of the biggest in the world at this point. Which is why the neo-nazi and islamic radicals love you so dearly.
Please get cancer and rot to death.
Hey Schmuck:
I saw a dream the other night: your nazi helper mama was giving a blowjob to Yasser Arafat and Nasrallah. Boy, she is a pro! You should be proud of her.
What a horrible excuse for a human being you are. You support murderers of innocent women and children and defame their victims. Your complete lack of morality prevents you from seeing the clear difference between the good guys and the bad guys. The entire Israeli conflict can be summarized in two sentences:
If the Arabs put away their weapons, Israel would negotiate with them openly, give the Palestinians a state and leave peacefully.
If the Israelis put away their weapons, every Jewish man, woman & child would be brutally murdered.
If you can't figure out who is right and who is wrong in this conflict, I feel sorry for you.
Now, read this, bitch! And again, rest assured - I'm not going to tell to your arab masters that you read it. Don't worry, the paycheck you get from them won't be affected.
In a recent interview, General Norman Schwartzkopf was asked if he thought there was room for forgiveness toward Hizbollah. The General said, - "I believe that forgiving Hizbollah is God's function. The Israeli's job is to arrange the meeting ."
Marl L.
Norm:
A question for you: Do you report to the IRS all the money you get paid under the table by your arab masters for all the lies you spit at Israel and jewish people?
If you are a law abiding person, then you should report all this money.
I have never seen a more one sided presentation of a set of ideas. And you call conservatives one sided. I read the news and history books every day, and it doesnt take a professor to realize that your using completely factual information. I could prove you wrong in no time.. Furthermor I have never seen a more self hating Jew in my life.. If I were ever to meet you and I hope I will ; certainly you will get what u deserve .. Along with your Nazi collaborating Arab friends..Who are fighting to destroy the free wolrd that you so dearly yearn for. God bless america God bless Israel .. Evil never triumphs.
Hey, shit:
Your worthless "works" should be considered as hate literature and added to the list of forbidden books. Also, I think that the parody named "DePaul "university" should grant you your tenure. This shithole is graded so low among other schools that it really wouldn't matter at all. You, scum, are doomed to rot in DePaul for the rest of your miserable life
Hmmm, Another leftist quack hoping for tenure....at a Christian institution, no less!
Your work is truly eye opening, and thoroughly discusting. What an incredible waste of God-given talent!
Why are you in the USA? Wouldn't you enjoy living with others of your ilk (such as the Iranian President, et al).... oh, I forgot, then you wouldn't have the freedom (as a result of the personal sacrifices of generations of American blood and treasure which you certainly do not appreciate) to produce the useless drivel you author. We live in a fallen world... and you are documented proof!
I saw you speak quite awhile ago at UCLA (the event was co-sponsored by MECHA). I wrote you then but you didn't have the courage to reply. How dare you attack Jewish people? You are nothing but a hateful, evil, self hating anti-semite. Jewish people have assisted my Latino brothers and sisters in getting justice in this country (and often these attorneys work for free). Do you understand that white trash Americans stole this land you call the "USA" from Mexico? We have every right to be here, you people are the invaders!
Many Jewish attorneys regularly defend undocumented migrants towards receiving their rights and their justice. Jews and Latinos are united in a common cause to create justice for undocumented migrants from Mexico and all of Latin America. Attacking Jews is the same as attacking Latinos. You are one sick person and you need serious counseling.
Fernando Pena
Los Angeles, CA
Professor Goebbels... oops!.. sorry, professor finkelschmuck:
If and when you happen to experience a sudden and unbearable urge to take a dive from a rooftop of an appartment building (preferably, some skyscraper) - don't resist that urge nor fight it. Do it! The sooner, the better! The Earth would be a much cleaner place without sleazeball and scum like you. And if you need any help with that, I'm more than sure that there will be a huge line of those who'd be more than happy to assist you.
Hey Finkel:
I've heard from people who know you very well that mentally you're very unstable person. Have you ever considered to seek a psychiatric help? I know very good JEWISH psychiatrists, they'd more than happy to help you. Also, you still didn't give me an answer to my questions: 1) Do you screw your kappo-mama in your dreams?; 2) How much do your Hezbollah masters pay you? And please, tell that idiot of yours, Shanahan (or whtever the fuck his real name is), not to bother to respond for you. I put a block on his e-mail. A "professor" of your kind is doomed to rot in a shithole (DePaul university, that is).
That your parents didn't get gassed before they had you; they unleashed the black plague on Judaism. But you have made me a Zionist. THANK YOU!
Norman Finkelkike is an oven warmer in the yellow star batallion of the jews for jihad brigade in the Seig Allah army of islamic nazis.
A self hating jew... you truly are a stereotype. You'll be singing a different tune when the genocide comes to you... you think you're safe in the US, in your little Prof Office? You're living in the cradle of the devil, and your truly weak brain is being washed by dark forces... no wonder you teach at a second rate school. Noam Chomsky is truly brilliant, but I don't think his mom breast fed him either, and he's probably crossed the line of insanity. As for you, I don't think you're smart enough to be insane, or you'd be at Harvard alongside Dershowitz. WAKE UP, YOUR PEOPLE ARE IN TROUBLE!!!
Are you actually naive enough to believe nasrallah's intentions are any different that hitler's, you fucken degenarate... maybe you didn't get laid in high school... good luck!!
Isaac
You are one sick fucker. Terry Schuster Fair Lawn, NJ
For all your ranting and self hatred and claims that your mother cooperated with the Nazis and Israel did this and yada yada...Means nothing. When the opportunity comes they will kill you all the same. What are you going to do? Get a blood transfusion? Its in your DNA and you can't do a damn thing about it.
How can you be so stupid and purposely obtuse? Hezbollah is a terrorist organization, backed by Iran & Syria, bent on the destruction of Israel and all Jews of the world. Did you not realize you are a Jew and as soon as they get the chance you will be one of those they want exterminated?
Why would you not believe monsters when they say over and over again that they want you dead?
You are exactly like the appeasers of the Nazis in 1939: On the wrong side of history and endangering all of us.
You are a silly, stupid, reckless man. And I hope one day you will see the error of your ways and have the opportunity to apologize for it.
Hey "professor":
Incidentally, are there any former students of yours among Hezbollah "fighters"? Or among those muslims that were arrested in UK for plotting a terrorist act on planes heading for US? ..... I wouldn't be surprised...
I'm just curious. Also, does your kappo mama comes to you in your dreams when you sleep. Do you have sex with her in your dreams? I'm just trying to find a proof (based on your example) of Zigmund Freud's theory. You are a classic example.
Another question: did you get a raise for your selfless work from your arab masters? You are on their payroll, aren't you?... Again... just curious.
You're an Uncle Tom piece of shit. You should be ashamed of yourself for contributing to and inciting Anti-Semitism.
FYI, I am a jew. And I lost 75% of my family in those ovens. But my father fought in WW2 against your kind.
You are a jew?... my ass. And while we on the subject, I wouldn't be surprised if I learn sometime in the future that your nazi whore mother was one of those who helped the SS to shove jews into ovens. Like mother like son... "professor" my ass.
Norman,
Since you are so particular on International Law and condemn those that break it, why are you not speaking out against Hezbollah's recent crimes against Israel?
Let's face it, Hezbollah clearly broke International Law by disregarding the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1559, which unequivocally calls for 'all Lebanese militias to disband.'
Not only did Hezbollah not disband since Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000, but they also entered into Israel, shot and killed eight Israeli soldiers, and kidnapped two, which are now being held hostage.
But where's the outrage, Norman' I don't see any articles on your website condemning Hezbollah's actions. Instead, I see several articles excessively decrying Israel's response to Hezbollah's attacks.
But since you are such a fact-fanatic, let's look at facts:
Since Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000, Hezbollah has amassed thousands of rockets from Iran specifically for the purpose of attacking Israel. It is Hezbollah that initiated this war, not Israel. The Lebanese government, as of now, is refusing to disarm Hezbollah. While Israel is firing at Hezbollah targets, Hezbollah is launching rockets aiming directly at Israeli civilians. And the reason Israel is bombarding bridges, the airport and other infrastructures in Lebanon that is crucial to Hezbollah ' is to immobilize this terrorist group.
Now imagine if Hezbollah had Israel's kind of sophisticated military weaponry and technology, what do you think they would have done to Israel' They surely would have wiped Israel off the map a long time ago.
Now, your website has plenty of articles on Lebanese casualties and suffering. But what about Israeli casualties and suffering? Do your eyes close and your ears go deaf every time you see Israel being bombed? How come there is not one single article on your site telling the story from the other side? How do you expect people not to believe that you manage an anti-Israel hate website?
You would not dare mention any of the atrocities committed by terrorists against Israel, like the one in 1978, when Palestinian militants entered Israel from Lebanon and killed an American tourist, hijacked a bus, killed 37 Israelis and wounded 76. Or the one in 1975, when PLO militants from Lebanon entered Israel and held tens of Israelis hostage at the Savoy Hotel, killing eight of them and wounding eleven.
Or how about the Ma'alot massacre in 1974, when Palestinians from Lebanon shot and killed 21 school children and wounded more than 60? Or the Avivim school bus massacre in 1970 when Palestinians (again crossing from Lebanon) killed nine Israeli children and wounding 19 others?
More recently, Hezbollah launched a Katyusha rocket at Nazareth, killing 3 Arabs; two of them children. But of course, you don't report this sort of information ' perhaps out of fear that you would offend your supporters?
On a different subject ' regarding the continual assertion about you being a Jew ' I still insist that you tell people the simple truth ' that you are not a Jew, but an apostate. Here's a quick observation; you don't practice Judaism, you don't embrace Jewish culture or tradition, you take a strong anti-Israel stance, and you describe yourself and both of your parents as atheists (which means that you did not grow up in a Jewish environment). And to top it all off, Jews are not even a race of people - just as Christians and Muslims are not a race of people. So exactly what makes you Jewish?
And if you want to claim that you are Jewish because 'Jewish law' says so, then why would you acknowledge religious laws if you are an atheist? Even if other Jews call you a Jew (merely based on your heritage combined with misinformation about you), that still doesn't make you a Jew. Afterall, Jews also call you an anti-Semite, but you reject that.
So therefore, I can only think of one reason why you would call yourself a Jew because you accept the Nazi theoretical definition of a Jew. And if you support Nazi ideology, then what does that say about you?
Jessica
Mr Finkelstein...I keep hearing your whiny little boy voice on WBAI....and it is most irritating...but, what is more than annoying is your neurotic need to bash the Jews.....what I Wonder propels you...fear of the goyim that will come and take you away....I cannot imagine what moves you to such insistent neurosis of slandering your own people...now that Eddie Said has gone on to his reward, a gift from God for his lies...it is up to you to come on and be the resident professor....this time a Jew....sick little Mamas boy aren't you....
How can you say all these terrible things about Israel, the Jews, and the Holcaust. It is impossible to compare Hamas blowing up a bus that kills Israeli civilians to the Israeli air force dropping a bomb on Palestinian terrorists. How could a Jew whose parents survived the Nazi death camps and Hitler's Final Solution say that the Jewish people fabricated the number of Jews who were brutally murdered by the Nazis in order to gain political support. By saying these things, you are not only insulting yourself, but you are insulting and lying about your parents and your people: the Jewish people. Get your facts right. Consider youself excommunicated from the entire Jewish world.
Ephraim
Hey Finkie,
Congrats on becoming the filthiest scum in human history. I am not aware of anyove ever shitting so ebulliently on his parents' grave, while at the same time covering up with their story.
I hope someone one day will cut off your head and play soccer with it, like your Arab friends did in Gaza. Whether they do or not, you are already a very sad site.
Sincerely,
David Tsal
Norman,
Please allow me to admit that I was wrong about you. When I first visited your website, I prematurely assumed that you were an extremely disgruntled Jew whose intentions were to promote anti-Jewish propaganda via literature and public speeches. Although I still agree with the latter part, I was wrong with the whole "self-hating Jew" thing. The reason? Well, Norman, let's face it - you are not a Jew.
You obviously don't practice Judaism, you don't celebrated Jewish holidays or festivities, and you don't associate yourself with Jewish culture or tradition. Add the fact that Jews are not a race of people and combine all of the above with your promotion of anti-Jewish/Israel propaganda and we get a clear picture of what you really are - an apostate.
The main problem with you is obvious - you are too biased. There is absolutely no balance in your work. Everything you write is anti-Israeli / Jewish. Look at the presentation of your website, it says it all.
And how difficult is it to do what you do? Not difficult at all. Heck, I think even I can pull a Norman G. Finkelstein-type of one-sided summary. Look:
1920: Anti-Zionist Arabs rioted in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem for several days, viciously assaulting hundreds of Jews. Shops and homes were set on fire. The result: 5 Jews killed, 234 wounded.
1929: Mobs of angry Arabs inspired by false rumours that Jews had killed two Arabs, begin a murderous attack on Jews in Jerusalem. The result: 133 Jews killed and 339 wounded.
1929: Arab rioters massacred 67 Jews in Hebron. Jews that survived the onslaught were forcibly driven out.
1936-1939: Arab intolerance toward Jewish immigration resulted in more violence against Jews (and British soldiers). More than 400 Jews and 200 Britons were killed.
1948: Israel is declared a state. Arabs respond by waging a war. Egypt, Transjordan, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Yemeni troops join forces together to wipe out Israel. Although Israel wins the war, they suffer heavy casualties: 6,373 Jews were killed and thousands more were injured.
1967: Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Iraq joined forces together for another attempt at destroying the state of Israel. The war lasted just six days before Israel triumphed in victory. Over 770 Israelis were killed and more than 2,500 were injured.
1973: Egypt and Syria, together with military support from Iraq and Jordan, launched a surprise attack on Israel. Over 2,600 Israelis were killed and more 7,200 wounded.
2000-2005: Terrorist organizations such as Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claim responsibility for over 100 terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians (mostly suicide bombings). Targets include restaurants, nightclubs, buses, and many other public places where children are present. Hundreds of Israelis are killed and thousands are injured.
I am sure that most open-minded people would reject such one-dimensional overview that depicts Arabs in a clearly negative way, as though all Arabs are terrorist killing machines. Yet, that's exactly what you do. You are a master at manipulating facts.
And why do you do it? That's not too hard to figure out. Based on some of your articles, one can say that you are a product of your own environment. Your outspoken mother expressed many vile sentiments toward the Jews and Israel as you were growing up, all of which you've absorbed. This surely had a profound impact on your mental development, since you now share your mother's anti-Jewish views. Perhaps you misinterpreted her statements, or perhaps not. Either way, you have been conditioned to lash out at anything Jewish. And that's what you are fighting for - your mother's cause, not the Palestinian cause as you so deceive your readers to believe. It just so happens that many Arabs share your mother's opinions.
But I am not suggesting that you are a fool, Norman. No sir. You are an intelligent person - highly educated and articulate. Your loyal fans/supporters are no morons either. I've read many of their emails and they seem to be bright individuals as well. I do not dispute that.
However, as I'm sure you know, intelligence has absolutely nothing to do with morality. In fact, some of history's most evil persons are considered intelligent. Do you think that Hitler and Stalin were imbeciles? How about serial killers? Most of them have a high degree of intelligence too. But intelligence does not necessarily make one a righteous person. Mother Teresa never graduated from University with any degree or PhD. Her education level was nowhere near yours. But her level of morality was far more superior than yours. Wouldn't you agree? And plus, many intelligent folks such as yourself (and your supporters) tend to be very stubborn people anyways, since they feel that they can never be wrong. During your debate with Alan Dershowitz, you proved exactly that - at times you were behaving almost like a child refusing to listen to his mother.
So stop your propaganda. Have some integrity. Look at both sides of the coin. Why don't you write about how the Arab world, including Palestinians, teach their children that Jews never lived in Israel, that the Holocaust is nothing more than a myth designed to create the State of Israel, that the Jews conspire to dominate and corrupt the world, (etc)? What about the fact that anti-Jewish propaganda books like "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" are used in their schools? Hatred toward the Jews is fed to students like fuel to fire. But you don't write about that, do you?
You write about how the Palestinians are mistreated by the Israelis. What about how the Palestinians are mistreated by the Lebanese and Syrians who refuse to grant them citizenships, employment, and aid? After the 1948 war, over 800,000 Jews were expelled from the Arab world and became refugees too. But by your standards, they were "immigrants" not refugees, right? By the way, it is the Arabs, not the Jews, who declared that war. Had the Arabs never waged this war on Israel, there would have not been any Palestinian refugees in the first place. Why don't you ever point that out? And what if it was the Arabs that had won the war? What do you think they would have done to the Jews? How do you think they would have treated them? Would they have created new concentration camps like the Nazis? After all, didn't the Arab world support the Nazis and their anti-Jewish propaganda?
And why are Jews not allowed to defend themselves? Israel is after all, their homeland; much the same way that the Americas are the homeland of the Native Indians. If you look at the history of Israel, you will see that it was invaded by foreigners many times: first by the Babylonians, then the Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Muslims, the Crusades, the Mamluks, the Ottoman Empire, and last it fell to the hands of the British. The Jews were persecuted in their own homeland by foreigners for centuries. At times, they were even forced to exile, which resulted in them becoming a minority group in their own homeland. So why do you expect them to just keep on taking beatings? Jews make up for less than a quarter of one percent of the world's population (this includes both religion and non religion Jews). They simply can't afford to take beatings anymore.
As for your book "The Holocaust Industry," just imagine an African American professor writing a book entitled "The Slavery Industry"? Imagine that same author lambasting African Americans for "exploiting" the suffering of blacks centuries ago, complaining that there are too many black Colleges, charging that all black organizations are corrupt, and protesting that America celebrates Black History Month every year? Sure, Bubba and the brainwashed bunch in the KKK (and pretty much anyone else that dislikes blacks) would praise this author for having the "courage" to write such crap. But would that really make any sense?
There are many black people in America that criticize members of their own community too, but at least they do it properly. Take Bill Cosby for example. Although he is critical of the African-American youth, he also contributes to the African American community in a positive way, through charity work and such.
You write about how Jews exploit the suffering of Holocaust victims for self-serving purposes. Yet isn't that what you are doing also (that is, by your own standards)? Are you not exploiting the suffering of the Jews, the Arabs… your very own mother? How is that any different from what you accuse others of doing?
Come on. Get real, Norman. Realise what you are doing. Soon enough your books will join "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" as the choice of preference for anti-Jewish propaganda literature.
On a final note, although just like you, I don't believe in god, angels, heaven, or the tooth fairy, I hope that hell really does exist in an after life - so that the Nazis who victimized your mother and millions of others are suffering a great deal for their horrible crimes.
Jessica Y
I read that you sttod there before the assembled Presbyterians and begged them with that nasally, Washington Heights, ass-kissing voice of yours to boycott companies that do business with Israel. Atta boy, Normie. For the Presbyterians, you're a good Jew, instead of like all those other bad Jews out there.
Robert Cherniack
RCHER[at]SHAW.CA
Mr. Finkelstein,
I have irritated you, havn't I?
This is why: because people such as you should know their place. Modern anti-semitism had used twisted scholarism and science in order to justify the persecution of jews, much in the same manner you are doing the demonize israel and justify the acts of barbarity of the ones who follow Osama bin Laden.
David A. Ropin,
Tel-Aviv, state of Israel
Finkelstein:
Are you planning to visit Texas (Dallas and/or Houston area) with your mean, shitty and worthless lectures? I'd like to take that opportunity and a pleasure to come up to you and spit at your false, lying, arrogant, and anashamed snout. I am a very resolute person and nothing/nobody would stop me from doing that, even your Hamas brothers. You are a scum... a real one.
Disrespectfully,
Zach.
Mr. Finkelstein,
As I have a very developed political awareness, I had stumbled upon your evil and hateful work on many ococcasions, a thing which made me wonder about your nature and path in life. You seem to be a quite narcissistic and arrogant person: you seem to be very set on dismissing every real scholar with the very basic commitment for the truth, something which you never were and never will be. To me, it seems rather pitiful and arrogant that you dare to write and publish all of these lies and half-truths in your books (which, not suprisingly, are very welcomed by neo-nazi and anti-semitic groups) and than "debate" with accomplished and honorable scholars and lie your way to a so called "win", which can be easliy dismissed by examining the facts. Fotunetly however, no one seems to be interested in you, which only indicates how your hateful views and work are so unaccepted by the mainstream and sane intellectual community and never will be, as recent events continue to teach us.
Sincerely, David A. Ropin
Tel-Aviv, state of Israel
i wish you could have been one of hitler's 6 million successes.
Dear Professor Finkelstein,
I would like to offer my own suggestion on a new and novel way of dealing with this protracted conflict: ground the palestinians into dog food. I think that recent advances in meat grinding technology could be helpful in converting the palestinian population into a viable source of proteins and other essential vitamins and nutrients for the world's under-nourished dogs. seeing as how the palestinians as a people have almost no redeeming qualities and characteristics and have been the source of great trouble to the Israelis and their neighbors over the past 60 years, I think my idea would settle once and for all this thorny issue of middle east geopolitics. Please let me know if you think my idea is viable and how it can best be implemented. I have just acquired a beautiful new german shepherd and I know she will be hungry for a can of tasty palestinian with gravy. Toodles!
Kerry Pasternak, JD, MBA
Chicago, IL
I am glad to say that I only heard about you for the first time recently. Since I have no time to acknowledge the revisionist garbage that you spout all I wanted to say was that it is quite a shame that 6 MILLION Jews were murdered while your parents were left to live and produce you. Just like a Jew to find a niche and profit from it just as you have profited from your nonsense. I hope you and Noam Chomsky are pround of yourselves knowing that terrorists around the world turn to your propaganda to further their agenda. You would make Goebbels proud.
Josh
You are a major league hypocrite. You are a far greater lickspittle then that Arab boy ever was or ever will be. He recognizes the great harm that is being done to Israel by the Arabs and Muslims. He knows that they want to kill every Jew in Israel. He knows, unlike you, that all the Israelis want is to live in peace with their neighbors. Unlike you he knows that suicide bombing of civilians including children is beyond criminal. Actually you are far worse then a hypocrite or a lickspittle. You are a traitor to your people and nothing is lower then a traitor. I said it before and I say it again. It is a pity that your parents survived the holocaust to spawn a piece of dreck (if you know what that means) like you
Hey Norman, Iran is signing up volunteers for suicide bombing acts in the West and Israel. Given how dedicated you are to their cause, its a natural for you to sign up. Its a win-win situation:
You
Get to die for the cause
Get to kill for the cause.
Get 72 virgins
have no funeral arrangements to worry about
Will be a huge here, a Jew that volunteered to be a suicide bomber for Islam
We
Get rid of you.
So, do I get that stupid email from Mr. Vachon, your Security expert from INTERNATIONAL SECURITY SERVICES, INC
I can draw as many maps as I can, and as colorful to my likes as I want.
Take all your maps and shove them up your ass, bitch! And then, GO FUCK YOURSELF!!!
Your views of Jews and the middle east remind me of a corporal in the apartheid South African army in 1966 where I was serving. You and this corporal would have agreed with each other. He of course was a true Afrikaner, hated kaffirs and Jewboys alike - he would have hated you too as soon as he found out you are a Jew. He would have kicked you around while you apologised for your Jews. Do you believe that you can save yourself from men like corporal Coetzee with your Jew hating? You are an insult to Jews. You demean the courage of holocaust survivors. You would not have survived.
Few days ago my first cousin's son was killed in Tel Aviv in a terrorist attack sponsored by your palestinian brethren. I'd like to expess two regrets here: Regret #1 - too bad you were not there to replace our boy by the scum like you... the Earth would've been a much cleaner place without you; Regret #2 - your father should've withdrawn his penis when he was humping your whore kapo-mama. You are a disgrace, Norman! And now, please, go home and commit suiside, show the rest of the world that even a low life like you could still be a mench. Too bad you won't have guts...
mr. finkelstein,
I have been tracking your work for some time, and I have reached the very same conclusions which your critics accuse you with: you are a fraud, a liar and a disgusting self-hating anti-semitic jew. I think that the fact that someone gave you the title of a professor for itself shameful, as you frequantly abuse information and facts as you see fit in order to achieve your hideous goals. The fact that you have the title of professor does not mean that you are honest and decent(as some idiots in their letters to you have suggested), and does not give you the right to distrot the truth. Moreover, you are nothing but a foul demagugue: one who is strong with words and nothing else. The only reason why you are so good at this is because you are a shameless liar. It is one thing to debate with someone and win the debate by telling the truth, but it is quite another to win it by lies. An honorable defeat by telling the truth worths a lot more then a shameless win as you often acheive. You are just like your benifactor Noam Chomsky: a shameless person, waving your "scholership" as if it gives you the right to preach everyone about everything. Furtermore, I think that the only reason why you are not of a member of a neo-nazi organization is because you are a jew, and you are not proud in that particular fact, are you not? In fact, you are proud that so many nazis and anti-semitic scums praised your "books" and "research". Face it: the only people who support you are either nazis and anti-semits, idiots who think you have something to say and terrorist sympitaisers. I am happy that there are not many people who support you, though. Only an idiot or a man full of reasonless and ilogical hate would support you, scums as yourseelf.
the simple fact is, that not a single serious educational institute war willing to offer you a job, mainly because your reputation as what I have already described above has gone out at the time you were fired from your previuos job. The only one was a private one, known for being a breeding ground for extermists. In short, you and people such as yourself represent the worsy of mankind.
I wish you all the worst,
Roy Asher (yes, I ame jewish, and unlike you I am proud of it)
Professor Finkelstein:
I am not interested in your logical arguments concerning Israel.
Israel is an emotional issue with us older Jews. Watch your back. If I am ever declared only fit for a nursing home I will end my life. And I will take you with me.
Lester Helmus, (Golden Dragon 1952)
Founder and President of the KPD Drexel Scholarship Fund
Website: www.KPDdrexel.org
also,
Sponsor of the KPD Service Club at Drexel University
Dr. Finkelstein,
At best you are a Chamberlain in your writings about Israel. At worst? Just an overly analytical academic without ability to comprehend the human condition even after years of study.
If it weren't that millions of Jews are at risk because your writings are picked up by a bunch of feel-good "activists" then your work would be a joke. But it's not a joke because people with egotistic agendas like Amy Goodman pick up your poorly thought through ideas and use them to create misguided actions.
The Arabs in the Shomron, Gaza, the Judean Desert are a vanguard for the Syrians and Egyptians and Jordanians and Iraqis and Saudi Arabians and Lebanese and any other Arab country.
Law? Whose law? The law that you chose, Dr. Finkelstein? Yes, the law that you chose. As if there is some consensus on Earth as to what law is The Law. What a joke. Law! If you cared about law, you would fight for the American Indians with the same rapacity as you do for the Arabs. You would fight for the Tibetans. For the Sudanese. And so on. No, there is something else going on here. No, there is no love for justice in your work. There is some nefarious ego at work here. In the end, it is your side against the other side. Law? Laugh. You have got to be kidding. There isn't a country in the world that lives up to the battle cries that you and Ms. Goodman voice. The atrocities that go on daily in Arab countries and Asian countries? Where are your revelations? Europe is so nice and wonderful? Egypt is so nice and wonderful? Syria? China? Taiwan? Nigeria? Law?
I hope that you are around for another 20 years to see the fruits of your labor. The great spiritual traditions are not in agreement with you and Ms. Goodman. The Greek and Roman thinkers, Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, Native American tradition, and so on: no one agrees with your analyses except as an intersted party pursuing your own agenda. A new world? There is nothing new under the Sun . . . yet.
Barry Parnas
Read below what one rare freedom loving good Arab friend of mine say about you..And let me again state:
The Jews do not exploit the holocaust enough as they darn should, in my never humble opinion!
Do answer my questions below..or wake up as the Arab/Islamist will do to you what they did to Tom Fox and worse given a chance and in no time. Because you are a Jew, they will behead you..make no bone about it! Stop being the useful idiot! What a waste you are..sadly. It is o.k. to repent and say sorry. It's even more admirable.
What a pity that your parents survived the death camps. I guess that teaching at a Catholic school has made you an apostate. That is what every self hating Jew should do. When the next Hitler or Bin Laden defeats this country you will be slaughtered like every apostate Jew was by the Nazis
Leonard J. Weiss
WHY ARE YOU BUYING INTO THE ARAB LIES? http://www.likud.nl/extr257.html AND YOU DID NOT RESPOND TO MY QUESTION..SO WILL YOU, PLEASE?
"But do explain your holocaust denial and please, explain why are you lending a hand to Jew haters, terrorists and liars will you? The Jews do not exploit the holocaust enough as they should, in my never humble opinion! "
Mr Finkelstein,
Your writings are a disgrace. How can you be so obsessed wth denigrating Israel? Have you ever been there? Have you read the Hamas charter? Your writings are too biased and you do not see the whole picture. Why don't you castigate the suicide bombers and other Palestinian terrorists? You write as if they are a bunch of innocents.
I thought Noam Chomsky was the worst self-hating Jew I had encountered but you take the prize in this category. What is the matter with you people.All your academic qualifications are of no value if you are filled with so much hate.If we are gifted it comes from our genetic background and we can take no pride in our talents. What we can do that is worthy is to become good, loving warm-hearted individuals.In other words, our character is of more value than our intellectual abilities. You are not a good person because you are causing a great deal of trouble for your own people and your work is grist for the mill of the world's antisemites.You seem to have devoted your life to a smear campaign against Jews and Israel.
I respectfully suggest you read the books by Bat Ye'or : The Dhimmi, Jews and Christians under Islam and Islam and Dhimmitude, Were Civilizations Collide, among them. Her books are based on three decades of scholarship with excellent source material. Reading these might educate you with regard to the true attitudes of Muslims, including the Palestinians, towards Jews and Christians and other infidels. If you have an open mind ( which I doubt as your work indicates some deep psychological obsession) your ideas and writings may become more balanced.
I am pleased the Columbia students disrupted your speech. You deserved it. I don't know how you can not be ashamed.
Barbara Levene
"We encourage you to attend and show Finkelstein that his hateful rhetoric is not welcome at Columbia. Please wear white shirts and blue jeans and look out for the informational materials that will be distributed at the event. If you are interested in helping distribute materials please contact Becky Abrams at bsa2102@columbia.edu."
White shirts? Wait, when did black shirts go out of fashion for this kind of action?
D.
Dear academic pit bull, firstly in Lidice were the children not sent to camps. Men shot, women to the camps but children were sent to aryanization to Germany. The brief answer to Mr.Saperstein regarding Palestina/Israel is: Are Palestinians occupying Israel or is it vice-versa? Is Iraq occupying the US or is it vice -versa? Let this highly educated academic professor explain the difference between a suicide bomber killing innocent people and a pilot (might be an Israeli or an American or a Russian) doing the same. The only difference is that the pilot is going to have a drink in the evening with his friends or kiss his girlfriend and the other one is dead. Let this educated professor explain the things which are going on in Guatanamo - and not only there - in the comparison with American constitution and the Bill of Rights and all the bigotry in the blabla of the political elites. He may write a long book about the misdeeds and the arrogance of the military power, which is the only thing America has today. He may write how "we" are so great and righteous and super and the "others" are evil. The result will be bull-shit talking, as usually.
best
MB
And likewise i also support the right of Alan Dershowitz calling your mother a traitor,it's right of free speech is it not? By the way does your mother come in your dreams?
c ya
Why don't you, bitch, pack up your belongings and move to your ideological brethren in Gaza,or West Bank, or Saudi Arabia for that matter. I'm sure, you'd be a good complementary addition to a new Hamas government. Oh, and don't forget to take that old asshole, Chomsky, with you. I hope that this year will be the last year of your miserable life. Amen! Your kapo-mama can't wait for you to join her.
Congrats on your work convincing the world that any Jewish people who are OK with the existence of Israel as a Jewish state should be harrassed.
Also, knowing full well that most Jewish people on earth are "zionists" in that they support Israel's existence (but don't necessarily agree with everything Israel does), congrats on promoting the idea that it's OK to hate "zionist" Jewish people as if they are all "extreme" zionists.
Basically, you are serving to put every jewish person on earth on constant trial.
Adolf would be proud.
Please get cancer and die.
you should be ashamed of yourself. you are entitled to your beliefs but you should know better. you are being USED by the government of iran itself. USED by terrorist groups. The blood of innocent people is on your hands.
Were you picked on as a little boy or something?
So I guess you will be the guest of honor at the Holocaust Denial Conference in Iran.
George Muenz
Sir
What rock did you crawl out from under?
How dare you criticise Israel for protecting itself from genocidal Arabs.
Boycott the Arabs until they stop their killing of innocent Jews.
Regards
Fivish
In your unabashedly anti-semitic work, Image and Reality, you vilify all jewish settlers of the First Aliyah but reporting that a few settlers beat and cursed the Arabs working under them. What you fail to tell your gullible readers is how the Arabs of that time treated the harmless, defenceless religious jews of Palestine. Quoting the eyewitness, Ermete Pierotti, an Italian who lived eight years in Jerusalem until 1864, All the nativepoupulation unfortunatley hold the opinion that to injure a Jew is a work well pleasing in the sight of God. On going to my house in Jerusalem, I saw a very respectable Jew running at full speed, pursued by some Arabs.''The Jews of the East , as I have had proof over and over again, seek not to destroy the life of others but to preserve their own, enduring with meekness, constancy and patience the insults and injuries they receive from Christans and Mohammedans alike'. Jerusalem, Martin Gilbert, p 108.
Why not post this letter on your website?
Hi,
Ive read some of your work and have to say that you are a COMPLETE FUCKING IDIOT. I am really surprised nobody has beat the snot out of you yet, so you can wipe the blood off your face with the pages from the shitty books you write. Go fuck your self!!!! LONG LIVE THE PROMISED LAND!!!!
Norman,
I hope that you are aware that anti-Semites are using your books not only to promote hatred against the Jews, but also to justify hatred against the Jews. If you want proof of this, just look below at some of the anti-Jewish / anti-Israel websites that I found that refer to you and your books.
It is no surprise that you have been accused of being a self-hating Jew. Although you deny this, your record speaks for itself. How many books have you written that heavily criticize the Jews/Israelis/Zionists? Quite a few, right? Now how many books have you written that are pro-Jewish in any way at all? Zero. So much for Jewish pride.
Every book you wrote favours non-Jews. That is why the KKK, neo-Nazis, Muslim extremists, Christian extremists, and anti-Semites in general use your books (and will forever use your books, especially after you die) to "prove" that Jews are "money-hungry, corrupted, children of Satan" that seek world for domination - a myth about the Jews that existed for almost two millenniums. Thanks to your books, this myth about the Jews will continue on.
Although you are aware that Jews don't even make for 1 percent of the world's population (there are only 12-15 million Jews in this world of 6 billion people) you are clearly not concerned about attacking the very own minority group that you belong to.
World population:
Christians: 32%
Muslims: 20 %
Hindus: 13 %
Buddhists: 6 %
Jews: 0.2%
When using these statistics, one can easily understand why the Zionists in Israel are in a survival mode. While Arabs have a lot of land in this world, Jews don't. They only have Israel, a land habited by Jews for over 3,500 years. And although Palestinians also have the right to live in Israel just as Jews do, the unfortunate reality is that Palestinians in general have never wanted to co-exist with the Jews, and they still don't.
If Jews did not have Israel, within a few generations, Jews would, without a doubt, would likely become extinct. Your books, Norman, encourage racist groups to pursue their goals of exterminating the Jews.
It's sad to see that you and anti-Semites have so much in common. Your views and attitudes toward the Jews are very much a like. No wonder they like you so much. Your stubbornness and one-dimensional way of thinking are traits that they certainly admire.
Your books downplay the horrors and effects of the Holocaust, indirectly insult every Holocaust survivor as well as every Jew, give one-sided accounts on the Middle East conflict, and promote a false image and history of the Jewish people. Of course you are considered a self-hating Jew. Racists, on the other hand, do not think you are a self-hating Jew. How ironic? Or rather, how pathetic?
YEAR 2005
I listened to about 30 seconds of your debate with Alan. You certainly do have a vicious streak. My question is, what truly motivates you? Is it a desire for truth, or a desire for infamy? I suspect if it was truth, you would examine both sides of the question with honesty. Since your only interested in ripping apart your own people, never putting forth one redeeming feature, I would say you have some ulterior bias, some deep rooted scar in your being, probably based on your mothers ranting about the Jewish power structure.
I guess fairness doesn't enter into your method of scholarship. Lets not assign sainthood to the Palestinians, that just doesn't wash. Lets not assign the dark side to Zionism, that is incredibly one-sided. Everything in the world is a shade of gray, not black and white as you suggest, but I suppose as a Marxist, its hard when every experiment with communism in the world has failed due to the inherent corruption of humanity, and one is left with every few worthy targets for the revolution to set its sites on.
Certainly, Israel is not perfect, but that is in keeping with the rest of the world. If you wish to truly perform a service for this earth, then try examining your own motives first, and then act from a purity of purpose, not from a jaded idealism that smacks of self loathing.
Finkelstein
You have disgraced your family and the Jewish nation. Whether Israel is right or wrong, as Jew in the Middle East (A traditionally anti-Semitic region), you should not side with Arabs, Muslim against your born Jewish family.
Your parents suffered at the hands of a monster. A similar monster you seem support against us.
Finkelstein, change your name, go away or convert to something else as the Jews do not need your crap.
You and Chomsky are disgraceful and shameful individuals.
I know you are making plenty of money out of this. Shame on you or do you give the money to the Palestinians?
Andrew Mainz
(A proud Jewish South African American) Dig that!!!
RIGHT ON TARGET!!!!
Just kidding. Every word you type in your deceitful books gives Holocaust deniers, Neo-Nazis, and Jew-hating Arabs more power. Your "facts" are made up, and instead of presenting even a moderate view of Jews and Israelis, you make them into horned devils. At least have the decency and respect for your parents not to use their suffering to promote your violently anti-Jewish cause. I would actually like to speak with you, even though I doubt I would feel comfortable talking to such a twisted human being face to face. What drives your anti-Jewish sentiment? If you really hate yourself and your fellow Jews, why not just convert to Islam? It's better than being an embarrassment to Jews and Christian Zionists. I'm glad your heart goes out to Arabs who are suffering, maybe you could report on Holocaust survivors being knifed in the streets, children being blown up inside Jewish kindergartens, and the Palestinian kids trained in the art of hate from the day of their birth.
If you will notice, the above are ALL neo-nazi websites. They LOVE your work! When I searched your name on Google, I came up with of course violently leftist blogs and "news websites," articles entirely in German, Neo-nazi sites, and of course Islamic fundamentalist addresses. Jews die every day because of the hate you spread. I'm not out to change your beliefs: I can see that I'm too late for that. You've solidly rejected the beautiful Torah of your ancestors, and you've rejected G-D and the Jewish people. You have given credibility to Holocaust deniers and to the murderers of Jews. Have your opinions, but please stop spreading them. You are only creating more bloodshed.
Sincerely,
Nachum, a Concerned Jew.
Have you forgotten the story of Purim? The amalakite Haman's plan to annhilate all jews from the kingdom, Mordichai who alerted his neice of the plot, and his neice the then Queen Esther having to make a decision to alert the King of the plot. She was a reluctant jewess. Her uncle reminded her that if Haman's plot succeeded, then she, too, would lose her head. The relevance for you, Mr. Finkelstein, is that you have aligned yourself with those who hate jews, against the State of Israel, your collective jewishness. What makes you think that if they succeed to annhilate the jews, collectively, that the jews individually won't be next? And what makes you think that you would be an exception? There are only two types of people on this earth -- jews and gentiles. You are a jew. You were set aside by the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob for the purposes of bringing "light to the gentiles". The jews were set aside not to be as the gentile nations around them. The jews were set aside, NEVER to integrate. They would be in the land to which they went in diaspora, but of the land to which they went. Try as you will, you will not succeed to make the gentiles around you forget that you are a jew. No matter how secular you believe you are. No matter how much you deny your ancestry and heritage. Stop your struggle. It only reflects your rebellion against something you cannot change.
The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob promised Abraham of the Covenant that He would "bless those who bless him, and curse those who curse him". Better put yourself onto the blessings side -- stop with the behavioural expressed jewish self-hatred.
Moll, a messianic gentile
Dear sir,
Intriguing it was to read your writing in reference. You obviously have been given a gift for writing and characterization. In my opinion, however, you are severely lacking in morality and definitely are missing out in the pride of being Jweish. Your shame of being a Jew shines through your writings as you try to justify your weak and seditious attitude, a natural consequence of a contniued self-betrayal.
Vietnam was a sad chapter in the history of this country. Not because of the fact that it was a war. Wars are about carnage and death. As an intellectual you should understand this plain fact. But because it caused such a deep rift in the family, the house, the nation. We're still paying the price. Unfortunately, along with many misguided citizens, you are still fighting this war and its ghosts. We now have formal relations with Vietnam, isn't it time you found closure with your guilt?
Interestingly you speak about being horrified at the carnage and death in Vietnam, yet believe that USSR political style wholesale murders are in order and even deserved. Isn't it ironic how a Jew born from concentration camp prisoners advocates the very tactics which brought his parents to that juncture? - All in less than one generation. Does this not give you pause at all?
Your writing is haunted indeed - by the guilty conscience of a man unable to accept his role in life as a Jew. As Jews, we have all experienced the bitter revelations of events in those horrendous camps. But obviously this stood between you and your father. Perhaps you need to address that?
I am an Israeli Jew. I emigrated here, and having lived here for a number of years I can attest to the fairness of the Jews and Israelis. I can also attest to the ferocity of the Arab's hate of anything Jewish and Israeli. I have witnessed it and I have been a witness to the duplicity of the Palestinians and their actions. Bombs, kidnappings of children, civilians, innocent bystanders - are all fair game to this self styled group bent on carnage and death. Yet you advocate freedom of movement, no sanctions and complete neutrality in our dealings with them. Would you also peacefully lay down your life against an armed intruder or attacker in your home? Or perhaps against a Nazi juggernaut during a cristalnacht. I agree with Benjamin Franklin when he wrote "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
As such, I am always surprised, no - disappointed and saddened - by Jewish "intellectuals" who feel the need to apologize for "Jew Liars" and "Jewish Kapos". You feel these are your credentials - to me they betray your lack of conviction and inner conflict with your identity. Don't you think its time to come clean?
What will you say when the Arab-Muslim world has its way and Israel exists no more? Will you still be apologizing when laws are passed restricting Jews around the world? When will you rid yourself of this ghetto mentality and liberate yourself?
Sadly, yet brutally honest,
Danny Yarhi
Dear Norman
You come by your name honestly. You are a kapo bird second to none. You are a genius making "a living" by craping on Israel. A money worshiping kike like you must suck up all the attention. After all, it is good for bottom line.
Sincerely
Alex Sandor Ross.
Dear Norman,
I am writing not as a supporter of you views or as an opponent. I am simply concerned about your personal psycholgical and spiritual well being which I believe is influencing your position vis-a-vis the Jewish people/Israel in a negative way. It is my opinion that most of the harm done to the Jews in the past was due, fundamentally, to angry unhealthy Jews rather than by outsiders.(I think Noam Chomsky has a lot of built up hatred as well). G.W. Allport defined a psychologically healthy person as:
healthy individuals are motivated by conscious processes that are more autonomous than unhealthy individuals. Psychologically mature adults are motivated mostly by conscious thoughts, with unconscious processes playing a minor role in their behavior. Mature people are characterized by activity, security, and freedom of choice. Healthy adults are generally more aware of what they are doing and their reasons for doing it. In most cases, they have experienced trauma-free childhood, even if their later years may involve conflict and suffering. Age is not considered to be a requisite for maturity, however, healthy individuals seem to become more mature as they get older. A psychologically healthy personality requires extension of self; they develop non-egotistical interests in activities that are not centered around them. Second they have the capacity to love others non-possessively and unselfishly. They also treat other people with respect and are aware of their needs and desires. Psychologically healthy people possess realistic perceptions of their environment; they do not live in a distorted reality to fit their own wishes. They also possess emotional security and recognize frustrations and inconveniences are part of living (Allport, 1961).
It seems to me that you are taking some sort of personal anger from your upbringing out on other Jews who are simply trying to promote the best interests of themselves as Jews and Israel as a jewish state. I think you are suffering from a similar condition as other self-hating Jews. If it is due to your own parents' repression from the Holocaust that caused you mental harm as a child, then you are simply continuing the work of Nazi ideology. It seems that your negative energy could be better channeled to other avenues. Let me reiterate, my goal is to promote mental health amongst Jews, who, I believe, as a people, have built up neuroses and anger from generations of suffering. One can easily tell if someone is mentally healthy - is he promoting positive ideas and going somewhere with his life or is he looking to destroy, hurt, oppose others. It seems that your work falls in category 2 - I don't find any contructive message in your work - it is full of negativity.
In conclusion, please find a qualified, objective therapist before you find yourself in depression and your life in shambles.
- A concerned Jew
1/2 of my family died during Holocaust.
My grandfather was burnt alive in a cattle train, his sister and her 2 small children were gassed (one newborn) in a mobile gas chamber (dushegubka) and i contunue on and on with names and stories just about my family.
Why again didn't your parents die? Did Nazi know that they will produce you?
You are a human trash and a lier. And there were a lot like you among us Jews.
I wish you respond for every drop of jewish blood that you are covered in.
Historian of a Holocaust? Really?
Did you count my relatives? Did you?
Go to hell.
IS
Norm,
The saying goes whatever goes around comes around. Often though it takes quite a long time. In the case of the world's incessant hunger to focus on Israel as the cause of all ills in the Middle East, abetted by endless Arab state propaganda and support for this, you appear to be fortunate.
If one were a novice to this conflict they would buy all the 'Finkelsteinisms' that Israel isn't criticized enough, that scathing articles on Israel are not frequent or harsh enough and that it's all a product of the "Holocaust Industry" of Zionists of course.
All your melodramatics and scathing overblown personal attacks on many people will come back to you. If and when there is some sort of "peace" your now profitable industry of self-righteous indignation might come to not be of interest anymore. The Neo Nazi right would of course still buy your books but the screeching left may move on to another cause to more selectively focus on.
And in time you'll become an irrelevant miserable person seeking attention again. Then you may have to resort to publishing screeds that are Anti-American, which may sell well, but certainly wouldn't carry the interest of a self-promoted son of Holocaust Survivors writing scathing over the top screeds about "Zionism", Israel and "the industry".
Perhaps, you could then write about the financial problems and lies of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. I doubt this would garner you any $, fame or approval from Democracy Now or the left, and you couldn't claim your grandfather was an African American. So perhaps sticking to the idea that the "Jewish groups" "abandoned" the black cause is probably a more 'sellable' screed for you to stick to.
Keep em coming Norm. People other than "Zionists" are noting you and screeds.
Warmest regards to a warm fellow,
Mike Nargizian
Are you still alive, bitch? I hope not for long...
Your mother can't wait for you to join her.
With Jews like you, who needs enemies?
If you are an atheistic Jew-hater, why pretend to be Jewish? Change your last name to Dudley or Metcalf and go at it like the best of them---Hitler, Le Pen, Metzger, Holland, Butler, Sharpton, Jackson, et al. Just don't be a pathetic self-hating Finkelstein k1ke. That's the worst. I'll make it easy for you.
Pick a Christian last name here:
http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/christian/fairnames/surnames.html
Another piece of advice: go and educate yourself. Start here:
www.JihadWatch.org
www.JTF.org
www.MEMRI.org
Also read Perfidy by Ben Hecht. Maybe it will help you regain your sanity. You know that if your grandfather were alive, he would have been ashamed of you and wished that you were never born. I wish that, too.
You ARE a model k1ke.
So what's your solution to the Mid. East- Do you want all Auschwitz survivors (like mom and dad, but with a bit of more balls. They have dared the difficut choice) and their children in Israel to the the county to the Palestinians and join you in cockroached Chicago? Chicago Polaks would not like the idea I guess.
How much the Arab( university clubs) are paying to hear a Jew spits on other Jews and Jewish organisation? Was it 5000 $ ? I think that if they are no antisemits, they become after they hear your lectures, in the begining they lough (vancouver)but i wonder whats in their mind while lieaving the hall
About you, about Bnei brit, About Darshowits that comes 4 bloks from you (the diff can not be that great - some people belive that place has influence on mans psycho )
Have a nice day
Yoram Stein
you are to weak a person to be a jew. you are going to die by yourself, having accomplished nothingin your life, and your face carries that knowledge everytime you speak.
And the wish to you is:
May you not live to see the next year - AMEN!
You are a disgrace and a scum! A piece of shit like you shouldn't have been born on the first place.
Dear Norm,
I see you're coming out with yet another book.
Let me guess... it's essay-sized, and blatantly stretched out to appear in book format. It's puerile, filled with inane attacks on actual scholars, whose books you might have read the title of or maybe flipped through accidentally. It shamelessly advertises the fact that you are Jewish (oh, wait, the title. check.), irrelevant to anyone who actually cares about facts, but indispensible to a hysterical shill such as yourself. It has a fawning review by Noam Chomsky (boy, those are hard to get).
Maybe you could "discover" another kind of "hoax" for me: how any publisher in their right mind lets you within a mile of a printing press.
Sincerely loathing you,
James W.
P.S. After you pretty much forced Daniel Goldhagen to destroy your credibility (if indeed you had any in the first place), I'm surprised you haven't just given up! Kudos
YEAR 2004
I had the unfortunate experience of watching a few minutes of your lecture in Vancouver, my hometown.
In your lecture (I use that term advisedly) in Vancouver, you talk so passionately about Israel expelling Arabs in 1948, but of course you conveniently neglect to mention that the Arab countries really did try and drive the outnumbered Jews into the sea (or is it your view that their invasion was a fraud committed by Zionists) and the Arab states really did tell the Arabs living in Palestine to leave and not be driven into the sea by the conquering Arab armies. You talked so convincingly in Vancouver about how Israel committed these horrible human rights abuses in Jenin, (when all of 26 Arab civilians died becasue they were victims of the Arab way to fight ie. hide behind your women and children) yet you so conveniently neglect to mention the outright, deliberate murder of 29 Jews attending a Passover seder in Netanya, which precipitated the Jenin invasion.
The one bright spot of your appearance in Vancouver was the fact that your harangue was overwhelmingly ignored, and for good reason. You are the worst form of self-hating Jew imaginable and there is nothing lower on the face of this earth, (other than Arab terrorists) than self-hating Jews. You are undoubtedly more of a self-hating Jew than even Daniel Burros, a Jew who was outed as a member of the KKK.
Thank God for people like Alan Dershowitz, who states the truth about what scum you really are and who will forever remain far more respected and revered than you could ever even dream of being.
Norman aka Adolf,
You are a Nazi. Wake up. Just as Nazis killed innocent
Jews in WW2, you defend the Palestinians in aimlessley
killing innocent Jews in Israel. Shame on you. Your
family and the Jewish people should be disgusted by
you. Please let me know when you convert to Islam, so
that I can know when to officialy celebrate, knowing
that a traitor has finally joined the religion of
violence where he belongs.
If you are not a coward, respond and/or publish my
letter.
Salam you dirty bastard!
Dear Norman
During a barbecue yesterday, about 25 of our friends watched your
talk intermittently on C-Span from Chicago. We laughed more than any
Saturday Night Live show that we had ever seen. Although it was
somewhat difficult to understand all of your points due to your
speech impediment or horrendous Brooklyn accent, we were truly in
stitches from your obvious stupidity. I guess Orwell was correct in
saying that the ultimate in foolishness can only be found on the
university campus.
I sure hope that your parents are not alive to see the monster that
they created. Your mother most certainly never received any "naches"
from you. However, Joseph Goebbals would have certainly been very
proud. Although I am not a big fan of Alan Dershowitz, I now must
reevaluate my feelings for him, since you believe he is a fraud.
Now, I think he is probably a good guy. And by the way, I know a
student at Harvard who specifically saw him working on his recent
book which you claimed he did not read or write. That makes you an
outright liar, and it is absolutely provable.
Many of my friends were rolling on the floor with laughter at your
ignorance and stupidity. No wonder the auditorium where you spoke
was so empty. C-Span is certainly scraping the bottom of the barrel
when they put unknown entities like you on their broadcast. Perhaps
Comedy Central will realize what a hit you would become.
Frankly, I think you should change your name because you are about
as Jewish as Adolf Eichmann, although you are obviously
capitalizing on being an anti-Jewish Jew. Otherwise, you could never
sell even one book.
I do not know whether to say God Bless America for allowing
extremist free speech where a professor is permitted to falsely
scream "Fire" in a mostly empty college auditorium. Shame on you. I
certainly hope you do not have any children.
Irwin N. Graulich
President
Bloch Graulich Whelan Inc.
333 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10010
Hey Norm
If you would stop masturbating all over your computer, you would see
that I did not want an answer from an ignoramus. If you cannot
take the criticism, I suggest you get out of the kitchen. You are
an embarrassment to the 6 million Jews who died. Oh sorry,
according to you, that is probably an exaggerated figure. It was
actually 64 Jews who were murdered in The Holocaust!
By the way, I just want you to know that I am not just some angry
guy who saw your speech. I am a well known speaker and writer on
ethics, morality, Judaism and politics. Macro truth is one of the
most important values and I hate people like you who are frauds.
Put my name into Google and perhaps you will learn something.
You are single, aren't you?
Irwin N. Graulich
President
Bloch Graulich Whelan Inc.
333 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10010
Dear Norman,
You were on again on Sunday and again I only caught about 20 minutes of your
speech.
You mentioned that the Holocaust was hardly ever mentioned before 1967 which
I assume you mean after the Six Day War victory of Israel.
You're probably correct. You don't seem to connect the victory to the fact
that the Jews saw that as them finally making it in the world. Israel was
strong, victorious and the Jews were in charge of the Kotel.
Jews, like you, have been conditioned to be weak and invisible and accept the
pogroms and the Holocaust and move on.
You mentioned your vulgar friends never mentioning the Holocaust and you're
right. Jews went through these horrors, buried their dead family members,
grieved and went on putting these horrors behind them until the next time. They
never said they wanted revenge and to kill their killers. Sadly if they had
killed their killers maybe they would have been killed, but their haters would
have been afraid. I have a very simple philosophy. "If you don't respect me,
then fear me."
You have to have been terribly humiliated by what happened to your family in
the Shoa to have become what you are today.
I told you in my previous correspondence that I too dislike Dershowitz who
would defend Hitler, Hier, Foxman, Boteach and the all the other weak pathetic
Jews who put our families in jeopeady.
With all the new anti-Jew attitudes coming from all over the world it is sad
to think that you and your family too, a Jew-non-Jew, might be thrown into the
same box car with Dershowitz.
No people in the history of the world have given so much and have been hated
so long because they are so weak.
Don't be weak Norman. Be proud of your heritage, because it is priceless and
I thank God every day that I am a Jew and descended from Abraham, Sarah,
Moses, Yitzak, Jacob, Einstein and all the others. Our haters hate us for our
wealth and for who we are.
Stop hating yourself Norman. By the way you look like Tommy Smothers, who
must be a Jew.
Respectfully,
Bill Levy
OWJ
Dear Norman,
I heard you say on Book Span 2 that both your parents were in concentration
camps and that all your known relatives died in the Holocaust.
What is it about Jews that they can so bitterly hate themselves and the very
people who form the religion called Judaism?
Bobby Fisher, Newdel, you and thousands like you have obviously been
traumatized so dramatically to cause yourselves to hate the very people they are.
I wish I could send you a gene remover, because you are a genetic Jew, not
just a fellow who hates his fellow Jews.
There are no people on this planet who are more self-destructive than the
most intelligent and productive people, the Jews.
Look how brilliant you are. Do you think you could be so brilliant if you
weren't a Jew?
No people are more disunited and less likely to help each other than Jews.
My friend saw The Pianist and he commented that he was disappointed in the
main character because every time he had the opportunity to help fellow Jews, he
didn't.
I wish all Jews were green so they couldn't hide who they are.
I feel very sorry for you and I want you to know and your parents to know,
wherever they might be, that there are very strong Jews alive and well and
getting stronger. If only one hundred Jews or fifty or ten Jews had acted in the
1920s in Germany and killed Hitler and the Nazis, the world and the Jews would
be quite different today. Would you have been one of those?
I think you're brilliant, but so full of self-hate. You're like that Jew
who gave his healthy kidney specifically to a black and now wants to donate the
remaining one to another black. What is wrong with our people?
Jewish name, looks Jewish, means nothing. Shame.
By the way I hate Eli Wiesel and Rabbi Marvin Hier and all the other weak,
pathetic Jews liincluding Lerner, Foxman and Boteach.
Hag Samach,
Bill Levy, National Director
Organization of World Jewry
Allentown, PA
610-391-0241
Who is Amnesty anyway?
How many journalists from international news organizations are based in Israel?
How many of these journalist roam freely in Israel and are watch-dogs on Israeli activities?
How many journalists receive news freely from left wing Israelis attacking their own government?
What happens to these left wing Israels who attack their own leaders.
How many journalists from international news organizations are based in the West Bank and Gaza?
How many of these journalist roam freely in the West Bank and Gaza and are watch-dogs on Palestinian activities?
How many journalists receive news freely from left wing Palestinians attacking their own leadership?
What happens to these left wing Palestinians who attack their own leaders.
How is it that you do not understand that reporting on a structured society governed by democratic laws is far more accessible that reporting
on an anarchical society rife with fear of having your throat cut from your own people?
So if no, or little anti-Palestinian news is coming out of the Palestinian areas, does this mean that on a factual level, there are no negative things happening there?
Is this not what is happening with Amnesty International, Bezalel and the likes?
To call the office of the Dean of a university asking whether an incident took place involving a Jew took place, being told that they do not know of such an incident and then drawing the conclusion that on a factual basis the incident never took place is naive and pathetic.
To compare Americans in Vietnam and Jews in the West Bank and from someone who calls himself a Jews astounds me. Next you will be telling us that the Jews never received the Ten Commandments, that the First and Second Jewish Temples never existed, and then you will tell us that the Western Wall is the holiest site for Jews.
And you will do this in one breath. For someone so well read and educated as yourself please allow me to tell you that the holiest site for Jews is the Temple Mount itself, and not the wall. "Wow", you knew that right? There is little about the Western Wall, other than it's proximity to the Temple Mount itself, that makes it holy (does the word 'holy' make you feel uncomfortable?).
Regarding the Holocaust, why do you fail to mention that pre-1967, denial of the Holocaust was almost unheard of. Europe lived in shame. A subject once deemed untouchable, forced Jews into talking about it in order to stop the tide of Holocaust denial. But I am sure intellectual political scientists like yourself, in respected positions, understand this?
On what basis do you call yourself a Jew? Why do you do the devils work and with such passion?
The German's still would have flagged you for the camp's, as they did so many other who tried to hide amongst them.
If you are a Jew then you will fight to preserve symbols inherently connected to your heritage, especially it some modern entity claims the same ground.
I am saddened by your lust to please the Jew haters.
Gilad Gross
Sir,
I can only speculate that your parents are deeply ashamed of you. If they are not, they quite likely survived the "Holocaust" by being "Capos".
I watched and listened to you lecture and the attacks you made upon Jews and Israel. You had the audacity to call Dershowitz a liar, when it was you that told more lies per second than Heir Goebbels ever did. You have the chutzpah to infer the ADL is an expert on defamation, meaning they are the defamers. You well know the truth is they are experts only in that they uncover and expose the defamation inflicted upon Jews and Israel. You should be ashamed of yourself. I am not a religious Jew. I'm am more secular than many of us, but I am proud of being Jewish. I view the State of Israel as one of the most heroic and just nations in history.
You deny there is anti semitism. You then have never, yourself, lived with and been subject to, anti semitism. You were born long after the the Holocaust. You either just don't what you are talking about, you are a complete idiot, or just insane. If there is a hell, you will surely go there and meet up with your friends and the "martyrs" of the Palestinians, Al Quaida, Neo Nazis, and the rest of their supporters. You also know, or are denying, that prior to the early 1930s there was no Palestine. You know that the Jewish state was first created by the purchase, with hard cash, of desert land. Arabs were happy to sell this worthless desert to these "foolish" Jewish pioneers. You weren't even born then.
You are also denying that the sole aim of the Palestinian movement is to remove all Jews from the Middle East. And not just remove the Jews, but to kill them.
Israel was born because the rest of the world refused to stop anti semitism though out history. It was even here in our beloved country. Do you forget the St. Louis? Do you forget the quota systems imposed upon the Jewish applicants to many medical schools during the 1930s and 1940s? Do you forget the Inquisition in Spain in the 1400s? No, I think not. You are the Apostate Jew. You are the revisionist and If you do not go to hell, then there is surely no God. I say to you......NEVER AGAIN.....
Arthur Wynn
Your pretend to be a seeker after truth, but are really just another skillful partisan polemicist with a point of view to sell: hatred of Israel.
You deliberately misuse the terms "NAZI" and "ethnic cleansing" to describe the forced resettlement of civilian populations, knowing well that these terms contain a connotation of deliberate murder of civilians. So far as I am aware, the only party to the current conflict with a policy of deliberate murder of civilans is the Palestinian Arabs. Would you characterize the Czech's and Poles as NAZIs due to their forced resettlement of German civilians? In your opinion was Andrew Jackson a NAZI ?
Whatever errors Professor Deshowitz may have made, his central thesis that Israel has been held to a higher standard than other nations is in my opinion indisputable.
You yourself have one similarity with Adolf Hitler. Just as the true source of his hatred of Jews remain an enigma, so does the real reason for your hatred of Israel. Perhaps one day you will write another book and tell us the whole truth.
I am a second year law student at The University of Michigan, and had the opportunity to watch a lecture of yours on CSPAN this morning.
You, Norman Finkelstein, should be ashamed of yourself. You claim that allegations of anti-semitisim are fraudulent, when it is in fact you who are fraudulent. You cited two examples of what you said to be false claims of anti-semitism, from which you drew the absurd conclusion that anti-semitism today does not exist. You attacked Alan Dershowitz for "making things up" in his book The Case for Israel - but ironically, when I listen to you, it is clear that you are conjuring up everything you say out of thin air.
What are your sick motives for perpetuating this propaganda?
You disgust me.
Kimberly Worly
Finkelstein:
I cannot believe you have money at your speaking engagements going to the
ISO. This is the organization that encouraged that nit-wit Rachel Corrie to sit
in front of a bulldozer. The heroic IDF is attempting to stem the tide of
genocide bombings using the least amount of deadly force, and this stupid girl
sits in front of a bulldozer. Talk about dumb!! Apparently, the Palestinians are
not happy committing mass murder of Jews and blowing themselves up, they now
decide it is a good idea to encourage naive Americans to die too!! Hey, well at
least the Palestinians, with their cult of death, want everybody to die.
Fact is, the ISO should be brought up on criminal charges for
encouraging people to commit suicide, while the heroic IDF attempts to do what it has to do. Fact is, these groups like Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and other
Islamo-fascist groups can only be comparted to scum, lice, and vermin, and they have to be
put down, in the manner one eradicates cancer or puts down a rabid dog (I have
to apologize here to canines everywhere for the invidious comparison). The
fact that you affiliate yourself with groups like the International Socialist
Organization makes me want to heave doubly far.
Dear Norman,
My heart cries each time I hear your name because it
reminds me of how you are inciting anti-Semitism and
giving a reason for Americans to support Palestinian
terrorism against Jewish children. If you have
children, send them to Israel. If they get blow up,
G-d forbid, you will feel what its like to be a victim
of a terrorist attack by your people- the
Palestinians. You are not a Jew in my eyes, but a
closet Palestinian and a traitor who betrayed the Jews
that were killed in the Holocaust and in Israel.
Sincerely,
Max Kuperman
YEAR 2003
I ACCUSE YOU of formenting the anti-semitism resulteding in the murder of jews whose blood is on YOUR hands.
How so? According to the European Monitoring Center of Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC), you, Norm, are an anti-Semite. The writers of the report proposed four criteria for judging expressions as anti-Semetic: whether they equate Israel to Nazi Germany, whether they see Jews as everywhere as collectively responsible for Israel's policies, whether they set a double standard, i.e. evaluating Israel differently from other countries, and whether anti Semetic myths are used to describe Israel politics( for example, presenting IDF soldiers as Christ-killers. Clearly Norman, you are guilty of at least two of the criteria; firstly, judging Israel differently from other countries, and secondly equating Israel to Nazi Germany.
In the case of the latter, you have compared the building of a wall in the occupied territories to the building of a wall by the Nazis during World War II when you stated "You would think with this inundation of Holocaust education that the first thing Jews would think when they heard that Israel was building a wall around the occupied territories - the first connection they would make - is the wall in the Warsaw ghetto,"
In one of your more visceral emails to me, and I quote you, "But please do not answer me until you've read these gruesome reports in full, including the aerial photograph evidence that Israel leveled the neighborhood in Jenin after nearly all (and perhaps all) the fighting was over. Regrettably, you are so busy with your Nazi apologetics that you don't have time to research the facts before shooting off your mouth." In another email to me, you said that, " The human rights reports make perfectly plain to any except Nazis that "martyrdom," which my dictionary defines as "torture, affliction," was a perfectly valid, if understated, description of the wanton destruction of Jenin''. Last, is your repetitious quote, "To repress Palestinian resistance, a senior Israeli officer in early 2002 urged the army to "analyze and internalize the lessons ofhow the German army fought in the Warsaw ghetto."
This dangerous phenomenon of the Nazification of Israel justifies hatred of Israel and therefore all Jews, i.e. Anti-Semitism.
Coupled with your absolute anti-Zionism is your fetishization of the 'innocent' Palestinians, your transforming Palestinians into an ideal-type, an always perfect victim, and Jews into a similarly fantastic abstraction, monstrious and criminal torture.
Your blind anti-Zionism causes you to transgress another EUMC definition of anti-semitism, namely the setting of a double standard, i.e. evaluating Israel differently from other countries. You set the double standard when you turn a blind eye to the virulent anti-Semitism spewed out by the Moslem media. When you agree to shake the hand of Hamas leader Rantisi but refuse to shake the hand of Ariel Sharon. When you refuse to oppose the boycotting of Israeli academics. When you close your eyes to the anti-Semitic poison embedded in Palestinian school books. When you and human rights advocates refer to Israel with its democratic institutions as an apartheid nation and willfully fail to recognize some of the most brutal regimes in the history of the world. When you ignore the tragic plight of women in Moslem countries where family members may murder a daughter or sister who has been raped to restore family honor. When you refuse to acknowledge Israel's absorption of countless of thousands of Jewish refugees, disenfranchised and driven from Arab countries, while at the same time refraining from chastising the Arab world for its inhospitable treatment of the Palestinian 'refugee problem' which they helped orchestrate and ferment.
Your absolute anti-Zionism really is Jew-hatred, just in a different form from antisemitism.
Using the ugly book jacket and the uglier contents of your book, Image and Reality of the Israeli-Palestine Conflict, you fabricate a myth that is constructed on the demonized figure of 'Jews-Israelis-Zionists' supported by the 'Americans' and in opposition to that, no less mythical, of the Palestinian Arab 'innocent victims.'" The totality of your works create a potrait of an agressive, colonizing "cosmopolitan Satan," the unholy trinity 'United States/Israel/Occident.' On the other side stands the "dominated and the oppressed." Thus your new judeophobia recycles old stereotypes such as the rich Jew and the dominating Jew under the "varnish of progressivism." The Jew is once more the stand in for capitalism, imperialism, cosmopolitanism, indeed the whole economic order.
Your ugly portrait could not be further from the truth. For example, you say in the new foreward to Image and Reality, "Using the same slogan of "rooting out Palestinian terror," Israel proceeded to massacre a defenseless population, killing some 20,000 Palestinians and Lebanese between June and September 1982, almost all civilians." But see what a real military historian has to say about Israel's treatment of Lebanese civilians. By reading THE ISRAELI EXPERIENCE IN LEBANON, 1982-1985 Major George C. Solley Marine Corps Command and Staff College Marine Corps Development and Education Command Quantico, Virginia 10 May 1987 we learn the following:
The reduction of the Tyre camps began the afternoon of 6 June, would take four days to accomplish, and would cost the Israelis 21 dead and 95 wounded. There was little urgency in subduing the Tyre camps... so Israeli soldiers were urged caution in order to hold down casualties. The IDF advanced by steadily securing chunks of the camps and forcing the defenders into an ever-smaller, area. Each camp was ideal for small-unit defense, however, and the PLO fighters were able to block the narrow roads and alleys, use RPG's at short range, drop hand grenades into Israeli APC's, then flee to other positions. IDF troops were fired on from the ground, windows, and rooftops -- from the front and from behind. All this occurred in an area thick with civilians. When the camps were finally taken, IDF soldiers uncovered some 74 bunkers in Rachidiyeh, 80 in Burj al Shemali, and some 213 underground shelters and arms stores in al-Bas.25 The fighting was made particularly difficult because of the IDF's rules of engagement, which dictated that soldiers in heavily populated areas would take risks to preserve the safety of civilians, that no grenades or satchel charges would be used prior to assaulting buildings, and that damage to mosques and churches would be avoided. Yet, mounting Israeli casualties led to heavy IDF use of air and artillery support with attendant civilian casualties. In the end, the camps at Tyre were subdued on 9 June, after four days of heavy fighting.
In the Ein Hilwe camp at Sidon...[ A]ttacking infantrymen again penetrated the camp only to become pinned down in the narrow streets. A second assault was mounted by paratroopers toward the city of Sidon itself, but it too bogged down. The IAF dropped leaf lets and on loud speakers urged civilians to flee, but dozens of airstrikes and considerable artillery support were needed in order to extricate the attacking forces at dusk.
On 10 June, the Israelis seized two mosques used as strongpoints by the defenders, but came up against heavy fire from the camp hospital. Rather than attack the hospital and inflict heavy casualties among the civilians sheltered there, Gen. Mordechai chose to arrange for its evacuation. By Friday morning, 11 June, the hospital was deserted -- the PLO defenders having chosen to depart along with the civilians. In order to reduce casualties among the numerous civilians and his own force, Mordechai tried a number of means to encourage the civilians to flee and the defenders to surrender. Leaflets, loudspeaker broadcasts, local delegations, Israeli psychologists, and demonstrations of fire power against selected targets. However, the defenders rejected all appeals and encouraged (in some cases by execution) the civilian population to remain in the camp.
In addition to accusing you of anti-Semitism, I accuse you of intellectual cowardice in failing to entertain my factual arguments concerning Jenin, Gaza, Zionist history or any of the other subjects which I've brought up and you've failed to acknowledge. I similarly accuse you of moral cowardice for not backing up the things you said on radio interviews, and which I have recently shown you to be false, unsubstantiated and hypocritical.
I have spilled enough ink in dialogue with an irredeemable, anti-semetic Jew.
3 December 2003
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A large group of Chicagoans, Jewish and non-Jewish are aware of you, and would like to see you moved away from the subjects that you are teaching, or even removed from the faculty of DePaul university. These are prominent and well to do citizens many of whom are major contributors to DePaul University. You may think this is an empty threat, but then again you don't know me. You dismissed me as "idiotic". We would much rather be able to see what you are doing, and teaching. As you no doubt know, playing telephone is a dangerous game where many things end up misinterpreted.
Provoked by you,
Scott Goldstein
since you love barbaric moslem savages so much and hate your own jewish people so much, why not walk right into some mosque and ask them to blow you up? the world would be a better place without nazi self hating jewish scum like you
I've been thinking a lot lately about what shapes our identities, and how these identities in turn, shape our opinions and ideaologies and the general way in which we experience the world and its issues. From what I read in your autobiographical sketch, it seems to me that your Jewish identity is shaped soley or largely by alienation from, and critique of the Jewish establishemnt.
[[[I never got to the section of the autobiographical sketch on my Jewish background, growing up Jewish etc. Unfortunately, other things got in the way and it'll just have to wait.]]]
This manifests in two ways. First you loathe the wealth and power that Jews have accumulated, particularly in the United States in the the twentieth century. Being a former communist, and one who still adheres to a genrally socialist outlook, you seem highly troubled that Jews on average, are members of the ruling elites, and not only that, but that Jews have exploited past suffering in order to solidify and expand their material wealth and general power in the socity. Hence your focus on the corrupt "Holocaust Industry." While I agree with many of your critiques in this department, I would caution you to not be too harsh on Jews. Jews are not all that different than Italians, Irish or Slovaks, European immigrants who flooded these shores at the same time the Jews did. All of these groups have moved up the social ladder, abondoning the inner cities as Blacks and newer poor immigrants moved in. The suburbs and their excessive wealth are populated by all ethnic groups who have been able to stake a claim. I don't mean to suggest that your critique of the Holocasut Industry isn't valid, but I am suggesting that it is tied into an overall disdain (almost shame of) Jewish material wealth.
[[[Really not so. It's the moral corruption attendant on the financial wealth+political power+total impunity due to the Nazi holocaust that concerns me.]]]
The second major way in which you are alientated from the Jewish establishment is your disdain for Zionism, and hence the state of Israel. Of course this was the focal point of your graduate work, and much of the acedemic literature that you have published since. That you chose Zionism is no accident, it is a direct result of the fact that you are Jewish. However, instead of identifying with the Jewish state, as most Jews who are actively involved in their Jewish identity do, you choose instead to actively condemn it.
[[[Again, these are mostly misunderstandings because I never completed the autobiographical sketch. You make many assumptions here which aren't valid. Incidentally, I don't at all believe that most current avowed "Zionists" are ideologically committed to Zionism at all. As I make clear in the first chapter of The Holocaust Industry, I think they are ideological and political opportunists, not Zionists. The only authentic Zionists I've known are Hannah Arendt and Noam Chomsky, both of whom rejected the policies of the Israeli state.]]]
It is intersting to me that you have not completely distance yourself from your Jewish identity, rather you have chosen to identity in purely negative ways. It seems that you enjoy, or feel naturaly at home in this outsider role. Despite being a Jew, you are not critiquing Israel or Zionism from the inside (as I do,) but rather firmly from the outside. Of Israel you say, this is not mine, it pretends to be mine, but it isn't, and beyond that it is a disgrace. It is intersting for me to observe the ways in which you identify with your Jewishness; always negatively, always from the outside, yet with passion, and purpose, not accidently (say such as somebody who joins the ISM who is neither Jewish, nor Arab, but simply an ideaologue.) It is unfortunate that you seem to not have had the chance, or have actively chosen to eschew any POSITIVE identification with your Jewishness. Its almost as if in your world view, as far as I can tell, there are no positive things with which one could identify in Jewishness. I must report that if this is indeed your view,it is mistaken.
[[[As Arendt once put it, being Jewish is one of the objective data of my life. Beyond that, I'm neither proud nor ashamed of it. The identify I chose to carve out has little bearing on matters Jewish. I bear the legacy of my late parents' suffering. To that extent I'm Jewish, not more, not less.]]]
My experience with Jewishness has been a multi-sided affair, with many very positive, enriching, and soulful elements, coupled with the outsider, alientation, critique role that you have adopted. I have for instance, a love of the Hebrew language, a love of Hebrew language music, and a love of modern Jewish intellectual output, such as Issac Beshevis Singer, Martin Buber and A.B. Yehoshua. I attended synagogue as a kid, and then summer camps at which prayer was part of the daily program, so along the way I aquired a deep connection and love for Jewish prayer, its melody, and the rythm of the service. There is something truely enriching to the soul to sing with a group, ancient melodies that have been with our people for centuries. (It is odd thus that you understand the Palestinian passion for traditon, but seem to not understand the Jewish connection) I find great beauty in the language and imagery of the old testament, especialy the passages I am able to read in the original poetic Hebrew. To me, the prophets are an inpirational example of a nation's moral conscience, the pslams charged with poetic beauty, exodus an intriguing tale of creation. I am by no means religious, I do not attend synagouge on a regular basis, do not keep kosher, or the Sabath (although the sabath is perhaps one of the most sacred and beautiful aspects of Judaism which I have experienced in its full beauty at camp.) Also, my best friends growing up were mostly Jewish, (many wre Israeli-Americans such as myself), so I have a personal connection with a certain neurtoic, inquisitive, artsy, Jewish character, that is manifest in many of the people who are closest to me. In short, there is much in Judaism and the Jewish experience that has been positive and nurturing to me. This is not to say that its been a smooth ride. While I have always been inside the Jewish mainstream, having attended Hebrew School, synagogue, and Zionist summer camp, etc, I have always been highly critical from INSIDE of the sorts of excesses and moral deficencies that you have made a career of lampooning from the OUTSIDE. I remember being critical of the "commodification" of the Holocaust at an early age, perhaps 12 or 13, and voicing these critiques in Hebrew School. Likewise, though I have alays identified highly with Israel, having been born there, and been involved with Zionist youth movements, I've always been very critical of Israel's occupation and discrimination policy, but again, from a sort of insider perspective. I think that ultimately the insider critique is more intersting, important, valid and powerful than the outsider critique. The insider critique is made by somebody who has an active stake in preserving or bolstering the integrity of what is being critiqued. The lover of Israel agonizes over the occuaption because it is killing the soul of Israel, not because Israel is categorically evil. The lover of Israel has experienced very positive and enriching things about Israel and modern Hebrew culture (having not condemend these institutions out of hand), and wishes to save the good from the bad that is threatening it. The lover of Israel critiques Israel because he doesn't want to see the baby thrown out with the bathwater. Lets just throw out the bathwater, the corrupting, evil parts, and keep the good. You seem to see no good where it is clearly present. This puzzles me. Why not see the good and the bad together? Why not then try to preserve and bolster the good by excising the bad? Ultimatley I guess the answer is, if you've never experienced the good, then you don't have a stake in it, perhaps you even go so far as denying its existance. This is a mistake. The good is there. The task the of the contemorary Jew is to ferret out the good from the bad...not to decide that its either all good, and must always be praised, defened, and celebrated, or that its all bad, and must all be condemned, spat upon and eliminated. In my view,these are two unwise paths, paths at the extremes. Though they are extremes, unfortunatley they are not at the margins. My goal is to push the extrmemes to the margins, and push the more balanced view that recognizes good and bad into the center of consiousness.
[[[There are many things I can say to this, but it would require more time and energy than I now have. Just this past month I was in Canada three times, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Kalamazoo, St. Lawrence, Rome, Madrid and this past week Berlin. I'm utterly exhausted and now faced with your challenging last paragraph. I'll answer briefly: 1) I think it is morally corrupt to say that what's worst about the Israeli occupation is what it does to the Jewish soul. What would you think of a German who said, the worst thing about the Nazi holocaust is what it did to us? You know that's what Goring said during the Nuremberg proceedings when they were forced to watch the documentary footage: Damn that Hitler! He messed the whole thing up for us with those gas chambers! 2) I can only be what I am. I cannot be a critic from the "inside," except in a totally fraudulent way. I never claim to represent Jews, or even the legacy of the Nazi holocaust. I am who I am. If you find what I say useful, fine, if not, that's fine to. But I can't recreate my being, nor do I want to. I sing the songs, hum the melodies, and immerse myself in the sufferings of all humankind. The songs of Jewish oppression move me just like the Black spirituals, not more, not less. The identification with the suffering of humankind is not an ideological construct for me; it goes to the core of my being, borne of the suffering of my late parents, and the lessons they imparted to me. It was simply unthinkable in my home to rank sufferings or feel closer to one people's suffering as against another.
I don't recall if I ever asked where you live and what you do professionally. You're obviously a thoughtful and intelligent fellow. In a different time and place, perhaps we might have been friends. It would be quite illuminating if you posted your email on my web site for others to read. I would hate for it to disappear into cyberspace. On the other hand, I would understand if you prefer that it remain private. Should you agree to post it, send it to: ngfeditor[at]yahoo.com., and indicate whether or not to include your name. Once again, I deeply respect what you've written. We come from very different places, but that shouldn't preempt - indeed, in an ideally rational world, it should encourage - communication, so long as there is good faith on both sides. Many thanks for taking the time to write me. Believe me when I say that I appreciate it. I just feel very guilty not providing fully adequate responses. It's the exhaustion and constant pressures of time. That's all.]]]
Mr. Finkelstein,
I have been a casual observer of your public diatribes and written
invective against Jews and Israel for some time now. Is it not the role of
a university professor to maintain some degree of professional detachment
from his subject matter so that students can form their own opinions? You
do a great disservice to your students and to the fourth-rate university
where you lecture.
Beyond the mere inappropriateness of your partisanship, your scholarship
leaves a great deal to be desired. Essentially every one of your
contentions about Israel is manifestly specious, and is obviously the
result of some sort of reaction formation against the childhood trauma of
realizing your jewish roots.
Tyler B. Korn, Esq.
Dear Professor Finkelstein,
I just perused your recent book The Holocaust Industry - I certainly
wouldn't spend hard-earned money on such trash. As a physician and
writer myself, I must say that you write very well & are most
articulate. What a waste of talent to espouse such vitriolic
commentary...your parents I'm sure have turned over in their graves
on multiple occasions.
Something isn't right here; the puzzle is missing some pieces. Were
you verbally or physically abused as a child? Did a jewish girl
reject you at some point? Did you run out of topics to write about?
Are you short on money? What is the basis for this filth that you
write about and the hatred you are inciting at campuses such as the
University of Western Ontario...do you really think that you're
enlightening people? Do you comprehend the impact of your writings?
You have the capacity to research and write so much of what the
world is missing and needs to hear, and yet...oh forget it...its
probably time for you to head back to your KKK meeting or the Hamas
or Hezbollah "freedom" fighting assembly....your family must be so
embarrassed....amazing at the stupidity that American freedom allows
for.
Perhaps one day you will be enlightened...
Robert
United Kingdom
All I can say, Israel doesn't need enemies if it has you! Is it your sense of guilt? Or is it pure cowardice? Or is it a need to be a slimy Jew who is desperate for recognition? You know? As a Jew I know that Jews are very bright and don't need that kind of sliminess.
If your parents could be resurrected from the ovens of Auschwitz, I believe
they would sit you down on the couch and put a bullet through your head...
and then throw you out with the day's trash where you belong.Original Message
Sir,
Having read some of your work, I took delight in listening
to your debate with Prof. Dershowitz on Democracy Now. I read the transcript
to make sure I understand exactly where you disagreed with the information in
the professor's book.
Listening to you attempting vainly to poke holes in an
extraordinarily well written and well referenced book was wonderful. I hope you
send a transcript of it to all your students. You were inarticulate and didn't
address any of the historical mythologies in the book. The best you could
come up with was that he UNDERESTIMATED the number of Arab refugees who fled
according to Benny Morris? I almost fell over my chair laughing...but it
saddened me knowing you were teaching such a distorted view of history to innocent
students.
I heard nothing about the challenge to the colonialism
theory, heard nothing to counter the true narrative of Mark Twain and dozens of
others, heard nothing to counter the intentions of most of the Jews who came to
Israel in the 1800's and 1900's. You said nothing about the offers for peace
made to Arabs in 1938, 1947-48, and 2000. You could not provide another
country in the Middle East with as good a justice system and equality among all
races,religions, gender and even sexual orientation as Israel. In short, sir, I
wish to tell you that I, like Prof. Dershowitz, do not defend every incident
the government of Israel has involved itself in. Yet I can comfortably state
that I am proud of Israel and what she stands for in one of the most repressed
regions of the world. Find me another Middle Eastern culture with such
diversity, such culture, such technology and such a stubborn will to survive.
Professor Dershowitz made you look exactly as you are. Sadly, a
man who is lost, and will never find his way back to the truth again. The
only thing to do is exactly as the good Professor did to you...expose you as a
false historian, an accuser only with the weight of hatred on your side.
Please continue to challenge Professer Dershowitz again...only this time, do it on
national television, so the world can see him shame you again. I only wish I
could go back and take classes with you, so I could challenge your statements
every single day for the benefit of the young minds you poison. I
wonder....do you provide the other point of view in your classes? Maybe assign them
Mitchell Bard's book? Avineri's?
Dr. Richard Goldberg
New Jersey
Now I know what the archetype of the SELF-LOATHING JEW looks like. G-d will never forgive you for your despicable part in launching the 2nd Holocaust, and from a son of victims! Siding with the IslamofascistNazi Jew-killing "Palestinians" is either a sign of dementia, madness, or, what would be so much worse, a deliberate effort on your part to murder your own people and heritage, all in an effort to show how wonderfully humanistic you are, how empathetic and sensitive you are, how tolerant (tolerant of your present and future murderers)...You sick demented Arabist Jew-hater...May you BURN IN HELL!!
Go ahead you swine, sue me for defamation...scoundrel!! Coward!! Anti-Semite!!
YES!! ANTI-SEMITE!!!!!
May you soon join your compatriot, Edward Said, in Hell.
I despise you
A friend of mine just send me the link to the Norman Finkelstein web site. Real good! Who cares? Finkelstein, Finkelswine, Finkel- witz, Finkelpinkel, or Finkelthal, who cares? He is a truly revolting parasite, masquerading as a truth-teller, like so many heebs do. He, Chomsky, Shahak, Sack ad nauseum, are all heebs who do what heebs do best - lie. What Finkelfart writes is no more than that which aware people have known all along. Furthermore, it is only those people who read his stuff, hoping that just for once, ONLY ONCE IN HISTORY, they'll find a heeb who is actually NOT lying. Alas, such is not to be. Instaed we are sanctimoniously told about the "Nazi Genocide". Sorry to be rude Finkelshits, but fuck you and your 'Nazi Genocide'. I for one wish there had been one. Maybe it would have rid the world of the most destructive horrible pest ever. Show me the bones, the ashes. Show me the detailed plans. Show me the ledgers proving the financing of such a monstrous undertaking. Show me just ONE autopsy. Show me just ONE working example of a gas-chamber. Show me just ONE piece of forensic evidence - ONLY ONE, Finkelpiss, ONE! Your predatory parasitical race has effectively destroyed the most productive and creative people on earth, the Germans. You horrors in human form are repsonsible for the mass-murder of untold millions of white babies via abortion. Your are responsible for calling cold-blooded murderers 'doctor'. You bastards are responsible for the genital mutilation of untold millions of white male-babies at birth. You monsters are responsible for two World Wars, pitting brother against brother. You are responsible for the most horrid lie of recorded history, the Holocaust. You are truly the only people who have abrogated ALL right to be considered human beings, you have loaded upon your shoulders guilt so heinous, to absolute that no language has a proper word for it. www.germancross.com Gerry Frederics
I have just read your recent criticism of Cynthia Ozick's always excellent
work (I particularly refer you to her June 30 Wall Street Journal
piece--excellent!) and my offer of psychiatric referral is still outstanding. By the
way, aside from your repetitive Israelia bashing, and Holocaust minimalizing,
liberally spinkled with Jewish self-hatred, what other scholarly work have you
done? Everything you write is basically the same. So although Noam Chomsky,
whom you are a butt boy to, writes similar stuff as yourself (although he hates
everything American, and you specialize in Jewish affairs)he has contributed
ground breaking work in linguistics. Chomsky has recently gone off the deep
end, suffering from what I call the "Shockley" syndrome(I am referring to the
Nobel Prize winner in transistors, who thought he was an expert in genetics,
too, and went offf the deep end in his belief in eugenics). Chomsky should
stick to what he knows best--linguistics, and leave the left wing polemics to the
polemicists.
Surely you must have writtne something of note outside of your
repetitive, redundant, anti-Israeli bashing. Do you plan to do this same old stuff for
the rest of your life? Can't you think of something new to fill your
time?PLEASE GET A LIFE.
Dr. Finkelstein,
What bothers me ab0ut your assertions about Jews is that theyare
very one sided and lack sypmathy for the plight of the Jewish
people. What group of people haven't at one time conquered other
people? Why do you single out Jews in such an isolated way? Of
course Jews are not the only victims thst the world has seen? But
tell me where have 1.5 million children been extinguished in less
than 3 years? Where have more than 1.3 million people perished in
one spot the sixe of half a baseball field in 3 years? Yes, the Jews
were insensitive to Arabs in Palestine but the Arabs were rather
xenophobic about the influx of Jews to the British mandate. Why just
always focus on the classic areas of victims and oppressors without
some perspective? Turks on Armenians, Hutus on Tutsis, Japanese on
Philippines, Chinese on Indonesia, Sioux on Nez Pierce, As you
focus on Jews as oppressors without historical perspective of their
treatment in host nations you are biased. And as far as Goldhagen's
book I don't accept his premise totally but it doesn't warrant being
called "stupid". Once when I was in Germany a woman said to me "Oh
those people (German Jews who had left) were Jews not Germans." You
see, Norman, many people think of you as a Jew first and a person
second. Antijewish is more deep rooted than you think or are willing
to admit. Many gentiles have hated Jews not because they killed
Christ but because they gave the world Christ, another over
achieving Jew to which they could never live upto but forever have
to feel guilty about. Norman, let's face it, after what Jews went
through where ever they lived, it was quite human of them to think
they deserved a place to be safe, even if it meant kicking out
hostile Arabs after purchasing land from Turks and Brits. What would you have
done in 19th Century Kiev? Perhaps the Americas, Norman once Indian
land ot Palestine? Oh such guilt whichever way you turn!
All the best, Mark
Hello. Your site says that it was designed by your family and friends. Who
might they be, Adolf Hitler's ghost, Yasser Arafat, Hamas, rabid
Israel-hating Leftist freaks, and the Jew-hating media in Egypt, Jordan and
elsewhere?
Hello Norman. I'm a 27 year old American, from a family that was mostly
wiped out in the holocaust. I am jewish, and I have relatives in israel,
europe and here in the states.
I just wanted to let you know that I hate your guts so much that to fully
explain it to you would require more time than I wish to dedicate to this
email. I genuinely hate you. The anger inside me that I can generate should
I wish to recall what my grandmother told me about what happened to her
family, I apply to you. I hate your fucking guts so much that rather than go
on further, I'll simply end the email now.
And no, this isn't a threat of any kind. I'd stay as far away from you in
real life as I possibly could.
May you develop cancer and be unable to overcome it. Hopefully very soon.
Professor Finkelstein,
A friend recommended your website if I wanted a good laugh. Needless to
say, I didn't laugh. It doesn't take Sigmund Freud to see that your
views come from self-loathing and/or hatred of your parents, and it is
also true that every barrel has some rotten apples, you being the most
rancid in that barrel. But what scares me is that in your position, you
mold young minds. Why are you allowed to keep your job? And spare me
any speech about intellectual discourse at universities. Would you be
allowed to teach that slavery was over-hyped? Or that the Japanese
internment camps were no big deal? I think not. So why are you allowed
to teach anti-semitism? Becasue we live in an anti-semitic world,
that's why, and there are plenty of neo-nazis as it is without their
being encouraged by one of our own.
Howard B. Caplan
hbcaplan[at]verizon.net
To DePaul officials:
I am very concerned that an academic from DePaul University is inciting hatred and spreading lies in Canadian Universities (namely, in his recent visit to Waterloo University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada). Perhaps you could keep Dr. Norman Finkelstein busy grading papers and doing real work (hopefully not spreading Palestinian propoganda and serving the needs of Holocaust deniers) instead of making an ass of himself in academe and upsetting people in Canada with his vicious lies and scurrilous rant.
Mr Finkelstein is a rabid anti-semite and tries to promote his hatred of Jews through his denouncements of Israel. He ignores injustices and terrorism of the Palestinian variety and attempts to pin blame on Israel at every opportunity, trying hard to curry favor with skinheads and terrorists (and impressionable young people who listen to his distorted messages). We have exemplary freedom of speech laws in Canada and have well-entrenched human rights clauses in our constitution but we also have hate laws that are well-enforced and I'm sure that DePaul University would not want their fine institution being associated with Jew-haters and supporters of terrorists (even when they operate under the guise of the misnamed Palestinian freedom fighters). Already Dr Finkelstein has made news in The Canadian Jewish news on June 19/03 p.27)
Please make sure that Dr Finkelstein spends his days doing an honest day's work for an honest day's pay rather than inciting hate and giving his blessing to homicidal bombers on an international basis while attacking a fellow democracy and those who spend each and every day fighting off terrorism from people who have been offered their own country amny times but refuse anything short of the annihilation and terrorization of Israel.
Gary Gerofsky
Dundas, ON Canada
I just looked at the cartoon of you with the Israelie soldier. I can
only comment that people like you reek with moral self righteousness and
hypocrisy. However, since I have heard that you are a Holocaust survivor once
removed, there could me mitigating circumstances to your obvious Jewish self hatred
and loathing, and I would be willing to recommend some good psychiatrists for
you.
Other people, like Edward Said, cannot claim such mitigating factors as
yourself, and for someone like him, I can only hope that his dormant leukemia
comes back with a vengeance. People like Said, and other Noam Chomsky butt
boys, are beguiling dangerous, particularly to impressionable youth who are
easily misled. I mean this guy once actually praised Sheik Nasrallah , which is
sort of like being a member of the Joseph Goebbel's fan club.
I just looked at the cartoon of you with the Israelie soldier. I can
only comment that people like you reek with moral self righteousness and
hypocrisy. However, since I have heard that you are a Holocaust survivor once
removed, there could me mitigating circumstances to your obvious Jewish self hatred
and loathing, and I would be willing to recommend some good psychiatrists for
you.
Other people, like Edward Said, cannot claim such mitigating factors as
yourself, and for someone like him, I can only hope that his dormant leukemia
comes back with a vengeance. People like Said, and other Noam Chomsky butt
boys, are beguiling dangerous, particularly to impressionable youth who are
easily misled. I mean this guy once actually praised Sheik Nasra
I have read your drivel, and it is nauseating to think that any
self-respecting Jew could hold the views that you hold. To call you a self-hating Jew
would be an understatement. I once saw you at Columbia give a lecture with
that silly wind-bag and pompous old fart, Edward Said, and I thought that you
were either putting people on, or that you were in need of serious psychiatric
attention.
Hopefully Sharon will soon do the right thing and target those
Islamo-fascists mass murderers of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, et. al. Come to think of it,
the idea of "transfer" is becoming a more and more palatable solution to the so
called Palestinian problem. These people were offered a state by Barak at
Camp David, they spurned it without a counter-offer, and turned to psychotic
violence in response, to which the heroic IDF has been responding to with kid
gloves. I think one Israelie once referred to these people, particularly in the
Gaza strip, as drugged cockroaches in a bottle. In all due respect to
cockroaches, I think that might have been a little too kind.
That a Jew could empathize with these low lifes is truly a new low!!
You should feel very proud that you are being referred to as a highly
acclaimed source on Zionism by the "peace loving" Islamic Hamas murderers. A
person could go through their whole life without receiving such high praise.
You can now go through your life with your head held high and your chest
puffed out. Wish I could be so accomplished!
Here's to hoping that they make you a charter member.
Most Sincerely,
Adina K.
Ridgewood, NJ
In reaction to you MP3 lecture
You forget to tell your listners that:
Salah Adin concord Israel round 600, At that time there were no Mouslims in Palestine at all .
Arabs arrived from the Saudian Desert so there were no Arabs there at all.
Zionism did not came to solve Jewish assimilation!
End of 19 century Palestine was almost empty! at most 500,000 inhabitants!
About a some Morris you said his fact are correct -interpretation wrong.
by you fact selection is 1 basic fact lie and upon that a theory and conclutions-
whith them you feed your listners.
In fact you only tell Palestinian propoganda.
No real research by youself at location.
No wonder they call you at the states Kike! Shadow of an Human !
You are enemy not of israel but of the Jewish nation!
Yoram Stein
You are a greater enemy to the jewish people then Hitler !
Its petty only the part of of the brains that controlls mouth and writing is funcktioning- the part of gathering information and proccesing is at low level.
Go look for a real job whereyou should swet for the buk.
you are the hero of all people that hate Israel! The country were i was born also to Holocoust survivers they country i love.
You dont have a counry you belong no where not even in your own body-a real devil.
Yoram Stein
YEAR 2002
As far as I am concerned calling you a 'revisionist' is too good for you! You deserve much more damning titles than that, like KAPOS! A traitor, an evil Jew -- Look up what the Mitzvoth say about an evil Jew. See what the punishment is... may it be 40 times greater on you! May you soul suffer the greatest punishment that a soul could ever receive, you belong to spend eternity with HITLER. For it is people like you that feed the fire of Judeophobia, NAZISM, and JEW_HATRED! You allow them, the JEW-HATERS, THE NAZIS, THE HOLOCAUST REVISIONISTS to feel justified in their beliefs. You are worse than David Irving, actually the two of ye seem very much alike -- after all you threaten to sue the POST when they printed the TRUTH.
MAY YOU NAME BE BLOTTED OUT OF THE BOOK OF LIFE!
Ríain George
.....sir....it seems to me that you resent the formation of israel from the start. my guess is that the expulsion of israel from your palestine, would make your day. what i can not fathom is your, down deep from the gut hatred for the jews who built israel? this hatred has you doubledealing historical fact, demeaning israeli deaths, forgiving death dealing palestinians, knives,guns, and suicide bombers. is this your trade? are you selling books? no i think you believe the rubbish you spew. the jewish people have bore traitors in there midst over the ages, and have overcome. it is just a shame that a man of your brillance has that something in their craw that makes you such a fool...............................jack bender
After reading the tripe you write on your website about how the democratic &
sovereign State of Israel is "persecuting the Palestinians", you clearly are
a disgrace to the Jewish race. If Israel is mistreating the "Palestinians",
then why don't they relocate to a "Dar-al-Islam" like Saudi Arabia, Egypt,
Jordan or Iraq. If the "Palestinians" really want to be shahids for the idol
known as "Allah" then they should run towards the bullets, not away. As far
as I am concerned, there is no distinct entity called the "Palestinian"
people. I have never heard of "Palestinian literature". Nor did my
girlfriend ever say to me "Josh, let's stay in tonight and order
"Palestinian" food". We have gone to Sabra, an Israeli restaurant many
times. I can see why the Nazis, yimach shmo v'zichro, let your parents
survive the Holocaust. They probably knew that you would be an even greater
menace to the Jewish people alive than if your parents died.
Kahane was right!
Joshua Gary
Mr. Finkelstein,
Your website is repulsive. It reflects your sick self-hatred. Anti-Semites
love you because they can cite your self-hating views on Israel, Jews, and
the Holocaust and say that such views aren't anti-Semitic because they are
espoused by a supposed Jew. They're wrong. Such views are reprehensible
whether voiced by a Jew or a non-Jew. The ADL is right to label you a
Holocaust revisionist. You are a disgrace to the Jewish people and should
be fully repudiated.
Never think that if the Nazi's who love your works so much would not think twice about killing you.... You are very smart in the ways that you distort the truth for your own betterment for money. In essence, you never let any people that differ with you speak at your horrid lectures. In addition, you really destroyed the essence of Novick's book. You make me truly sick, and never say this ""silly figure" who is enriching himself on the memory of the Shoah, for as I personal know charge quite abit of money. Also, WHO THE FUCK SELLS THERE BOOK AT A GUEST PERSON LECTURE.
HEY NORM, just writing to check in and see how the Jewish Jihad or Zionist Jihad is going? How has the applaud from Arab "Media" outlets been going? You still a regular on Al Manar television.
Keep me posted Norm. What a meaningful life you lead. :-)
A beacon of light in an otherwise dark world.
Mike Nargizian
Email address: MNargizian[at]aol.com
Just thought you might like to visit www.freedomsight.com it is a neo-Nazi sight and you are quoted constantly. That should be heart warming. I have no doubt that if the holocaust were happening again you would be offering moral support to the Germans. You are a repulsive man who knowingly and willfully contributes to the death of Jews. You are the lowest type of man that any culture can produce. Even Palestinian terrorists, repulsive as they are, have double the moral character as you.
Stephen Glazer
I've read your writings, and seen you speak.
You are a disgrace. An evil human being.
I hope to meet you face to face soon.
Dr. Finkelstein,
I understand you've recently been fired from your position at Hunter
College, City University of New York.
You who have engaged in cynical and hypocritical attempts to attract attention by attacking those who keep alive the vow to "Never Forget" the Holocaust are now feeling victimized.
How ironic.
Perhaps you can resume your career in a madrassa somewhere.
Jim Bush
Let's "never forget" the 700,000 Jewish survivors of the Nazi slave labor camps;
Let's "never forget" the one million Holocaust survivors still alive today;
Let's "never forget" the tens of thousands of Holocaust survivors who will be alive in 2035.
Do you believe these numbers, Mr. Bush?
Finally, let's never forget the important Holocaust lesson Israel's military is learning. As reported in Haaretz, in order to repress Palestinian resistance to the 35-year-long Israeli occupation, a senior Israeli officer called on the army to study the lesson of how the German S.S. put down the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
I'm sure you agree with that also.
Best, Norm Finkelstein
P.S. I would be happy to post your letter on my web site if you agree. Please forward the letter to: ngfeditor[at]yahoo.com.
Mr. Finkelstein,
It is interesting that you cite the numbers below without attribution.
First, 700,000 Jewish survivors of forced labor following WWII may or may not be an accurate figure, but it seems not unreasonable.
Second, to have survived as a Jew in occupied Europe in WWII strikes me as having survived the Holocaust. Considering that the Nazis, with considerable help from the local citizenry in much of occupied Europe, managed to kill about two of every three Jews then in Europe, approximately three million would have survived. It is also not unreasonable to believe that one-third of these people may still be living.
Third, as for "tens of thousands" of holocaust survivors who will be alive in 2035 (90 years after the end of WWII), I have no idea how you've come up with this figure, but if one assumes that Jewish children born in what became German-occupied Europe between 1935 and 1945 who survived the war are Holocaust survivors, then it does not seem unreasonable that as many as 10,000 or more may survive into their 90s. Regardless, as a projection based on unstated underlying assumptions, it is moot, and the number of Holocaust surivors in 2035 is presently unknowable. What I do know, however, is that I have very little faith in your veracity and less in your objectivity. What is it you are trying to forget?
Lastly, regarding your reference to the report in Haaretz, I have three observations:
- you provide no reference to the supposed report in Haaretz, and I am unable to find any reference to it by searching their English-language website;
- you imply that the alleged senior Israeli officer's alleged call for the army to study the lesson of how the German S.S. put down the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising amounts to an attempt to emulate Nazi methods to repress Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation. Using this type of reasoning, one could conclude that because you have studied the German attempt to destroy all Jews, you agreed with it.
- you suppose that because I disagree with your attacks on the perpetuation of the memory of the Holocaust, somehow I must be sympathetic to the methods employed by the Nazis.
You are revealing more of your biases and the fundamental nature of your intellect and personality than you probably intended. Thanks for the insights.
Jim Bush
Finkelstein replies:
All the figures I cite are fully sourced in The Holocaust Industry.
I mistakenly assumed that you read my book before
attacking it. The quote I cited from Haaretz reads: "In order to prepare
properly for the next campaign, one of the Israeli officers in the
territories said not long ago, it's justified and in fact essential to learn
from every possible source. If the mission will be to seize a densely
populated refugee camp, or take over the casbah in Nablus, and if the
commander's obligation is to try to execute the mission without casualties
on either side, then he must first analyze and internalize the lessons of
earlier battles - even, however shocking it may sound, how the German army
fought in the Warsaw ghetto." (Amir Oren, "At the gates of Yassergrad," 25
January 2002) A subsequent article in Haaretz reports that "a senior
officer can say, unhesitatingly, that the IDF should study how the SS put
down the Warsaw Ghetto revolt, to learn about ways to fight inside
Palestinian cities." (Uzi Benziman, "Corridors of Power, Immoral
Imperative," 1 February 2002)
YEAR 2000
You and your family are a truly loathsome set of human beings. The only
resurgance of anti-Semitism comes as a result of books like yours, not
from attempta to combat your Nazi apologetics. Spare us the crap about
your family "survivors"; IF that is really true, perhaps that is one set
that we could have done without as at least you would not have been
born. The next time any Jew in the world is physically attacked or
killed for being Jewish-whether in Iran, Crown Heights or West Ridge,
Chicago- we will hold YOU responsible for inspiring the deed. You had
better watch your back, we know where you work, we know where you live
and would be overjoyed to send you to a well-earned and bloody demise.