The Holocaust has proven to be an indispensable ideological weapon. Through its deployment, one of the world's most formidable military powers, with a horrendous human rights record, has cast itself as a "victim" state, and the most successful ethnic group in the US has likewise acquired victim status.
Norman FinkelsteinEverybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.
Norman FinkelsteinThe Holocaust industry has always been bankrupt. What remains is to openly declare it so. The time is long past to put it out of business.
Norman FinkelsteinI would not have stayed at a university if it told me upfront that a condition for me getting tenure. my views have to be filtered through Catholic values. I would consider it a betrayal of my parents' legacy.
Norman FinkelsteinThere are many issues, as everyone knows, in the United States on which public opinion leans very much to the left of elite policy, but that's because public opinion hasn't been turned into a political force.
Norman Finkelstein