I focus on my work. If I let myself get distracted by the insults and slanders I wouldn't get anything substantive done.

Indeed, the field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense if not sheer fraud.

I 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.

They've (Israel) lost the battle for public opinion. They claim it's because American Jews know too little.. I claim it's because they know too much about the conflict, and young liberal Jews have difficulty defending the use of cluster bombs in Lebanon or supporting the Israeli settlements.

War is not a means to an end, it is the end, whereas politics is merely the hiatus between wars.

Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis.

State terrorism - and yet the Israeli invasion Goldstone investigated is still commonly referred to as the Gaza War.