Why should these Palestinians, who have lived in Jerusalem for hundreds of years, be evicted from their homes so that Jews from Brooklyn can live in them?
Norman FinkelsteinIndeed, the field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense if not sheer fraud.
Norman FinkelsteinWar is not a means to an end, it is the end, whereas politics is merely the hiatus between wars.
Norman FinkelsteinThere is no way a non-Jew could say what I did in 'The Holocaust Industry' without being labelled a Holocaust denier. I am labelled a Holocaust denier, too.
Norman FinkelsteinThe 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 Finkelstein