Monday, February 11, 2008
Here's Norman Finkelstein on Lebanese TV basically calling the Lebanese cowards if they don't support Hizballah and fight Israel come what may. Finkelstein is ready to fight to the last Lebanese. This is a seriously disturbed individual. You really have to watch the whole thing to get just how cracked he is. I just wrote a piece for Pajamas Media (hasn't appeared yet) about academics who go overseas and pay obeisance to terrorists. Finkelstein was included. I see it already needs an update.
MEMRI TV: American Political Scientist Norman Finkelstein: "Israel Has to Suffer a Defeat"
"Never to forgive, never to forget" is the Jewish way? I've never heard that. Do tell. Please don't call Finkelstein a 'self-hater.' The man is simply an antisemite.
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Pajamas Media has posted the piece I wrote for them: Campus Pilgrims Pay Homage to the Terror Masters. Chomsky, Finkelstein (who's made the news again since), Sara Roy, and Augustus Richard Norton serve as case-studies. Go ahead and give it... Read More
Norman Finkelstein, formerly of DePaul University, is coming to Boston College tomorrow. Here's the announcement: Dr. Norman Finkelstein on "Israel/Palestine: Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace" When? Wednesday, April 16, 2008 | 4:30 p.m Where... Read More
Seriously. He's living in his father's old rent controlled apartment and wants to travel to see an Arab friend in Hebron. Trouble is he's been barred from the country. So he's threatening to go for Israeli citizenship (he is "Jewish,"... Read More
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Kapo norman finlestain is suffering from sour grapes.
finklestain was defeated in DePaul, and now he wants revenge.
Finkelstein admires the tactics used by Stalin, Hitler and Hizbollah, he's rude and abusive to the lady who is interviewing him, then he demands that the Lebenese should be inspired by his own pathological BDS to die in a pointless war.
Like Britney spears, Finkelstein needs a 5250 - a long stay in a quiet place with padded walls. He's obviously a danger to himself and others.
One can only hope after seeing him repeatedly that people will get bored and tired of him, something he would despise more than anything...
He hits all his typical notes... comparing everything to the Nazis and Red Communists, comparing the Israelis to the Nazis, the Palestinians to Europeans scared of the Nazis...
but the worst of all is how he with a prideful anger almost like Gibson's jesus martyr complex, goading and urging the Arabs to "stand up to the Jews and Israel"... like the Jews "Never forgive and never forget".... (he likes to make up that quote several times).....
What a pathetic miserable man......
If he weren't so dangerous it'd be laughable how pathetic he truly is.
If the conflict dissappeared you could imagine how this guy would try to keep propping it up or some issue with "organized jewry"...
It's ironic the very thing he incessantly accuses organized Jewish organizations of he is the most guilty of. The need to stay relevant.
He accuses organized Jewish org's of doing this by "reviving anti-semitism"
In his case his entire life is predicated on the need to elevate any conflict he can generate in relation to the Israel / "Palestinian/Arab cause"(he apparently believes he is their spokesman) / the Holocaust and organized Jewry.
Any time the conflict dies down or is off the front page he is more pissed off about than anyone... for his own ego which is why he actually says "Hezbollah is defending the Arab 'nation'"
One can only hope that he will get what he deserves over time... obscurity.
Mike
Eddie,
You're partially correct I think, not that far off... everything is personal to this pathetic nut... kind of ironic since that's what Israel is accused of in relation to the US.
Mike, your post #3 is great.
How about a fatwa on Fink's head? Although he'd love to be a martyr.
I guess obscurity would hurt him more. Still, every time I see or hear him, my hands become very itchy ...