Posted on 02/08/2007 5:32:13 AM PST by SJackson
Norman Finkelstein, Benny Morris and Peace not Apartheid |
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Brandeis Universitys Radical Student Alliance has invited anti-Israel activist Norman Finkelstein to speak on campus, a university newspaper reports .The precise topic of the lecture was not described in the article; but when the DePaul University assistant professor last spokeat Stanford University on Jan. 25, 2007he added to his typical Israel-bashing diatribe a defense of Jimmy Carters book, Palestine Peace not Apartheid. It seems somewhat appropriate that, in the wake of widespread condemnation of Carters numerous misrepresentations, the former president has found a supporter in Finkelstein. Like Carter, Finkelstein has been criticized for extreme dishonesty in his "scholarship." Peter Novick, a University of Chicago professor whom Finkelstein has cited as an inspiration, wrote in Londons Jewish Chronicle that Finkelsteins The Holocaust Industry is characterized by "false accusations," "egregious misrepresentations," "absurd claims" and "repeated mis-statements" ("A charge into darkness that sheds no light," July 28, 2000). "No facts alleged by Finkelstein should be assumed to be really facts, no quotation in his book should be assumed to be accurate, without taking the time to carefully compare his claims with the sources he cites," Novick later warned. (Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Feb. 7, 2001) It is little surprise then that Finkelsteins defense of Carterspecifically, his citing of Israeli historian Benny Morris in order to support Carters accusation of Israeli apartheid is itself specious. At Stanford, Finkelstein mentioned Morris while arguing that the premise of Carter's book is not controversial, but rather widely accepted. The DePaul professor was more explicit in a Dec. 28, 2006 piece he wrote for the extremist anti-Israel Web site CounterPunch.org, where he cites Morris in support of the following assertion:
Finkelstein then names Morris twice in the paragraphs that follow, suggesting that the Israeli historian is one of those "informed commentators" who agrees with Carters apartheid comparison. What does Benny Morris actually believe? When CAMERA asked him about Finkelsteins remarks, he replied:
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the self haters have always been The Jews worst enemys.
Wow, we might have run into a jew that Carter actually likes.
And would you believe that at the top of Finkelstein's website is a banner with barbed wire as the "art"?
In truth, Finkelstein's 'imfamous' attack on Dershowitz was warranted - Dershowitz DID plagiarize another author's research.
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