I think that I will immediately make ANOTHER contribution to MEMRI. They are critical to the pursuit of truth and contribute mightily to the US armed forces intelligence effort.
Kinda like the NY Times Editorial Board?
Biography:
Norman G. Finkelstein received his doctorate in 1988 from the Department of Politics, Princeton University, for a thesis on the theory of Zionism. He currently teaches political theory at DePaul University in Chicago.
Finkelstein is the author of five books:
Beyond Chutzpah: On the misuse of anti-Semitism and the abuse of history (University of California Press, August 2005)
The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the exploitation of Jewish suffering (Verso: 2000; expanded second edition, 2003); an international bestseller, it has been translated into twenty four foreign languages
Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict (Verso: 1995; expanded second edition, 2003); translated into five foreign languages
A Nation on Trial: The Goldhagen thesis and historical truth (with Ruth Bettina Birn) (Henry Holt: 1998); named a “notable book of 1998” by the New York Times Sunday Book Review, it has been translated into three foreign languages
The Rise and Fall of Palestine: A personal account of the intifada years (University of Minnesota: 1996); translated into two foreign languages
In April 2005, Finkelstein was the presenter for an hour-long documentary (”The Final Insult”) based on The Holocaust Industry, to be broadcast on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. He is also the subject of several independent film documentaries currently in production. In 2003 he was the keynote speaker on the main panel at the Rome Historical Book Fair and was a guest on Europe’s main television news hour, the Sabine Christiansen show. In 2002 he delivered the annual memorial lecture in history at Alfred University.
Finkelstein was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1953. The dedication for his first book read:
To my beloved parents,
Maryla Husyt Finkelstein,
survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto,
Maidanek concentration camp
and
Zacharias Finkelstein,
survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto,
Auschwitz concentration camp.
May I never forget or forgive what was done to them.
http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/content.php?pg=5
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Anti-semitic JINO. He can go to Gaza and try out how long he lasts,
"Apartheid wall". Good one. What's the wall outside Mecca called. The one enforced by death penalty when kufir/non-muslims try to enter? What's the policy of prohibited Jews entry to Saudi Arabia called?
There IS apartheid in the Middle East and it isn't in Israel.
Lawrence Swaim
http://www.muzzlewatch.com/?p=188
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# Lawrence Swaim, Executive Director, Interfaith Freedom Foundation Says:
May 31st, 2007 at 7:15 pm
Cecilie,
How about mud wrestling on Harvard Yard?
Boys only. Sorry, Cecilie.
Seriously, I’m afraid Trivers went over the line in his WSJ letter. In my world, offering to pay someone a personal visit is considered threatening, although I certainly heard worse when I was in union politics. But Dersh was probably within his rights to call the cops. We all need to take a giant step backwards where this kind of talk is concerned.
There was no reason to cancel the speaking engagement, however.
This might be a good time to congratulate you for the tone you’ve established at Muzzlewatch. Objectivity bordering on actual civility! What a novel and exciting idea…and you’ve developed that objective reportorial stances in dealing with the explosive twin issues of Israel/Palestine and the US Israel Lobby, no less. That’s a real accomplishment.
I feel sorry for all those angry guys out there in the blogosphere, but you’re on to something, Cecilie–it’s such a pleasure to come in out of all that self-righteousness and histrionics to read a considered opinion or a summary about something as complicated as the Middle East.
Incidentally, look for my feature article in the Muslim newspaper InFocus, about MEMRI, in the June issue just coming out. Researching it I found out something rather intriguing about MEMRI’s approach to copyright law…but you’ll just have to read the article to find out what it is.
Anyway, thanks for a wonderful blog and a wonderful organization. Jewish Voice for Peace embodies the best of the democratic left with the prophetic voice of the Abrahamic tradition. Keep on keepin’ on, and keep on speaking truth to power!
In your case, you always seem to do it with civility. What a treat!
Lawrence Swaim
Interfaith Freedom Foundation
P.O. Box 133
Fremont CA 94537
510-745-8178
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Al-Kouly was smoked by an effective debater. Only someone who had never witnessed the debate or someone with another agenda would say something like the above. It is a slimy weasel worded way to get around the truth. Nice try.
What they really hate is that MEMRI puts a spotlight on the cockeroaches.
Youtube video posted by CAIRtv titled “Wafa Sultan spews hate on Glenn Beck show”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZXj2shOzkY
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view the Arab world as a malevolent, mind-numbing monsters’ ball, populated almost exclusively by fanatics, freaks and fundamentalists. ....As true a statement as I’ve ever seen.
So, all those ‘death to infidels’ sermons that MEMRI translated are just fakes?
Indeed , MEMRI appears to view the Arab world as a malevolent, mind-numbing monsters’ ball, populated almost exclusively by fanatics, freaks and fundamentalists.
Yep, and it’s so easy to do simply by translating what they actually say into English.
Nor does MEMRI feature stories about Palestinian suffering, Israeli dissenters, moderate Islamists, Christians in Arab governments or the growing nonviolent movement against the apartheid wall in the Occupied Territories, especially around Bal’in.
Why should they bother, these stories are covered 24/7 by the MSM.
Why is Finkelstein an expert but Wurmser is an “expert”?
Juan Cole is a leftist propaganda machine that misunderstood about 1920 revolution and was slammed by an Iraqi blogger for that error.
The background of MEMRI is pretty intersting, but what a stupidity to call it propaganda without understanding its contents. MEMRI is just a site of resource covering multiple multimedia. It does analysis, but its really stupid to call this neutral source propaganda.
Unfortunately for the Jew-hating Muslim world, MEMRI has been a significant source of light, exposing the insane, paranoid, delusional articles that are published in mainstream media throughout the Arab world.
Thank G-d for MEMRI.