Hmmmm... I don’t know the background on this but something came to mind when reading it. Supposedly, this issue is about him writing that some Jews have made an industry out of exploiting the Holocaust... wouldn’t that be about the same as Ann Coulter’s Jersey Girls comment?
It doesn’t deny the holocaust (9/11) took place just that some Jews (Jersey Girls) have exploited it.
What don’t I know about this guy?
He’s a charlatan, who has been fired by every college at which he taught. I’m not a big fan of Alan Dershowitz, but you might want to go to his website and read the short essay on “Finklestein’s Bigotry.”
He’s a self-hating Jew. Really really bucked up. And really sad. He’s a ready tool for the far left to bash Israel.
I think that's a pretty good and fair analogy. I heard him interviewed once, and he wasn't any crazed anti-Semetic ranter. He made an argument that there are Holocaust-exploiting groups that have benfitted financially.
BTW, He had a famous debate with Alan Derschowitz, where he cleaned Derschowitz's clock, that has been discussed earlier here on FR.