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Did the Zionists exploit the Holocaust? Apparently, students for “Palestine” and their hired speakers don’t quite grasp what “exploitation” actually is
American Thinker ^ | 04/02/2024 | Eric Utter

Posted on 04/02/2024 9:33:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

As reported by Campus Reform, Princeton’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) recently hosted a “Conversation on the Gaza Genocide with Norman Finkelstein & Chris Hedges.” I personally couldn’t pick either Norman or Chris out in a crowd of two, but Campus Reform noted this:

Finkelstein is a controversial anti-Israel speaker and the author of ‘The Holocaust Industry,’ a book asserting that Zionists ‘exploited the Holocaust’ for their own ends and ‘deploy it as a shield against any criticism.’

I’m sorry, say again?

CR also noted that Finkelstein took to X this past December to assert this:

 

Make no mistake about it.  In order to stifle dissent from Israel's genocidal war in Gaza, the Jewish billionaire class has launched the most concerted assault on academic freedom in the history of our country. — Norman Finkelstein (@normfinkelstein) December 11, 2023

He added that “If the presidents at Ivy League universities are not safe from the wrath of these Jewish supremacists, then no one is, and academic freedom is dead.”

Wow, where to start?! First of all, I’m not sure anyone has ever used the words “Jewish” and “supremacists” together before. And I didn’t know there was a designated “Jewish billionaire class.” If there is, it certainly hasn’t launched any assault, concerted or otherwise, on academic freedom. Those who despise Israel and support Hamas, on the other hand, certainly have. On campuses across the fruited plain, pro-Hamas types have terrorized Jewish students, staged sit-ins, threatened college presidents, chased off and/or shouted down Jewish speakers, etc., etc., etc., ad nauseam.

Also, the Jews have been the victims of actual genocide, and are not engaged in that behavior themselves.


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TOPICS: Education; History; Society
KEYWORDS: holocaust; israel; palestinians; zionism
In fact, the IDF has gone to such great pains to avoid civilian casualties (even though most “Palestinians” would like to see them wiped off the face of the planet) that it has achieved the lowest civilian to soldier casualty ratio in the history of urban warfare.

But the kicker, perhaps the most preposterous assertion in recorded history, is Finkelstein’s claim that Zionists have “exploited the Holocaust.”

Apparently Finkelstein and Hedges are unclear on the concept of “exploitation.” If the Jews/Zionists “exploited” the Holocaust, the U.S. “exploited” Pearl Harbor and the Baltic states exploited being forcefully occupied by the Soviet Union.

1 posted on 04/02/2024 9:33:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Bigots are phrasing seeking to survive as “exploiting:


2 posted on 04/02/2024 9:42:03 AM PDT by Freeleesy
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To: SeekAndFind

Finklestein is one of the worst . No wonder radical wikipedians quote him everywhere.


3 posted on 04/02/2024 9:43:08 AM PDT by Freeleesy
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
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4 posted on 04/02/2024 9:45:49 AM PDT by SJackson (In a war of ideas it is people who get killed, Stanislaw Jerzy Lec)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bibi has publicly stated that the ratio is 1:1 or 1:1.5

There is no way that is the lowest ratio in modern warfare.


5 posted on 04/02/2024 10:00:34 AM PDT by nitzy (I wonder if the telescreens in 1984 were first called "free Obamascreens")
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To: SeekAndFind

Jews have been expelled from the Left.

And the Post-War taboos against collective scapegoating and penalization of Jews have been totally shattered.

Interestingly, it opens up some ground for the White Identity Right, which has always been shut down by the Left using the spectre of:

“Protection of White nations = Moustache Man and mass murder.”

Interesting times.


6 posted on 04/02/2024 10:21:38 AM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Reverend Wright

Nazis will always be evil.


7 posted on 04/02/2024 10:25:44 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: nitzy; SeekAndFind
The lowest civilian to combatant ratio in urban warfare. (I think we can safely skip ”modern”. In the olden days once the actual siege and battle was over, the winning side used to engage in rape, slaughter and plunder.)
8 posted on 04/02/2024 10:42:37 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: Freeleesy

The holocaust was a false flag started by the Jews , in conjunction with Hitler, to bring about the reclamation of Israel. All the dead were martyrs for the cause. Cmon man

/s


9 posted on 04/02/2024 10:56:56 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: SeekAndFind

Since Israel’s enemies and “friends” alike accuse them of genocide no matter what they do what motivation does the IDF have to limit civilian casualties? What’s next, accusations of double secret genocide?

I would argue it is immoral to harm your own people in order to protect enemy civilians, especially given that enemy targets your civilians.


10 posted on 04/02/2024 11:10:58 AM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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To: SeekAndFind

There always will be self-serving individuals or organizations who will “exploit” any issue. But nowhere is this phenomenon more common than among Israel/Jew haters exploiting the names of free speech and revisionism to promote evil agendas and applaud Ha-Mads. They are the #1, as well as the classic, exploiters.


11 posted on 04/02/2024 11:18:55 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan (The one most called "dangerous" by minions of the pot normalization conspiracy)
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To: Freeleesy

Those precious flowers don’t grasp what reality is.


12 posted on 04/02/2024 11:48:55 AM PDT by DPMD (ua)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Jews have earned the right to exploit the Holocaust, to include stealing an 8000 sq mile strip of desert nobody much wanted until they settled there and turned it into an oasis.


13 posted on 04/02/2024 1:42:42 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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