Norman Finkelstein
Why Can't Jews Be More Like Noam Chomsky?
I Confess: I Am A Member Of Opus Judaei
John J. Mearsheimer, who is co-author (with Stephen Walt) of The Israel Lobby, a who’s who they’d rather have called The Jewish Lobby, has finally come clean and done a morphology of American Jewry, splitting it into two schools each personified by perhaps a dozen individual Jews. READ MORE >>
Minority Report
Mic Check
Finkelstein's End
DePaul University in Chicago announced today that it has denied tenure to Norman Finkelstein, not a scholar, not really a rational person and certainly not a model of honesty and integrity for students. The political science department had voted to approve a permanent appointment for him. READ MORE >>
Cambridge Diarist: Taking the Bait
A FEW YEARS ago, I barely knew the name Norman Finkelstein. I was vaguely aware of his screed, The Holocaust Industry, which argued that Jews “fabricated” their victimhood. I had heard of his comparisons of Israel to Nazi Germany. (“[I] can’t imagine why Israel’s apologists ... would be offended by a comparison with the Gestapo,” he once wrote.) And I had caught wind that neo-Nazi Holocaust-deniers like Ernst Zundel, now in an Austrian prison, praised him for “making three-fourths of our argument—and making it effectively.” But I certainly never imagined meeting such a person. READ MORE >>
Depaul's Disgrace
Please, I don't mean to offend anyone. But the Catholic college and university is not one of the faith's big achievements in America. Look at any one of the ratings charts (there are many) and see how low these institutions fare on the competitive scales and how few of them rate at all. It's true that there are two or three Catholic law schools in the middle range. But that's it. Catholic institutions certainly haven't made a mark in the life or physical sciences, or, for that matter, the social sciences either. READ MORE >>
