Balder Ex-Libris - Finkelstein Norman G.Review of books rare and missing2024-03-16T01:56:42+00:00urn:md5:aa728a70505b2fae05796923271581c2DotclearFinkelstein Norman G. - Beyond chutzpahurn:md5:62d1b7cd2d587d519a9616e4260a84c12013-11-27T01:35:00+00:002015-06-03T22:06:53+01:00balderFinkelstein Norman G.IsraëlJewMetaphysicsSexuality <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img2/.Finkelstein_Norman_G_-_Beyond_chutzpah_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Finkelstein Norman Gary</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Beyond chutzpah On the misuse of anti-semitism and the abuse of history</strong><br />
Year : 2005<br />
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Introduction. In the course of writing this book, I passed a small milestone in my life. Twenty years ago, while researching my doctoral dissertation on the theory of Zionism, I came across a newly published book on the Israel-Palestine conflict: From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine by Joan Peters. Promising to revolutionize our understanding of the conflict, the book was adorned on the back cover with glowing praise from the Who’s Who of American Arts and Letters (Saul Bellow, Elie Wiesel, Barbara Tuchman, Lucy Dawidowicz, and others), and it went on to garner scores of reviews in the mainstream media ranging from ecstasy to awe. Its first edition, eventually going into seven hardback printings, became a national best seller. The central thesis of Peters’s book, apparently supported by nearly two thousand notes and a recondite demographic study, was that Palestine had been virtually empty on the eve of Zionist colonization and that, after Jews made the deserted parts of Palestine they settled bloom, Arabs from neighboring states and other parts of Palestine migrated to the Jewish areas and pretended to be indigenous. Here was the, as it were, scientific proof that Golda Meir had been right after all: there was no such thing as Palestinians. As it happened, From Time Immemorial was a colossal hoax. Cited sources were mangled, key numbers in the demographic study falsified, and large swaths plagiarized from Zionist propaganda tracts. Documenting the hoax and the rather more onerous challenge of publicizing these findings in the media proved to be a turning point for me. From then on, much of my life has, in one fashion or another, centered on the Israel-Palestine conflict. Looking back after two decades of study and reflection, I am struck most by how uncomplicated the Israel-Palestine conflict is. There is no longer much contention among scholars on the historical record, at any rate for the foundational period from the first Zionist settlements in the late nineteenth century to the creation of Israel in 1948. This wasn’t always the case. For a long time two acutely divergent narratives on the Israel-Palestine conflict coexisted. On the one hand, there was the mainstream, or what one might call, with considerable accuracy, the Exodus version of the past—basically the heroic, official Zionist tale immortalized in Leon Uris’s best-selling historical novel. On the other hand, beyond the margins of respectable opinion, a small dissenting body of literature challenged prevailing wisdom. To take one indicative example, the mainstream Israeli account maintained that Palestinians became refugees in 1948 because Arab radio broadcasts had instructed them to flee. Yet already by the early 1960s, Palestinian scholar Walid Khalidi and Irish scholar Erskine Childers, after examining the archive of Arab radio broadcasts from the 1948 war, concluded that no such official Arab exhortations had been given. But revelations such as these had little or no impact on mainstream opinion. Beginning in the late 1980s, however, a steady stream of scholarly studies, mostly by Israelis, dispelled much of the Zionist mythology enveloping the origins of the conflict. Thus, it was now conceded by all serious scholars that the “Arab radio broadcasts” were a Zionist fabrication and that the Palestinians had been ethnically cleansed in 1948, and scholarly debate now focused on the much narrower, if still highly pertinent, question of whether this cleansing was the intentional consequence of Zionist policy or the unintentional by-product of war. Ultimately, on this and related issues, the dissenting narrative, proving closer to the truth, displaced the official Zionist one while, after heated polemics, a broad scholarly consensus on the historical record crystallized. <strong>...</strong></p>Finkelstein Norman G. - The Holocaust Industryurn:md5:b7748f5b54a23a4eefd8dc4a69b0a9cf2012-02-04T21:39:00+00:002015-06-03T22:07:00+01:00balderFinkelstein Norman G.Jew <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Finkelstein_Norman_G_-_The_Holocaust_Industry_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Finkelstein Norman Gary</strong><br />
Title : <strong>The Holocaust Industry Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering</strong><br />
Year : 2001<br />
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INTRODUCTION. This book is both an anatomy and an indictment of the Holocaust industry. In the pages that follow, I will argue that "The Holocaust" is an ideological representation of the Nazi holocaust.1 Like most ideologies, it bears a connection, if tenuous, with reality. The Holocaust is not an arbitrary but rather an internally coherent construct. Its central dogmas sustain significant political and class interests. Indeed, The Holocaust has proven to be an indispensable ideological weapon. Through its deployment, one of the world's most formidable military powers, with a horrendous human rights record, has cast itself as a "victim" state, and the most successful ethnic group in the United States has likewise acquired victim status. Considerable dividends accrue from this specious victimhood — in particular, immunity to criticism, however justified. Those enjoying this immunity, I might add, have not escaped the moral corruptions that typically attend it. From this perspective, Elie Wiesel's performance as official interpreter of The Holocaust is not happenstance. Plainly he did not come to this position on account of his humanitarian commitments or literary talents.2 Rather, Wiesel plays this leading role because he unerringly articulates the dogmas of, and accordingly sustains the interests underpinning, the Holocaust. <strong>...</strong></p>Finkelstein Norman G. - Birn Ruth B. - A Nation on Trialurn:md5:546dd79390488f025d88b524e0f515cb2011-11-28T23:58:00+00:002018-01-10T11:37:09+00:00balderFinkelstein Norman G.Jew <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Finkelstein_Norman_G_-_Birn_Ruth_B_-_A_Nation_on_Trial_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Authors : <strong>Finkelstein Norman Gary - Birn Ruth B.</strong><br />
Title : <strong>A Nation on Trial</strong><br />
Year : 1997<br />
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In the opinion, not of bad men, but of the best men, no belief which is contrary to truth can be really useful... John Stuart Mill Rarely has a book with scholarly pretensions evoked as much popular interest as Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's study, Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (1). Every important journal of opinion printed one or more reviews within weeks of its release. The New York Times, for instance, featured multiple notices acclaiming Goldhagen's book as 'one of those rare new works that merit the appellation landmark', 'historic', and bringing to bear 'corrosive literary passion'. Although initial reviews were not uniformly positive, once the Goldhagen juggernaut proved unstoppable, even the dissenting voices joined in the chorus of praise. An immediate national best-seller, Hitler's Willing Executioners was balled in Time magazine's year-end issue as the 'most talked about' and second best non-fiction book of 1996.(2) Before long, Goldhagen was also an international phenomenon, creating an extraordinary stir in Germany. <strong>...</strong></p>