Norman G Finkelstein: 11 books

Nach seinem viel diskutierten Bucherfolg "Die Holocaust-Industrie" setzt sich Norman G. Finkelstein erneut mit einem sehr umstrittenen Thema auseinander: dem Missbrauch des Antisemitismus-Vorwurfs als politische Waffe. Wer Israel kritisiert, so Finkelstein, wird als Antisemit denunziert. Im Detail...

In the past five years Israel has mounted three major assaults on the 1.8 million Palestinians trapped behind its blockade of the Gaza Strip. Taken together, Operation Cast Lead (2008-9), Operation Pillar of Defense (2012), and Operation Protective Edge (2014), have resulted in the deaths of some...

For the Palestinians who live in the narrow coastal strip of Gaza the December 2008 Israeli invasion was a nightmare of unimaginable proportions: in the 22-day-long action 1 400 Gazans were killed several hundred on the first day alone. More than 6 000 homes were destroyed or badly damaged. The cost...

My Promised Land by Haaretz journalist Ari Shavit has been one of the most widely discussed and lavishly praised books about Israel in recent years. It has garnered encomiums from a broad spectrum of influential voices, including Thomas Friedman, David Remnick, Jonathan Freedland, Jeffrey Goldberg,...

Traditionally, American Jews have been broadly liberal in their political outlook; indeed African-Americans are the only ethnic group more likely to vote Democratic in US elections. Over the past half century, however, attitudes on one topic have stood in sharp contrast to this groups generally progressive...

Die "Holocaust-Industrie" – das bedeutet für Norman Finkelstein die moralische und finanzielle Ausbeutung jüdischer Leiden. Seine Analyse ist zugleich eine leidenschaftliche Anklage: Er wendet sich gegen die Interessenverbände, die den Holocaust für eigene Zwecke nutzen, häufig auf Kosten der...

No recent work of history has generated as much interest as Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners. Purporting to solve the mystery of the Nazi holocaust, Goldhagen maintains that ordinary Germans were driven by fanatical anti-Semitism to murder the Jews. An immediate national best-seller,...

The Occupy movement and the protests that inspired it have focused new attention on the work of Mahatma Gandhi, who set out principles of nonviolent resistance during the struggle for Indian Independence, principles that found their echo in Tahrir Square, Puerta del Sol and Zuccotti Park some half...

This acclaimed study surveys the dominant popular and scholarly images of the Israel–Palestine conflict. Finkelstein opens with a theoretical discussion of Zionism, locating it as a romantic form of nationalism that assumed the bankruptcy of liberal democracy. He goes on to look at the demographic...

It was not until the Arab-Israeli War of 1967, when Israel’s evident strength brought it into line with US foreign policy, that memory of the Holocaust began to acquire the exceptional prominence it enjoys today. Leaders of America’s Jewish community were delighted that Israel was now deemed a...

ON APRIL 1 2011 in the pages of the Washington Post the international jurist Richard Goldstone dropped a bombshell. He effectively disowned the massive evidence assembled in the United Nations report carrying his name that Israel had committed multiple war crimes and possible crimes against humanity...