Documents on Norman Finkelstein’s controversies

 

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IN the summer of 2000 Prof. Norman Finkelstein (at that time Professor of political theory, City University of New York, Hunter College) published a book, The Holocaust Industry, which criticised the financial motives of those behind the then current exaggerated publicity campaign promoting Holocaust history and the use to which it was being put to extort money from a variety of wealthy victims including Swiss banks, European governments, factories, and other groups. The world’s Jewish organisations started a concerted attempt to destroy Finkelstein’s academic reputation and legitimacy, and to pressure publishers not to print the book (even though they had signed contracts to do so), and newspaper, television and othere media outlets not to provide any publicity in the form of reviews or news stories. This is a small sample of the worldwide media coverage of the debate, which we provide entirely independently of Prof. Finkelstein.

 Index

• United Jewish Federation tries to silence Prof Norman Finkelstein by filling the seats of Pittsburgh university lecture hall with Jewish stormtroopers
• Outrage of Auschwitz survivor because CBC Television included interview with Professor Norman Finkelstein
• Irish Times reviews latest book by Norman Finkelstein
• Bernie Farber’s friend Michael Coren dumps Norman Finkelstein from TV Show
• San Francisco Bay Area Independent media prints another outspoken, angry Finkelstein attack on the Holocaust Industry and Zionism
• Wither the peace process? An interview with Professor Norman G. Finkelstein 
• ADL protests Finkelstein speech at Georgetown University 
• ADL Wants Finkelstein Silenced, Defending Free Speech With A Ball Gag
• Norman Finkelstein on Counterfeit Courage: Reflections on ‘Political Correctness’ in Germany
• Der Spiegel Feb 10, 2001: “Holocaust-Diskussion: Finkelstein nimmt nichts zurück”
• Author Criticizes Holocaust Claims (Berlin press conference, Feb 8, 2001)
• Finkelstein book on Holocaust “industry” sets Germans squirming
• Die Welt’s Feb 6, 2001 interview with Finkelstein [English]
• Norman Finkelstein Der Standard, Feb 7, 2001, on Der Holocaust als moralische Waffe
• German Television Pulls Plug On Finkelstein Documentary
• Greg Goldin in L A Weekly: “Finkelstein and the packaging of the Holocaust”
• Richard Crompton in Korea Herald: “Finkelstein and the Holocaust “
• Nick Cohen in the New Statesman on The Holocaust as Show Business (with reference to Finkelstein)
• Adam Brodnick, in LA Times, Nov 5, 2000: a review of Finkelstein books, with glowing reference to Peter Novick
• Berliner Zeitung Sept 29, 2000: Paul Spiegel greift erneut Piper Verlag an
• Ostsee Zeitung: Deutsche Historiker uneinig über Debatte zur „Holocaust-Industrie”
• Washington Post: “Profit and Loss”, by Steven J. Zipperstein
• N Y Post: Jewish writer condemned as a “traitor”
• National Post: Show survivors the money
• JTA: WJC defends fund raiser as appropriate ‘thank you’
• Author analyzes reception in U.S. of book on Holocaust reparations
• Upstream: Finkelstein and More: An Ongoing Debate
• In interview, he accuses Elie Wiesel and Jewish leaders worldwide of a vast shakedown
• Basler Zeitung: Ist Kritik an «Auschwitz-Geschäftemacherei» statthaft?
• Who really Gets the Holocaust Restitution funds?
• Norman Finkelstein writes on The Holocaust Industry
• Evening Standard, London, attacks Holocaust Industry
• Anthony Julius on Finkelstein: His people cast aside
• Raul Hilberg on Finkelstein’s The Holocaust Industry
• NY Times outrage
• Berliner Zeitung: Dachau meets Disneyland
• New York Times: A Tale of Two Holocausts
• Norman Finkelstein writes on The Holocaust Industry
• Finkelstein: Will The Holocaust Industry Incite Anti-Semitism? Finkelstein2.html
• Links to newspaper and TV interviews | more links
• Piper-Verlag to publish Finkelstein Book
• Buch hat in den USA ein rätselhaftes Medienecho
• Berliner Zeitung: Finkelstein’s book silenced by US media oligarchs
• Piper Verlag refuses Jewish demands to drop Finkelstein Book
• Marcia Pally (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Aug 22, 2000): Tanz mit der Besonderheit – Wer fürchtet Norman Finkelstein?
• Los Angeles Times reports May 17, 2001: Holocaust panel spends $30 million to award $3 million
• Political Quarterly [British, leftwing] reviews Finkelstein, June 2001
• Finkelstein interviewed by Beirut newspaper after his university sacks him
• Finkelstein interviewed by Counterpunch after his university sacks him
• Professor Kirstein believes that Finkelstein is destitute in Chicago
• Lawrence Eagleburger admits: His International Commission on Holocaust-Era Insurance Claims has spent $56 million to obtain offers of claims payments of $35 million
• Norman Finkelstein accuses Alan Dershowitz of plagiarism | continued | Gordon Thomas calls Dershowitz a Plagiarist and Fraudster | Alan Dershowitz tries to silence Finkelstein who accuses him of plagiarism
• Mar 2004: Simon Wiesenthal Centre Testifies in Paris “Libel” Suit against Norman Finkelstein
• Jun 10, 2007: Controversial DePaul Professor Denied Tenure
• Aug 23, 2007: Finkelstein’s eulogy on death of the Real Historian, Prof Raul Hilberg
• Aug 29, 2007: Are we powerful or what? DePaul University pulls the plug on Professor Norman Finkelstein’s final year teaching at the school
• Feb 14, 2008: CounterPunch – Plagiarism, Cover Up and Misrepresentations: The Case Against Alan Dershowitz
• Campaign launched to defend universities and academics from persecution 
• Boston Globe: Clark University cancels a Norman Finkelstein campus talk – ‘cos it would conflict with conformist scholars’ Holocaust event. That’s freedom of thought for you
• Norman Finkelstein: Israel is a Satanic state: “And then these satanic narcissistic people throw their hands up in the air and ask, “Why doesn’t anybody love us? Why don’t our neighbors want us to be here?”
• The Holocaust Industry gloats about A Pariah In Exile: Norman Finkelstein is back in Brooklyn – right
• Why Israel Booted Norman Finkelstein
• Huge Profits Casts Shadow over Holocaust Survivors Organization In which connection, Ha’aretz, Israel: Who’s afraid of Finkelstein? | Israel Arrests outspoken Academic Norman Finkelstein
• CounterPunch – Plagiarism, Cover Up and Misrepresentations: The Case Against Alan Dershowitz (right) – Finkelstein was right | archive |
• A Misappropriation of Tenure and Academic Freedom | our dossier on Norman Finkelstein
• David Klein: Why is Norman Finkelstein not Allowed to Teach?
• Professor Norman Finkelstein: Taking on the lobby

Norman Finkelstein’s website is www.normanfinkelstein.com

Related links: 

 Gabriel Schoenfeld: “Holocaust Reparations — A Growing Scandal,” in Commentary Magazine, Sept. 2000 | and German translation in Süddeutsche Zeitung, Sept.13, 2000: “Der Skandal um die Holocaust-Entschädigungen wird immer größer”

 Peter Novick controversy, on a similar book