Word: finkelsteinã
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...clown” (See Irish Times, July 1, 2003). He accused Wiesel of lying because Wiesel said that when he was 18 years old “I read The Critique of Pure Reason…in Yiddish.” Here is Finkelstein??s “gotcha” accusation: “The Critique of Pure Reason was never translated into Yiddish” (The Guardian, July 12, 2000). A fairly unambiguous charge. The only problem is that The Critique of Pure Reason was translated into Yiddish and published in Warsaw in 1929. The Harvard...
...can’t imagine why Israel’s apologists…would be offended by a comparison with the Gestapo.” He suggested that [they] should be flattered by the comparison. (Ibid). No wonder Gabriel Schoenfeld, in an article in Commentary labeled Finkelstein??s views “crackpot ideas, some of them mirrored almost verbatim in the propaganda put out by neo-Nazis around the world?...
Alexander Cockburn deserves only brief mention, since his charges are all derivative of Finkelstein??s. Suffice it to say, that he too makes it a practice to attack prominent Jews who support Israel. His hit list includes the late Irving How, the late Senator Paul D. Wellstone, D-Minn., and Rep. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. When asked whether he believed the “stories” that he reported were “sloshing around the news” involving Israeli complicity in 9/11 and in the Anthrax attack, his response was “I don?...
Dershowitz told the crowd of about 200 that he only mentioned Finkelstein??s accusation “to show the absurd lengths that [Finkelstein and others] are going to delegitimate” him because of his political and ideological views...
...meantime, Dershowitz has been making efforts to defuse Finkelstein??s attack. He has circulated his response to the entire HLS faculty, as well as HLS Dean Elena Kagan and University President Lawrence H. Summers...