Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the by Norman G. Finkelstein

By Norman G. Finkelstein

Meticulously researched and tightly argued, Beyond Chutzpah points to a consensus between historians and human rights companies at the genuine list of the Israel-Palestine clash. Norman G. Finkelstein exposes the corruption of scholarship and the contrivance of controversy shrouding human rights abuses, and interrogates the hot anti-Semitism. This paperback version provides a preface studying contemporary advancements within the clash, and a brand new afterword on Israel's building of a wall within the West financial institution.

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In the first chapter of this book, “From Jesus Christ Superstar to The Passion of the 58. See Jonathan Steele, “If Iran Is Ready to Talk, the US Must Do So Unconditionally,” Guardian (2 June 2006). 59. The Goldhagen article is typical of current fare in the Jewish press; see the March 2006 issue of World Jewish Digest headlined The Price of Appeasement. 60 Coincidentally, in his recent memoir, Norman Jewison, the director of Jesus Christ Superstar, likewise took note of this bizarre phenomenon. ” A highly successful Hollywood director, Jewison eventually directed Fiddler on the Roof, which won him unstinting praise from American Jews and the Israeli government.

Xliv PREFACE sung the praises of, and consequently invested their reputations in, From Time Immemorial, it was quite the embarrassment that an obscure graduate student had demonstrated it was a threadbare hoax. 105 It has proven equally challenging to expose publicly Alan Dershowitz’s The Case for Israel. Demonstrating that it was an academic fraud, which comprises the bulk of this volume, again didn’t require any special skill. One merely had to juxtapose what mainstream human rights organizations and historians have written against Dershowitz’s fabrications.

5, 14–15 of this volume. 99. See p. 58 of this volume. 100. See pp. 113–14, 166, 219 of this volume for Israel’s treatment of Palestinian minors. asp). ”102 PROLIFERATION OF FRAUD This book begins by recounting my first public involvement in the Israel-Palestine conflict when I exposed a major literary hoax, Joan Peters’s From Time Immemorial (1984). Peters’s book purported to demonstrate that Palestine had been empty on the eve of Zionist colonization, and that those claiming to be Palestinians had actually entered surreptitiously from neighboring Arab countries in search of economic opportunities after the Zionist settlers had made the desert bloom.

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