Packed Finkelstein talk draws 'real outrage'

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Packed Finkelstein talk draws 'real outrage'

March 16, 2006

By SHANNA McCORD
Sentinel staff writer

The suffering of Jewish people during the Holocaust is really no different than apartheid in Africa or the slaughtering of Native Americans by European settlers, Norman Finkelstein told a standing-room-only crowd at the Veterans Memorial Building on Wednesday night.

Finkelstein, the son of two Holocaust survivors who teaches political science at DePaul University in Chicago, spoke about his views of the "fabricated, concocted, illegitimate" Israeli-Arab conflict, while outside at least 150 members of the local Jewish community quietly protested the event.

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Wednesday night he cited several Israeli scholars, including historian Benny Morris, when talking about the Palestinians getting kicked out of their homeland in 1948 by the Jews and what he says has been the "illegal" occupation of the land by Israelis.

"The Palestinians were ethnically cleansed," Finkelstein said. "It was not an accident of war."

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A review of Finkelstein's new book, "Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History"


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Norman Finkelstein & Former Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami Debate: Complete Transcript


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Scholar Norman Finkelstein Calls Professor Alan Dershowitz's New Book On Israel a "Hoax"

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A similar author: Alfred M. Lilienthal

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