Norman Finkelstein

Political activist Jewish American Professor Norman Finkelstein.

Norman Finkelstein received his Ph.D in Political Science from Princeton University and is a son of Holocaust Survivors. Professor Finkelstein was recenly refused entry into Israel and arrasted by Israeli authorities while planning a Humanitarian trip to the Palestinian Occupied territories.

For many years he taught political theory and the Israel-Palestine conflict. He is currently an independent scholar. Finkelstein is the author of five books which have been translated into more than 40 foreign editions:

• Beyond Chutzpah: On the misuse of anti-Semitism and the abuse of history (University of California Press, 2005; expanded paperback edition, 2008)
• The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the exploitation of Jewish suffering (Verso, 2000; expanded paperback edition, 2003)
  Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict (Verso, 1995; expanded paperback edition, 2003)
• A Nation on Trial: The Goldhagen thesis and historical truth (with Ruth Bettina Birn) (Henry Holt, 1998)
• The Rise and Fall of Palestine: A personal account of the intifada years (University of Minnesota, 1996)
• He has just completed a new book entitled A Farewell to Israel: The coming break-up of American Zionism, to be published in 2009.

http://www.normanfinkelstein.com

This is recent interview with Prof. Norman Finkelstein outlining plans for a demonstration involving 5,000 internationals and 500,000 Palestinians marching on an Israeli checkpoint to impose International Law.

Prof. Finkelstein suggests that honorary grand marshals for the event could be people like Nelson Mandela, Jimmy Carter, and Noam Chomsky.