Norman Finkelstein

Every victory of Hezbollah, I celebrate.

— Norman Finkelstein

Teaching is in my bones. I love to teach.

— Norman Finkelstein

I'm an old fan of the Negro spirituals.

— Norman Finkelstein

No conditions justify torture.

— Norman Finkelstein

Public opinion in the United States has shifted significantly, not just outside but also within the Jewish community.

— Norman Finkelstein

Indeed, the field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense if not sheer fraud.

— Norman Finkelstein

International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.

— Norman Finkelstein

The real goal of politics has to be getting people to act on what they already know was wrong.

— Norman Finkelstein

Given the nonsense that is turned out daily by the Holocaust industry, the wonder is that there are so few skeptics.

— Norman Finkelstein

They used to say Palestinians fight like heroes, now they say heroes fight like Palestinians

— Norman Finkelstein

As Israel becomes like South Africa, it's increasingly becoming a pariah state, being excluded from culture at large.

— Norman Finkelstein

You know, frankly speaking, money just doesn't figure largely in my world view.

— Norman Finkelstein

I focus on my work. If I let myself get distracted by the insults and slanders I wouldn't get anything substantive done.

— Norman Finkelstein

I think sometimes we underestimate just how vulnerable Israel is on the public-relations front. That's why they spend so much money on…

— Norman Finkelstein

Personal convictions are not politics. Personal convictions, if they become the subject of a group conviction, they become a cult.

— Norman Finkelstein

Israel has been a stage on which American Jews have played out their fantasies of toughness - often from Martha's Vineyard.

— Norman Finkelstein

When I was a young man, my mother said to me, 'You can't be a communist without being a militant atheist.' So…

— Norman Finkelstein

The justice of a war basically refers to the question whether there is a right to attack in the first place. Justice…

— Norman Finkelstein

Insofar as Zionism sought to solve the Jewish question, it must be reckoned not just a failure but a catastrophe: Israel is…

— Norman Finkelstein

Why should Americans go on with their lives as normal, worrying about calories and hair loss, while other people are worrying about…

— Norman Finkelstein

There's no question that public opinion is changing, and if you're a person of the left, your goal is presumably to try…

— Norman Finkelstein

I'm not a good writer, and I don't care. Unfortunately, after I left college, I didn't have time much for literature. I…

— Norman Finkelstein

When you are a people's movement, you have one thing. Your only asset is people. And you have to deal with real…

— Norman Finkelstein

Judging by opinion polls, Israel has bigger problems than me. It is among the most hated countries on the planet. It should…

— Norman Finkelstein

I think one of the problems when we discuss the Israel-Palestine conflict is people talk too much in terms of, 'What's your…

— Norman Finkelstein

My parents often wondered why I would grow so indignant at the falsification and exploitation of the Nazi genocide. The most obvious…

— Norman Finkelstein

I think Israel, as a number of commentators pointed out, is becoming an insane state. And we have to be honest about…

— Norman Finkelstein

I think that people like Bloomberg, they're complete thugs. No question about it. But on the other hand, it must be said…

— Norman Finkelstein

Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis.

— Norman Finkelstein

Israel has come out of the boils of the hell, a satanic state.

— Norman Finkelstein

The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours.

— Norman Finkelstein

War is not a means to an end, it is the end, whereas politics is merely the hiatus between wars.

— Norman Finkelstein

State terrorism - and yet the Israeli invasion Goldstone investigated is still commonly referred to as the Gaza War.

— Norman Finkelstein

I am opposed to any state with an ethnic character, not only to Israel.

— Norman Finkelstein

No doubt one can, in light of further study and life experience, come to repudiate past convictions.

— Norman Finkelstein

I don't think it's a good thing to have Christian states, Muslim states, or any kind of ethnic states.

— Norman Finkelstein

I don't want to become a rhetorical speaker. My effectiveness is mastering all of the data and being able to respond.

— Norman Finkelstein

People have the right to defend their country from foreign occupiers, and people have the right to defend their country from invaders…

— Norman Finkelstein

I voted for Nader, and I have no doubts at all that it was the right thing to do because the Nader…

— Norman Finkelstein

My books don't sell anymore. There are many reasons why they don't sell, but one of the reasons is because people don't…

— Norman Finkelstein