Norman Finkelstein

The whole purpose of annual reviews is to keep you abreast of whether or not you are fulfilling the requirements of tenure.

— Norman Finkelstein

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

— Norman Finkelstein

There is a fundamental principle. People have the right to defend their country from foreign occupiers, and people have the right to…

— Norman Finkelstein

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

— Norman Finkelstein

Every year, the United Nations General Assembly votes on a resolution entitled 'Peaceful resolution of the Palestine conflict.' Every year, the vote…

— Norman Finkelstein

As one Israeli said, "It's a big mistake for Israel to say it 'won' the war, when there was no war. There…

— Norman Finkelstein

Why should these Palestinians, who have lived in Jerusalem for hundreds of years, be evicted from their homes so that Jews from…

— 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

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

— Norman Finkelstein

I earn - I'm not - I don't want to claim I'm a scholar of great stature, but I have made a…

— Norman Finkelstein

They've (Israel) lost the battle for public opinion. They claim it's because American Jews know too little.. I claim it's because they…

— Norman Finkelstein

I no longer say I'm unemployed. I say I'm unemployable. It's different. An unemployed suggests at a certain point in the future,…

— 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

Mainstream Jewish intellectuals became 'pro'-Israel after the June 1967 war when Israel became the U.S.A.' s strategic asset in the Middle East,…

— Norman Finkelstein

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

— Norman Finkelstein

There are contradictory tendencies in American society. There's a huge range of activities that one can engage in that mark it as…

— Norman Finkelstein

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

— Norman Finkelstein

I'm politically on the left, no question about it. I oppose sweatshops, I oppose exploitation of labour in the third world.

— Norman Finkelstein

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

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

— Norman Finkelstein

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

— Norman Finkelstein

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

— Norman Finkelstein

My original interest in the Nazi holocaust was personal. Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the…

— 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