American life Quote by Norman Finkelstein

“Most young American Jews in the 1960s also knew very little about the Holocaust. Brooks Susman, who would later become a rabbi, told an…

— Phyllis Goldstein

History tells us that six million Jews disappeared during that war. If there was no Holocaust, where did they go?' She shakes her head.…

— Jodi Picoult

We always see the Holocaust in terms of black-and-white images, barking Germans, cowering Jews. We know very well-known fixed places like Auschwitz, Birkenau, Treblinka,…

— Yann Martel

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, i.e., when…

— Norman Finkelstein

The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an…

— Aharon Appelfeld

The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

— Fidel Castro

The Holocaust marooned the Jewish people in history.

— Steve Stern

The Holocaust may belong to history, but it was the price we paid to become a nation. Auschwitz was like a cradle of death…

— Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof

“The Arab world has done nothing to help the Palestinian refugees they created when they attacked Israel in 1948. It’s called the ‘Palestinian refugee…

— Brigitte Gabriel

Like the genocide of the Armenians before it, and the genocide of the Cambodians which followed it ... the lessons of the Holocaust must…

— Ronald Reagan

The Six-Day War laid a foundation of deep hatred toward Israel 50 years ago. I said this at a very early moment back then,…

— Amos Oz

Israel expanded beyond its original boundaries only because the Arab powers attacked Israel and the U.N. demarcation unsuccessfully in 1948. The endless caterwauling about…

— Conrad Black