Mar
20
2010
Dr. Norman Finkelstein
I have so much respect for Dr. Norman Finkelstein … and that’s not primarily because he’s articulate, outspoken or that he makes perfect sense.
It’s that he makes sense, advocates peace, and highlights the atrocities of the Israelis in Palestine, when he himself is the son of two World War II concentration camps survivors.
In the recent video posted below, and in an attempt by one of the attendees to use the suffering the Nazis inflicted on the Jews to justify Israel’s brutality today, Finkelstein explains that this is:
… precisely and exactly because of the lessons my parents taught me and my two siblings: that I will not be silent when Israel commits its crimes against the Palestinians. And I consider nothing more despicable than to use their suffering and their martyrdom to try to justify the torture, the brutalization, the demolition of homes, that Israel daily commits against the Palestinians. So I refuse any longer to be intimidated or browbeaten by the tears. If you had any heart in you, you would be crying for the Palestinians!
Thank you Dr. Finkelstein for being the voice of reason and surely for having the balls to do what you’re doing when the world is turning a blind eye to the woes of an entire nation.
Here are more of Norman Finkelstein’s videos.