Norman Finkelstein: “I fully expect to be arrested,” Sept 5
Fri 31 Aug 2007
After losing tenure because of an unprecedented campaign of outside interference waged by Alan Dershowitz, who has no academic background in in Middle East or Israeli history or politics , DePaul University has decided to unilaterally cancel Holocaust Industry author Norman Finkelstein’s classes and shut down his office. This despite overwhelming approval of his scholarship by his peers at the school, and a remaining one-year contract.
When classes start on September 5, Finkelstein promises
“As usual I will show up for class on the first day and go to my office. I fully expect to be arrested.”
Fox News reports:
Meanwhile, a faculty advocacy group sent the university a letter demanding the administration reinstate Finkelstein or hold a hearing with an elected faculty body to show cause for the suspension.
“There ought to be a hearing before any such action is taken,” said Robert Kreiser, senior program officer for the American Association of University Professors.
Administrative leave with pay isn’t justification for removing Finkelstein from teaching, Kreiser said.
“They have the burden of demonstrating that there was good reason to suspend him,” Kreiser said.
For a man who is a son of Holocaust survivors and who has been targeted by critics because he “believes that some Jews have exploited the Holocaust,” Finkelstein must have felt some tragic sense of validation while watching demonstrations in Israel earlier this month by Holocaust survivors and their familes. There are 250,000 survivors still living, but it turns out barely, in Israel. A government report said about a third live in poverty. Thousands took to the streets when the state offered to help out with insulting $20.00 monthly payments, prompting Israeli historian Tom Segev to say, “it could be that Germany treated the survivors better than the State of Israel did.”
So who got all those reparation payments? It wasn’t the Holocaust survivors of Israel.
There are three interesting issues here:
1. USA cannot claim to be a free country if it is possible to put pressure on a university to sack a professor because of his political views. Academia cannot live without freedom to ask questions and democracy cannot either.
2. I have never understood the purpose of the proposed US "hate speech" legislation as incitement to commit violence against persons or groups has been illegal all along. If incitement to sack scientists from their university positions and incitement to start wars at will in the Middle East are not covered under "hate speech" legislation I see absolutely no reason for it at all. I have the feeling that there is an agenda behind it, which attempts to bring down democracy and the predominant Christian values in society.
3. Compensation of the Holocaust survivors. Interesting that 1/3 of the Holocaust survivors in Israel live in poverty. Israel is not a poor country, and it receives massive foreign assistance. So there must be something wrong with its social policies. Considering the sums paid to Israel in compensation for the Holocaust it is strange that the Holocaust survivors live in poverty. Is all the money spent on illegal settlements and destruction of the lives of Palestinians?
Could it be that the government of Israel itself, in spite of the fact that the Holocaust and its survivors (and their survivors (a case is being prepared against Germany for compensation of traumatized second generation survivors)) remain the single biggest political asset of the country, does not take it seriously?
Could it be that the big crooks with contempt try to prevent the small crooks from getting their share of the boot? Just a thought ...
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I am disgusted by DePaul University's actions. Why do they have to kowtow to Dershowitz and the Zionist lobby? At a certain point, political correctness is another name for cowardice.
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"Stop judging by appearances, but judge justly."
They kowtow because the last pope was a polish ashkinazic crypto and the current pope is no better. That church got hijacked at Vatican II, and it was a mess before that.
Sorry, but one has to look pretty hard to find an institution more corrupt than Constantine's Roman church.
Oh, by the way, have I mentioned that churches scandals? Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words.
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..that picture is a jaw-dropper, claymore!
..maybe it's just our jaded minds..
If our minds are jaded, our jaws wouldn't drop.
Getting back to topic...
Norman Finkelstein is a case in point. Here is a professor up for tenure and he won't get it. Somehow this was in the planning all along. Did Finkelstein even sense this somehow? He had to have known the zionist forces were working against him all this time - http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/3267 - my comment: I agree with thx1138, sullivan, claymoremind -
Oh but the deception they weave and the money-power they wield against this man. Maybe he really thought he was going to get tenure. Such a brave man, really. He knows the vultures can tear his life apart. And all he did was tell the truth about "israel" and its deceptive negotiations with Palestine.
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