Norman Finkelstein: Claims that he was fired for his scholarly views are derided by conservative
[Steven Plaut is a professor at the Graduate School of the Business Administration at the University of Haifa and is a columnist for the Jewish Press.]
The Norman Finkelstein affair at DePaul University was not yet buried when an entire revisionist "narrative" of the affair was being churned out by the Far Left. A bit of revisionism was to be expected, one supposes, regarding the favorite "academic" of those promoting Holocaust Revisionism and "New History" about World War II. After all, Finkelstein had made his name in the media by cheering Hezbollah's terror attacks on Jews, by arguing that Germany is the victim of greedy dishonest Jews, that nearly all those claiming to be Holocaust survivors are liars, thieves, and hoaxers, thus feeding the lunatic fringe that claims that the entire Holocaust of Six Million Jews by Nazi Germany was a Zionist hoax. Neo-Nazi web sites hailed him as the "Jew who proved that the Holocaust was a hoax." Finkelstein had repeatedly proclaimed Holocaust Denier and pseudo-historian David Irving as his role model and hero, even when Irving was sitting in a Vienna prison for Neo-Nazi propagandizing. Finkelstein baselessly smeared just about everyone, from Holocaust writer Elie Wiesel to Alan Dershowitz, the latter whom Finkelstein falsely accused of plagiarism. Finkelstein physically threatened his own Dean. But in spite of all this, the scope of Finkelsteinian revisionism emerging the past few weeks and its willingness to employ the Big Lie are still shocking....
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The Norman Finkelstein affair at DePaul University was not yet buried when an entire revisionist "narrative" of the affair was being churned out by the Far Left. A bit of revisionism was to be expected, one supposes, regarding the favorite "academic" of those promoting Holocaust Revisionism and "New History" about World War II. After all, Finkelstein had made his name in the media by cheering Hezbollah's terror attacks on Jews, by arguing that Germany is the victim of greedy dishonest Jews, that nearly all those claiming to be Holocaust survivors are liars, thieves, and hoaxers, thus feeding the lunatic fringe that claims that the entire Holocaust of Six Million Jews by Nazi Germany was a Zionist hoax. Neo-Nazi web sites hailed him as the "Jew who proved that the Holocaust was a hoax." Finkelstein had repeatedly proclaimed Holocaust Denier and pseudo-historian David Irving as his role model and hero, even when Irving was sitting in a Vienna prison for Neo-Nazi propagandizing. Finkelstein baselessly smeared just about everyone, from Holocaust writer Elie Wiesel to Alan Dershowitz, the latter whom Finkelstein falsely accused of plagiarism. Finkelstein physically threatened his own Dean. But in spite of all this, the scope of Finkelsteinian revisionism emerging the past few weeks and its willingness to employ the Big Lie are still shocking....