Norman Finkelstein on a recent panel. (He's the one on the left.)
If you are wondering where that great "independent scholar with a PhD from Princeton University has been recently.........
he's on another "Israel Sucks" tour.
Yes, Norman is spending his post-academic career flying around the world and giving his off-the-shelf speech damning Israel and anyone else who disagrees with him. If you are interested in wasting a couple of hours listening to his droning rhetoric, here is his schedule, right off his website:
http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/?norman_finkelstein=see_him_live
Which leads to the question.....who pays for all these speaking appearances? I can't believe that anyone would pay to hear this clown speak. He is an absolute bore and drones on and on and on. Of course, he's a big hit with university audiences, not just young students with heads full of mush, but faculty, deans, asst deans, vice chancellors, directors of cross-cultural centers and head custodians-with their heads full of mush.
So if your city appears on the schedule, get ready.
The circus is coming to town.
I haven't looked recently but he was on Russia TV almost nightly when I was bored and watched it on youtube. He'd give his Israel is the worst nation on earth talks there too.
ReplyDeleteThat kind of shows who his friends are.
ReplyDeleteWhat are the chances we could lock this guy and David Horowitz in a small efficiency apartment together for the next five or ten years? They deserve each other.
ReplyDeleteThere is a difference, Siarlys. Horowitz lives in the real world-unlike Finkelstein. Horowitz also knows what it was like to walk on the other side. As a college student, he was a far lefty.
ReplyDeleteI know exactly who he was Gary. I used to go to my local public library after school to get my hands on the latest issue of Ramparts magazine, in the medium sized midwestern city where I grew up. I watched the first signs of disaffection in the man, some of them for good reason, some of them kind of narcissistic.
ReplyDeleteIf he had quietly gone off and started doing something more productive, something with more of a future, something that embodied the best of the selfless motives that inspired him to left wing advocacy in the first place, I would respect that. Instead, he has made a lifetime career of trashing everything he used to believe in, making snide remarks about former associates, and asking people to fund him to talk about what an idiot he used to be. That, I don't respect at all.
He doesn't know beans about the real world. He went from youthful intellectual who didn't know working class from punk street mugger to ageing lecture circuit intellectual who hopes never to need a real job as long as he lives.
I bet you are all Jews right? I went to one of his lectures last year and he predicted that Israel would start another war on Lebanon??? https://rt.com/news/israel-hezbollah-syria-lebanon/
ReplyDeleteNot bad for a bore right? Israel is one of the worst nations in the world, still occupying illegal land and guilty of many war crimes. FACT.
With just a little bit of effort you could find out that Professor Finkelstein's speaking fee is @ $2,500 and that it is largely paid by charging students $10 and non-students $15 to attend.
ReplyDeleteBy contrast, the sainted Eli Wiesel (who has called for the mass bombing of both the Iraqi and Iranian people -- a bit odd for a saint)is shown to charge a fee of "$50,001 and above" according to his booking agent.
By the way, all of this info is easily available on line. It is unclear to me why you feel your ignorance should be used as an attack on others.
Oh. By the way. Horowitz lives in the real world? Holy sh*t. Wow! What world is that? The one where Stalin, Pol Pot, and King George lived?
Mr Fouse seems obsessed with Dr. Finkelstein.
ReplyDeleteHe also seems to have a tiny echo chamber consisting of Midge and S Jenkins that give him positive feedback.
Don't encourage hin fellers
Fouse.
ReplyDeleteHow can an alleged non-Jew wholly swallow the Zionist racist propaganda without choking on reality?
I thought only those people who had been subjected to a lifetime of being told the rest of the world was against them because they were better and more successful than anyone else and that people who were not part of their tribe would inevitably try to wipe them out could have such conditioning so deeply ingrained so as to actually believe it.
A jewish writer puts is best:
"I once belonged to a wonderful religion. I belonged to a religion that allows those of us who believe in it to feel that we are the greatest people in the world—and feel sorry for ourselves at the same time. Once, I thought that I truly belonged in this world of security, self-pity, self-proclaimed intelligence, and perfect moral aesthetic. I thought myself to be somewhat privileged early on. It was soon revealed to me, however, that my fellow believers and I were not part of anything so flattering.
Although I was fortunate enough to have parents who did not try to force me into any one set of beliefs, being Jewish was in no way possible to escape growing up. It was constantly reinforced at every holiday, every service, and every encounter with the rest of my relatives. I was forever reminded how intelligent my family was, how important it was to remember where we had come from, and to be proud of all the suffering our people had overcome in order to finally achieve their dream in the perfect society of Israel.
This last mandatory belief was one which I never fully understood, but I always kept the doubts I had about Israel’s spotless reputation to the back of my mind. “Our people” were fighting a war, one I did not fully comprehend, but I naturally assumed that it must be justified. We would never be so amoral as to fight an unjust war. Yet as I came to learn more about our so-called “conflict” with the Palestinians, I grew more concerned. I routinely heard about unexplained mass killings, attacks on medical bases, and other alarmingly violent actions for which I could see no possible reason. “Genocide” almost seemed the more appropriate term, yet no one I knew would have ever dreamed of portraying the war in that manner; they always described the situation in shockingly neutral terms. Whenever I brought up the subject, I was always given the answer that there were faults on both sides, that no one was really to blame, or simply that it was a “difficult situation.” It was not until eighth grade that I fully understood what I was on the side of. One afternoon, after a fresh round of killings was announced on our bus ride home, I asked two of my friends who actively supported Israel what they thought. “We need to defend our race,” they told me. “It’s our
To the anonymous who thinks I am obsessed with Norman Finkelstein:
ReplyDeleteWho is obsessed? You are commenting on a post that is a year old!!!
What a dope!
Looks like anonymous posters are once again destroying the Zionist musings of the deranged Fouse and friends.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous,
ReplyDeleteCongrats. It took you a year to see this post.
(To everyone else: I suspect this is Normie himself catching up on all his negative news.)