Could there be any truth in what Norman Finkelstein says? In fact, before that, for my readers; who is Norman Finkelstein?
Norman Finkelstein is the son of holocaust survivors. In 1980, during his Ph.d he claimed to fame by denying that holocaust. He said that the holocaust was a sham and there is proof of millions stacked in holocaust survivor’s accounts to state their misery during the nazi rule. First, surprising to hear that from a Jew. Second, from a son whose parents were holocaust survivors.
Last year, Ahmed e-jinad was hosting the holocaust denial conference and it was not surprising to see Finkelstein’s name in the top of the invites list. To my knowledge, the only jew. His name was ofcourse alongside another denier, David Duke.
Finkelstein criticized Joan Peter’s From Time Immerorial in 1984 and earned himself the anti-semi tag. He has now written BEYOND CHUTZPAH. The Book talks about the misuse of anti semitism and the abuse of history. Norman is said to have made use of many reports and findings to state that the holocaust had never occurred. He alleges that what we believe is the result of public diplomacy. Why, he even quotes how many nazi supporters have been imprisoned in germany and other parts of Europe (Ernst Zundel still languishes in jail). While that is one facet of the book, on the other side he makes use of it to launch a vehement attack on Alan Dershowitz. Time and again he takes the opportunity to criticize his book The Case for Israel. Somewhere down the line, the debate on holocaust denial is turning out to be more of a Finkelstein v. Dershowitz debate.
But then, I again come down to the question I asked earlier, Could it possibly be true that the Holocaust never took place? Is it possible that the millions of deaths that we heard about actually never happened? If so, it could go down to be the biggest cover up in history.
Norman Finkelstein is the son of holocaust survivors. In 1980, during his Ph.d he claimed to fame by denying that holocaust. He said that the holocaust was a sham and there is proof of millions stacked in holocaust survivor’s accounts to state their misery during the nazi rule. First, surprising to hear that from a Jew. Second, from a son whose parents were holocaust survivors.
Last year, Ahmed e-jinad was hosting the holocaust denial conference and it was not surprising to see Finkelstein’s name in the top of the invites list. To my knowledge, the only jew. His name was ofcourse alongside another denier, David Duke.
Finkelstein criticized Joan Peter’s From Time Immerorial in 1984 and earned himself the anti-semi tag. He has now written BEYOND CHUTZPAH. The Book talks about the misuse of anti semitism and the abuse of history. Norman is said to have made use of many reports and findings to state that the holocaust had never occurred. He alleges that what we believe is the result of public diplomacy. Why, he even quotes how many nazi supporters have been imprisoned in germany and other parts of Europe (Ernst Zundel still languishes in jail). While that is one facet of the book, on the other side he makes use of it to launch a vehement attack on Alan Dershowitz. Time and again he takes the opportunity to criticize his book The Case for Israel. Somewhere down the line, the debate on holocaust denial is turning out to be more of a Finkelstein v. Dershowitz debate.
But then, I again come down to the question I asked earlier, Could it possibly be true that the Holocaust never took place? Is it possible that the millions of deaths that we heard about actually never happened? If so, it could go down to be the biggest cover up in history.
More links
– Alan Dershowitz’s Blog
– Norman Finkelstein’s website
The Social Blog 
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March 7, 2007 at 4:08 pm
Anonymous
Yes, the Holocaust happened and millions of Jews were killed by the Nazis. We’ll soon have the proof when the files of the Intrnational Red Cross at Bad Arolsen in Germany are opened. The tracing service was set up for survivors to get word to their relatives that they were still alive and for the relatives of those who were missing to report them missing. We’ll soon know how many Jews were reported missing and never showed up to say they were still alive. The 6 million names will finally become known.
February 19, 2015 at 11:45 pm
anonymous
Norman Finkelstein is a mentally disturbed person or so it would appear by the positions he takes on factual happenings. His thinking processes are way off the mark.
However many died in those concentrations camps, Jew or non-Jew, Hitler’s own words and directives were to hunt down Jews mercilessly and without exception and murder them. That is a Holocaust. The first thing the Germans did on capturing areas in WWII was to systematically hunt down Jews for the singular purpose of murdering them. The concentration camps, with their gas chambers, came about because more human beings could be murdered faster than shooting, burning, starving or working human beings to death. These camps are well-documented in German records captured at the end of WWII and many witnesses to the “Final Solution”.
Without question Jews have contributed to the benefit of mankind beyond any other single group. They are about .002% of the world’s peoples yet have won about 20% of the Nobel Prizes. Won’t go any further as there is no getting inside an irrational and closed minds bent on hating Jews. Let the Jew-haters live in their own self-imposed mental prison. And who knows how many great minds there were in the 4 million Christians murdered by the Germans??? The Jew-haters deny the 4 million Christians murdered by Hitler. How hypocritical !.
Once the Nazis gained power, they denied it to anyone else. Due to 2000 years of Jew-hatred sponsored by the Catholic Church, it became OK to kill Jews in the name of Christianity. Hitler was no dummy in that regard. Not until the Catholic Church confessed it created Jew-hatred (announced by Pope John XXIII in 1960 and confirmed by the Second Vatican Council) and that Jews were not responsible for killing Christ, did it become “uncool” to kill Jews. The Arabs then gratuitously took up Jew-hating spending trillions of dollars in armaments trying to wipe Israel off the face of the map” instead of spending those same trillions helping their brother Arabs and building better economic societies for their fellow Arabs.. Like Hitler, these present so-called extremist Islamacists are out to takeover the world. Like Hitler, those who disagree are murdered. .
[ One of the first acts of Pope John XXIII, in 1960, was to confess for the Church of the sin of Jew-hatred through the centuries: ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_XXIII#Relations_with_Jews ) ]
November 21, 2019 at 1:52 am
rjkatz
When the Auschwitz camp commandant. Rudolf Hoess testified at the Nuremberg that 3 million died there there is no doubt the Holocaust happened