On the one hand this, on the other hand that
September 6, 2007
Norman Finkelstein has chosen to resign, and the cowardly adminsitraiton of DePaul University has tried to expiate its guilt by acknowledging his academic excellence. But check out how it is reported by this cretinous hack (Donald MacLeod of the Guardian). If the ‘one the one hand this, on the other hand that’ approach were not bad enough, he actually goes on to quote Alan Dershowitz! — the man whose academic fraud was exposed in a live debate on TV by Norman Finkelstein. And notice how it is Finkelstein who is ‘controversial’, not the man who plagiarized two whole chapters from Joan Peter’s hoax. I also noticed the interesting use of quotation marks: Finkelstein is presented as a critic of ‘the holocaust ”industry”‘, rather than ’the ”holocaust industry”‘, implying that he somehow is skeptical of the holocaust, rather than of the organizations which have been using it for ideological and financial gain. Either this MacLeod has not read anything Finkelstein has written, or he intends to mispresent and smear the author. And yeah, is it not nice when someone quotes ‘Little Green Footballs’ as proof of his fair-and-balancedness? But I demand consistency. If someone is going to quote Little Green Footballs for ‘balance’ evertime someone says something controversial like ‘human rights should be universal’, they should also quote the Flat Earth Society every time someone suggests the earth is round.
Good for Finklestein!
These “knowledge” institutions are becoming too corrupt, across disciplines!
I am happy that someone is making a public spectacle of what the “rules of the game” are in Academia!
MacLeod sounds a complete gobshite.
A Zionist hack that won’t speak its name.
Finkelstein is dangerous to the Zionist Lobby because he’s Jewish like so many other critics of Israel.He’s also dangerous because he’s a fantastic communicator and we’re brainwashed everyday with the idea that only mainstream academics and journalists who cowtow to elite interests are capable of worthwhile research and reporting.
Norm will get another appointment and people will sit up and listen to the man because most of us can recognise irrepressible talent when we see it.