The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering is a 2000 book by Norman G. Finkelstein that argues that the American Jewish establishment exploits the memory of the Nazi Holocaust for political and financial gain, as well as to further the interests of Israel.

Because of this, Finkelstein repeatedly asserts that " fraudulent " claims were made on Switzerland, while accounts and assets in the US and Israel were ignored.

*" It Takes an Enormous Amount of Courage to Speak the Truth When No One Else is Out There " -- World-Renowned Holocaust, Israel Scholars Defend DePaul Professor Norman Finkelstein as He Fights for Tenure ( Raul Hilberg and Avi Shlaim speak in support of Norman Finkelstein's scholarship and " The Holocaust Industry " specifically.

Israel Finkelstein proposed that the oval or circular layout that distinguishes some of the earliest highland sites, and the notable absence of pig bones from hill sites, could be taken as a marker of ethnicity, but others have cautioned that these can be a " common-sense " adaptation to highland life and not necessarily revelatory of origins.

Israel Finkelstein points to the appearance of settlements in the central hill country around 1200 as the earliest of the known settlements of the Israelites.

Some authors, especially Israel Finkelstein, maintain that the Book of Kings minimized Omri's accomplishments.

Israel Finkelstein has suggested that there may be a period of 25 – 50 years after the sacking of these cities and their reoccupation by the Philistines.

Yigael Yadin's excavations at Hazor, Megiddo, Beit Shean and Gezer uncovered structures that he and others have argued date from his reign, but others, such as Israel Finkelstein and Neil Silberman, argue that they should be dated to the Omride period, more than a century after Solomon.

According to Israel Finkelstein and Neil Silberman, authors of The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts, at the time of the kingdoms of David and Solomon, Jerusalem was populated by only few hundred residents or less, which is insufficient for an empire stretching from the Euphrates to Eilath.

Although both Finkelstein and Silberman accept that David and Solomon were real kings of Judah about the 10th century BC, they claim that the earliest independent reference to the Kingdom of Israel is about 890 BC, and for Judah about 750 BC.

However, the tribe is not mentioned in the ancient Song of Deborah, and some scholars think that Simeon was not originally regarded as a distinct tribe ; according to Israel Finkelstein, the south of Canaan, in which Simeon was situated, was simply an insignificant rural backwater at the time the poem was written.

Israel Finkelstein et al., however, have claimed that lack of evidence for a systematic conquest or the abrupt appearance of a new culture indicates that the Israelites simply arose as a subculture within Canaanite society.

Traditionally, this has been explained as being due to the southern kingdom being too far away to be involved in the battle, but Israel Finkelstein et al.

Others, most notably Israel Finkelstein of Tel Aviv University, argue that the structure could, for the most part, be from the much later Hasmonean period.

* The Devil Is Not So Black as He Is Painted: BAR Interviews Israel Finkelstein Biblical Archaeology Review

Recently the difference between the Maximalist and Minimalist has reduced, however a new school started with a work, " The Quest for the Historical Israel: Debating Archaeology and the History of Early Israel " by Israel Finkelstein, Amihai Mazar, and Brian B. Schmidt.

In 2001, Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman published the book The Bible Unearthed.

* Finkelstein, Israel, The Archaeology of the Israelite Settlement, 1988

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* Israel Finkelstein ( b. 1949 Petah Tikva ), archaeologist

Finkelstein states that his consciousness of " the Nazi holocaust " is rooted in his parents ' experiences in the Warsaw ghetto ; with the exception of his parents themselves, " every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis ".

It is filled with precisely the kind of shrill hyperbole that Finkelstein rightly deplores in much of the current media hype over the Holocaust ; it is brimming with the same indifference to historical facts, inner contradictions, strident politics and dubious contextualizations ; and it oozes with the same smug sense of moral and intellectual superiority.

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Zenith's chief virtue is conformity, and its religion is “ boosterism .” ( Prominent boosters in Zenith include Vergil Gunch, the coal-dealer ; Sidney Finkelstein, the ladies '- ready-to-wear buyer for Parcher & Stein's department-store ; Professor Joseph K. Pumphrey, owner of the Riteway Business College and “ instructor in Public Speaking, Business English, Scenario Writing, and Commercial Law ;” and T. Cholmondeley " Chum " Frink, a famous poet of dubious talent.

In September 2006, Alan Dershowitz sent members of DePaul's law and political science faculties what he described as " a dossier of Norman Finkelstein's most egregious academic sins, and especially his outright lies, misquotations, and distortions that ... are not incidental to Finkelstein's purported scholarship ; they are Finkelstein's purported scholarship ," and he lobbied professors, alumni and administrators to deny Finkelstein tenure.

" On September 5, 2007, Finkelstein resigned after he and the university reached a settlement ; they released a joint statement on the resolution of the conflict .< ref >

Finkelstein asserts that the study “ is marred by serious flaws: ( 1 ) several extremely significant calculations are wrong ; and ( 2 ) numbers are used selectively to support otherwise baseless conclusions ”.

Primarolo's abilities as a minister have been questioned, with former Prime Minister Tony Blair revealing in his autobiography A Journey that he did not think she was " right for government " but had to give her a job because she was one of Gordon Brown's key allies ; and political commentator Danny Finkelstein arguing that she was " contender no.

On September 5, 2007, Finkelstein resigned after he and the university reached a settlement ; they released a joint statement.

* Archaeologist Israel Finkelstein ; Hebrew University's Yossi Garfinkel, director of the Khirbet Qeiyafa dig ; and Dr. Michael Hasel at chrusion's Flikr

However, Kershaw later went on to recommend Norman Finkelstein and Ruth Bettina Birn's extremely critical assessment of Goldhagen's book, A Nation on Trial: The Goldhagen Thesis and Historical Truth ; stating that " Finkelstein and Birn provide a devastating critique of Daniel Goldhagen's simplistic and misleading interpretation of the Holocaust.

Most unlikely was the victory ( aided by National Congressional Club allies ) of John East in the North Carolina Senate contest ; East was a little-known professor who used a wheelchair, recruited for the race by Jesse Helms and elected through the efforts of Ellis, Wrenn, Finkelstein and the Helms organization.

" ( Finkelstein himself was not sued or charged ; ironically, Caputo's campaign had imploded after revelations he'd lied about serving in the military, and Moynihan was never seriously challenged.

Recently Finkelstein has joined with the more conservative Amihai Mazar, to explore the areas of agreement and disagreement and there are signs the intensity of the debate between the so-called minimalist and maximalist scholars is diminishing.

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* March 5 – 7: MegaCon ( Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, Florida ) — guests include Kaare Andrews, Brian Michael Bendis, John Cassaday, Amanda Conner, Phil Jimenez, Andy Lee, Tony Lorenz, David W. Mack, James O ' Barr, Jimmy Palmiotti, Walter Simonson, Craig Thompson, Skottie Young, Luis Amado, Tony Bedard, Jose Caraballo, Patrick Carlucci, Jim Cheung, Laura DePuy, Chuck Dixon, Steve Epting, Glenda Finkelstein, Jeff Johnson, Greg Land, Ron Marz, Stanley Morrison, Mike Perkins, Brandon Peterson, Justin Ponsor, Ariel Rivero, Tone Rodriguez, Steven Sanchez, Bart Sears, Josh Sullivan, Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes, Allison Mack, Walter Koenig, Ken Foree, Brad Dourif, Noah Hathaway, Herbert Jefferson, Jr., Brian Thompson, Glenn Shadix, Marc Singer, Angela Cartwright, Bill Mumy, Virginia Hey, and Sid Haig

Pataki's third gubernatorial campaign, in 2002, provided some fresh challenges to Finkelstein, including a contest for the Conservative Party of New York State nomination, a still-shrinking Republican base, and a strong third-party challenge from millionaire B. Thomas Golisano, running again on the Independence Party line.

In 1986 Edward Finkelstein, Chairman & CEO of R. H. Macy & Co., Inc., led a leveraged buy-out of the company and subsequently engaged in a takeover battle for Federated Department Stores, Inc., in 1988 that he lost to Canada's Campeau Corporation.

* Finkelstein, Norman G., ( Second Edition 2003 ) Image and reality of the Israeli-Palestine conflict, Verso Press, ISBN 978-1-85984-442-7

Though rejecting the ultra-minimalist position that places the composition of the Bible in the Persian or Greek period, i. e., after the return from the Babylonian exile, he argues that much of the Bible was written from the seventh through the 5th century BCE Notwithstanding his dismissal of the literal approach to Biblical history, Finkelstein believes that ' New archaeological discoveries should not erode one's sense of tradition and identity '.

* Dever, William G., " Visiting the Real Gezer: A Reply to Israel Finkelstein ", Journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University, Volume 30, Number 2, September 2003, pp. 259 – 282 ( 24 )

* Goren, Y., Bunimovitz, S., Finkelstein, I. and Na ' aman, N. 1993 " The Location of Alashiya Petrographic analysis of the tablets ".

") and positive ( footage of Ronald Reagan speaking on values ); Finkelstein concentrated these ad buys in closely contested Southern states ( e. g., Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama ), all of which switched from Carter to Reagan in 1980.

Brooklyn native Finkelstein had long advised local and state party organizations in New York ( e. g., the Westchester, Nassau and Suffolk County GOP ).

Finkelstein crafted a highly positive campaign for Pataki, focusing on fulfillment of promises from 1994 ( e. g., tax cuts ) and policy innovations ( the STAR tax program for seniors ).