* Chapter 2: Hoaxers, Hucksters and History-in 1967, Finkelstein claims that two concepts appeared in public discourse: The uniqueness of the Holocaust, and the concept of the Holocaust as climax of a historical irrational anti-Semitic tendency in Europe.

* Chapter 3: The Double Shakedown-in this chapter, Finkelstein claims that the number of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust recognized by relief groups increased from c. 100, 000 in 1945 to nearly 1 million owing to definitional changes in who was considered to be a survivor.

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

According to Finkelstein, Deborah Lipstadt claims there is widespread Holocaust denial-yet in " Denying the Holocaust " her prime example is Arthur Butz, author of The Hoax of the Twentieth Century.

University of Chicago Professor Peter Novick, whose work Finkelstein described as providing the " initial stimulus " for The Holocaust Industry, asserted in the July 28, 2000 Jewish Chronicle ( London ) that the book is replete with " false accusations ", " egregious misrepresentations ", " absurd claims " and " repeated mis-statements " (" A charge into darkness that sheds no light ").

Finkelstein expanded his claims in a book entitled Beyond Chutzpah and has received support from some other academics.

Dershowitz offered to produce his handwritten drafts ( he does not type ) to debunk the claim that The Case for Israel was ghostwritten and claims Finkelstein has not asked to see them.

Finkelstein claims to have asked for the drafts and that Dershowitz has not produced them.

Dr. Frank Menetrez looked into Finkelstein's claims and in his 26-page study entitled Dershowitz v. Finkelstein: who's right and who's wrong reaches the conclusion that Dershowitz is indeed guilty of fraud and plagiarism.

* Norman Finkelstein titled his book responding to Dershowitz's claims on Israel Beyond Chutzpah.

Israel Finkelstein claims that the Israelites emerged as a subculture within Canaanite society, and the Israelite conquest of Canaan did not happen as detailed in the Bible.

In 1924, Arthur Eddington showed that the singularity disappeared after a change of coordinates ( see Eddington – Finkelstein coordinates ), although it took until 1933 for Georges Lemaître to realize that this meant the singularity at the Schwarzschild radius was an unphysical coordinate singularity.

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 ".

Finkelstein believes there to be only one " truly mainstream " holocaust denier — Bernard Lewis, who was convicted in France of denying the Armenian genocide.

Finkelstein was to later blame Bartov's review for the poor US sales of the book.

He was one of only three people, along with Boaz Cohen and Louis Finkelstein, to ever to receive this degree from JTSA.

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.

According to political scientist Norman Finkelstein transfer was considered as an acceptable solution to the problems of ethnic conflict, up until around World War II and even a little afterward, in certain cases.

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.

Louis Finkelstein ( June 14, 1895, Cincinnati, Ohio – 29 November 1991 ) was a Talmud scholar, an expert in Jewish law, and a leader of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America ( JTS ) and Conservative Judaism.

Finkelstein was born into a rabbinic family in Cincinnati on June 14, 1895.

Finkelstein was appointed chancellor of JTS in 1940 and remained chancellor until 1972.

In 1986, the name of the institute was changed to the Finkelstein Institute in his honor.

Finkelstein was exacting in his daily religious practice but was tolerant of others ' lapses.

Elaine de Kooning coined the term " Abstract Impressionism " and it was soon used by critic Louis Finkelstein in an attempt to distinguish for Philip Guston the difference between the two forms.

The location that Finkelstein refers to as " Ai " is generally dismissed as the location of the biblical Ai, since it was destroyed and buried in the 3rd millennium.

For the united monarchy both Finkelstein and Silberman do accept that David and Solomon were really existing persons ( no kings but bandit leaders or hill country chieftains ) from Judah about the 10th century BCE-they do not assume that there was such a thing as united monarchy with a capital in Jerusalem.

In late 2011, the Finkelstein Inquiry into media regulation was launched, and reported its findings back to the federal government in early 2012.

In 1924 Arthur Eddington produced the first coordinate transformation ( Eddington – Finkelstein coordinates ) that showed that the singularity at r = r < sub > s </ sub > was a coordinate artifact, although he seems to have been unaware of the significance of this discovery.

Both Finkelstein and Masalha prefer the conclusion that there was a transfer policy.

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.

Independently, Ruth Bettina Birn ( the world's leading authority on the archives that Goldhagen had consulted and chief historian for War Crimes with the Canadian Department of Justice ) did the same-she and Finkelstein worked together on A Nation on Trial: The Goldhagen Thesis and Historical Truth.

The chapter on him is entitled " Entering the Mainstream "-but Finkelstein considers that, were it not for the likes of Lipstadt, no one would ever have heard of Arthur Butz.

Finkelstein replied to the " hysterical " allegations by Novick on his homepage.

* Louis Finkelstein Institute for Religious and Social Studies-focuses on interfaith relations and public affairs.

Finkelstein served as the official Jewish representative to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's commission on peace, and in 1963 President John F. Kennedy sent him to Rome as part of an American delegation to the installation of Pope Paul VI.

Finkelstein authored a number of books, including Tradition in the Making, Beliefs and Practices of Judaism, Pre-Maccabean Documents in the Passover Haggadah, Abot of Rabbi Nathan, ( a three volume series on The Pharisees ), and Akiba: Scholar, Saint and Martyr.

* Excerpt from Michael Greenbaum's book on Finkelstein

However, following protests, which included a public protest in the center of campus, a petition campaign and outreach by alumni, students and faculty, Basset reversed his decision and allowed Finkelstein to speak on April 27, the last day of classes for the semester.

Norman Finkelstein, Nur Masalha and others argue that Morris has been too soft on the Israelis, often ignoring the force of his own evidence.

* Morris minimized the number of expulsions: Finkelstein asserts that in the table in which Morris summarizes causes of abandonment, village by village, many cases of " military assault on settlement ( M )" should have been " expulsions ( E )".

Dershowitz has written that he agreed to appear on the show after being told he would debate Noam Chomsky, not Finkelstein.

The Dershowitz – Finkelstein affair was a public controversy involving academics Alan Dershowitz and Norman Finkelstein and their scholarship on the Israeli – Palestinian conflict in 2005.

In Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History, published by University of California Press on August 28, 2005, Norman Finkelstein aimed to debunk The Case for Israel.

Finkelstein claimed that in one instance Dershowitz refers to the same page number as Peters, although he is citing a different ( 1996 ) edition of the same source, in which the words appear on a different page.

Noting his perception of Dershowitz's lack of knowledge about specific contents of his own book during an interview of the two men by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now !, Finkelstein also charged that Dershowitz could not have written the book and may not have even read it.

Finkelstein argued in a letter to the Harvard Crimson published on October 3, 2003, that Dershowitz reproduced exactly two of Peters ' mistakes, and made one relevant mistake of his own.

" While still quoting Twain, although Dershowitz cited a different edition of Twain's Innocents Abroad than Joan Peters cites, Finkelstein continues, " the relevant quotes do not appear on these pages in the edition of Twain's book that Dershowitz cites.