* Chapter 1: Capitalizing The Holocaust-by the 1980s, Finkelstein states, the " War against the Jews " had become more important to American cultural life than the " War Between the States ".( p.

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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.

Finkelstein asserts that these concepts became central to the " Holocaust Industry ", but that neither figures in scholarship of the Nazi Holocaust .( p.

Finkelstein examines the implications of applying this standard to another member of the " Holocaust Industry ", Daniel Goldhagen, who argued that Serbian actions in Kosovo " are, in their essence, different from those of Nazi Germany only in scale ".

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

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According to Finkelstein, his book is " an anatomy and an indictment of the Holocaust industry ".

Finkelstein has published heavy criticisms of several books in his career, as he did to Hitler's Willing Executioners by Daniel Johnah Goldhagen, which he calls " replete with gross misinterpretations of source material and internal contradictions ", and says " the book is devoid of scholarly value ".

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.

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.

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.

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 ").

*" 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.

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.

* 1958 — David Finkelstein theorises that the Schwarzschild radius of a black holes is a causality barrier: an event horizon

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.

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.

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.

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.

* Alan Dershowitz and Norman G. Finkelstein – Finkelstein is a frequent guest.

" Finkelstein further derided the book, remarking, " If Dershowitz's book were made of cloth, I wouldn't even use it as a schmatta ... his book is such garbage.

Finkelstein has maintained that " the real issue is Israel's human rights record ".

In addition, Finkelstein provided what he claimed is evidence of plagiarism in instances where Dershowitz reproduced the exact errors found in Peters's citation of original sources, and thus argues that Dershowitz did not check the original sources he cited, a claim that Dershowitz adamantly denied.

* Finkelstein, Israel ; Mazar, Amihay ; Schmidt, Brian B., " The Quest for the Historical Israel " ( Society of Biblical Literature, 2007 )

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; Davis v. Wechasler, 263 U. S. 22, 24 ; Matter of Rosenbluth v. Finkelstein, 300 N. Y. 402 at 404.

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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.

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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.

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.

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

While acknowledging that Morris had brought to light a vast quantity of previously unknown archival material, Finkelstein and Masalha accused Morris of presenting the evidence with a pro-Zionist spin.

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.

However, despite problems with the archaeological record, some maximalists place Joshua in the mid second millennium, at about the time the Egyptian Empire came to rule over Canaan, and not the 13th century as Finkelstein or Kitchen claim, and view the destruction layers of the period as corroboration of the biblical account.

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.

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In a reply to Finkelstein and Masalha, Morris answers he " saw enough material, military and civilian, to obtain an accurate picture of what happened ", that Finkelstein and Masalha draw their conclusions with a pro-Palestinian bias, and that with regard to the distinction between military assault and expulsion they should accept that he uses a " more narrow and severe " definition of expulsions.

* Benny Morris debates with Norman Finkelstein On RT CrossTalk May 21, 2010

Norman Finkelstein, in an interview with the newspaper In Focus compared MEMRI to the " propaganda techniques " of the Nazis.

When the Kingdom of Judah split from the larger Kingdom of Israel ( which the Bible places near the end of the reign of Solomon, c. 930BC, though Israel Finkelstein and others dispute the very existence of a unified monarchy to begin with ), Jerusalem became the capital of the Kingdom of Judah, while the Kingdom of Israel located its capital at Shechem in Samaria.

Finkelstein was placed on administrative leave for the 2007 – 2008 academic year ( the remainder of his contract with DePaul ), his sole course having been cancelled.

Firstly, in a number of lists, tables and examples Finkelstein juxtaposes the historical evidence Peters presents, with extended quotations of the primary and secondary source material showing its original context.

Norman G. Finkelstein openly criticized Lipstadt for her role in the Irving trial, stating " Her lawyers imposed a gag rule on Deborah Lipstadt during her trial with David Irving-she was banned not only from testifying in court but also speaking to the press-because they knew full well that a single word from this know-nothing's mouth would sink the ship.