Norman Finkelstein's Quotes

Every victory of Hezbollah, I celebrate.

Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.

I'm politically on the left, no question about it. I oppose sweatshops, I oppose exploitation of labour in the third world.

Indeed, the field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense if not sheer fraud.

International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.

The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours.

The whole purpose of annual reviews is to keep you abreast of whether or not you are fulfilling the requirements of tenure.

You know, frankly speaking, money just doesn't figure largely in my world view.

Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis.

I don't feel particularly attached to Israel - 'nationalism,' as Noam Chomsky said, 'is not my cup of tea' - but I feel no particular need to demonize it.

I earn - I'm not - I don't want to claim I'm a scholar of great stature, but I have made a certain reputation for myself, I've published several books, I've never been able to get a permanent teaching job.

I would not have stayed at a university if it told me upfront that a condition for me getting tenure. my views have to be filtered through Catholic values. I would consider it a betrayal of my parents' legacy.

My parents often wondered why I would grow so indignant at the falsification and exploitation of the Nazi genocide. The most obvious answer is that it has been used to justify criminal policies of the Israeli state and U.S. support for these policies.

People are motivated by the desires for privilege, for power, for profit. Those are not shocking revelations. Anyone who's had any experience in life knows these things.

People have the right to defend their country from foreign occupiers, and people have the right to defend their country from invaders who are destroying their country.

The Zionists indeed learnt well from the Nazis. So well that it seems that their morally repugnant treatment of the Palestinians, and their attempts to destroy Palestinian society within Israel and the occupied territories, reveals them as basically Nazis with beards and black hats.

There is no way a non-Jew could say what I did in 'The Holocaust Industry' without being labelled a Holocaust denier. I am labelled a Holocaust denier, too.

When I was a young man, my mother said to me, 'You can't be a communist without being a militant atheist.' So I had to be a militant atheist because I wanted to be a communist.