Norman Finkelstein Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“Every victory of Hezbollah, I celebrate.”

“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.”