"If You Had A Heart, You'd Cry For Palestine"

Dr. Norman Finkelstein has always been, and still is a true and powerful inspiration to myself. It was because of people like this man and many others such as Noam Chomsky that i too now have devoted my life to a greater cause. One of the important things that i learnt from this incredible man was that to adequately pursue Jihad, one must make significant sacrifices and maintain a stringent discipline so that you can keep yourself focussed and not be led astray by this decadent hedonistic society. I believe this clip was taken from his documentary film based upon himself - "American Radical" - also a fantastic film, i recommend everyone make it obligatory to watch it and read all of his meticulously compiled yet very comprehensive material which consists of a plethora of books and articles, as well as other literature.

The dispute is more like a family argument than anything else, and what does anyone outside accrue from it.
Finkelstein likes to select very narrow issues and then use them for his own self-aggrandisement. Some of the people he relies on and praises their work like Benny Morris, accuse Finkelstein of a very selective approach to evidence and in that he doesn't differ from the people he criticises. Finkelstein's critique of Joan Peter's book From Time Immemorial challenges the methodology and her conclusions, but does not challenge the veracity of the basic documentary evidence. Finklestein also uses the Holocaust, his parents incarceration in Auschwitz & Majdanek, to provide himself with credibiluty as much as the people he attacks.
Finkelstein's position is that instictively he idealises and promotes political assimilation, atheism and internatalionalism, which corresponds with the pre-war Jewish Bundist philosphy which failed absolutely in the end. But he has no practical alternative to Zionism. The parents he cites were lucky in being able to find refuge in the USA after WW2. This opportunity was not available to the majority, and neither was return to their former homes. IMO he also holds an imperialist / orientalist stance regarding non-whites gentiles as subordinate intellectually and culturally. This is evidenced by his failure to demand of this subordinate group the same standards that he demands of whites & Jews. This ostensibly racist paradigm is surprisingly common throughout US & European left-wing intellectual groups. Over the years I have noted that while Jews were regarded as victims and weak they were favoured by the left-wing. As soon as they began to assert themselves as a nation in Israel and ceased being weak, then the left-wing turned against them. That same adoption of the weak extends to Palestinians and others. This adoption is emotionally driven, irrantional and uncritical, and thus where the left-wing intellectual could make significant contributions to social reform they idealise traditional, corrupt and thoroughly ineffective cultures.
IMO if people spent more time examining the drivers within the Jewish communities and objectively assessed the relationships between people like Finkelstein & Chomsky and their adopted favourites we would treat them with far more circumspection.

Shame you can never do the same.... o_O

Funny how the Zionists all jump in defending their racist ideology when a Jewish person exposes their vile agenda. They even try to fool people into thinking Zionism has something to do with Judaism. It doesn't. It's just a harmful political ideology just like Nazism.

I find it strange that non-Jews repeatedly seek to assert that Zionism has no association with Judaism, and thus arrogate to themselves the right to define Judaism. The majority of Jews appear to support some form of Zionism, and certainly each year observant Jews state "Next Year in Jerusalem" at Passover which suggests that there is a repeated intention to relocate to the Holy Land. They certainly identify with the area. The Jews who oppose the current Zionist state do so on the basis that the Messiah has yet to arrive, but once he does then they would support it.
But Zionism is a political concept as a reaction to sectarian discrimination and ethnic nationalism. Had the host nations / dominant faiths uniformly afforded the Jews equality in law and practice it is unlikely that Zionism would have developed. Had the world communities offered refuge to the Jews facing discrimination, abuse & annihilation then Zionism would not have gained a foothold.
But the world communities were indifferent to their needs & suffering.
The Palestinian people today are paying the price for the world's indifference and culpability.
Across MPACUK's site are the anguished demands that actionis taken to defend Muslims. These demands are made of the world communities. There is a also repeated validation of violent reaction to the indifference shown to Musims. In essence this doesn't differ much from the Zionists perspective.
If the Jews imbue Zionism with religious significance then that is their business. Their faith based claims upon territory are no more valid that Islamic concepts of the Khalifat and relationships between believers and non-believers.
If you want peace then act peacefully, put aside weapons, listen to your enemy and colloborate to build peace.

Criticising the Zionists is easy, as are the tears that fall for the Palestinians in Gaza. But a library full of words and a sea full of tears will not progress anything.
Mr, Finkelstein is a very intelligent man, and so he should have something more than the negative comments he currently makes. He claims to champion the cause of the Palestinians yet he offers nothing constructive for the establishment of a viable state.

90% of the zionist/nazis are european.

Are you sure, from what ive read the majority of israelis were of north african and middle eastern descent until the mass emigration of jews from the former soviet union

The real jews are very nice and gentle human beings. The Zionist/nazis are like cancer for the true/real jewish people.
Im not a jew hater im a zionist/nazi hater.
FREE PALESTINE FROM THE TERROR STATE OF ISRAEL
FREE PALESTINE FROM FROM THE RACIST APARTHEID REGIME
FREE PALESTINE FROM INNOCENT WOMEN & CHILD KILLERS
FREE PALESTINE FROM ZIO-NAZIS ORGAN THIEFS

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Love the way he answered that....anyone else would have fallen for the emotional blackmail.

The truth and sincerity vibrated in his voice....only a zionist wouldnt hear it cos its something they dont recognise.

p.s. classic when he said 'shut up' lool

What a genius response!!

It is amazing how these baby killers are ready to cry tears for something that happened 50 years ago but ignore the reality of today! Brain washed over eating zombies!

Do you think that we are actually fooled by your pseudo-intellectual analysis?

Please you idiot, don't patronise us. We all know better. You are a Zionist with a hidden agenda so please understand that we don't actually believe anything you have to say.

And who can blame us? Who would believe someone that justifies the acts of the vile Zionists.

Good on Finkelstein for giving that stupid, naive girl what she deserved.

Now regarded by the intellectual elite as has beens, paid to serve the left and disregarded as 'popularists' by many top universities who have not yet bowed to the lure of Islamic studies funded by Saudi.

But they are still on the gravy train when invited to speak to muslim students because they tell them what they wan't to hear about big, bad Jews. Certainly keeps the bank accounts of these two historians overflowing. Clever - eh? Muslims financially supporting Jews who are generally seen as pariahs.