Norman Finkelstein As Repugnant As Ever

Norman Finkelstein

In case there was any doubt that Norman Finkelstein--the former DePaul University professor currently teaching international law at Sakarya University in Turkey--despite occasionally making sense these days, is as repugnant as ever, these excerpts from a recent lecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison should put them to rest:

Despite being a Jewish son of two Holocaust survivors, he posed the question of whether the world is actually facing a “new anti-Semitism” in 2015. Finkelstein said instead it may be the fourth ploy by Jews since the 1980s to “deflect global condemnation of Israel.”

He argued that because only 2 percent of the population is Jewish yet both Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania are 40 percent Jewish, they have become beneficiaries of reverse discrimination.

“There is an advantage to being Jewish in the United States, it’s not a liability anymore . . . it opens many doors and closes none,” Finkelstein said.

Cinnamon Stillwell analyzes Middle East studies academia in West Coast colleges and universities for Campus Watch. A San Francisco Bay Area native and graduate of San Francisco State University, she is a columnist, blogger, and social media analyst. Ms. Stillwell, a former contributing political columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, has written on a wide variety of topics, including the political atmosphere in American higher education, and has appeared as a guest on television and talk radio.
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