Journal-January 5, 2021
January 5, 2021 W. E. B. Du Bois’s Autobiography is laced through with bitterness, understated and dignified but nonetheless palpable, at the thousand professional slights he endured. Of his tenuous,...
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Journal-January 8, 2021 W. E. B. Du Bois’s Autobiography is conventionally chronological until he suddenly springs on the reader a chapter entitled “My Character.” Of character in general, he says...
View ArticleJournal-January 10, 2021
Journal-January 10, 2021 I lost a special friend tonight. It’s a bittersweet loss. I completed W. E. B. Du Bois’s Autobiography. It was my close companion the past few days, we, in intimate...
View ArticleJournal-January 13, 2021 (Jewish Supremacist State)
Journal-January 13 Israel: Jewish Supremacist State A brief comment on B’Tselem’s position paper designating Israel an Apartheid state 1. During the past two decades, many respected individuals...
View ArticleJournal-January 14, 2021 (Did Trump Incite Violence?)
Were Donald Trump’s remarks at the rally preceding the melee in the Capitol Building a defensible exercise of free speech? The answer would appear to be No. Without parsing the current U.S. law on...
View ArticleJournal-January 19, 2021 (ESSAY CONTEXT-$100.00 PRIZE!)
Journal-January 19, 2021): Essay Contest-$100.00 Prize I just finished reading the second of W. E. B. Du Bois’s three autobiographies, Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept....
View ArticleDoes Andrew Yang Support Jewish Supremacy?
Journal-January 25, 2021 (Andrew Yang) 1. Andrew Yang is running for mayor of New York City. He will be remembered for his smooth performance during the Democratic presidential primary, when he...
View ArticleNORMAN FINKELSTEIN ON ABORTION, ROE, AND THE ALITO OPINION
NORMAN FINKELSTEIN ON ABORTION, ROE, AND THE ALITO OPINION Note: In this excerpt from my forthcoming book, I’ll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It!, I address whether it’s legitimate to suppress...
View ArticleOn the Margins of the Apocalypse: Crimes in Vietnam that no one remembers
When the Dragons Came: The Legacy of South Korean War Crimes in Vietnam by Jean-Philippe Stone. This article was first published by Quo Vademus on 13th October 2022:...
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Keeping the Faith, Staying the Course
My Mother passed 27 years ago today. Now my own mortality is rapidly closing in. Ironically, the thing I am most proud of in retrospect came the most easily to me: staying true to the values imparted...
View ArticleWhy Woke Liberals Drool over the Black Panthers
It is a fact established long ago, one that we can now take as a nearly infallible touchstone, that the bourgeoisie of all countries … is more impressed by a given method of struggle and sees it as...
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Red Joan
I recently came across a surprisingly excellent film titled “Red Joan” (you can find it on Netflix). It’s about a female physicist at the end of World War 2 who smuggles atomic bomb secrets to the...
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Wishing My Friends and Comrades, Here and Far Away, a Happy Holiday and...
There are three things I will miss when I pass: Reading late at night until the wee hours of the morning; Fighting the good fight for a most just world; and Coney Island sunsets (the pictures are from...
View ArticleWhy Teachers Stop Teaching
Finkelstein comments: A correspondent recently wrote me that, whereas it used to be that a typical teacher in his district had 20 years teaching experience, now it’s down to four years’ experience....
View ArticleThe Original Cancel Culture
I write about this program in my forthcoming book on identity politics, cancel culture, and academic freedom. The Smothers Brothers broke the blacklist of Pete Seeger. Here’s the song Seeger sang...
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Coney Island Beach – New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day Sunset
December 31, 2022, New Year’s Eve January 1, 2023, New Year’s Day Sunset
View ArticleA Careful Reader of Finkelstein’s New Book Responds to Tariq Ali
Dear Norman Finkelstein, I just finished reading ‘I’ll burn that bridge when I get to it’ from the pdf you sent to me which I printed out. I have to confess, seeing the ‘advance praise’ from Tariq...
View ArticleA Website Exclusive: Part 2 of Norman Finkelstein’s Debate with Alan Dershowitz!
Please visit the link to view the video! Contains off-air discussion towards the end, which is missing from the full episode on YouTube. https://archive.org/details/DemocracyNowNormanGFinkelstein
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On the Suffering of Jews, And Others.
On the Suffering of Jews, and Others (January 13, 2023) The Jewish left has never much cared for Rosa Luxemburg. It was alleged that she was insufficiently Jewish—an assimilationist or, worse still,...
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On the Immortality of the Soul
On the Immortality of the Soul (January 15, 2023) 1871 – 1919 Rosa Luxemburg was murdered 104 years ago today, on January 15, 1919. She, alongside Karl Liebknecht, were organizing a revolt of the...
View ArticleFinkelstein’s New Book
THE BOOK HAS JUST BEEN PUBLISHED!!! (LINKS) https://www.sublationmedia.com/product-page/i-ll-burn-that-bridge-when-i-get-to-it-print-edition...
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Of Death’s-Head Kvellers and Rosa Luxemburg
Of Death’s-Head Kvellers and Rosa Luxemburg By Norman G. Finkelstein Anatol Lieven is a respected commentator on international affairs. He is even considered by left wing authorities reliable and...
View ArticleLost and Found (February 1, 2023)
Lost and Found (01 February 2023) It used to be said that I had a steel trap memory. But, much to my frustration and grief, it once failed me. In response to a question after a talk I gave on the...
View ArticleKinetics
Kinetics (February 3, 2023) I watched a CNN interview with a South Dakota congressman yesterday. He was asked to comment on a statement by a four-star US Air Force general that war with China was...
View ArticleIs Workers’ Revolution Still in the Cards?
“This not to imply that the reformism of the working classes of the center [Western Europe and North America], which developed in the second half of the nineteenth century and has persisted to the...
View ArticleAre the U.S. and China Headed Towards War?
“The global capitalist system always works most smoothly when there is one undisputed hegemonic power, and the eroding and ending of that undisputed hegemony always signals the onset of a time of...
View ArticleTime to Revive that Great German Spirit! (February 10, 2023)
Let’s Bring Back That Old-Time Religion! (10 Friday 2023) A correspondent sent me this excerpt from the Financial Times: It was Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that woke Germany from its pacifist...
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Beyoncé at the Super Bowl: A Comment on the African-American Studies Controversy
Beyoncé at the Super Bowl: A Comment on the African-American Studies Controversy (18 February 2023) I grew up in an all-Jewish middle class neighborhood. There was only one Black student in all...
View ArticleIs a Beating Heart Buried under Alan Dershowitz’s Floor Boards? (February 21,...
Is a Beating Heart Buried under Alan Dershowitz’s Floor Boards? (February 21, 2023) In Edgar Allen Poe’s short story, The Tell-Tale Heart, the narrator cold-bloodedly commits murder, chops up the...
View ArticleLOCK HER OUT! Amy Wax and Academic Freedom
LOCK HER OUT! Amy Wax and Academic Freedom by Norman G. Finkelstein The New York Times recently ran a long story on Amy Wax, a law professor at University of Pennsylvania. Wax, who is a...
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Trust Men!
Progressive Misandry and the War in Ukraine (by Irfan Chowdhury) I am a PhD student at the University of Brighton, in England. The title of my PhD is: ‘How systematic were the British Army’s war...
View ArticleMeschugge Jew Stumbles into Free Iran Demonstration, Thinks It’s His Wedding,...
Sen. Schumer dancing to Persian music in Madison Sq. park. pic.twitter.com/zsZ7dny3mF — Bahman Kalbasi (@BahmanKalbasi) April 23, 2023
View ArticleNorman Finkelstein to Debate Mehdi Hasan at Oxford! The Proposition Before...
The title of Mehdi Hasan’s latest vanity vehicle is: “Win Every Argument”. Herewith an example of him winning every argument:
View ArticleBehind the Attempted Assassination of Putin
BRACING FOR GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG Behind the Ukrainian Assassination Attempt on Putin It has been widely speculated that if the Kremlin is pushed to the brink, it might resort to nuclear weapons....
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The Inimitable Deborah Maccoby on Israel and Anti-Semitism
“Friends of Israel” – a review
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