Israel/Palestine: Asking The Questions No One Else Will - Norman Finkelstein
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Skip the first 25 minutes or so. After that, watch him try to weasel out of answering questions.
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Finkelstein is kind of a tool. A disciple of Noam Chomsky, who depended on Noam to be his moral compass.
There are exactly zero human beings on planet earth who can make consensus sense about the Israel/Gaza conflict. If nothing else, the situation belies the importance of education in coming to conclusions about geopolitics.
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It's really amazing to watch. He says "concentration camp" dozens of times, without specifying what he means. Without defending anything, he resorts to an argumentum ab auctoritate over and over.
It's really kind of amazing.
Sadly, the hosts really don't push back.
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Finkelstein is a podcast guy. An obscure, well read, obsessively researched, widely published, erstwhile academic who is now podcast-famous because he has credentials and will talk to any podcaster who will listen to him as he spouts his firmly entrenched point of view. He spans a few tribes actually, in that he hates identity politics as much as he hates the genocidal zionists.
