Showing posts with label norman finklestein. Show all posts
Showing posts with label norman finklestein. Show all posts

Saturday, December 13, 2025

Nick and Norm: Go Ahead Nick... ask him

I'm broke and I would pay to see Norman Finkelstein have a sit down and a chat with Nick Fuentes. It would be funny. One of them has been an advocate for Palestinian rights for nearly half a century... and the other guy just pretends to hate Jews for the views. One is a scholar, the other an influencer... whatever the hell that means. But Nick might learn something, he might come away with a better understanding of just how fucked the U.S. is right now. But he won't do it. He lacks the chutzpah.

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Friday, December 12, 2025

Why I feel Israel is a Failed State but Doesn't Have to Be

Was Israel doomed from the start or did the Jewish supremacists just piss it away? 

Norman Finkelstein interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyYl6_N1FZw&t=1315s

CBS News new Epstein photos https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/epstein-files-trove-pictures-house-democrats/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us 

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Friday, October 17, 2025

No Kings Day and Norman Finkelstein's Egregious Oct. 7th Flaw

I respect and admire Norman Finkelstein as do so many of us out here who do what we can for the Palestinian people. Yet this flaw in his reasoning must be acknowledged less it becomes lore. 

Norman Finkelstein at UMass: Gaza, Truth & the Battle for Free Speech  https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2025/10/norman-finkelstein-at-umass-gaza-truth.html

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Norman Finkelstein at UMass: Gaza, Truth & the Battle for Free Speech

by Scott Creighton 

 Media Education Foundation


 

 'Acclaimed scholar & author Norman Finkelstein delivered a powerful and defiant address at UMass, Amherst, on Sept. 24, 2025. Speaking before a packed audience, Finkelstein tackled Israel's mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza; the long history of Israel’s brutal occupation, siege, and successive wars and atrocities in the Strip; the bipartisan complicity of U.S. political leaders, corporate media, and global institutions; the mounting McCarthyite crackdown on free speech, dissent, and academic freedom; and the need for a resurgent movement led by young people to reclaim free speech and renew democracy.'

 

In this talk, Norman Finkelstein is brutally honest... about himself. A little less so when it comes to the history of America and Israel interfering in Gaza and Palestine over the decades.

He talks about how somewhere around 2020... he just gave up. And I have to admit, I noticed that about him back then and chastised him for it. 

He mentions how the Goldstein Report broke him, not the report itself, but Goldstein retracting it in 2011. And again, I have to admit feeling much the same way at the time.

Norman fails to mention Israel killing a founder of Hamas in 2005 just before they withdrew settlers from Gaza so they could position Fatah and the P.A. to win the election they forced on the people.

He forgets that we spent 24 million dollars on propaganda in the lead up to that election because we were sure we could convince the Palestinian people to vote against their interests and for Fatah.

Friday, May 3, 2024

Why Norman Finkelstein is Wrong about Israelis and Netanyahu

In the end my point is this... Norman is wrong. Tens of thousands just protested in front of the Knesset just last month in spite of it being illegal in Israel to do so. The powers in Israel made it illegal back in November to not only protest this war but also to simply write things that I wrote this morning... punishable by a year in prison. If the establishment zionists thought Israelis were ALL ON BOARD with this, would they have done that? Of course not. Stop saying stupid shit, Norman. Get rid of your handlers. Seems like they aren't really on our side.

Norman Finkelstein is Wrong about Israelis and Netanyahu

by Scott Creighton

His points:

Where he is somewhat correct (except for him not going anywhere as he most certainly is and these traits do not apply to all Israelis as many points of evidence show. But aside from that ;) ):

Benjamin Netanyahu is:

  1. not going anywhere because he is a reflection of Israeli society
  2. obnoxious
  3. narcissistic
  4. Jewish supremacist (Goyim have no place in God's design other than to serve Jews) 

Where he is wrong (his own 3 points of evidence):

  1. Bibi remains popular in Israel politically (not according to recent polls)
  2. Were it true his policies are unpopular another candidate would emerge. 'Have you heard of another candidate come out denouncing Bibi's policies? (Benny Gantz)
  3. Israeli society overwhelmingly supports war in Gaza... only 3% (poll from January) say IDF using too much firepower in Gaza (hostage protests, massive protests outside of Knesset, massive protests against Bibi policies regarding Supreme Court, and it's been made illegal to protest war since Nov of 2023. Also, a 5 month old poll showing opinions on use of firepower has nothing to do with how Israelis feel about the war today )

My replies to his points:

Monday, November 27, 2023

Mouin Rabbani: Israel has lost the plot

by Norman Finkelstein

On 7 October Israel vowed to destroy Hamas. To eradicate it as an organization. To neuter it as a military force, political movement, and governing entity. More recently Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, in true mob boss style, stated that he had given Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, Mossad, orders to assassinate all Hamas leaders residing in exile.

Fifty days into this war, how close is Israel to achieving its objectives? The short answer is that it requires zero knowledge of military affairs to conclude that 1) Israel’s proclaimed objectives are unattainable, and 2) Israel has additionally failed to significantly degrade either Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). 

The elimination of Hamas is unattainable for several reasons. Most importantly, unlike for example ISIS or the European Union, Hamas has – much like the IRA/Sinn Fein or Facebook, in the decades since its establishment in 1988 become deeply rooted within society, and today exists wherever Palestinian communities are to be found. So even if Israel succeeded in eradicating Hamas from the Gaza Strip – or, more accurately, driving it underground – the organization will survive in the West Bank, Lebanon, Jordan, and elsewhere. Indeed, the combined efforts of Israel and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank since 2007 have yet to succeed in eliminating either its military, political, or social presence. FYI it is now 2023. 

Previous campaigns to eradicate Palestinian movements have not only generally failed, but as a rule enhanced their stature. The scale of the current onslaught has catapulted Hamas’s stature to unprecedented levels among Palestinians, and indeed among Arabs and in the Global South more generally. That’s not a challenge that can be resolved by a fleet of F-35s armed with tons of high explosives. 

Israel’s extraordinary self-regard and capacity for self-glorification notwithstanding, the elimination of Hamas is a non-starter, least of all at the hands of the thoroughly mediocre Israeli military and intelligence capabilities revealed on 7 October.

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Friday, November 24, 2023

Norman Finkelstein Fails on Piers Morgan and Other News from Gaza


Norman gave them what they wanted: a clip of him saying Hamas was a terror organization. Plus, Israel has already violated ceasefire agreement even after Hamas released a number of hostages.

Norman Finkelstein was an Intense Disappointment on the Piers Morgan Show

by Scott Creighton

Let's start with the definition of terrorism.

new definition:
the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.

The old version (2001) stated that the use of violence or THREAT of violence against a civilian population in the pursuit of political, social or economic change. We had to change that definition because many pointed out... that is the definition of our foreign policy.

 Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of intentional violence and fear to achieve political or ideological aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violence during peacetime or in the context of war against non-combatants.

Would anyone characterize the situation between Israel and Palestine as 'peacetime' when as of Oct 6th 2023 over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and under 30 Israelis had been killed by Hamas and other resistance fighters?

The 1500 Hamas and other resistance fighters who entered Israel directly targeted IDF posts, the ones used to monitor the separation barrier between Gaza and Israel. Of the 1,200 people reportedly killed on Oct 7th (first reported as 1,800 then as 1,400) well over 2/3 of them were IDF soldiers with some armed Israeli militia members killed as well. Since reports are clear, Israeli eye-witnesses stating the IDF were killing civilians as well, it reasonable and logical to conclude...

Hamas did NOT conduct a war against non-combatants.

Saturday, October 28, 2023

Norman Finkelstein are You Stupid or Naive? Stop Promoting USAID/CIA/Space-X Starlink in Gaza

This is a direct message to Norman Finkelstein. Stop promoting the use of fascist Musk's USAID-linked Starlink in Gaza. Every communication will be recorded and delivered straight to the enemies of the Palestinian people and you will regret helping them do it.

Tuesday, July 11, 2023

How Norman Finkelstein is Wrong About Russia/Ukraine Conflict

Watching Norman's 1st podcast, he offers up his explanation as to why Russia's invasion of Ukraine was not necessarily illegal but in doing so he completely ignores what we had our puppet military in Ukraine do to the people of Donbas. He also forgets to mention Article 1 Sec 2 of the UN Charter.