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Beyond chutzpah : on the misuse of anti-semitism and the abuse of history / Norman G. Finkelstein.
- Title
- Beyond chutzpah : on the misuse of anti-semitism and the abuse of history / Norman G. Finkelstein.
- Author
- Finkelstein, Norman G.
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | DS119.7 .F544 2005 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xi, 332 p. : ill., facsims.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Finkelstein, a political science professor and author of The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering, has conducted a rancorous public feud with Harvard Law professor and pro-Israel stalwart Alan Dershowitz over the latter's The Case for Israel, and here expands his arguments into a vigorous polemic on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The first part of the book examines what he feels is a growing tendency of pro-Israel commentators to use spurious charges of anti-Semitism to deflect and discredit legitimate criticism of Israel. The second, much longer, part is a line-by-line debunking of The Case for Israel, which he compares to Communist apologetics for Stalinist Russia.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- From Jesus Christ superstar to The passion of the Christ -- Israel : the "Jew among nations" -- Crying wolf -- Impurity of arms -- Three in the back of the head -- Israel's Abu Ghraib -- Return of the vandals -- Blight unto the nations -- High court takes the low road -- Conclusion -- Appendix I : of crimes and misdemeanors -- Appendix II: history of the Israel-Palestine conflict -- Appendix III: peace process.
- ISBN
- 0520245989 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2005000117
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library