1/16 - Dr. Norman Finkelstein at Temple University 4/7/11

Temple Students for Justice in Palestine presents the world-renowned scholar Dr. Norman Finkelstein on April 7th, 2011. Dr. Finkelstein's lecture was on the recent affairs of the conflict, such as the Gaza and Freedom Flotilla massacres and the so-called "peace-process;" Israel's sights on Lebanon and Iran; and the significance of the current Arab revolutions on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
www.templesjp.org
Bio of Dr. Finkelstein:
Dr. Finkelstein was born to a Jewish family. His mother, MarylaHusyt Finkelstein, survived the Warsaw Ghetto, the Majdanek concentration camp, and two slave labor camps. Norman's father, Zacharias Finkelstein, was a survivor of both the Warsaw Ghetto and the Auschwitz concentration camp. Finkelstein recalls his strong youthful identification with the outrage that his mother, witness to the genocidal atrocities of World War II, felt at the carnage wrought by the United States in Vietnam. Finkelstein's work has attracted a number of supporters and detractors across the political spectrum. Notable supporters include Noam Chomsky, prominent intellectual and political critic; Raul Hilberg, Holocaust historian; and AviShlaim, Israeli New Historian. According to Hilberg, Finkelstein displays "academic courage to speak the truth when no one else is out there to support him... I would say that his place in the whole history of writing history is assured, and that those who in the end are proven right triumph, and he will be among those who will have triumphed, albeit, it so seems, at great cost."

[@derfla5]

@ISEL333 I learned in religious studies that according to the bible/quran/torah, we humans are all "gods children"...but he lets some enjoy planet earth while others suffer....amazing how that's cool and dandy

[@Cwestlov]

@gatecomingdown You obviously weren't there nor did you watch the video because, being that I was actually in the vicinity, I know for a fact he had no trouble speaking after the small difficulties with the mic and that the event went off without a hitch. I'm sorry that a small politically-themed student group (not the AV club) can't control sudden and random technical difficulties in a building they don't own. Maybe you can pray to God that it doesn't happen when you have him, which you won't.

[@ahmed337799]

@Cwestlov hahaha were you the organizer of the talk?

[@loveofkemet]

@ISEL333 Didnt you cease to be the chosen people after straying from God's path? Dont the scriptures make this clear?