10/16 - 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.
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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."