Jewish professor fired for anti-Zionist posts, with Maura Finkelstein | EI Podcast

[@Que-Lindo]

Unreal how someone can ruin a professor’s life like this. We gotta stop this.

[@Raydaruckuz]

A tenured one no less. What's the point of gaining "tenure" if they can just fire you for harmless social media posts?

[@bvanzetti2755]

Zionists are highly organized for this kind of smear campaign. People who want to fight them will have to be just as organized.

[@badbai365]

It's cancelled culture

[@pauldeanda7100]

@@badbai365 Yes it is, and it’s something that the left has been practicing for years now. Not that I agree with it a/o the issue why she got cancelled, but now the left is getting a taste of what they have been doing to those on the right all along. The stupidity coming from both sides is beyond belief. While I have more in common with conservatives, for them to turn around and act just like the Democrats have for years is totally wrong. Then again, I don’t think that those on the left would learn unless it happened to them. It is not right either way. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@davidboreham4217]

How, America just voted a party of Fascist Oligarchs into power. There is only one way back violent regime change which can't be done through tweets and e-twaddle.

[@S.ash.]

A TENURED prof fired for working in her own specialty? This is exactly why tenure exists in the first place, to protect profs against this situation.

[@ezz1205]

It goes to tell you that the feeling of safety, and some freedom rights we think we're enjoying in the US, are all fake. American freedom shows it's true face, in situations like this.

[@hughtrevor-flopper3214]

Exactly. Btw, this is NOT the first time it's happened. See for example the case of Denis Rancourt.

[@BrianFullerPDX1]

No one is safe from the ZioNazis. They are a direct threat to democracy.

[@reyhudson563]

Bret Weinstein; Jordan Peterson; the list is long, but they're able to teach FAR more (and earn more, besides) as they were in the puny faculty straightjackets they had been in. Welcome to the net!... where learning is taking hold, and the "old" is just that: old. Like the guy who went to sleep on the beach and woke up badly sunburned said, "I'll never do THAT again!"

[@S.ash.]

@@reyhudson563 yeah, no, not comparable. Jordan Peterson absolutely got what he deserved by getting kicked out of UofT. His behaviour warranted that, not his field of study - unless it is misogyny and chauvinism.

[@Generation21.]

The cost of Being on the right side of history. May God replace what you lost with the better one 🤲🏾

[@jeffreywilheim5970]

You may not know this, dear heart, but people who write things like, "Do not cower to Zionists. Shame them. Do not welcome them in your spaces. Do not make them feel comfortable. Why should those genocide-loving fascists be treated any different than any other flat-out racist. Don’t normalize Zionism. Don’t normalize Zionists taking up space" are not on the right side of history.

[@marytouafek6]

She would be an amazing Professor anywhere in the world standing against war criminals. I hope she can sue them.

[@kefs]

eww

[@hanielgaribay7623]

When she sues them the college would be hard pressed to find just cause. Firing someone for opposing an ideology of racism and genocide just won't cut it.

[@mozartsbumbumsrus7750]

She can IF she has the money and support! The Supreme Court is tRump loaded and fully fascist! Politically appointed means that the Supreme Court is worthless!

[@sunild1950]

Any relation to Norm ?

[@batphink2655]

@@kefs ZIO ALERT right here!

[@sassysince90]

What happened to this woman is unacceptable. We have to continue to stand up

[@leilaoksanen5142]

❤

[@MohdRashidMohdYusof]

Stand up like the brave righteous Yahya Sinwar. His life was valued upon spiritual morality, honour and dignity, and truly he fought and died for that , truly for him without the need to fight at the frontline ..

[@jeffreywilheim5970]

In the reality-based community, we understand that firing someone who posts things like "“Do not cower to Zionists. Shame them. Do not welcome them in your spaces. Do not make them feel comfortable. Why should those genocide-loving fascists be treated any different than any other flat-out racist. Don’t normalize Zionism. Don’t normalize Zionists taking up space" is what any university with any shred of decency would do.

[@ZIMCoin]

There is NO going back to the way things were. Eyes have been opened. The veil is falling.

[@billk122]

Well said

[@druidceltic777]

awake sinse 2009 ,,,welcome to the club

[@Madeliefke-w9o]

I believe the zionist actions will backfire in the end.

[@azlanbinismail]

And now Trump is going to appoint crazy zio Pete Hegseth as Defence Secretary. Ben gvir, Smotrich and himself have agreed to tear down Islam third holliest Al Aqsa mosque to be replaced with a Jewish third temple and cause a third world war. So does he really think doing just that won't have any repercussions from the Muslim countries. He's nuts.

[@aktywnyobserwator5868]

Yes, at least this is positive !! Btw is she daughter of famous Mr Finkelstein ?

[@LindaYariger]

Real courage. A true Jew. I hope she sues those cowards who fired her.

[@JohnGeary-e9e]

Semitic is a language base people forget that

[@AJHall-y4z]

Thank you Prof. Finkelstein for your brave and ethical stand at a time when speaking the truth has become a punishable crime.🙏 You are a role model and a true hero.

[@pauldeanda7100]

The bigger issue is that people like her opened the door for this kind of BS! They have been doing the exact same thing to professors a/o students who have not agreed with their liberal views for years. Btw, I’m a conservative who could not vote this election bc both parties support what Israel is doing to the Palestinians and others in the Middle East, plus Trump wanting more immunity for police and the draconian stands some in the GOP have taken against abortion in some states.

[@leilaoksanen5142]

❤

[@bluecoffee8414]

​@@pauldeanda7100That is a fair and true point.

[@2bNot]

​@@pauldeanda7100Well said !!

[@mozartsbumbumsrus7750]

​@@pauldeanda7100It's a misinterpretation and misuse of the term "liberalism". I voted for Jill Stein because I refuse to vote for genocide and extermination. We now know how many TRUE American patriots exist; 0.04%

[@oldpondfrog788]

There's the rub. She's not merely been attacked for a stance on an issue but the very idea of an anthropology of Palestine will be the problem. They do not want people to understand and identify with Palestinians and their lives.

[@AlejandraRodriguez-gx7gb]

That is the Jewish project of Israel supported by the Jewish abroad.

[@comingviking]

There is nothing more threatening to empire than empathy and understanding of the lives of the colonized.

[@EpistemicResponsibility4All]

Yes, is a full global conspiracy of the western colonizers as shameless and clumsy as it is.

[@EpistemicResponsibility4All]

​@@comingviking 🎯💯 Empathy is regarded as an existential threat.

[@comingviking]

@@EpistemicResponsibility4All Empathy killed slavery. It will destroy empire and a part heid as well.

[@magansingodia8511]

Thank you Professor for your principled stance and ei for all that you do

[@ZIMCoin]

Thank you Maura for your integrity! 💚🙏

[@jonlaubert8826]

USa REPUBLICANS have ZNO INTEGRITY, abandoning/shunning CAPITOL POLICE WHO SAVED THEM-- PREVENTING HANGING OF MIKE PENCE.

[@ouagadougou4672]

Thank you, Professor Finkelstein, for your courage and integrity. We live in deranged times, but you will land on the right side of history. I'm sad to hear how horribly it is impacting you. NEVER AGAIN FOR ANYONE ANYWHERE!

[@jeffreywilheim5970]

In the reality-based community, dear heart, we understand that people who post things like "“Do not cower to Zionists. Shame them. Do not welcome them in your spaces. Do not make them feel comfortable. Why should those genocide-loving fascists be treated any different than any other flat-out racist. Don’t normalize Zionism. Don’t normalize Zionists taking up space" are not on the right side of history. The question is why you choose to be on the wrong side.

[@hayleygullett]

This is the censorship and anti-Semitism we need to be concerned about. The double speak of global leaders is astounding.

[@moviemakerjo6756]

they leagalised colonialism centuries ago, people just believe there are laws against Genocide.. if that were true then all western hemisphere countries would have criminalised their own Genocides 🤔but they never have. the u.n convention on Genocide exists although it is never applied in legalese to the historic Genocides of colonisers.

[@moviemakerjo6756]

they leagalised colonialism centuries ago, people just believe there are laws against Genocide.. if that were true then all western hemisphere countries would have criminalised their own Genocides 🤔but they never have. the u.n convention on Genocide exists although it is never applied in legalese to the historic Genocides of colonisers.

[@moviemakerjo6756]

they leagalised colonialism centuries ago, people just believe there are laws against Genocide.. if that were true then all western hemisphere countries would have criminalised their own Genocides 🤔but they never have. the u.n convention on Genocide exists although it is never applied in legalese to the historic Genocides of colonisers.

[@moviemakerjo6756]

they leagalised colonialism centuries ago, people just believe there are laws against Genocide.. if that were true then all western hemisphere countries would have criminalised their own Genocides 🤔but they never have. the u.n convention on Genocide exists although it is never applied in legalese to the historic Genocides of colonisers.

[@sofiajohansson8537]

Zionism is antisemitic.

[@Gokce-Aysun]

Such a brave courageous fellow Anthropologist. We must never cave.

[@kurtk4223]

was that meant to be a pun

[@FrancisKinsleyJr]

😂🎉​@@kurtk4223

[@CaptainKahra]

Professor Finkelstein, please come to my country Turkey. We need valuable and honorable academics like you here. 🇵🇸

[@dildarbhai5767]

We have not forgotten Jamal Khashoggi, we cannot trust Erdogan.

[@reyhudson563]

@@CaptainKahra I thought about that, too,... she certainly WOULD be "well received"... Well received, that is, until "her preachin' " was judged to be "meddlin' " by the also, somewhat inflexible, top down leadership. Plenty of roses in Turkey, but academic freedom or the freedom of open expression is not a "bed of roses", ESPECIALLY when one's speaking, teaching or writing might conflict with the "opinions of the day". A Turkish academic might simply lose their job; a foreign guest would be sure to get "the boot", figuratively if not actually. Turkey is BEAUTIFUL and uncommonly hospitable!... as long as one doesn't rattle any cages, or belong to an unpopular group.

[@CaptainKahra]

@@dildarbhai5767 What does Jamal Khashoggi have to do with Erdoğan? wtf And "We"..? Who the hell are you?

[@CaptainKahra]

@@reyhudson563 There is no freedom of speech in the world. And it's not my problem that you still haven't figured it out. Good luck with your life

[@reyhudson563]

@CaptainKahra Tesekkuler for your quick and judging comment. One person is able to "figure some things out"; others seem to be sure what people they don't know or know little or nothing about understand or conversely don't understand. Wow! OK, I guess that's why they think they are doing such a wonderful job of taking care of the world. The airport in Izmir is very nice; the otogar, not. Take a look! As you have said: not many "perfect places" in the world. But I like Kusadasi, Lady's Beach; do you know it?

[@winfriedbanzhaf1067]

As long as special interests make academic institutions dependent on them there will be no fairness.

[@mohammadalramadhan934]

Thank you Prof.Finkelstein for your courage and integrity. You are a role model for people with ethics and values and humanity. Those who attacked you are the ones who will be condemned by history and future generations.

[@LPK1313]

What incredible humans you both are! Thank you for this conversation, your commitment to truth and human compassion. I’m so grateful for both of you.

[@pbassile3496]

You are a Finkelstein. Maura is honorable, smart and a beautiful soul. You are on the right side of history.

[@agnikollias6678]

Incredible interview!!! Incredible speaker !!! Big respect 🙏

[@tareksaba1ify]

she will be hired anywhere for being on the right side of Humanity

[@agnikollias6678]

Absolutely 💯

[@MartinMaat]

I'm afraid not.

[@NoaHdP78]

Technically there are 197 countries in the world, but if you are referring to the usual warmongers and geno supporters... Well personally I'm not going where I am not welcomed

[@pauldeanda7100]

No! She will be hired quick bc she is a leftist!

[@aluisious]

She won't, because the ziofascists have a severe grip on American institutions. It will be difficult for her to find academic work. It's hard to get tenure when you have nothing on your record.

[@AlejandraRodriguez-gx7gb]

Maura Finkelstein is a very courageous woman.

[@hayatraja7360]

Professor Finklestein, you are an eloquent speaker & a very courageous personality. Please stay the course & All the best ! 🇵🇸

[@edwardlarkin4279]

Just an incredible discussion. Thank you. Unbelievable what has happened in America and the imperialism ugly repercussions. So many brave and moral people just like Ms. Finkelstein. Thank you Nora ✌️

[@hueffel987]

Finkelstein is a real good name. I love two of the Finkelsteins!

[@tinadodgson8862]

Is Maura related to Norman?

[@hueffel987]

@@tinadodgson8862 I don't know, but as I said, love them both!

[@foxisok]

@@tinadodgson8862 They both suffer from the same disease...

[@ICHope1]

God bless you Maura. You are a wonderful example for your students and other professors. May you be blessed in all your endeavors in the future. 🤲 We need more educators like you.

[@iamyoda66]

Thank you Maura! It takes courage to put your career on the line for your humanity.

[@Raydaruckuz]

Whats the point of attaining tenure if they can fire you for harmless social media posts? Guess they cant handle good faith debate...if thier position is the correct one, why do they fear so much people witg differing views gaining an audience

[@Concerned63Citizen]

What an informative podcast.... Maura is such a brave intelligent woman.

[@panagenesis2695]

Respect to Maura for standing on principle. God save Palestine.

[@kirkdougherty8690]

I will merely repeat what I stated at another channel regarding these attacks on our 1st Amendment rights. "Land of the Free? Show me where it is and I'll move there."

[@rattylol]

Land of the fee, home of the slave, we say

[@Bwarrior138plus]

Maura can come to the Command Center to work as our Chief Scholar in New Mexico if we can hear from her soon. Okay? 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@Bwarrior138plus]

If she goes anywhere, then it has to be here in New Mexico for sure.

[@RobinHerzig]

Invite her!

[@NK-ht3fo]

How disgraceful of the university to not support the prof!

[@druidceltic777]

the power of aipac israeli $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ buying corrupting our institutions filled now with bought and paid for stooges across the west is where we are

[@azalia423]

This is so frightening. How awful that Finkelstein had to endure this. I thank her for her integrity.

[@felix55215]

It shows they care more about zionism than about jews...

[@lawrencesmallman]

Thank you to you both; this is such an important issue at this time.

[@7mkhan9]

Thank you so much Prof. MauraFinkelstein for your brave and ethical stand at a time when speaking the truth has become a punishable crime.🙏 You are a role model and a true hero. Unreal how someone can ruin a professor’s life like this. World must walk up and gotta stop this.

[@dlsselle]

thank you all for this interview

[@anandasouthard7760]

Thank you Nora and professor Finklestein ❤

[@THEFIREDLIBRARIAN-iz7po]

"The accusation of "antisemitism" is arguably the original map for "cancel culture." As someone who lived in Israel for a year, I can say that there are MANY legitimate, rational, moral reasons for criticizing Israel, or the Jewish community and Judaism for that matter. It's a lot easier to simply cry "antisemite" and censor (fire, etc.) someone than to actually have a debate and PROVE, with facts, the individual to be an immoral bigot. One of many examples in Jewish -- not only Zionist -- traditional texts worthy of healthy debate is that there are multiple places in the Torah (Old Testament) where God invokes the Israelites to kill every man, woman, and child -- and their animals! -- of the Canaanites (non-Jews in their proximity). What else is that but a recipe for the Holocaust? From the Israelites' God. And there are people in Israel today -- so-called "religious Zionists" -- who use this kind of sacred direction as a base for what's going on in Gaza.

[@joeb134]

Im not Jewish but I would like to point out that it says God directed them to do so. I have yet to see a single time when the founders of Izzy claimed God directed them. Most were not really religious anyway

[@THEFIREDLIBRARIAN-iz7po]

One follow-up as I watch the full video here: as uncomfortable as it may be, there ARE relationships between Zionism and Judaism. Zionism is about racial supremacy? What about the traditional, Orthodox definition of a Jew? Who is a Jew? Someone born of a Jewish mother. That is a quintessential genetic (i.e., "racial") base. What about the traditional Jewish idea that all Jews are from "the seed of Abraham?" Reform Judaism, Conservative Judaism, Reconstructionist Judaism, etc. and their liberalizing of Orthodox Judaism all were born in the mid-1800s, or later. In purely Orthodox times, conversion to Judaism was not encouraged. It was not a universalist faith. The euphemism for this, by many Jewish scholars, is that Judaism is a "particularist" faith. There is much to examine, discuss, and debate here. Israel's moral crimes against the Palestinians may open doors to a healthy moral inquiry forbidden in the past.

[@THEFIREDLIBRARIAN-iz7po]

@@joeb134 True. Many of the founders of Israel were socialists (that's the basis of the kibbutz movement.) Somewhere in Kenya was even considered as a possibility, early on, to create "Israel." But the founders knew there wasn't a traditional pull (i.e., religious) there. And there is a strand of Zionism referred to as "religious Zionism," and there has been scholarly investigations about this. In recent times, this movement is obviously growing.

[@sutapasbhattacharya9471]

Yahweh of Mt Zion was a minor Canaanite tribal war deity (consort of Asherah) in the Canaanite pantheon promoted to the one and only god by Judaean regimes [not in polytheist Israel] such Josiah, the Agents of Cyrus with their Pharisees and the Hasmoneans who created the totalitarian Orthodox Judaism with its rabbis. There is no mystical union with Yahweh in Judaism as Y is not the Divine Light [of universalist religions and philosophies] but the apotheosis of Rage and Wrath instincts. The Hebrew Gnostics who wrote the Gospels [dozens of them as found at Nag Hammadi] mocked Yahweh as The Fool who thought that there was none higher than him. The Son-of-God [a [pre-Christian metaphor for Gnosis (Divine Illumination) was to lead their Zealot brethren away from tribal nationalist war and seek salvation within through enlightenment.

[@sutapasbhattacharya9471]

See also 'The J Religion and Its Attitude to NonJs' by Belsen survivor Israel Shahak which is on the web.

[@YasminaNouar-kt1gm]

Thank you Prof Finkestein for what you're doing.I admire your courage and determination ❤

[@szymborska]

Terrifying

[@marktaylor3489]

I prefer to think of it as ';angering' ... we have to stand, not cower.

[@rafaelnavarro6988]

Dear Maura, You are overqualified for Muhlenberg College. Consider working for UC Berkeley, where your talent will not be wasted.

[@RobinHerzig]

JVP has a letter you can send supporting Prof Maura Finkelstein ✊

[@Doc5thMech]

It is too late. Professor Finkelstein will not be reinstated.

[@averayugen7802]

@@Doc5thMech She will get other offers. But all this is going on on all levels. All people speaking out are being snuffed, even ms nobody me. U have to wonder how unspeakable is this evil for the beast to cover it up so successfully (or try to). And don't forget the banned books and repressions against us on other levels, its all tied in. Animal rights activists can easily end up in prison just for trying to communicate

[@zainoolebrahim5118]

What Amazing Brave Lady.praying for you .

[@iamyoda66]

What a powerful interview. It kept me glued to the end. MSM could never do something like this..bravo!

[@nhlibra]

Very sorry, Prof. Finkelstein, that you have been put through this. You are a brave person and I admire you for speaking up with Truth and especially for the voiceless victims. I'm so thankful there are professors like you! ❤💕

[@Be_Kind6208]

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Professor Finkelstein, you are on the right side of history and you will be remembered for standing for the people of Palestine. Yes, never again means never again for everyone.

[@charlotteq2061]

You are a true ally and fearless advocate. Thank you so much ❤

[@Judgingopression]

EI you’re a great team and always interviewing great people that are opposing the genocide in Gaza.

[@CleverNightOwl]

Weaponization of Antisemitism learn how to recogize it and call it out for what it is. The exploitation of accusations of antisemitism, especially to counter anti-Zionism and criticism of Israel, may be described as weaponization of antisemitism, instrumentalization of antisemitism, or playing the antisemitism card. Bad-faith accusations against Israel's critics have been called a form of smear tactics.

[@RedClaw8605]

Teaching the truth doesn't seem to matter anymore.

[@monicamilani8694]

I democratici Sati Uniti... Solidarietà alla professoressa Finkelstrin

[@niteengupte]

You may have lost your tenure instigated by people lacking honesty and integrity. But you have earned the deepest respect of intelligent fair minded people the world over. May you be rewarded with more meaningful future activities.

[@johanvanhecke8583]

Miss Finckelstein, ( related to Norman?), I can imagine that it has been difficult for you, BUT KNOW that many many humans around the entire world , like me , from Belgium see you as a VERY BRAVE HUMAN BEING , with a SPECIAL accent on the word " human" Johan . Belgium.

[@norman_5623]

In a documentary, Norman Finkelstein was speaking at a college and a student complained to him that he was making German students uncomfortable.

[@takykan7755]

I am in total solidarity with you. You are an example of courage and honesty.

[@maishaferdousi4865]

How many people can they fire for actually having conscience ?

[@ckretf8]

Maura!! You're a hero. Thanks for your humane view.

[@colonelweird]

The mention of Colman McCarthy was most welcome - I used to read his columns in the Post in the 80s. I think he sometimes even wrote about my friends in the local Catholic Worker and Berrigan houses. For me he was something of a bridge between the middle class liberalism of the Post and more radical thought. I suspect it was his writing, or writers he recommended, who influenced my refusal to register for the draft back in the day ... a decision that affected my whole life, unfortunately. It's remarkable that he's still influencing young people like Prof. Finkelstein today!

[@Parallax982]

Thank you for fighting the good fight. I have friends in Gaza. They don't have adequate food. I may watch as they starve because there's no way to send funds. And people don't speak out. We allow this to unfold. What a courageous stand Ms. Finkelstein has taken. May she be blessed and protected for speaking out against that which is wrong.

[@brennac.mabrouk8789]

What an enlightening conversation. This Professor spoke so eloquently about such ugly ugly abuses & politics in our institutions of higher education about how dangerous these places have become for marginalised students & faculty. It would be beyond me to not lash out at an institution I had given nearly a decade of my life to. She is an incredibly excellent teacher, I sure learned a lot from her skills in anthropology just now. She is not a insignificant as she may believe. Her voice is a powerful tool for creating change. Those of us who want to understand & create change are listening. Thank you #PalestineWillBeFree

[@ENT756]

What a beautiful, deeply moving conversation. Thank you Nora and Maura! "I think, we just have to keep our eye on Gaza. We have to keep our eye on the occupied Westbank, we have to keep our eye on Lebanon, and remember, that we owe Palestinians, we owe folks in Lebanon, we owe folks who are actually being annihilated. We owe them our attention, we owe them our time, we owe them our work. This is, I think, what it means to be a person who is paying attention, to realise that we have sacrifices to make, because, at least, here in the United States, everything that I have, is the result of extraction and theft, and, you know, I might not be directly involved in that, but we're living very comfortable lives in the US in comparison to people who are living through a genocide, so I keep that in mind, when I think about the things that I have lost." Maura Finkelstein (I removed some repetitions, but I hope I quoted the rest more or less correctly, although I had to slow it down to 0.5 which gave the talk very mumbling quality.)

[@humairakhan-islam4901]

Fantastic interview. Thank you so much for allowing this brave woman tell us her experiences!

[@billk122]

Courage is what this Professor is about. Her firing is a crime. College is where we use to go to find truth. No more.

[@JeanineH]

Thank you sooo much Professor Finkelstein! May the TRUTH COME TO LIGHT in time for YOU and your job and your future. There is more of US that are FOR Palestine than are against-> & we have to start to turn out thinking and looking in that way. Like the story of a tax how small they are but can carry however many times their weight, and you can have money, BUT IF YOU HABE PEOPLE, in SOLIDARITY, ACROSS THE WORLD UNITING-> WE ARE FAR GREATER THAN the small land of in & of itself... (& also non-Zionist Jews), who will always speak up for what’s RIGHT. IT IS THANKLESS like you say, but doing the RIGHT THING IS NEVER EASY.

[@slim1one]

Prof. Finkelstein, you are a credit to humanity. Keep fighting the good fight.

[@Chipwipple]

Maura is great!

[@elizabethferrari3647]

How great is Maura.

[@Laura-g8f3p]

That was great, and she’s great and I really hope that she gets the outcome she’s looking for she deserves it. I too nearly lost my job for being a supporter of Palestine and it’s super scary. It’s no small thing to happen to somebody and takes a lot of courage to stand up to these, institutions. Well done. 👏

[@andrewcosti7507]

Great show 🎉

[@johanneskiessling4085]

The only sentence of Maura Finkelstein that was wrong is this: "I am insignificant.". In this world independent thinkers can be a lot but not insignificant! They are a rare breed! 🙂 I wish her all the best!

[@peterboytRaKs]

There's moral equation to every academic establishment It's not so hard to see which ones observe it. Especially today. Fight back Maura.

[@wiosna102]

American democracy is worth laughing and crying about. The lack of freedom of speech and repression for speaking truth is its opposite. Thank you for your visdom and courageous attitude in defense of the highest values.

[@tracysauvage1351]

"Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out for me." From Ireland 🇮🇪 Saoirse don Phalestine 🇵🇸

[@ARiffraf]

100% truth.❤️

[@PizzaMargarita144]

This conversation was not long enough. I could listen to you both all day. Professor Finklestein, you speak with so much rationale and calm insight. What a loss for your former university and students.

[@Quokka8888]

Also, thank you Nora for your excellent interview skills. 👍

[@soulrebelno1]

Maura Finkelstein, you're on the right side of history, hold your head up high. 🕊

[@4spikers]

Maura, bless you and thank you, for your heart, mind and soul...you are on the right side of history. Thank you, Electronic Intifada, your podcasts bring critical information to the world's attention.

[@μολὼνλαβέ-ψ5ξ]

She violated the first rule of the Z-Club: Don’t talk about our genocide!

[@michaelfoley3777]

Brilliant Lady! Be strong. You are not alone. Unfortunately,every struggle has painful consequences! God watch over you! Most sincerely Michael Foley 🤔

[@fvsc]

I'm so sorry she went thru this. Thanks for interviewing her & i hope she gets her job back.

[@Randy-r1y]

Professor you are ......WOW sorry but I just can't find a word that can do justice to describe you. God bless you 🙏

[@norman_5623]

As an anthropologist, she gave a good analysis of the institutional causes of her firing and the conflict with her academic rights to free expression and due process. I am looking forward to her ongoing litigation where the whole story will come out with discovery. I hope she gets a good book out of it.

[@amjoker9837]

Thanks for speaking up and standing for justice ma'am ❤️

[@Concerned63Citizen]

She is a brave hero! This is obviously the government of a country we mustn't name involved in punishing her.....

[@ironcurtainsteve]

thank you for standing up against pure evil.

[@flava2229]

Wow, what a great interview. Prof. Maura Finkelstein is a shining light on what it means to be a professor in higher education: her simplicity, moral courage and humility to face head-on the cowardice of academic administrators and the corruption & malfeasance of the ruling political and economic elite is rare. Thanks to Nora-Barrows Friedman for such a good interview.

[@rosem5041]

This isn’t the first time and doubt it will be the last in the UK renowned University professor David Miler an expert in his field was unceremoniously sacked for stating facts and accused of anti semitism. He later took the case to courts and won. Please watch and learn from the victory❤❤ may all those who stand up for humanity and against genocide of the indigenous Palestinians be blessed by the Almighty❤

[@joelferguson8714]

I really enjoyed this post

[@Handala-e8w]

Great interview. Maura you are a great person, I hope you can sue them and win!

[@ShaheedMahomed]

Well done once again to Electronic Intifada for speaking truth to power

[@ckretf8]

Wonderful talk. Kudos to you. Great respect.

[@thinkbeforeyoutype7106]

Thank you for the GREAT reporting

[@mozartsbumbumsrus7750]

Teaching about Palestine is extremely important but ALSO teaching about zionism is equally important. Tony Greenstein's book, "Zionism During the Holocaust", is an eye-opener as well as Ilan Pappe's latest book, "Lobbying For Zionism On Both Sides Of The Atlantic". The USA doesn't teach it's own history!!!!!! This is why the world, the WESTERN WORLD, is a disaster. BRICS rules now because the USA 🇺🇸 empire is crashing and burning and western Asia is collapsing with it. Isolated from the whole world because democracy and human rights do not exist anywhere. The good news is the end of the USA empire. Russia won, Ukraine lost. Israel lost and will be gone in less than one year. There's nothing that the USA and western Europe can do to stop the ending of empire. We celebrate this because humanity wins!

[@peterstrous2092]

Thanks to both of you for highlighting the disastrous issues with human thinking being led by our emotions and habits rather than logic. We're a terrible species, but listening to you there is hope!

[@joelbitton]

I am a 73 year old man and I have spent the better part of my life trying to understand why I seem to always feel a certain sadness in my heart. Then I thought, maybe this had something to do with it. Hopefully this story brings out others like me. In 1963 Zionists came to my home in Casablanca Morocco, to convince my parents to send me and my little sister to Israel without them. I was 12 and my sister 9 when we started our miserable journey to the "Promised land". It destroyed our family and left me and my sister with long lasting scars neither one of us has been able to heal. Being from Morocco made it even more difficult to live in a more racist country than Morocco ever was. We had a very peaceful life as Jews living amongst Muslims in Morocco. We understood each other and helped each other. To this day, the principal advisor to King Mohamed is a Jew. But the Zionists needed boddies to fill Israel and slowly claim more and more land from the Palestinians they kept displacing. The people running Israel are not Jews. True Jews would have helped the Palestinians evolve and share in their fortunes, like we did for centuries in the Arab world. Israel claims it is defending itself? Against whom? The people they have been displacing and opressing for 80 years? Israel, my advice to you, if you want to survive, get rid of the religious zealots who run your government and join the 21st century.

[@PGK13105]

Thanks for sharing your story here on KZbin.

[@mauraorourke9849]

Beautifully put. Thank you for sharing & blessings to you

[@luv2fly745]

What a revelation. So sorry for your personal suffering due to the unfortunate decision taken by your parents to remove you from your happy home in Morocco where Jews and Arabs lived cooperatively and in peace to the Zionist hell of the genocidal colonial entity.

[@aaronsinger]

Maura Finkelstein, you are awesome.

[@HassanMahomed-bs3jo]

Thanks Nora and Maura for this amazing interview. Maura, I don't believe your role is "small", certainly no smaller than most of the rest of us. Each action is made up of individuals like ourselves. Thank you for your courage and humanity. All the best for the future and getting your job back. Hassan from Cape Town, South Africa, also an academic