Norman Finkelstein: ‘It is a genocidal army’

Political Scientist and Activist Norman Finkelstein held a speech for pro-Palestine activists rallying outside Columbia University.
Since Wednesday, hundreds of students have staged an encampment inside the main campus in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.
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[@soundcanvas1450]

Much Respect to the protesters 🌎🌱 Bless them

[@Nara-cd2jd]

Dr Finkelstein is a Honourable Man Who Deserves Noble Prize!

[@personalelorenzo6922]

Nobel Prize is given out by zionists, it is worthless. Suffice to say it was given to the likes of Obama, Aun Suu Kyy, Kissinger...

[@user-ll7kg4hv9s]

Truth. Bot not on Biden time. Bidenost be hates Dr Finkelstein. He is for president. Not Biden. I feel shame being a Democrat. Not anymore. Only independent

[@ravenblack7052]

He would reject the Nobel "Peace" Prize. It was awarded to the warmonger Barack Obama!

[@navidahmed5646]

Deserves to become Muslim. May allah bless him iman.

[@JaleelBeig]

Nobel was given to Obama. It's a nothing award.

[@user-em2hg6cu5u]

Norman Finkelstein is an amazing, brave, compassionate and empathetic human for not being afraid to speak the truth. Especially in times of deceit.

[@katina55312]

They will say Norman has sided with the terrorists, but the truth is that he is precisely fighting against terrorists - The haganah, irgun and lehi terrorists now masquerading as "the most moral army in the world"

[@themistersmith]

Yeah, but his speech fell flat on this crowd

[@user-dp1bt9ql2m]

@@themistersmith what a talker!

[@spacecan1]

@@katina55312 lol another fooled by the likes of the fink.

[@jhegre]

@@spacecan1

[@Dominic_Amoe]

Norman is 100% correct. And this has been happening for 75+ years. #AaronBushnell #AaronBushnell

[@aridyaacob9528]

👏👍❤

[@RevGNR]

Jihadists have been slaughtering people for 1400 years.

[@oceania2385]

The keffiyeh was historically blue & white. Why were the red & white colors adopted post 1973 ?

[@Rangerluck]

People like you make me feel like a genius

[@Dominic_Amoe]

@@Rangerluck wanna play chess?

[@habibahabiba4824]

Thank you Mr.Finkelstein for your hard Work . Jews , Christians & Muslims can life in Peace !!!

[@adammitxhell2932]

Free the West from Isnotreal.

[@24299]

Free the world from Israel and the west

[@SCD_Recommendation_SecretIsSad]

Free the world from ZioNazis ** Unfortunately Palestine and the west aren't the only one effected . Look at UAE and Jordan for some African/Asian country too

[@TonyNaber]

Lol. The west isn’t held hostage by Israhell, unlike the Middle East. The west has a lot more agency and power than it likes to admit, for obvious reasons

[@nenadvojinovic7913]

There is another name for Israel. It's Isteal.

[@fcb9950]

Free the world from it

[@bayuprawitasari1894]

Genocidal Pariah US backed State with genocidal army IDF spot on !

[@Ofelas1]

Die Waffen IDF

[@zakattack901]

Norm is the best!

[@naymatunc-rc6vs]

Well said 🇵🇸

[@barnichua]

Hurt feelings are a justification against free speech, nevertheles a massacre is perfectly unoffensive to your feelings. You're not allowed to be hurt by it.

[@wandamoon7639]

From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be Free 🇵🇸

[@mimikhan9546]

Ameen.

[@nahilabidad3479]

Amen

[@Believingitright]

From the River to the sea is pure genocide. Hamas committed genocide in Israel Oct 7th Hypocrites and agents of darkness. We know you well, only fools will fall for your deception and rhetorics.

[@mimikhan9546]

@@nahilabidad3479 Ameen.

[@anisshakib4555]

❤

[@truelies5431]

May Allah Grant you hidaya Norman Finkelstien ❤

[@DavidDemurs]

Finkelstein is an atheist. I would love to see him say this to the sharia councils in Gaza

[@FreeDomSy-nk9ue]

OMG the liberals are going to hate him now. He's saying freedom of speech is above everyone's feelings.

[@saintsfearful]

Hey bud, the right are the crybabies censoring people and overwhelmingly always have been. Stop projecting.

[@Zelorp]

@FreeDomSy-nk9ue Liberals and Cons, it’s almost like neither of them support actual free speech.

[@justinfleming5119]

"Conservatives" have been extremely hypocritical about speech rights specifically on this issue.

[@regaliaretailfashionmerch4314]

​@@justinfleming5119Right?!? O god thank god, I'm not the only (anti woke ) liberal who noticed that 😊 I mean conservatives yelling about squatters and owner's rights in America do a total 180 AS SOON AS THE LOCATION IS CHANGED TO PALESTINE It's baffling to me.. the double standards of where they apply their "moral principles" and where they don't The same is true of them suddenly supporting cancellation and even Democratic Party for supporting Zionism when till yesterday these were the Trans mob, the BLM rioteers etc 😂 Anyway, thank you for this comment, I HAVE NOW LEARNT A LIFE LESSON----ALWAYS CRITIQUE THE LEFT FROM WITHIN THE LEFT OR AS A LEFTY BECAUSE THE 'CONSERVATIVES' CANNOT BE TRUSTED TO PASS THE LITMUS TEST OF JUSTICE JUST LIKE THE WOKE ELITE 😅

[@darthheretic129]

Going? Get your head out of your ass and you’ll see they never have liked him. But then you wouldn’t be able to make an asinine point.

[@user-nc5sx8wd4k]

Thanks guys

[@ineztb]

What a clear-headed, brave, compassionate human being! Always so enlightening to listen to him! Congratulations from Porto Alegre, Brazil. 🇧🇷🇵🇸🇧🇷🇵🇸🇧🇷🇵🇸🇧🇷🇵🇸🇧🇷🇵🇸

[@hans6422]

he is a nutcase

[@misafir716]

Adaletsizliğe karşı duran gerçek insanlara saygılar

[@oumouly4995]

Thank you great people of America. Thank you Dr Cornell West, Dr Norman Finkelstein and all others for supporting these kids.The great Americain values of humanity will prevail.

[@Truthteller-ui5qg]

Your are choosing the worst possible people to respect

[@johnmolina3284]

@@Truthteller-ui5qg huh???

[@johnmolina3284]

I'm beggining to like Dr. Finkelstein more than Chomsky. Chomsky just seems too dry and pessimistic. I mean, he's mostly correct, but dry and pessimistic. When Finkelstein talks, it's with an effort to sway people

[@misstunes1765]

He's "mostly correct" as if you've gone out and fact checked a quarter of what he's said and written. .. the hubris!

[@tombenderson3445]

thank you for all the people you agree with? do you appreciate any people who you disagree with? if you dont then you are a foolish buffoon

[@johnwall1989]

This man is a gift from God. Protect him at all costs.

[@moh8196]

This.

[@spacecan1]

@@moh8196 This is stupid. I finished it for you.

[@justinfleming5119]

What if he weren't jewish? Would he still have a university position? He's not the only brave voice in the wilderness. He's just one of the very few opponents of judeo-supremacism with the ethnic privilege to speak against it openly.

[@Stephonix1st]

What?

[@niazismail2803]

Love you Norman Finkelstein ❤

[@saeedhussein3323]

... through all the jungles... up all the difficult mountains... down all the valleys... ... throughout all the difficult times... throughout all the persecutions... throughout all the isolations... throughout all the smearing... FINKELSTEIN and the Palestinians! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@MonnteShortsMix]

Thank you Mr.Finkelstein 👏👏👏

[@coolioso808]

Supporter of Dr. West as well, for President!

[@fm8644]

We love you professor Norman!!! Your integrity and class is unmatched in the academic world ! ❤

[@MuhammadAfifAfif-uu1qh]

FREE PALESTINA❤️🇵🇸

[@mecherihabib]

From the River to the Sea

[@yuvalmati]

@@mecherihabib Israel is all you see

[@GittaRoth]

@@mecherihabib 🇮🇱❤️🇮🇱❤️🇮🇱❤️🇮🇱

[@SarahtheSoldier]

Norman Finklestein 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

[@ayaanbhat5256]

Norm ❤❤❤

[@Ganpignanus]

agreed. well said.

[@CidraBarton]

je n'ai malheureusement pas votre pouvoir ni votre notoriété M. Finkelstein ,je suis comme vous ,milles merci ,VOUS ETES UN DON DE DIEU

[@bahidjamajiet5581]

Norman Finkelstein ....correct as usual❤❤❤

[@anestainiti9334]

Palestine❤

[@shidah2017]

May Mr Finkelstein be protected and blessed always. Hard to find a public figure like his character nowadays. 🤲🏼😇

[@lydiavui1029]

Norman - always intelligent, reasonable, logical and truthful. Free Palestinians!

[@nasirhussain2425]

We are with Palestine

[@Nursefire]

😂😅

[@5lionkhorassan100]

@@Nursefirekhazar who built the foundation of Israel ever heard of Irgun?

[@IsakHashani]

@@5lionkhorassan100 Those who reveal their "intelligence" only through smileys should simply be ignored.

[@SCD_Recommendation_SecretIsSad]

​@@Nursefire the name looks like you like to burn nurses for some reason . Typical ZioNazi behavior

[@pipers-689]

Has baristas at work...

[@gheedmurtadi8762]

Thank you Professor Finkelstein

[@user-uq3ie2io6e]

👍🕊🕊🕊✌️☮️

[@coletteday712]

Finkelstein is the G.O.A.T. 😍

[@tombenderson3445]

a goat maybe

[@Himanshu.kumar.PROUD-DALIT]

We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians. -Nelson Mandela

[@SCD_Recommendation_SecretIsSad]

Preach 🙌

[@katina55312]

You know what all of us apparently haven't known too well? The fact that the IDF used to be 3 terrorist groups that committed the nakba in the first place.

[@KILLER.KNIGHT]

@@katina55312Not surprising. Not even 0.1%.

[@Abdul-Akeem_Akinloye]

​@@katina55312I know Irgun and Haganah. Which is the third group?

[@katina55312]

@@Abdul-Akeem_Akinloye Lehi

[@user-cv7en6ef6d]

This genuine man deserves the Nobel Prize with no argument. We will never forget you position . thank you

[@pillarsofdoom4891]

Spot on.

[@HUSS_BOSS]

Everyone knows but fears to say the truth, Norman Frankenstein is just having the courage to say it.

[@couldbe8348]

😂 he’s a traumatized man who states lots of facts but comes to absurd conclusions.

[@ramonalejandrosuare]

@@couldbe8348 Whatever. Dude is right. The IDF is a genocidal army and Zionists are trying to stifle anyone who points it out in protest on the basis of hurt feelings.

[@misstunes1765]

​@@couldbe8348You would wish to have one cell of his "traumatized" intellect, the ability to read and understand as much he forgets... the capacity to be as self-aware... on his worse day! GOH!

[@alienfromsaturn8909]

He is part of the game too. The Western powers always fund both sides and make people from both corners popular. They just fund and promote causes of one side more than the other so that it looks like narrative battles are on equal footing

[@adambrownhussein6525]

Why do they fear to say the truth?

[@chucksneed5089]

Bless you Mr. Finkelstein!

[@mariatod]

the slogan is about freedom! liberation! 🍉🍉🍉❤️

[@Freepalestine2909]

❤

[@mariela7521]

Truth words

[@md.helaluddin7613]

TRUE Words are politely placed for humanitarian world.

[@mouna3795]

Crazy that this should actually be happening in the 21st Century, and we are apparently expected to go with it

[@FayAbd234]

Thank you Prof for your courageous stand in disseminating truth & always being inspiring.

[@Helia-ys7dtt]

Dr.Fikelstein, THE LEGEND.❤️🤍💚🖤

[@elmi6303]

Courageous and honest person

[@tarakadir9259]

Thank you 🙏🏻 ❤️

[@zeusoftheaegis9038]

As we pray for Palestine we also pray for the good Doctor's health, as we watch him continue to fight for the Palestinians even after so many years.

[@Libbathegreat]

Love to see this whole talk if anyone has it!

[@misstunes1765]

Me too!

[@stefankasparski]

Смелый человек! Храни тебя Бог!

[@ThatVeryStrangeMan]

Hear hear! Good to see more voices with a platform joining the brave young people in their efforts - keep the momentum going!!

[@fakeyououtdotcom2409]

Brave? haha And btw...has the definition of genocide changed or is Finklefool a liar?

[@juanmonge7418]

I hope that the politicians are listening .

[@DKLGalactus5]

At this point I condemn Israel more than I condemn Hamas.

[@nji7772]

Istael funded Hamas for years.

[@EMidMSO]

Weird new world isn't it. I wouldn't have imagined myself thinking that a year or so ago. Even though, with all the previous Israeli atrocities in Gaza, W Bank & elsewhere, I should have. So on reflection, more of us may be guilty of the 'how many is too many' arguement.

[@iwatchwithnoads7480]

​@@EMidMSOin my late teens I started reading listening from both sides directly instead of trusting the English media. Gzh has (had 😢) TV channels and people like abu ubaidh give you perspective banned in Western media. And what izzis say in Hebrew is 100 times more gut wrenching than what they said internationally in English. But the western media used to LITERALLY paraphrase i-d-f English press releases and present as "truth"

[@taliabraver]

Then you a foolish.Promise you one day the west will beg Israel for help with security.In twenty years there will be no police and no one to call for help.You will be on your own.This old man is a fool.GO ISRAEL! GO TRUMP!

[@halimaalhiane9284]

❤ Norman Finklestein, a kind person in an unkind world

[@joaomiguelxs]

Norman Finkelstein is always on the front lines for truth and justice for Palestine. What a valiant soul! Thank you to all staff, faculty and students at Columbia, standing in solidarity with Palestine!!!

[@user-xx4bf7et5h]

Respect and honour Dr.Norma Finkelstein for always standing for truth and justice

[@kevincourtney7312]

This man is no different from the Jews who were called Kapos in the death camps of WWII. There are always evil men who place power over principle and lie for gain. The Kapos were the Jews that sided with the Germans and pushed other Jews into the gas chambers and then carried the bodies to the ovens. Watch the youtuber called Jerusalem walker. His videos show life in Jerusalem every day on the streets. See the Muslims walking down the streets, no one harasses them. See them going to Friday prayers on the Temple Mount, walking past soldiers who are there to keep the peace. See the shops where Jews and Muslims are shopping side by side and you'll see that the lies you've been told are just that. Hamas is evil and they are solely responsible for the misery of their own people.

[@jaskadn]

👏👏👏🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

[@vic7991]

I see the middle east eye can't say that he said the IDF

[@afzalmohammed5209]

May God almighty guide and protect our bro in humanity , for standing up for what is right , stand up for what is right even it be against yourselves .

[@DavidDemurs]

he doesn't believe in god

[@AJusticeWarrior]

Dr. Finkelstein and other Jewish people on the right side of history by condemning Zionism and supporting Palestinians are what reinforces our faith in humanity!!

[@the__source]

I am a Jew and I condemn Israel

[@spacecan1]

Yeah we like the Jews we just don’t want them to have a home. Amirite?!

[@hamnalodhi8946]

I have this immense immense sense of respect for this gentleman.... I wish I could bring my kids to meet him some day .... Such values are vanishing away

[@MariamaDiallo-ii2jf]

Thank you Norman

[@gitfiddler716]

God bless you, Norm!! ❤

[@khandakermohammedhasanimam7088]

Respect from heart … humanity is greater than religion

[@josephperry1715]

Thank you Professor Finklestein!

[@kevinjames3155]

One of the greatest men of our times!!! A true humanitarian!!!

[@aliajaludi5331]

God bless you and your work 💕

[@supersarah5157]

He’s always accurate!

[@ME0423]

Thank you Professor Finkelstein!!! 🇵🇸Free Palestine🇵🇸

[@davidwaddington9414]

there are few good men in this world, Norman is one of them.

[@user-bd3bn2gl7y]

When this man speaks , wisdom enters you!

[@padraiga814]

The “river to the sea” is why so many people have died. It’s not a separate issue. It’s all one in the same. Nothing has changed in the last 70+ years. It’s the same story and more people are dying.

[@user-xr6qj3ed5m]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@justinfleming5119]

If he were a Gentile, he'd have been purged from his tenure position for saying this stuff.

[@TonyNaber]

Yep and they tried, the ADL and the Jewish elite don’t like this guy

[@grafxgrl8030]

He should be as a Jew, too.

[@lynnienorris5776]

I am protesting today... Dr. Finklestein in my heart

[@user-zm9kd8yz4c]

Love you Norm ♥️⚖️🗝️✌🏽🗽🕊️🇵🇸🖤✊🏽

[@ensart91]

One of the greatest Jews and human beings on earth(a Muslim guy's comment). I have great respect for him-more than our religious leaders!

[@tombenderson3445]

east to respect a man telling you what you want to hear. When was the last time you were proven wrong in your beliefs and you accepted it?

[@ensart91]

@@tombenderson3445 I actually try to understand both sides. When I look at the pro-Israil side, they are still questioning the history of the land, who is right and who is wrong. And what h4m4s did on Oct. 7th. But we have a live issue. 14k children are already dead. First, we have to stop this madness. Also, the pro-Israel side doesn't accept these numbers but also they don't let the free press in G4z4. One side is much more powerful in this conflict. And they have a responsibility to innocent people. And it's a war crime to punish all people.

[@suzi9708]

​@@tombenderson3445 islamophobe ? 😂😂😂

[@tombenderson3445]

@@suzi9708 idiot?

[@amargogi]

I salute the Jewish citizens of America, for standing up for the truth.

[@b.tedley2586]

speak truth to power

[@Positive_Words371]

Indeed!

[@guricaxgurinonk9033]

" genocidal state and genocidal army. ", i 100% agree. 👏👏 biggest respect to Mr. Finkelstein.

[@user-dv9pc4rx7v]

The great Finkelstein has the nergy and the best person

[@BDS-now]

Go Norm

[@gezusmofo]

They've been djenohsidal since their inception so it's funny he specifies "at this moment." Always has been! This just happens to be the largest escalation in what they've been doing for 75+ years.

[@giveaway.payback]

It is the dajjal army

[@renevargas8616]

Norman Finkelstein is the voice of reason and justice

[@sudinebabz8651]

Bravoooooooo ✨✨✨✨✨👍🏼

[@94yahya]

صلو على النبي

[@saeedhussein3323]

Not only he talks the talk...HE SUFFERS THE SUFFERING!!! ... all the way! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 ... and the Arab delegates walkout the walkout in the UNSC on Jan 23 😅

[@mecherihabib]

Evry one should agree with the statement "form the river to the sea..."

[@Parameshvara]

Let's not forget the Apartheid going on in 'Israel' 2024.

[@tdavani]

Mr Finkelstein you are one of the greatest people I have ever seen and one with absolute principles, we need people like you to run our government

[@3boys1family]

May God Almighty reward him abundantly in both lives, guide him and give full victory and justice to the oppressed !

[@Al_Qamar_]

❤❤🎉

[@CC-uq4hu]

This man is stirring trouble imho

[@FreeWorld318]

False. He is telling the truth that you do not like to hear.

[@EasyEight3674]

@@FreeWorld318 Nah -- the truth *you* don't to hear is that there already IS a Two State Solution -- and the Arab State is called Jordan, and it was created out of the British Palestine Mandate at the same time as Israel was. The TRUTH is the Arabs rejected the Two State solution and after expelling their Jewish populations, the Arab States told the Arabs living in the new State of Israel to leave - that the Arabs would wipe out all the Jews and then the Israel Arabs could move back after the Jews were all exterminated and they could take over all the Israeli farms and homes. They lost. The TRUTH is that then the Arab States largely refused asylum to the Arabs from Israel and they CREATED the "refugee" problem. On purpose. The TRUTH is there was no "Palestinian" identity until it was CREATED by the SOVIET UNION and the ARAB LEAGUE in the 1960s as asynchronous warfare against their common enemy, Israel. The TRUTH is that after the '56 War, the '67 War, the '73 War and the War in Lebanon (started by Iran with Soviet and Syrian help), the Palestinians had managed to manufactured an identity while pissing off every Arab State in the region -- the Palestinians staged a coup in Jordan and tried to kill the Jordanian King, they tried to take land in Syria, they moved to Tunisa and after staging multiple attacks in Israel (never peace) the Israelis retaliated and the PLO was ejected and went to Egypt where they did the same thing, AND the Palestinians attacked Egyptian tourism sites while allying with the Muslim Brotherhood -- which is why Egypt sealed their border with Gaza. The TRUTH is the Israelis have tried to trade land for peace for 30 years -- at each step there was more violence to get more land, until in 2005 Israel GAVE the GAZA to the Palestinians and enabled the foundation of a TWO STATE solution. Israel pulled out completely from Gaza, but in 2007 Hamas took over and started the Gaza War and took over, killing any Fatah members too slow to run. Then Hamas has spent over $ 20 BILLION in foreign aid on its leaders' princely lifestyle and homes in Quatar and on weapons, tunnels and terror training. In context, that money could have given Gaza an independent modern electrical grid, it's own water supplies from desalination plants, and modern communications, schools and civil infrastructure. Nope -- Hamas runs Gaza like tyrants, they control all the aid money, they control who can start a business, they control the media, they control the schools, they control the legal system and military -- and if you're not sufficiently loyal bad things will happen to you. And they spend the last 15-16 years indoctrinating children into a dead-end death cult. As long as Hamas has power the Palestinians have no future. Oh, and the TRUTH is that the Palestinian population has TRIPLED during this time period, not been subject to genocide. Oh and to westerm supporters -- Hamas is a brutal, genocidal dictatorship who rejects western norms of Human Rights, executes Gays and is highly intolerant, xenophobic and regressive. So that's the Truth that you do not like to hear.

[@bhaikajalwa7447]

Brave man God bless you sir❤

[@popcycleism]

Bravo

[@jennys5924]

Ot is so sad to see educated people being so ignorant