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Meticulously researched and tightly argued, Beyond Chutzpah points to a consensus among historians and human rights organizations on the factual record of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Norman G. Finkelstein exposes the corruption of scholarship and the contrivance of controversy shrouding human rights abuses, and interrogates the new anti-Semitism. This paperback edition adds a preface analyzing recent developments in the conflict, and a new afterword on Israels construction of a wall in the West Bank.
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Binding :Paperback
Label :University of California Press
Manufacturer :University of California Press
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Studio :University of California Press
Publisher :University of California Press
EAN :9780520249899
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Customer ReviewsAint that the truth?
Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :9
People are finally realizing that weve been psychologically blackmailed, for many years, by the likes of Dershowitz, against making any critical statements against Israel for the fear of being labeled Anti-Semitic. This book explains the process of how this came about. So much so that Dershowitz himself pushed for this book to be banned! Harvard University should kick this clown out of their faculty. Does anyone doubt where his allegiance really is? The backlash against Israel in the US has begun.
An essay about the truth
Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :19
The book is a classic and I will not discuss it further. I will add that Finkelstein is a martyr for the truth. His courageous exposure of Zionist and Israeli attempts to manipulate the truth and deny it has cost him dear. He got fired from his academic position courtesy of pressure on his univeristy by the Zionist Lobby and was recently disinvited to appear before the Oxford Union again due to pressure from the Zionist Lobby that fears a truth-teller like Finkelstein and wants to silence him.
Pure propaganda
Rating Point :1 Helpful Point :0
Another Jewish American tries to catch our attention by making a scandal. I thought puberty ends at the age of 17-18. It is also worth noticing that it is beyond chutzpah that we dont find the authors name if there is no addition - the son/child of the Holocaust survivor. SO, who makes industry of it after all?
meticulously documented
Rating Point :4 Helpful Point :13
Norman Finkelstein can be accussed of many things: being a pedant, using strident sarcasm in his writing, having a large ego. One thing, however, that no serious scholar would accuse him of is sloppy scholarship. Finkelstein does not go half way he goes all the way. The products of his obsessive, "forensic" scholarhsip are highly informative, moarlistic, hard to read books.
Beyond Chutzpah is more of the same. The only difference in this book is that the reader can feel more Chomsky in the acrid, dry humour of Finkelstein. At least the guy is blunt and pulls no punches. The book focuses on two things: part 1 debunks the idea that their is a new antisemitism in the air. According to Finkelstein, this idea serves as a distracting technique to keep serious citizens from questioning Israeli policy. On this score, he is right on. Their is no doubt that this is the case. Part 2 uses the meretricious book, The Case For Israel, by Alan D. as a prop to set straight Israels human rights record. Along the way Dershowitz is ground into the dust like grain under a milstone. More importantly, after reading this section the reader will hardly be able to believe that Israels human rights record should serve as a beacon to other nations. If anything, it is a blight on the massive page of the follies, crimes, and misfortunes of mankind.
Beyond Chutzpah ends with technical appendices challenging the veracity of Dershowitzs scholarship. I wont get into this here (see my review of The Case For Israel if you are interested) since it would spoil the most entertaining chapters of Finkelsteins book.
Overall, this book is a meticulously documented, scrupulously honest account of Israels record and the cynical nature of Israels "friends." As a reader deeply involved in the issue of Israel/Palestine, I deeply respect the scholarhsip of Finkelstein. Yes, one can regret his pugilistic tone, but, more important than such quirks are his virtues. After this book, you will never take anything Alan Dershowitz says seriously, and this is a good thing.
Finkelstein did it again
Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :0
Very readable. Ironically, this is the book that got him fired. But that does not take away from his thesis. If anything, it reinforces it. Scary.
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