Only after the book created a storm in Europe did mainstream American publications pay any attention.įinkelstein boasts that The New York Times reviewed The Holocaust Industry more savagely than Hitler's Mein Kampf.
Finkelstein's tract was initially ignored in the US but was translated into 17 languages and spent nine months on German bestseller lists. He rose to notoriety in 2000 with The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering, which argued that organized Jewry exploits the memory of the Holocaust to deflect criticism of Israel and blackmail European governments for compensation. An anti-Zionist crusader who's also the child of Holocaust survivors, he regularly likens Jewish officials to anti-Semitic stereotypes, and has called Elie Wiesel the "resident clown" of the Holocaust "circus." He's a far left academic with a strong support base among the Holocaust-denying right, a man who one Jewish intellectual has described as "poison. Norman Finkelstein is the academic equivalent of a street fighter. NOTE! Consider delaying until first div on pageīeyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History If (slot) slot.addService(googletag.pubads()) (function (a, d, o, r, i, c, u, p, w, m)
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