Following the terrorist attack in Jerusalem last Wednesday which killed at
least 3 Israelis and injured approximately 50 others, discredited academic
Norman Finkelstein sunk to a new low--which is saying something for a man
who has trivialized the Holocaust, sup****ted terrorism, and claimed that
Libya had nothing to do with the downing of Pan Am 103. On his website he
carries the following faked news story, which he attributes to the New
York
Times writer who covered the terrorist attack in Jerusalem.
Times Exclusive: Deranged Arab in bulldozer attacks NY Times's Isabel
Kershner at her pedicure. Re****ting live from the scene still in her
curlers and with her beautician at her side, Kershner gives a minute by
minute account of the horrifying moment when the bulldozer crashed through
the pedicure's windowfront cru****ng the nail on her little toe. "My
friends
in the Catskills just won't believe it," she said. "A smashed toenail.
How
can Israelis live with so much anxiety?"
The kind of people who regularly read Finkelstein's despicable website may
actually believe that the story is accurate. Most relatively intelligent
people will recognize it as a really despicable attempt at humor, that
stereotypes Jewish women and trivializes the suffering of victims of
terrorism. Had a right-wing academic stereotyped any other minority in
this
manner, he would have been brought up on academic discliplinary charges,
considering the atmosphere of selective political correctness that
dominates
so many campuses today.
Having failed as an academic, Finkelstein is now trying to emulate Ann
Coulter, except that Coulter is actually sometimes funny, where
Finkelstein
is merely disgusting. He has mocked Holocaust survivors and victims of
terrorism. He has used anti-Semitic stereotypes to describe Jewish
leaders.
He also specializes in making up phony quotes and attributing them to his
enemies. This was one of the reasons he was denied tenure at DePaul
University.
Just yesterday he made up another quote and placed it on his website.
Referring to one of my clients he wrote the following: "Dershowitz
predicts
'Second Holocaust' if conviction is not overturned." Of course I never
said
anything of the sort, but Finkelstein's readers won't know that.
The only questions are: How could anybody take Finkelstein seriously?
And
how could any university have even considered giving this manufacturer of
false quotations and phony news stories tenure?
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