151 Minutes With ...Norman Finkelstein
New York magazine|December 4-17, 2023
A tirelessly cantankerous advocate for Palestinian freedom takes a rare turn in the limelight.
By Zak Cheney-Rice. Photograph by Tina Tyrell
151 Minutes With ...Norman Finkelstein

NORMAN FINKELSTEIN is crouched on the floor of his apartment, running his fingers along a bookshelf so overcrowded that it's bending into a U-shape. "It has a green cover," he assures me before landing on the spine of his tenth book, Knowing Too Much: Why the American Jewish Romance With Israel Is Coming to an End. The subtitle stands as a summation of Finkelstein's career, which has been devoted to proclaiming to his fellow Jews and others his disenchantment with the Jewish state. But right now, he's thumbing through the book for proof that Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, was a guard at Israel's biggest prison camp during the early 1990s, when many Palestinians were tortured there.

I already know about this story (it's in Goldberg's memoir), but Finkelstein, 69, is not used to a world in which people are inclined to believe him. As America's most divisive Israel-Palestine scholar, he spent the past 40 years being ostracized by the media and academia. Then the October 7 Hamas attack propelled him into the spotlight and his 13th book, Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom, into the top-selling spot in Amazon's Middle Eastern History category. True, there aren't many books about Gaza ("That's like being the tallest building in Wichita," Finkelstein says), but its success is being seen as a vindication by both his longtime and newfound followers.

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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة December 4-17, 2023 من New York magazine.

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