Original sentence: Others have said that he misrepresents history and that his ideas are anti-semitic, despite the fact that Finkelstein is himself a Jew.Some view it as "a breath of fresh air", and believe his ideas are sound.The critical response has has been varied
Edited sentence: Finkelstein can now be said to have founded a Holocaust industry of his own.In some political circles, however, the book was well received.It is filled with precisely the kind of shrill hyperbole that Finkelstein rightly deplores in much of the current media hype over the Holocaust; it is brimming with the same indifference to historical facts, inner contradictions, strident politics and dubious contextualizations; and it oozes with the same smug sense of moral and intellectual superiority.Leading historians, while recognizing the validity of some of Finkelstein's claims, have almost universally rejected it (Raul Hilberg being a notable exception).Like any conspiracy theory, it contains several grains of truth; and like any such theory, it is both irrational and insidious.Omer Bartov, Professor of History and European History at Brown University:.The critical response has been varied.This book is, in a word, an ideological fanatic's view of other people's opportunism, by a writer so reckless and ruthless in his attacks that he is prepared to defend his own enemies, the bastions of Western capitalism, and to warn that "The Holocaust" will stir up an anti-Semitism whose significance he otherwise discounts.What I find so striking about "The Holocaust Industry" is that it is almost an exact copy of the arguments it seeks to expose