Norman Finkelstein

Norman Gary Finkelstein (lahir 8 Desember 1953) adalah ilmuwan politik, aktivis, dosen, dan penulis Amerika Serikat. Bidang penelitian utamanya adalah konflik Israel–Palestina dan politik Holocaust karena termotivasi oleh pengalaman orang tuanya yang merupakan korban selamat Holocaust. Ia merupakan lulusan Universitas Binghamton dan mendapatkan gelar Ph.D di bidang ilmu politik dari Universitas Princeton. Ia memegang jabatan fakultas di Brooklyn College, Universitas Rutgers, Hunter College, Universitas New York, dan Universitas DePaul (sekaligus dosen pembantu sejak 2001 sampai 2007).

Pada tahun 2007, setelah terjadi perselisihan antara Finkelstein dan Alan Dershowitz, masa bakti Finkelstein di DePaul dihentikan. Finkelstein dikenai cuti administratif untuk tahun akademik 2007–2008, dan pada 5 September 2007, ia menyatakan pengunduran dirinya setelah menerima ganti rugi dari pihak universitas.
Dalam pernyataan resminya, DePaul membenarkan keputusannya untuk menghentikan masa bakti Finkelstein sambil menyatakan bahwa keputusan tersebut tidak dipengaruhi oleh pihak luar.

Karya

Buku 

 2014: "Old Wine, Broken Bottle", OR Books, New York: 2014.,
 2012: Knowing Too Much: Why the American Jewish Romance with Israel is Coming to an End, OR Books, New York: 2012., ISBN 978-1-935928-77-5
 2012: What Gandhi Says About Nonviolence, Resistance and Courage, OR Books, New York: 2012., ISBN 978-1-935928-79-9
 2011: Goldstone Recants. Richard Goldstone renews Israel’s license to kill, OR Books, New York: 2011., ISBN 978-1-935928-51-5
 2010: This Time We Went Too Far: Truth and Consequences of the Gaza Invasion. OR Books, New York: 2010. , ISBN 978-1-935928-43-0
 2005: Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History. U of California P, ISBN 0-520-24598-9. 2nd updated edition, U of Cal. P. June 2008, ISBN 0-520-24989-5, contains an appendix written by Frank J. Menetrez, Dershowitz vs Finkelstein. Who's Right and Who's Wrong?, p. 363-394,
 2000: The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering, Verso, ISBN 1-85984-488-X.
 1998: A Nation on Trial: The Goldhagen Thesis and Historical Truth (Co-author with Ruth Bettina Birn) Henry Holt and Co., ISBN 0-8050-5872-9.
 1996: The Rise and Fall of Palestine: A Personal Account of the Intifada Years. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, ISBN 0-8166-2859-9.
 1995: Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict, Verso, ISBN 1-85984-442-1
 1987: From the Jewish Question to the Jewish State: An Essay on the Theory of Zionism, thesis, Princeton University.

 Artikel dan bab 

 ”Disinformation and the Palestine Question: The Not-So-Strange Case of Joan Peter's 'From Time Immemorial.'“ in Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question. Ed. Edward W. Said and Christopher Hitchens. Verso Press, 1988. ISBN 0-86091-887-4. Chapter Two, Part One:
 ”Peace process or peace panic? - The scourge of Palestinian moderation”, Middle East Report, 19 (1989) 3/158, pp. 25–26,28-30,42
 ”Zionist orientations”, Scandinavian Journal of Development Alternatives 9 (March 1990) 1. p. 41-69
 ”Bayt Sahur in year II of the intifada. - A personal account”, Journal of Palestine Studies 19 (Winter 1990) 2/74.p. 62-74
 ”Israel and Iraq. - A double standard”, Journal of Palestine Studies 20 (1991) 2/78. p. 43-56
 "Reflections on Palestinian attitudes during the Gulf war",  Journal of Palestine Studies, 21 (1992) 3/83, p. 54-70
 ”Réflexions sur la responsabilité de l´État et du citoyen dans le conflit arabo-israélien” (Reflections on the responsibility of state and citizen in the Arab-Israeli conflict), in L' homme et la société, L'Harmattan 1994, 114, S. 37-50
 ”Whither the `peace process'?”, New Left Review, (1996) 218, p. 138
 ”Securing occupation: The real meaning of the Wye River Memorandum”, New Left Review, (1998) 232, p. 128-139
 Contributor to The Politics of Anti-Semitism. Ed. Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair. AK Press, 2001. ISBN 1-902593-77-4.
 ”Lessons of Holocaust compensation”, in Palestinian Refugees: The Right of Return. Ed. Naseer Aruri. Pluto Press, 2001, S. 272-275. ISBN 0-7453-1776-6.
 ”Abba Eban with Footnotes”, Journal of Palestine Studies, vol 32. (2003), p. 74-89
 ”Prospects for Ending the Occupation”, Antipode, 35 (2003) 5, p. 839-845
 Contributor to Radicals, Rabbis and Peacemakers: Conversations with Jewish Critics of Israel, by Seth Farber. Common Courage Press, 2005. ISBN 1-56751-326-3.
 ”The Camp David II negotiations. - how Dennis Ross proved the Palestinians aborted the peace process”, Journal of Palestine Studies, vol. 36 (2007), p. 39-53
 ”Dennis Ross and the peace process: subordinating Palestinian rights to Israeli ‘needs’” Institute for Palestine Studies, 2007 ISBN 0-88728-308-X

 Tentang Finkelstein dan karyanya 
 Tinjauan akademik terhadap buku Finkelstein 

 Massad, Joseph. "Deconstructing Holocaust Consciousness," Review Essay, Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 32, No. 1. (Autumn, 2002), pp. 78–89.
 Cole, Tim. "Representing the Holocaust in America: Mixed Motives or Abuse?," The Public Historian, Vol. 24, No. 4. (Fall, 2002), pp. 127–131
 Hooglund, Eric. Reviewed work: Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict by Norman Finkelstein, Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 33, No. 3, Special Issue in Honor of Edward W. Said. (Spring, 2004), pp. 123–124.
 Pelham, Nicolas. Reviewed Work: Image and Reality in the Israel-Palestine Conflict. by Norman G. Finkelstein, International Affairs, Vol. 72, No. 3, Ethnicity and International Relations. (July 1996), pp. 627–628.
 Pappe, Ilan. "Valuable New Perspectives," Reviewed Work: Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict. by Norman G. Finkelstein, Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 26, No. 4. (Summer, 1997), pp. 113–115.
 Beinin, Joel. "The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict after Oslo," Reviewed work: Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict by Norman G. Finkelstein. Middle East Report, No. 201, Israel and Palestine: Two States, Bantustans or Binationalism?. (Oct. - Dec., 1996), pp. 45–47.

 Tinjauan buku oleh Finkelstein 

 Blokker, Bas. Review of Beyond Chutzpah in NRC Handelsblad 24 February 2006.
 Pappe, Ilan. Review of Beyond Chutzpah. BOOKFORUM Feb./March 2006.
 De Zayas, Alfred. Review of Beyond Chutzpah in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 3 February 2006.
 Merkley, Paul Charles. These Pigs on the Face of the Earth: Israel's most relentless critic. Review of Beyond Chutzpah in Christianity Today January/February 2006.
 Desch, Michael C.. The Chutzpah of Alan Dershowitz.  Review of Beyond Chutzpah in The American Conservative 5 Dec. 2005
 Goldberger, Ernest. English translation of German review  Review of Beyond Chutzpah. Neue Zürcher Zeitung 10 Dec. 2005
 Marqusee, Mike. Israel, fraud and chutzpah Review of Beyond Chutzpah. Red Pepper (magazine) Jan. 2006
 Prashad, Vijay. Z magazine reviews Beyond Chutzpah.  Review of Beyond Chutzpah. Z Magazine November 2005 Volume 18 Number 11
 McCarthy, Conor. The case against Israel Review of Beyond Chutzpah. Village Magazine, Ireland 17 Nov. 2005
 Gordon, Neve. Neve Gordon: Review of Norman Finkelstein's, Beyond Chutzpah.  Review of Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History, by Norman G. Finkelstein. History News Network 12 Oct. 2005
 Nicolás, Rubén. El conflicto entre israelíes y palestinos sólo empeorará.  Review of Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict, by Norman G. Finkelstein. El Mundo 23 Oct. 2003
 Bogdanor, Paul. The Finkelstein Phenomenon.  Review of The Holocaust Industry, by Norman Finkelstein. Judaism, Fall, 2002.
 Abse, Tobias. Finkelstein's Follies: The Dangers of Vulgar Anti-Zionism  Review of The Holocaust Industry, by Norman Finkelstein. New Interventions, vol. 10, no. 2, 2000.
 Bartov, Omer. A Tale of Two Holocausts. Review of The Holocaust Industry, by Norman Finkelstein. New York Times Book Review 6 Aug. 2000.

 Profil Finkelstein 

 Garner, Mandy. "The Good Jewish Boys Go into Battle." Times Higher Education Supplement 16 December 2005.
 Naparstek, Ben. "His Own Worst Enemy." The Jerusalem Post 12 December 2005.
 Rayner, Jay. "Finkelstein's List." The Observer 16 July 2000.
 Sheleg, Yair. "The Finkelstein Polemic."  Ha'aretz 30 March 2001.

 Kritik terhadap Finkelstein dan balasan 

 Daniel Goldhagen, 
 Norman Finkelstein, Response to Goldhagen 
 William Rubinstein et al., Uses of Holocaust, letters to the London Review of Books Alex Callinicos, Finkelstein and the Holocaust , criticism in Socialist Worker David Friedman, , calling Finkelstein a Holocaust denier
 How the ADL Fights Anti-Semitism 
 The Washington Post Publishes a Retraction , Marc Fisher, WP columnist, publishes a retraction of his charge of "holocaust revisionism

 Referensi 

 Pranala luar 

 "Depaul University -- Against" bibliography at "Norman G. Finkelstein Solidarity Campaign"
 American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein official site of the documentary film
 'An Interview with Norman Finkelstein' State of Nature interview with Norman Finkelstein (2008)
 Official website of Norman G. Finkelstein, featuring biography, works by Finkelstein, past and upcoming speaking engagements, and other links to information about him and controversies in which he is involved.

 Video 

 American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein - broadcast of the documentary in two parts
 Resolving the Israel-Palestine Conflict : University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Jan 21, 2009.
 Interview broadcast on Lebanese TV January 20, 2008
 VIDEO: Norman Finkelstein - Israel and Palestine: Roots of Conflict, Prospects for Peace , presentation in Seattle, Washington, May 8, 2008.
 VIDEO: Norman Finkelstein - The Coming Breakup of American Zionism , presentation in Olympia, Washington, May 8, 2008.
 , April 15, 2008
 Doha Debate at the Oxford Union  Video of debate on whether the "pro-Israeli lobby has successfully stifled Western debate about Israel's actions" with Andrew Cockburn, Martin Indyk, and David Aaronovitch, May 1, 2007
 Debate with Shlomo Ben-Ami on Democracy Now!'', February 14, 2006
 Norman Finkelstein Responds to Clinton, Netanyahu AIPAC Comments March 23, 2010

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