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...political moderate, long-time Crimson reader, and Harvard alumnus, I was concerned about disinformation in Michael Segal and Jacob Victor’s op-ed “The Finkelstein-Weiss deception.” Although I cannot speak to attacks against Weiss, I had attended the Feb. 22 talk by DePaul University professor Norman G. Finkelstein at the Kennedy School of Government entitled “Is Jimmy Carter Anti-Semitic?” At the lecture the “fringe views among the general public” expressed by Finkelstein through his entire, very moderate and reasoned...
Indeed, if anyone is to bring peace and an end to Israeli-Palestinian violence it is men like Professor Finkelstein and President Jimmy Carter who have the guts to point out some atrocious policies and human rights violations that Israel has and continues to conduct. Indeed if Israel has no regard for the human rights of its neighbors, the spiral of violence, the constant reproduction of vengeance for lost lives on both sides, will never end. Only with restraint and cooperation, from both sides, can there be peace, and that was precisely the final message of Finkelstein?...
...Israel. On Tuesday, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz gave a talk in Emerson Hall criticizing the former president and his book. The next day his picture graced your front page and an article detailed the event and some responses to it. Last Thursday, Feb. 22, Norman Finkelstein gave a lecture in support of the book to a packed Weiner Auditorium at the Kennedy School of Government. Many undergraduates were present, both supporters and detractors of the DePaul University Professor. Since then, however, the event has earned not a single mention in your pages. Both events were publicized over...
...Finkelstein has tacitly condoned attacks against Israeli civilians by explicitly equating Palestinian terrorist attacks against civilians with Israeli operations against militants. He spent much of last week’s discussion praising the terrorist group Hezbollah, which triggered this summer’s war with a deadly raid across an internationally recognized border into Israel, and which, prior to Sept. 11th, had killed the most Americans of any terrorist group in the Middle East. And, regarding 9/11, Finkelstein has said, "We deserve the problem on our hands because some things Bin Laden says are true...
...Finkelstein and Weiss’s opinions only carry weight because they cynically make use of their Jewish backgrounds to popularize their malicious opinions as legitimate expressions of a "Jewish view." Describing them as such is not only disingenuous, but entirely antithetical to any sort of productive Israeli-Arab dialogue. Student groups seeking to sow the seeds of peace, rather than to engender further misunderstanding, should not play into this deception and should instead seek out speakers that accurately and responsibly represent the different perspectives surrounding the conflict. It is important to remember that the extreme beliefs that Weiss...