86 Quotes by Norman Finkelstein

I focus on my work. If I let myself get distracted by the insults and slanders I wouldn’t get anything substantive done.

There is no way a non-Jew could say what I did in ‘The Holocaust Industry’ without being labelled a Holocaust denier. I am labelled a Holocaust denier, too.

I’m politically on the left, no question about it. I oppose sweatshops, I oppose exploitation of labour in the third world.

The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel’s victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours.

When I was a young man, my mother said to me, ‘You can’t be a communist without being a militant atheist.’ So I had to be a militant atheist because I wanted to be a communist.

Everybody wants peace. That’s a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.

There’s nothing Israel can do without US support. It can’t breathe without US support. The US bankrolls everything, and it’s just silly to think that Israel can do anything without the support.

September 11 was a godsend for Israel. It could now conjoin its merciless persecution of the Palestinians with Bush’s War against Terror. But my impression is that it wasn’t altogether successful.

People are motivated by the desires for privilege, for power, for profit. Those are not shocking revelations. Anyone who’s had any experience in life knows these things.