"This Time We Went Too Far Truth and Consequences of the Gaza Invasion" by Norman G. Finkelstein

Leslie Thatcher @ Truthout - Norman Finkelstein's "The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering" provided a transgressive thrill that has not worn off after a decade, and the intervening and deliciously outrageous fictional assertion of a similar principle in Tova Reich's "My Holocaust." The ideas that I as a nonscholar had found astringently liberating from a kind of creeping corruption in American Jewish culture and that premier Holocaust historian Raul Hilberg endorsed were anathema to what Peter Beinart in his essential article on its failure calls "The American Jewish Establishment." Finkelstein has been accused of being a self-hating Jew and a sloppy academic, while the fact that both his parents were death camp survivors, far from being perceived as support for the authority of his views, has been used as an opportunity to sneer at his pretension in making reference to them. However much he has been repudiated like some latter day Joseph for his obnoxious truth telling, Finkelstein continues, most recently in "This Time We Went Too Far," to challenge the American Jewish Establishment and the state of Israel. Read more.