Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History

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University of California Press, Jun 2, 2008 - History - 488 pages
Meticulously researched and tightly argued, Beyond Chutzpah points to a consensus among historians and human rights organizations on the factual record of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Norman G. Finkelstein exposes the corruption of scholarship and the contrivance of controversy shrouding human rights abuses, and interrogates the new anti-Semitism. This paperback edition adds a preface analyzing recent developments in the conflict, and a new afterword on Israel's construction of a wall in the West Bank.
 

Contents

Preface to the First Paperback Edition
xi
Acknowledgments
lxxi
PART ONE THE NOTSONEW NEW ANTISEMITISM
21
PART TWO THE GREATEST TALE EVER SOLD
89
High Court Takes the Low Road
207
Conclusion
221
Reconciling Irreconcilables
227
Of Crimes
273
History of
299
Peace Process
323
Dershowitz v Finkelstein
363
Index
395
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Norman G. Finkelstein is currently an independent scholar. For many years he taught political theory and the Israel-Palestine conflict. His books include The Holocaust Industry (2000); A Nation on Trial (1998; with Ruth Bettina Birn), named a notable book for 1998 by the New York Times Sunday Book Review; and Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict (1995).

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