Finkelstein Kicked out of Israel as ‘Security Risk’

by on May 23, 2008 14
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And I thought it was a democracy.

About Philip Weiss

Philip Weiss is Founder and Co-Editor of Mondoweiss.net.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics

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  1. LanceThruster says:
    May 23, 2008 at 5:41 pm

    Wow! So many pro-Z-teamers criticized Dr. F. for not having been to Israel and now they claim he would be a security risk! From who? The Kahanes? They let Carter enter without sufficient security apparatus assistance because they would not have cared if he were attacked.

    If it was that they feel Dr. Finkelstein posed a threat to Israel itself, then I guess we should send them a few extra boatloads of cash so that they can hunker down in the bunker in the face of Stormin' Norman's onslaught.

  2. dontplayisrael says:
    May 23, 2008 at 6:18 pm

    Finkelstein has spent a good amount of time in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories — his book "The Rise and Fall of Palestine" was based partially on his experiences living in Beit Sahour (near Bethlehem), as I understand it, during the first intifada.

    It should be said that this kind of treatment is meted out on a daily basis to Palestinians with foreign passports – just recently a Palestinian American filmmaker who has a film in Cannes was denied entry, and another Palestinian American woman who ran a major women's film festival in Ramallah was also denied entry, and both had been living there.

    Time to go full force with a cultural boycott.

  3. Alana says:
    May 23, 2008 at 6:58 pm

    "Time to go full force with a cultural boycott."

    I second that.

  4. liberal white boy says:
    May 23, 2008 at 8:03 pm

    What Does Norman Finkelstein Now Have In Common With The Palestinians He Defends?

    He has no right of return either.

    link to homo-sapien-underground.blogspot.com

  5. peters says:
    May 23, 2008 at 9:09 pm

    here is a nice article saying enough already with the coverage of jews vs obama. his point is that so much coverage is bad for the jews, among other things. many many jews are for obama and are good american citizens who don't
    put israel first.

    link to tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com

  6. peters says:
    May 23, 2008 at 9:10 pm

    here is a nice article saying enough already with the coverage of jews vs obama. his point is that so much coverage is bad for the jews, among other things. many many jews are for obama and are good american citizens who don't
    put israel first.

    link to tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com

  7. Chris says:
    May 23, 2008 at 9:34 pm

    Peters, the correct URL for the story is this one:

    link to tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com

  8. anon says:
    May 24, 2008 at 3:38 am

    This denial of entry to Finkestein is not an action of a nation brimming with confidence, comfortable in its own skin.

    It seems that Israel is in what Goldberg would characterize as a "defensive crouch".

  9. Protest II says:
    May 24, 2008 at 5:00 am

    I see it differently.

    With friends like Finkelstein, Edward Said, Phil Weiss… the ordinary good Palestinian people need no enemy.

    The posting caricatures of this blog have not met too many ordinary Israelis and Palestinians to make a sound judgment.

    Phil is spreading lots of misinformation to his circle.

    We, the good people are the resulting victims.

  10. David says:
    May 24, 2008 at 8:30 am

    "Phil is spreading lots of misinformation to his circle. We, the good people are the resulting victims." (Protest II)

    You mean your circle, schmuck – the circle jerks. Everyday in America, another diner, another book club, another sewing club wises up as to how the ziocon jews manipulated a callow despot into starting the War in Iraq, getting all our young men and women killed and bankrupting the country. Just, "dumb goyim to "Protest II". And, why? Because, it was "good for the jews." The Great Silent Majority has had enough. Before too very long, we'll see Perle, Wolfowitz, Feith, Abrams, Lieberman, Kristol, Brooks, Krauthammer, Shulsky, Libby, and all the rest of these Israel-first traitors hanging by their balls from lampposts.

  11. LeaNder says:
    May 24, 2008 at 10:45 am

    *Protest II*: With friends like Finkelstein, Edward Said, Phil Weiss… the ordinary good Palestinian people need no enemy.

    LeaNder: Interesting group! What specific features do these people share? Make makes them similar?

    Why exactly is Finkelstein bad for Palestinians? He extensively listened to them. Why is that bad?

    Do you think that Israeli authorities do not allow him to go to the occupied territories since they want to protect them of Finkelstein?

    *Protest II*: The posting caricatures of this blog have not met too many ordinary Israelis and Palestinians to make a sound judgment.

    LeaNder: The "posting caricatures" must be us?

    What do you think makes us caricatures, and what are the features that we share, that allows you to generalize? Reading Phil Weiss? How does that turn people in caricatures?

    What makes you so sure that none of us knows either Israelis or Palestinians? Or ever met any?

    Now the last is the most interesting item:

    Protest II: Phil is spreading lots of misinformation to his circle."

    LeaNder: Are you prepared to provide evidence?

    Can you show us where and how he uses misinformation?

    Who pays him, if he does? And what is the motive of his masters?

  12. 5 dancing shlomos says:
    May 24, 2008 at 11:16 am

    on this wkend of fun and gluttony to those fallen in battle to save amurderka from freedom and justice, let us the living inheritors of the patriot acts 1 and 2 and the military commissions act and the doofus signings and spying and stuff i cant remember, evict forever from these polluted shores the jewcons(israelis in usa camouflage) and their neopets.

    in fact not evict but let snipers use them. snipers always can use targets.

  13. Davey says:
    May 25, 2008 at 10:38 am

    Kristol's PNAC site has folded camp–
    link to ips.org

  14. LanceThruster says:
    May 27, 2008 at 10:36 pm

    Re: comment #2 – dontplayisrael

    I took this to mean that he had not been to Israel proper. If I am mistaken I welcome the correction.

    from: Postscript to German edition of The Rise and Fall of Palestine link to normanfinkelstein.com

    [excerpt]

    "Since completing this memoir in 1995 I've returned to Palestine every year. In fact, apart from traveling abroad to lecture, Palestine is the only place I've been since I first journeyed there 15 years ago. I sometimes fantasize vacationing in Greece or Italy but never do. If I have time and cost isn't prohibitive, I always return to Palestine. I do so mostly from a sense of duty – do I have a right to be elsewhere? – relieved by the authentic affection I've developed for friends. I cannot say I enjoy going back. From the moment I arrive, even before arriving, I count the minutes left before I depart. The eminent Hebrew University sociologist Baruch Kimmerling has described Gaza as "the largest concentration camp ever to exist.""

    [end excerpt]