Would I recomend anyone to go there? No. Do I support the schools fundraisers at this time? No. Do I think it should be called a Catholic University based on the groups and lifestyles it supports? Absolutely not!!!!!!!

israel thanks finkelstein and obama

you warmongers idiots

you have never lost a family member in a war

It would be far better to stick to the facts. Professor Finkelstein was denied tenure at DePaul University owing to vicious lobbying efforts, led by Alan Dershowitz, who is one of the leading advocates of legalized torture and an apologist for Israel’s human rights violations.

Prof. Finkelstein has written extensively on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He is the author of five books, including Beyond Chutzpah (2005), Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict (1995), and The Rise and Fall of Palestine: A Personal Account of the Intifada Years (1996).

Prof. Finkelstein is one of the first scholars to have exposed the hoax of Joan Peters. His scholarship on Israeli-Palestinian conflicts has been praised by many, including the late Edward Said. Professor Said’s co-edited volume “Blaming the Victims” includes Finkelstein’s seminal and widely cited essay on the Joan Peters hoax.

Both of Professor Finkelstein’s parents were survivors of the Nazi holocaust and concentration camps. His book, The Holocaust Industry, is on the abuse of the memory of the Nazi holocaust.

Finkelstein’s latest book, Beyond Chutzpah, not only extensively documents Israel’s violations of human rights but also reveals the tactics and the distortions of Israel’s apologists, such as Alan Dershowitz.

Mr. Dershowitz tried to stop the University of California Press from publishing this book. He appealed to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to stop publishing the book. Fortunately, the former bodybuilder showed a keener understanding of the principles of free speech and academic freedom than the the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law. The governor of California did not yield to Mr. Dershowitz’s pleas to intervene in the University of California Press’s internal matters.

Since his failure to stop the publication of “Beyond Chutzpah,” Mr. Dershowitz successfully orchestrated lobbying efforts against Professor Finkelstein, sending dossiers of extensive propaganda to members of the faculty and the university administration. As a result DePaul University lost an excellent scholar in spite of acknowledging that “Professor Finkelstein is a prolific scholar and an outstanding teacher” in the joint statement of Norman Finkelstein and DePaul University (Sept 5, 2008).

So far as I can tell, to them a “leftist” is anyone who dissents from their rightwing dogma, or — even more hideous — votes Democrat. But given that the Democratic party has for decades been as much the party of economic globalization as the Republican party has, tagging a Democrat a “leftist” is just plain wrong and stupid.