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Paperback
Publisher: Verso
ISBN13: 9781859844885
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This iconoclastic study was one of the most widely debated books of 2000. Finkelstein indicts with both vigor and honesty those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for their own personal political and financial gain. In a devastating new postscript to this best-selling book, Norman G. Finkelstein documents the Holocaust industry's scandalous cover-up of the blackmail of Swiss banks, and in a new appendix demolishes an influential apologia for the Holocaust industry. In an iconoclastic and controversial new study, Norman G. Finkelstein moves from an interrogation of the place the Holocaust has come to occupy in American culture to a disturbing examination of recent Holocaust compensation agreements. It was not until the Arab-Israeli War of 1967, when Israel's evident strength brought it into line with US foreign policy, that memory of the Holocaust began to acquire the exceptional prominence it enjoys today. Leaders of America's Jewish community were delighted that Israel was now deemed a major strategic asset and, Finkelstein contends, exploited the Holocaust to enhance this newfound status. Their subsequent interpretations of the tragedy are often at variance with actual historical events and are employed to deflect any criticism of Israel and its supporters. Recalling Holocaust fraudsters such as Jerzy Kosinski and Binjamin Wilkomirski, as well as the demagogic constructions of writers like Daniel Goldhagen, Finkelstein contends that the main danger posed to the memory of Nazism's victims comes not from the distortions of Holocaust deniers but from prominent, self-proclaimed guardians of Holocaust memory. Drawing on a wealth of untapped sources, he exposes the double shakedown of European countries as well as legitimate Jewish claimants, and concludes that the Holocaust industry has become an outright extortion racket. Thoroughly researched and closely argued, The Holocaust Industry is all the more disturbing and powerful because the issues it deals with are so rarely discussed.
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| He goes there... |
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He asks the questions and theorizes in a way no Gentile is allowed to. When non-Jews question the number killed, talk about non-Jews dying in the Holocaust, compare it to other historical events, question Israel, wonder if the Holocaust has been used for ill gotten gain, etc, they are called Holocaust deniers and anti-Semitic.
I'm glad Finkelstein has dared to tackle these tough topics. He's a lightening rod, but at least the ideas are out there for us to discuss, agree and disagree with.
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| HONEST MAN |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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More work should be devoted to expose an "industry" that are like leaches from the sufferings of a multitude of victims...
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| Insightful and Provocative |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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Norman Finklestein has chutzpa. "The Holocaust Industry" is obviously provocative but thoughtfully presented.
Denial is a trick of the mind, Don't be fooled.
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| Breath of fresh air |
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I dare you to read this extremely honest book. It is no less than masterful. Of course, the author had to pay dearly for this intellectual courage and integrity - he was burned at the stake after he was asked to recant by Dershowitz (but refused)!
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| Industry of denial |
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This is only fuel to people that already have no simpaty for the jews. It is amazing how many people would spend time here writing praises for a book with a clear agenda of de-legitimizing Israel and making the fact of 6 milhon people, children, women, old were denied from the most basic rights and sistematicaly, taken to concentration camps and assassinated.
That has to be remembered and it is worrisome that so many people take in consideration this self-hating wacko Fikelstein.
Well, also about the Mufti: he was really Hittlers ally. Theres plenty of documentation about it. The guy was bad and thats a fact and his actions paved the impossibility of peace at his time. Denying it doesn't help the Arabs now.
This book is bad, full of distorted, or simply incorrect facts, it leads to wrong conclusions, it is used as argument by all sorts of anti-semite radicals. I would give less than a star.
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