FINKELSTEIN EMBARRASSES CRITIC DEFENDS IDEA THAT U.S. EXPLOITS HOLOC**ST FOR POLITICAL GAIN
September 15, 2024Norman Finkelstein, a Jewish-American political scientist, wipes the floor with a critic trying to discredit his work.
Finkelstein wrote a book titled “The Holocaust Industry” in which he exposes how the US capitalised on the Holocaust for political and economic gain.
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English Script:
Oliver Kamm: Provocative, it’s what I am paid to do. But you’re not very good at it. You’re a hack writer, you made a factual error.
Norman Finkelstein: You’re certainly entitled to your opinion. I don’t know of any expertise you have in the title.
Oliver Kamm: You’re understated by a large number of Holocaust survivors.
Mehdi Hassan: Okay, that’s the last question.
Norman Finkelstein: I would like to answer…
Mehdi Hassan: Very briefly, please.
Norman Finkelstein: I don’t claim at all to be an authority in the Nazi Holocaust. The book of Holocaust history is not about the Nazi Holocaust. It’s a book about how the Holocaust has been rendered in popular opinion and in so-called scholarship. The figure I’ve got of under 100,000 survivors of the Nazi Holocaust. It didn’t come from me, it came from Raoul Hilberg. I think you’ll agree, if you have any knowledge of the Nazi Holocaust, which is doubtful. But if you have any knowledge of the Nazi Holocaust, you’ll know that the world’s leading authority, the Nazi Holocaust, bar none, was Robert Hilberg. He was in a class of his own. Raoul Hilberg praised the Holocaust industry. In fact, he said, my conclusions in the book were conservative. Now, Raul Hilberg was begged by the U.S. Holocaust Museum and his close friend Eli Wiesel to remove his name from the book, and he said, no, I refuse to remove my name from the book because what Finkelstein wrote is true. He said Finkelstein’s place in history as a historian is secure, and what was done to me was a travesty. So, when you come along and say you’re a hack writer, I attach as much value to that as I attach to the dust on this floor.
