The paper was important as a political intervention because the authors are squarely in the mainstream of academic life. The reason they're getting a hearing now is because of the Iraq debacle.
"Norman Gary Finkelstein" is an American political science/political scientist, Activism/activist, professor, and author. His primary fields of research are the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust, an interest motivated by the experiences of his parents who were Jewish Holocaust survivors. He is a graduate of Binghamton University and received his Doctor of Philosophy/Ph.D in Political Science from Princeton University. He has held faculty positions at Brooklyn College, Rutgers University, Hunter College, New York University, and DePaul University where he was an assistant professor from 2001 to 2007.
In 2007, after a Dershowitz–Finkelstein affair/highly publicized feud between Finkelstein and an academic opponent, Alan Dershowitz, Finkelstein's tenure bid at DePaul was denied. Finkelstein was placed on administrative leave for the 2007–2008 academic year, and on September 5, 2007, he announced his resignation after coming to a settlement with the university on generally undisclosed terms.{{cite web /url=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/09/05/america/NA-GEN-US-Controversial-Professor.php
More Norman Finkelstein on Wikipedia.Why should these Palestinians, who have lived in Jerusalem for hundreds of years, be evicted from their homes so that Jews from Brooklyn can live in them?
Imagine the wailing accusations of hypocrisy in the US were Germany to build a national museum in Berlin to commemorate not Nazi genocide but US slavery or the extermination of the Native Indians.
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