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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, April 11, 2010 1:35 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Norman Finkelstein booted, again</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>Tracking efforts to stifle open debate about US-Israeli foreign
policy.</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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href="http://www.muzzlewatch.com/2010/03/24/norman-finklestein-booted-again/"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt" size=5>Norman Finkelstein booted, again</FONT></A></DIV>
<DIV>Posted on March 24 2010 by Cecilie Surasky under <A
href="http://www.muzzlewatch.com/category/academia/">Educational
Institutions</A>. <A
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<DIV><IMG height=226 hspace=5 src="http://www.topnews.in/files/finkelstein.jpg"
width=181 align=left vspace=5 border=0 name=graphics1>Norman Finkelstein may be
a curmudgeon who can barely contain his contempt for institutions he feels have
violated the public trust. But look past the attitude and sometimes poor choices
(which, after all, Finkelstein’s nemesis Dershowitz has in spades) and he’s an
excellent, even obsessively detailed scholar, and certainly no anti-Semite. And
he’s fundamentally morally right. We Jews especially <EM>should</EM> be
outraged.</DIV>
<DIV>Finkelstein is someone possessed with the intense and justified anger of a
son of concentration camp survivors who saw his parents’ devastating experiences
exploited while they received little support. He rails against not just the
financial but also the ideological exploitation of the Holocaust. And I think he
has the rage of disappointment of the loyal Jewish son who believed all the
words about all Jews working to stop injustice, and discovered they weren’t
true.</DIV>
<DIV>(Many of his charges are by now well-documented by numerous scholars and
accounts, but it goes so far against the cinematic swelling violin
background music of our favorite Holocaust narratives, that we still can’t even
imagine <A
href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-3338282,00.html">elderly Israeli
Holocaust survivors and their families protesting</A> in the streets because
they are living in poverty, while prominent lawyers and various advocacy
organizations pocket millions and Israel continues to take Palestinian land
while crying anti-Semitism every time someone says “No!”. And so Finkelstein
becomes the target of our collective discomfort. He’s essentially a whisteblower
for corrupt Jewish organizations and it’s no wonder that many of us, in the
Jewish community and beyond, don’t want to listen. To be fair, it’s also true
that he doesn’t seem concerned about getting more people to listen.)</DIV>
<DIV>Finkelstein lost tenure at DePaul. He most recently got disinvited by the
<A href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17925">Greens
in Germany</A>. And this morning, word that the global shunning continues in
Chicago, where event organizers report that since he’s not allowed to speak at
DePaul (part of his severance agreement-amazingly), they found, and then just
lost, an alternative venue:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><FONT color=#000000><FONT
face="lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt" size=2>I’ve been very involved in organizing Norman
Finkelstein’s April midwest tour, which will include Purdue, Beloit, Michigan
State, and Chicago events (DePaul, Northwestern, UofC). Unfortunately, today I
received this news from our friends and partners at
DePaul:</FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT color=#333333> </FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE>As you know, former professor and academic Norman G. Finkelstein
is scheduled to speak in Chicago on Friday, April 16th. SJP DePaul and friends
have been working diligently for this event, from securing a venue, booking
his flight and hotel, and fundraising from scratch to make this event happen
successfully. Everything was finally coming together, and we were all excited.
Unfortunately, today we received horrible news. The event coordinator received
the following email from the venue we had secured for the event:</BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE>“Good morning <FONT
face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Shirien</FONT>,</BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE>We had a Parish council meeting this past week, I notify everyone
on the up coming events that are held at our church, and of course, your event
was one of the topics</BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE>A few of our board members are attorneys and they are the ones
that look into almost everything from the individuals that rent the gym out
and if they are covered insurance wise.</BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE>they looked deeper into the Professor that will be speaking at our
church and they insisted that we couldn’t be affiliated with the ideologies of
Mr. Norman Finkelstein so I am sorry to say that the church is going to have
to cancel and will not be able to rent the gym the night of April the 16th
2010</BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Please again I am very sorry
for the inconvenience.”</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV>Write a nice note to <FONT face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">St. George Greek
Orthodox Church </FONT>to let them know Finkelstein should speak:</DIV>
<DIV>Deno Diamantakos<BR><A href="mailto:DDiamantakos@tempel.com"
target=_blank>DDiamantakos@tempel.com</A></DIV>
<DIV>And if you have an alternative venue idea for April 16 in Chicago, contact
organizer <A href="mailto:shiriendamra@gmail.com" target=_blank><FONT
face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">shiriendamra@gmail.com</FONT></A></DIV></DIV></FONT><br />--
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