[Peace-discuss] Finkelstein vs. Salaita

[C. G. Estabrook]

http://dissidentvoice.org/2015/11/finkelstein-weighs-in-on-salaita-settlement/ <http://dissidentvoice.org/2015/11/finkelstein-weighs-in-on-salaita-settlement/>

I think Norman Finkelstein is probably correct on his rejection of

(1) the full BDS program (more carefully set out by Noam Chomsky: <http://chomsky.info/20140722/>);

(2) the Mearsheimer-Walt argument (again, Chomsky is clearer: <http://chomsky.info/20060328/>); and

(3) the 'one-state solution' (the right of return will have have to be transferred into reparations).

(These views are characterized by Ira Glunts as "incompatible with pro-Palestinian activism and solidarity … [Finkelstein’s] characterization of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) advocates as cultists, his view that the pro-Israel lobby does not influence U.S foreign policy, and his deriding of advocates of a one-state solution for Israel/Palestine, as hopelessly politically naïve.”)

And Steven Salita's “Dershowitz and Finkelstein: comrades at heart?” is at best uncivil, to coin a phrase: 
<https://electronicintifada.net/content/dershowitz-and-finkelstein-comrades-heart/12574 <https://electronicintifada.net/content/dershowitz-and-finkelstein-comrades-heart/12574>>.

—CGE


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