My late mother used to exclaim, "if everyone who claims to be a Holocaust survivor actually is one, who did Hitler kill?" - Norman G. Finkelstein

Watch the video, Finkelstein clearly miffed after being embarrassed in front of sympathetic crowd of washed up CAIR officials and imports from the local mosque. (Video Courtesy of the UCI Muslim Student Union)

 
I documented this incident in my post yesterday.

Though Finkelstein stated that dissenting opinions were welcome, he did not make clear the condition that he would only answer softball questions. So when I took him to task on his speculated appearance to the Holocaust Denial Conference in Tehran, he became especially indignant. But why? After all, he was happy to express solidarity with Iran's proxy Hezbollah. Instead of directly answering the question or even addressing the controversy, Finkelstein tried to berate me with the same ad hominem attacks he usually directed to his former academic counterparts. At first he tried to disarm the question by calling my motives filthy, but as I pressed his answer was finally no, invoking his parent's experience in the Nazi Holocaust. Finkelstein was obviously uncomfortable with the question because it put him on the other side of the ledger from an overly sympathetic audience of Muslim radicals and Holocaust deniers. This is hardly the mark of an honest educator, and yet another example of why he was disgraced from academia in the first place.

Moreover, in response to my first question regarding a January 2008 interview when he called for Israel's destruction, listen to the video as Finkelstein argues that Israel needs to suffer the same defeat as Japan and Germany after World War II (before an enthusiastic crowd of Muslim radicals), calling the peaceful democracy a "marauding and "lunatic" state to a group of largely rubber stamping ignoramuses.