You should probably actually READ the book, The Holocaust Industry, before making assumptions about what Norm refers to when he uses that term. It's a well-researched book that gives EVIDENCE of how specific orgs and individuals (NOT just an abstraction: ie all/some "jews") were ripping off holocaust survivors for their own gain and political aggrandizement. As you I'm sure you know, out of all his family members, only his parents survived the camps. That's why Norm takes it personally and is so disgusted/vociferous in his critique of the hucksters who ventriloquised the suffering of the victims to only turn around and take the money they were supposedly selflessly collecting for them.
You are probably the ten thousandth person I've read or heard admonishing naysayers to "read the book," otherwise you have no business criticizing the author. Quite often this is in reference to an author who has made him or herself infamous via outlandish assertions in the media or, even worse, actual evil deeds.
No I am not required to read anything by David Irving to personally assess the validity of his assertion that the Holocaust never happened. (Finkelstein has been quoted in defense of Irving's scholarship, by the way.) Nor must I read "Mein Kampf," "Chairman Mao's Little Red Book" or Lenin's "What is to be Done" to horrified by the death and destruction their authors unleashed upon the world.
If Finkelstein were an advocate for better policing of Jewish charities, that would be wonderful!
Of course this would have absolutely nothing to help the Palestinian cause, as there are plenty more corrupt Muslim and Christian organizations than Jewish ones, by simple virtue of the relative size of Muslim and Christian populations.
No, my objection is to the idea that memorializing the Holocaust has somehow been misused to create sympathy for the Jewish state. For me -- and the vast majority of the world's Jews -- it's patently obvious that the Holocaust DOES demonstrate the need for a Jewish state, as only a Jewish state can be counted on to rescue Jews threatened by the next Hitler.
Of course, a vocal minority of Jews object to a Jewish state, and as one of those you are perfectly free to have that opinion. Only I hope that should the unthinkable happen again, you will not be one of those who impeded the rescue of Jews as did some Jews in America and around the world during WWII.
You should probably actually READ the book, The Holocaust Industry, before making assumptions about what Norm refers to when he uses that term. It's a well-researched book that gives EVIDENCE of how specific orgs and individuals (NOT just an abstraction: ie all/some "jews") were ripping off holocaust survivors for their own gain and political aggrandizement. As you I'm sure you know, out of all his family members, only his parents survived the camps. That's why Norm takes it personally and is so disgusted/vociferous in his critique of the hucksters who ventriloquised the suffering of the victims to only turn around and take the money they were supposedly selflessly collecting for them.
You are probably the ten thousandth person I've read or heard admonishing naysayers to "read the book," otherwise you have no business criticizing the author. Quite often this is in reference to an author who has made him or herself infamous via outlandish assertions in the media or, even worse, actual evil deeds.
No I am not required to read anything by David Irving to personally assess the validity of his assertion that the Holocaust never happened. (Finkelstein has been quoted in defense of Irving's scholarship, by the way.) Nor must I read "Mein Kampf," "Chairman Mao's Little Red Book" or Lenin's "What is to be Done" to horrified by the death and destruction their authors unleashed upon the world.
If Finkelstein were an advocate for better policing of Jewish charities, that would be wonderful!
Of course this would have absolutely nothing to help the Palestinian cause, as there are plenty more corrupt Muslim and Christian organizations than Jewish ones, by simple virtue of the relative size of Muslim and Christian populations.
No, my objection is to the idea that memorializing the Holocaust has somehow been misused to create sympathy for the Jewish state. For me -- and the vast majority of the world's Jews -- it's patently obvious that the Holocaust DOES demonstrate the need for a Jewish state, as only a Jewish state can be counted on to rescue Jews threatened by the next Hitler.
Of course, a vocal minority of Jews object to a Jewish state, and as one of those you are perfectly free to have that opinion. Only I hope that should the unthinkable happen again, you will not be one of those who impeded the rescue of Jews as did some Jews in America and around the world during WWII.