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Title: The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering, New Edition by Norman G. Finkelstein ISBN: 1-85984-488-X Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: September, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.27 (100 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent book
Comment: This book will really open your eyes. The only criticism I have of the book is that at times it doesn't give the full picture. For example, it denegrades Jews who have power and authority in American society as being selfish and self-serving for pursuing their own agenda. True, but most people in any society who have a vested interest in their own power and well-being will tend to be pursuing their own agenda.
Secondly, even though I don't support zionism, I feel that the Israeli state is now a Fait Accompli. If anything, Israel stands as a testament to the Arab's ineptitude and squandered opportunities. And if any person says that they would prefer to spend a night in a Palestinian jail rather an Israeli jail, they are lying.
Finally, the following quote from the book just about says it all: On page 136,
... took note of an episode particularly fraught with pathos. Under the headline "Israeli Teens Frolic With Strippers After Auschwitz Visit," the newspaper explained that, according to experts, the kibbutz students "hired strippers to release the troubling emotions raised by the trip."
Rating: 5
Summary: Impressively well-documented and scholarly written work
Comment: This is a somewhat relieving book that describes what Norman Finkelstein calls "a double shake-down" taking place through what the author calls a shameless "capitalization" of the Holocaust and its Jewish sufferings and sufferers. The orchestrated multi-billion dollar shake-down takes place on a multi-layered level (right-wing politics, local financial interests, mainstream Hollywood, left-wing media, strange forms of politicized christianity, etc. etc.), and it is not only European nations as victims of the lately more and more vindicative and patronizing-moralizing tone of the US that are being squeezed and pushed (in what appears today to have been pretty close to a blackmail strategy, at least as far as the Swiss banks are concerned) to open up their wallets, but it is also the remaining few real sufferers of the Holocaust that are put into play for what appears to be only meager and derisory sums of monetary compensation (peanuts, as sadly and very undiplomatically put forward by a former Swiss banker...). Now does this do any Justice at all to what really happened, or does it rather end up looking like a some kind of a maccabre theatrical trailer?...
You could have guessed by yourself that there are many Jewish voices strongly discenting the broad hollywoodization, and standing in opposition to the sharp tone that things related to the Holocaust and its victims seem to have been taking on more and more lately (yes, there were Jewish Holocaust victims that refused any form of compensation, as a matter of pure principle), and eagerly looking left and right for some people to voice some kind of a different opinion and point of view...
Well, after the vociferous and highly vocable D'Amato and consort, the vindicative and self-righteous Eizenstadt and the often self-flogging mumbling Swiss, here is finally a Voice in the desert appearing in printed form, asking for a little more respects towards what really happened, and towards the victims thereof...
Having said that, it is my strong belief that such Jewish Voices coming from Jewish descendants of the Holocaust are instrumental in averting wide and rampant forms of anti-semitism, so-called "semitism" being more than often nothing less and nothing more than a politicization of so-called global Jewish interests, if there ever was such a thing... Semitism alas often had the sad tendency of making dogmatic slaves out of its adherents, but not all of them seem to succumb to the sweet voices of totalitarian bias... Yes, pro-semitism and anti-semtism are alternating conditions that can hardly be stopped or done away with, probably they can only be dampened, but sadly enough there has and always will be people to profit from the different tidal waves thereof, like from something akin to stock-market fluctuations, just standing there in order to "milk-it"... So, my question: Is the derivation of financial profits from a rising tidal wave of anti-semtism (as for example the Nazis and countless others have done before them) any different (better or worse) than to profit from a tidal wave of pro-semitism? That is the question you might ask yourself after reading this book... But in my mind, it often appears that one generates the other in an alternate pendulum swing, the more the exacerbated and politicized the swing on one side is, the more it will be on the other side, and if it is usually a portion of the Jewish people themselves that will end up profiting from a beneficial tidal wave, sadly enough, it will be another portion of the Jewish people that will be left holding the bag, as the emblematic sufferers from the reversal of the tidal wave or pendulum swing... Now, is that just? Hardly, it seems, although I cannot and do not know the answer, but the fact seems that the biggest unjustices often end up being perpetrated among the Jewish people themselves, and I came to believe that the appearance of what some people have come to call "Jewish anti-semitism" has come to play a very healthy and self-regulating role... The house needs to be cleaned from within, peacefully and dilligently...
So if you ever doubted that politics and power always end up being just another nasty play of short-term and often base self-interests, like some kind of a Middas turning everything into dirt, your doubts will vansih like thin air after reading this book... Lately, there have been those that shouted aloud, now there also seems to be a few that dare to think aloud, and also dare to put it into printed form... Norman Finkelstein is one of the few of the latter sort, a blessed Voice for the Conscience of Man, of decent Americans, of the rampaged Swiss and, last but not least, of Jewish dignity and of its countless WWII victims...
As far as the contents of the book are concerned, you can check the facts out for yourself, and realize that there was not a single voice of opposition, re-buttal or even argumented answer to the way Finkelstein has presented what ends up being, alas, well-documented historical facts.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Truthful Man
Comment: Mr. Finkelstein is a truthful writer. He also sprinkles the
seriousness of the Holocaust Industry with very funny and not expected statements.Like when he writes: "The Israeli flag, don't leave home without it!"
He is an excellent writer and informs of things that we would had never known , had he not written this book.
highly recommended but ONLY for those that can stomach the bare truth.
If you're the type that wants to keep yourself in ignorant bliss,
because it's easier for you, then this book is not for you.
Norman Finkelstein is the little boy , in the story of the "Emperor's Clothes" that screamed : The Emperor is NAKED!!!!!!
He screamed the TRUTH, the FACTS .
The FACT is that the nazi holocaust has been turned into a HOLOCASH by the holocaust industry and its greedy,sneaky, abominable makers and followers.While the REAL nazi holocaust victims got no money or hardly any money or much needed help there were people becoming wealthy from the sufferings and misery of the poor REAL victims.Including that "Weasel" guy that charges $25,000 to give an interview. .First , Jews were horribly victimized by the Nazis and then equally by their own people the Jews .Though, there were other MILLIONS of people victimized by the nazis that are NEVER mentioned by Jews.These makers and followers of the Holocaust Industry are EXACTLY as the Nazis themselves.
Still, I wonder ...how many people after that little boy screamed the truth, accepted it or kept on denying it.The story never does tell us that.
Finkelstein has screamed the TRUTH in this well written book...it is up to you....to face it.
It's a book that after you're done reading it will never be forgotten. Thank you Norman Finkelstein for opening my eyes to the the facts .Thank you!
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