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Phillip McKay's avatar

I love Norman. What a brave a decent man he has been.

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Sophia Pascoe's avatar

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Ingrid Hahn's avatar

Norman Finkelstein is one brave master at detecting, articulating in detail and clarifying the truth. It is a privilege to have access to his expertise, presented with uncanny humor. BRAVO!

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Sophia Pascoe's avatar

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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MJK's avatar

He endows it with a positive content………..Harris a shameful “piece of shit”

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Ben Macloughlin's avatar

I think Sam Harris unfortunately banged his head when he was a baby or some such similar.

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IGOR's avatar

Oh, what are their many hours of gatherings, characterized by "debates", with Jordan Peterson worth! Yes , and with such "moderators" as Bret Weinstein and Douglas Murray. Of course, it would be possible to characterize this action more decently on my part, but I did not come up with anything more flattering than "narcissists sniffing each other's asses." By the way, Sam Harris, positions himself as a neurophysiologist, is engaged in Vipassana meditation (Yuval Harari is also a fan of this school). A very one-sided "atheist".

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Lina Aziz's avatar

I can hear Mr Finklesteins voice while I read this funny but scary piece, where do I go to escape persecution in this world smh. I feel so deeply that they are going to start putting Muslims in concentration camps in this country soon .

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Susan Pagac's avatar

And after that, the rest of us.

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tre peperoncini's avatar

Admire your intellect and courage to speak on behalf of the injustice which the world has inflicted on the Palestinians, your voice is one I have followed years, though I am perplexed that you deem it worthy of your time to spend so much effort to eviscerate Sam Harris, Who in my opinion has recently been doing very well at revealing himself to be a racists ignoramus. .. Thank-you for being a voice of conscious !

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Ingrid Hahn's avatar

I find this article one of Norman Finkelstein's best in part because I grew up surrounded by scholars of many religions, my father for one. I would be curious to know how Sam Harris has lately revealed himself to be an ignoranus -- I mean to the world. To you and me it is obvious. It seems to me his views have been increasingly taken very seriously as have those of the "Son of Hamas', Mosab Youssef Hassan, a spy for Israel who has converted to Christianity and endlessly speaks for Israel by condemning Islam. We agree on Norman Finkelstein's courage, intellect and voice of conscience. In solidarity.

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tre peperoncini's avatar

You have changed my mind, Yes, I have to agree, , there is need for Norman. Finkelstein to revile the fallacy of Sam Harris`s arguments, just as I needed your help. thank-you

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tru3's avatar

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Ivan Skovar's avatar

For most of our lives, we have been propagandized into believing that Muslims are the bane of the West. They are culturally different for sure, but the cause of their anger has been and remains Israeli policy and their thoroughly bought and paid for servants, the U.S. government.

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Erik Weissengruber's avatar

Well said, doctor.

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John Reuter's avatar

Written December 2023! I'm so glad I happened upon this excellent skewering of the loathsome Savant Jew (yes utterly redundant), the godless atheist (again redundant) fool. Good job Mr. Finkelstein. Good job.

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Brad Neufeld's avatar

I am very grateful for Norman Finkelstein. As always his prose is clear, comprehensive, and brilliant at exposing the hypocrisies that lay at the heart of our so-called civilization. It is a dirty job to have to expose these charlatans for what they are. Few are up to the challenge and none like Norman.

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Susan Pagac's avatar

It is a repulsive job. It’s hard enough to endure the existence of such unconscious idiots as Harris. But to have the commitment and tenacity to actually watch an entire program where he is a guest who’s allowed to empty the bile from his brain is not for pansies; it’s the work of a dedicated hero.

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Lindsey Louther's avatar

This is how vacuous the fascists have become. As long as you have a hoi polloi and you extol the Jewish murderous hatred and you feel no shame about being a vile human being, you are a self-evident expert. Thank you Prof Finkelstein for enlightening me once again.

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John Samuels's avatar

Thank you Mr Finkelstein for just keeping it reaal 🇮🇱 🇵🇸

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Blind Faith's avatar

Harris needs to be notice…he can’t help himself. People like him makes people that are atheist or deist look bad.

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Sylvia French's avatar

I think one Christians and Jews hate Muslims is that they want to avoid being called to task by God the sin of usury. Muslims are the only Abrahamic faith that still has halal financing.

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CMVanderwallBrown's avatar

Calling Harris a "media performer" is probably the most brutal (and also accurate) thing Norm said about Sam that might actually get thriugh to him—unfortunately. I'd be impressed if he managed to get passed that without turning beet red and aburisming. Which is the least we can hope for someone flagellating themselves in fealty to Empire & ongoing Holocaust/Nakbah/total genocide—for the state of Israel has made clear this is not merely to be a "partial genocide", but the full Monty. They want to impress upon Palestinian, though perhaps "inflict" would be a more fitting word, what was purportedly done onto them & their families (even if they didn't lose any family personally during the Holocaust, such as those whose had long left Europe or whom never were in Europe to begin with—such as the many coopted Arab Jewish children kidnapped from the arms of their mothers by the Israeli state to be "rehoused" (as though they were "pets") into "proper, civilized" Ashkenazi Jewish families who could thoroughly indoctrinate them into the "Zionist traditions" (read: cult).

Thank you, professor, for your continued integrity. I know it is draining & exhausting. Though, perhaps, as terrible as it is, this is PRECISELY the time your work was meant for—G-d knowing the hearts of Zionists would not bend, inspired you along with your parents to speak truth to power, and give evidence when it would be most needed, much like (ironically) those Germans slain by the Third Reichstag for collecting evidence of Nazi crimes against humanity, such as those affiliated with Dietrich Bonhoeffer's family.

Thank you for not giving up. We fan all lose faith at times. What matters is what we do in the end and what the long curve of history tells us. Even those New Historians who have sold out to power had their roles to play, and perhaps they will be remembered much like Benedict Arnold — one foot buried with honor as a "hero" and the rest of them cast out as "traitors to the cause of humanity" (not that I am blind enough to think the Revolution was so mundane or honorable).

Many a prophet became overwhelmed by the shear magnitude of their task, so do not feel yourself having failed, for while I imagine you do not do this strictly for yourself (to avoid a corrupted,blood splattered conscience), I think those natives of the Levant would agree that you will be remembered for your consideration & valiance as a chronicler of Palestine. So, please, stay safe, eat & rest well, get some exercise, and live as long as possible that you might have every possible opportunity for the good you have cobbled together, the wisdom laid down, can rise forth in the morning sun and shine rays of hope upon those whom will now be forced to rebuild despite so MANY & so MUCH being annihilated. You are, for the Levant, continuing the legacy if those who survived the last Holocaust. Only exemplifying the notion of a "Good Jew" in similar flavor to that often spoken by our communities of those "Good Germans".

And for the lay reader, no, I do not consider "Jewish Zionists" to be any more Jewish than I consider "Christian Zionists" to be "Christian", which is to say, not at all.

Blessings & may peace be upon you and all whom you encounter and whose oaths you cross along your way.

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CMVanderwallBrown's avatar

Edit: Paths* you cross

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