Norman Finkelstein: "I WILL NOT BE SILENT WHEN ISRAEL COMMITS ITS CRIMES AGAINST THE PALESTINIANS"

"I WILL NOT BE SILENT WHEN ISRAEL COMMITS ITS CRIMES AGAINST THE PALESTINIANS" - Norman Finkelstein Summary:

- 0:02-0:27 - Audience member confronts Finkelstein for making references comparing certain people (especially in audience) to Nazis, calling it "extremely offensive" to Germans and those who suffered under Nazi rule

- 0:27-0:53 - Finkelstein responds sharply that he doesn't respect the "crocodile tears," repeatedly asking to be allowed to finish speaking as interruptions continue

- 0:53-1:18 - States he doesn't like to "play the Holocaust card" but feels compelled to do so; begins revealing his late father was in Auschwitz before being told to "shut up" by hecklers

- 1:18-1:36 - Continues despite interruption: late father was in Auschwitz concentration camp, late mother was in Majdanek concentration camp, every single family member on father's side was killed

- 1:36-1:54 - Clarifies: every single member of his family on BOTH sides was exterminated; both of his parents were in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

- 1:54-2:11 - Declares it is "precisely and exactly because of the lessons my parents taught me and my two siblings that I will not be silent when Israel commits its crimes against the Palestinians"

- 2:11-2:35 - States he considers "nothing more despicable" than using Holocaust victims' suffering and martyrdom to justify Israel's actions - including torture, brutalization, and home demolitions against Palestinians

- 2:35-2:44 - Refuses to be "intimidated or browbeaten by the tears" anymore

- 2:44-2:58 - Delivers final rebuke: "If you had any heart in you, you would be crying for the Palestinians" - not invoking Holocaust suffering to deflect from current crimes

- Overall message - Finkelstein uses his direct family connection to the Holocaust (both parents survivors, entire extended family exterminated) to reject the weaponization of Holocaust memory to shield Israel from criticism over treatment of Palestinians
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Original Source Attribution:

'"I WILL NOT BE SILENT WHEN ISRAEL COMMITS ITS CRIMES AGAINST THE PALESTINIANS"' | Islam Channel | Oct 18, 2023 | https://youtu.be/FtpgGxeCGpM?si=hkax_WkcHrkSR9iM

AUSCHWITZ SURVIVORS' SON: "I WILL NOT BE SILENT WHEN ISRAEL COMMITS ITS CRIMES AGAINST THE PALESTINIANS"

In 2008, Professor Norman Finkelstein, who comes from a family deeply impacted by the Holocaust, was deeply outraged by what he saw as feigned sorrow or "crocodile tears" from a student at Case Western University in Cleveland, Ohio.

Finkelstein's father was an Auschwitz survivor, while his mother survived the Warsaw Ghetto and Majdanek concentration camp. Having experienced significant loss within his family during the Nazi Holocaust, he was infuriated when confronted by a Jewish student questioning his pro-Palestinian stance.

He said: "I don't respect the crocodile tears - if you had any heart in you, you would be crying for the Palestinians."
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