My Norman Finkelstein Problem—And Ours

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
April 3, 2009

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/443/my-norman-finkelstein-problem-and-ours

Excerpt:

I am no stranger to withering scorn, hate mail, death threats, and slander. In addition, from the early 1970s on, people have tried to, or have actually, sued me. Once, a grand jury was even convened to question me. Reviewers have both praised and damned my work. This is the inevitable consequence of speaking out and of being a public intellectual. (I was once proud of this designation. Now, given how most intellectuals have betrayed the truth, the Jews, and the West, I'm seriously considering telling people that I'm a gardener, a cook, a carpenter, or just a wordsmith.)

Earlier this week, strange emails began arriving. They were tight, hate-filled, sarcastic, insulting, and very "wordy." I could not understand why they started arriving now, instead of last week, for example. Then, all became clear when I found out that Norman Finkelstein, the infamous darling of the Hate Israel crowd had reprinted my piece Our Eternal Struggle which you may read HERE. However, Finkelstein, titled the piece: Who Would Ever Have Thought That a Cow Could Write the Alphabet?

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