Meticulously researched and tightly argued, Beyond Chutzpah points to a consensus among historians and human rights organizations on the factual record of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Norman G. Finkelstein exposes the corruption of scholarship and the contrivance of controversy shrouding human rights abuses, and interrogates the new anti-Semitism. This paperback edition adds a preface analyzing recent developments in the conflict, and a new afterword on Israel's construction of a wall in the West Bank.

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Norman G. Finkelstein is currently an independent scholar. For many years he taught political theory and the Israel-Palestine conflict. His books include The Holocaust Industry (2000); A Nation on Trial (1998; with Ruth Bettina Birn), named a notable book for 1998 by the New York Times Sunday Book Review; and Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict (1995).

Inhalt

Preface to the First Paperback Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction

PART ONE THE NOT-SO-NEW "NEW ANTI-SEMITISM"
1 From Jesus Christ Superstar to The Passion of the Christ
2 Israel: The "Jew among Nations"
3 Crying Wolf

PART TWO THE GREATEST TALE EVER SOLD
Introduction
4 Impurity of Arms
5 Three in the Back of the Head
6 Israel's Abu Ghraib
7 Return of the Vandals
8 Blight unto the Nations
9 High Court Takes the Low Road
Conclusion

Postscript: Reconciling Irreconcilables:
How Israel's High Court of Justice Proved
the Wall Was Legal
Appendix I: Of Crimes and Misdemeanors
Appendix II: History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Appendix III: Peace Process
Epilogue: Dershowitz v. Finkelstein: Who's Right and Who's Wrong,
by Frank J. Menetrez
Index