Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History

345 Pages·2005·4.44 MB·English

by  Norman G. Finkelstein

BEYOND CHUTZPAH

Beyond Chutzpah
On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism
and the Abuse of History
NORMAN G. FINKELSTEIN
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley Los Angeles
University of California Press
Berkeley and Los Angeles, California
© 2005by Norman G. Finkelstein
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Finkelstein, Norman G.
Beyond chutzpah : on the misuse of anti-semitism
and the abuse of history / Norman G. Finkelstein.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn0-520-24598-9(cloth : alk. paper)
1.Arab-Israeli conflict. 2.Palestinian Arabs—
Crimes against. 3.Dershowitz, Alan M. Case for
Israel. 4.Zionism. 5.Human rights—Palestine.
I. Title.
ds119.7.f544 2005
323.1192'7405694—dc22 2005000117
Manufactured in the United States of America
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The paper used in this publication meets the minimum
requirements of ansi/nisoz39.48-1992(r1997)
(Permanence of Paper).
To Musa Abu Hashhash and
his fellow human rights workers,
Palestinian and Israeli,
preserving the truth from falsifiers

The world is full of evil people and it is important to
stand up to evil.
Alan M. Dershowitz, Letters to a Young Lawyer

Contents
Acknowledgments / xi
Introduction / 1
PART ONE THE NOT-SO-NEW “NEW ANTI-SEMITISM”
1 From Jesus Christ Superstar
to The Passion of the Christ / 21
2 Israel: The “Jew among Nations” / 32
3 Crying Wolf / 66
PART TWO THE GREATEST TALE EVER SOLD
Introduction / 89
4 Impurity of Arms / 96
5 Three in the Back of the Head / 131
6 Israel’s Abu Ghraib / 142
7 Return of the Vandals / 168
8 Blight unto the Nations / 190