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In this long-awaited sequel to his international bestseller The Holocaust Industry, Norman G. Finkelstein moves from an iconoclastic interrogation of the new anti-Semitism to a meticulously researched exposé of the corruption of scholarship on the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Bringing to bear the latest findings on the conflict and recasting the scholarly debate, Finkelstein points to a consensus among historians and human rights organizations on the factual record. Why, then, does so much controversy swirl around the conflict? Finkelstein’s answer, copiously documented, is that apologists for Israel contrive controversy. Whenever Israel comes under international pressure, another media campaign alleging a global outbreak of anti-Semitism is mounted.

Finkelstein also scrutinizes the proliferation of distortion masquerading as history. Recalling Joan Peters’ book From Time Immemorial, published to great fanfare in 1984 but subsequently exposed as an academic hoax, he asks deeply troubling questions here about the periodic reappearance of spurious scholarship and the uncritical acclaim it receives. The most recent addition to this genre, Finkelstein argues, is Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz’s bestseller, The Case for Israel.

The core analysis of Beyond Chutzpah sets Dershowitz’s assertions on Israel’s human rights record against the findings of the mainstream human rights community. Sifting through thousands of pages of reports from organizations such as Amnesty International, B’Tselem, and Human Rights Watch, Finkelstein argues that Dershowitz has misrepresented the facts.

Thoroughly researched and tightly argued, Beyond Chutzpah lifts the veil of controversy shrouding the Israel-Palestine conflict.
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Finkelstein, a political science professor and author of The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering, has conducted a rancorous public feud with Harvard Law professor and pro-Israel stalwart Alan Dershowitz over the latter's The Case for Israel, and here expands his arguments into a vigorous polemic on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The first part of the book examines what he feels is a growing tendency of pro-Israel commentators to use spurious charges of anti-Semitism to deflect and discredit legitimate criticism of Israel. The second, much longer, part is a line-by-line debunking of The Case for Israel, which he compares to Communist apologetics for Stalinist Russia. Rebutting Dershowitz's claims about Israel's "superb" human rights record, Finkelstein cites human rights organizations like Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the Israeli group B'Tselem to document Israeli abuses in the occupied territories, including killings of Palestinian civilians, torture of Palestinian prisoners and home demolitions. Lengthy appendices flesh out his explosive assertion that Dershowitz plagiarized the historical research and interpretations (but not the actual phrasing) of Joan Peters's From Time Immemorial. The Middle East conflict rarely inspires calm discussion, and Finkelstein duly pillories his opponents as perpetrators of "hoax" and "fraud" who lack "ordinary moral values" and whose behavior resembles anti-Semitic stereotypes. Inflammatory rhetoric aside, he does raise serious questions about the veracity, scholarly methods and fairness of Dershowitz and others. More important, he presents a wealth of evidence on the human rights situation in the occupied territories, so often ignored in American debate on these issues. Exhaustively researched and meticulously-if intemperately-argued, Finkelstein's book is a formidable challenge to the conventional wisdom on the Middle East. Photos.
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Supporters of this book will not include Alan Dershowitz, author of The Case for Israel (2003). Very little of Dershowitz's widely acclaimed defense of Israel's occupation policies escapes Finkelstein's withering scrutiny. Behind Dershowitz's firm assurances that Israel is dealing with its adversaries justly and humanely, Finkelstein discerns ugly realities, including brutal torture of Palestinian prisoners and lethal disregard for Palestinian children and noncombatants. In Finkelstein's assessment, Israel is grievously violating Palestinian rights because its leaders deliberately choose to ignore both the humanity of the Palestinian people and the justice of international law. And in the claim that will perhaps stir the fiercest debates, Finkelstein asserts that when Dershowitz and his allies defend Israel with shoddy and mendacious scholarship, they actually stoke the very anti-Semitism they claim to be combating. Neither anti-Semitism nor global antipathy toward Israel will persist, Finkelstein avers, if Israel and its partisans will honestly confront and redress the malign consequences of current Israeli policies. This book, which has already sparked intense controversy, belongs in collections seeking to represent multiple points of view on significant topics of international interest. Bryce Christensen
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of California Press; First Edition (August 28, 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 343 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0520245989
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0520245983
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1 x 9 inches
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Customers find the book informative and well-researched. They describe it as an intellectual tour de force with a lot of references. Readers appreciate the well-written and insightful review of topics not covered in popular media. The book criticizes Israel's perspective and apologists, systematically debunking the Case for Israel and similar works.

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Customers find the book informative and well-researched. They appreciate the references and find it an intellectual treatise on Israel's treatment of Palestinians. The book provides a stark analysis of misinformation campaigns by Israel and is described as an honest attempt at an analysis of the issue.

"...The best part of the book is the much longer, highly detailed expose of the dishonest attempt at "scholarship" by Harvard's Alan Dershowitz in his '..." Read more

"...It is very informative. It provides a lot of references for one to pursue further with any topic of interest to the reader." Read more

"...His book is, in my view, an intellectual tour de force, and a "must read" for all who are genuinely interested in justice and fairness with regard..." Read more

"...That about sums it up: Finkelstein is a dedicated scholar and his work is indispensable when discussing this conflict...." Read more

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Customers find the book easy to read and well-written. It provides an insider's perspective and a good review of topics not covered in popular books. They consider it an important resource for understanding the other side of the debate.

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"What a wonderfully written book with an insiders perspective but from a very different view point on the relationship between Palestine and Israel...." Read more

"Amazing book written by the son of Holocaust survivors. Dr. Finkelstein is an amazing and brave man...." Read more

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Customers find the book's Israeli perspective remarkable. It criticizes Israel and its apologists, systematically debunking the Case for Israel and similar works. The Holocaust is used to justify all Israeli crimes, the book says.

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  • David J.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Important book if you want to understand the "other side" of the debate
    Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2024
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    I read this book along side Alan Dershowitz's "The Case for Isreal" in order to see the conflict from as many sides as possible. I enjoyed reading it. Both men make great arguments and its great Amazon sells this book.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars I'm amazed
    Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2024
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    big ups to Dr. Finkelstein. He is amazing, I can't stop reading or listening to him only cause everything he says are backed up on solid facts
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  • Matthew Smith
    5.0 out of 5 stars Attack the work, not the man
    Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2007
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    The only criticisms of this work I have seen are personal attacks against Mr. Finkelstein himself and not the scholarship itself. Is Mr. Finkelstein "anti-Semitic", a "self hating Jew", "crazy" or an "Arab apologist? Well, I don't the know man. He very well could be all these things and more, but is that really a cogent dissection of the themes, scholarship and the over all efficacy of the work? To that question I would answer no.

    Finkelstein set out to enumerate the techniques used by Israeli apologists, and to that end I found Beyond Chutzpa to be beyond reproach. He sets out to use Dershowitz and other propagandist's own works to show how they go about disseminating falsehoods, exaggerations and lies to obfuscate the reality on the ground to the detriment of both sides. As for Dershowitz's works, Finkelstein devotes much of the book to systematically tearing down each of his arguments and shining a bright light on the shoddy scholarship used by Dershowitz. By using Dershowitz as an example case, he lays waste to the arguments that Israel is a humane and just nation that deals with all peoples, including the Palestinians, on an equal basis.

    Mr. Finkelstein uses two world renowned human rights organizations, (and also Palestinian and Israeli organizations) Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, to document the numerous humanitarian violations committed by the Israeli government. He uses copious amounts of documentation from these organizations to rebut claims made by Dershowitz. He also points out Dershowitz's lack of reference to these organizations. This is a glaring omission since many times these organizations are the only groups to have neutral observers on the ground to witness and document what is happening in places like Gaza and the West Bank. How could anyone writing a book about this area not use these organizations as source material?

    This conflict is a very divisive issue for anyone who delves even skin deep into this topic. We all come to the table with built in biases and well formed opinions, but we must sift through these "opinions" and figure out what is fact before there will ever be a peaceful conclusion. What we have now is not only killing Palestinians and Israelis, but in a wider context, destabilizing the entire world. Believe it or not many of the terrorists that have attacked the U.S. did not commit these acts because "they hate our freedoms" but rather is directly attributable to their belief that the U.S. is no longer an honest broker in the area, and when a UN vote in regards to Israeli policies comes up and the vote ends up being the entire world voting yea and the U.S., Israel and the Marshal Islands voting nay I believe they may have an argument.

    People like Dershowitz do not help anyone when they obscure the reality of the situation. When someone from such a prestigious university says that Israel is wonderful place that has a wonderful record on human rights people here believe him. Then that means that the crazy hate filled Arabs are just racists who have a great life but just want to kill Jews anyway. We here in the U.S. must become the honest brokers that the citizenry believes we are, but to do that we have to have the blinders removed. So once again, if this book is a lie then attack the scholarship and expose it, but do not simply spout that he's a racist and expect me to dismiss this book.
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  • John
    5.0 out of 5 stars Exceptional expose of Alan Dershowitz's 'The Case For Israel'
    Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2014
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    This is really two books in one. The first 85 pages are an excellent discussion of the misuse and abuse of the term anti-semitism. The points are well made but border on overkill.

    The best part of the book is the much longer, highly detailed expose of the dishonest attempt at "scholarship" by Harvard's Alan Dershowitz in his 'The Case For Israel' (2003). Finkelstein is very detailed with exhaustive documentation. This is not pleasant reading, specially for those who believe all the pro-Israeli mythology that pervades reporting in the US. Dershowitz is clearly exposed as a world class liar; sorry, there's just no polite way to say it.

    For anyone willing to listen to all the international bodies that have studied the issues - this is an eye opener that's almost too painful to read. I did not read it until January 2014 and found it still highly relevant almost a decade later.

    The Dershowitz issues are nicely updated in Howard Friel's excellent 'Chomsky and Dershowitz: On Endless War and the End of Civil Liberties' (2014).

    This is not fun reading but if you want an adult dose of reality this will reward your efforts.
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  • Albert Doyle
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Brilliant Argument
    Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2005
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    It's somewhat unfortunate that much of the interest in this book has been created by the conflict between Finkelstein and Alan Dershowitz about the alleged plagiarism of Dershowitz. That subject is certainly well covered. See Appendix I. But as Finkelstein says his primary intent is to use Dershowitz' claims as a peg to explore crucial aspects of the Israel-Palestine conflict which he does brilliantly and exposes Dershowitz shoddy scholorship along the way.

    Part I of the book deals with the latest campaign by Israel's dogged supporters to convince us that the world is awash in a "new anti-Semitism" which turns out to mean any criticism of the Zionist state. The evidence is...nothing. Finkelstein shows that this a regular practice whenever Israel is forced to come close to actual peace.

    In Part II Finkelstein deals with Dershowitz' attempts to paint Israel as not only innocent of human rights violations but as a paragon of virtue ("generally superb") in the face of unanimous opposite conclusions by every international body dealing with the subject. I would recommend that any reader first read Appendices II and III before the rest of the book to get an appreciation of Dershowitz' appalling misrepresentations. To make his case Dershowitz is compelled to denounce every human rights organization and the International Court of Justice. The latter not only found Israel's recently constructed "wall" built in the occupied West Bank illegal but also confirmed once again that the Israeli "settlements" - all of them - were likewise illegal, so the violations were not only offensive in themselves but were committed in illegally occupied territory. This book effectively exposes Dershowitz' claims which have been promoted by the Israeli government as "among the most spectacular academic frauds ever published on the Israel-Palestine conflict." Only a skillful and courageous Jew like Norman Finkelstein could have written and published this book.
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  • chelovek
    5.0 out of 5 stars un livre très informatif et grès utile sur un thème très chaud
    Reviewed in France on October 12, 2020
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    En France, ds descendants de Juifs déportés ont voulu faire condamner la SNCF à verser des dédommagements énormes pour avoir fourni le transport des déportés. Mais cette demande visait un service de l'État qui pour sa part avait déjà dédommagé très largement les victimes du régime de Vichy. L'instance supérieure de la justice française a rappelé tous les dédommagements précédents et elle les a déboutés en précisant qu'il y avait abus ("misuse").
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  • Chuck Wagner
    5.0 out of 5 stars Stormin Norman...
    Reviewed in Canada on April 24, 2014
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    I bought this book after watching Dershowitz debate Finklestein on youtube. Subsequent to that debate AD had NF canned from Harvard. This was in my view a cowardly, petty and evil act: messing with a man's career in a society where many define themselves by their profession. It reflects bad on Harvard, too.

    This is well referenced book. If you are swayed by such things as references / footnotes.

    The term anti-semite might apply to you. It is incredible how the category has broadened in the last few decades.
    Abuse of history is an ongoing process and it isn't something new. I just wish educational institutions would refrain from participating.
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  • Ilkka Melleri
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
    Reviewed in Germany on November 5, 2016
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    Well written and very thorough. Clearly argumented with detailed references the reader can verify. The first book I read from Finkelstein, but definitely not the last.
    The sheer demolition of Dershowitz's book is impressive.

    The layout of the Kindle version is horrible, though. At least on my Android Kindle reader the text from the footnotes is mixed with the content making it really awkward to read.
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  • JE
    5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant
    Reviewed in Canada on May 5, 2013
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    A long-time follower of Finkelstein, I chose this book to get more insight into the misuse of Jewish suffering specifically in relation to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Absolutely surpasses my expectations, and is deserving of much more attention regardless of the controversy within it and surrounding its publication.
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  • Firelander
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in Canada on October 9, 2016
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    An excellent book for everybody.
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