# Self hating jew? Norman Finkelstein **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 27, 2006, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-hating-jew-norman-finkelstein/354392 "2006-04-27T00:51:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BrightSmite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@BrightSmite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrightSmite)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-hating-jew-norman-finkelstein/354392/1 "2006-04-27T00:51:21Z")
Ever heard of him? Sounds pretty scholarly… [http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/content.php?pg=19](http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/content.php?pg=19) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman\_Finkelstein](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Finkelstein) ---
**Author:** ![BrightSmite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@BrightSmite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrightSmite)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-hating-jew-norman-finkelstein/354392/2 "2006-04-27T01:28:28Z")
If you have the attention span… here’s the condensed version of his whole argument… A question and answer session at Yale University last year 46 minutes (Audio) 12 MB MP3 leitrimproductions.net/Finkelstein\_Part3.mp3 46 minutes (Viedo) 82 MB WMV [http://leitrimproductions.net/Prof.F.Part3.wmv](http://leitrimproductions.net/Prof.F.Part3.wmv) ---
**Author:** ![xiix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/d6d6ee/32.png) [@xiix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xiix)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-hating-jew-norman-finkelstein/354392/3 "2006-04-27T03:20:57Z")
In a similar vein, here is the infamous canadian self-hating jew: [David Noble](http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19932) and related 'pedia [article](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_F._Noble) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-hating-jew-norman-finkelstein/354392/4 "2006-04-27T04:40:27Z")
What makes this guys “self-hating,” in your opinion? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-hating-jew-norman-finkelstein/354392/5 "2006-04-27T04:42:47Z")
“This guy,” if you prefer. ---
**Author:** ![Electronic\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-hating-jew-norman-finkelstein/354392/6 "2006-04-27T05:17:45Z")
Doesn’t look as self-hating as [Bobby Fischer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer#Bobby_Fischer_and_the_Jews) Apparently both his mother and father are Jewish, and he’s probably one of the most outspoken anti-Semite I’ve heard in awhile. ---
**Author:** ![Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophistry_and_Illusion)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-hating-jew-norman-finkelstein/354392/7 "2006-04-27T05:33:07Z")
Right. Every Jew who criticizes Israel or charges that some exploit the Holocaust for political gain is self-hating, and every non-Jew who does so is an anti-Semite. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Sevastopol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Sevastopol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sevastopol)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-hating-jew-norman-finkelstein/354392/8 "2006-04-27T05:50:22Z")
[QUOTE=BrightSmite] Ever heard of him? Sounds pretty scholarly… [http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/content.php?pg=19](http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/content.php?pg=19) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman\_Finkelstein](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Finkelstein) [/QUOTE] He seems like a good guy and brave. Not a drop of hatred in him. ---
**Author:** ![galen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecc23a/32.png) [@galen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2006, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-hating-jew-norman-finkelstein/354392/9 "2006-05-01T04:59:51Z")
[QUOTE=Sophistry and Illusion] Right. Every Jew who criticizes Israel or charges that some exploit the Holocaust for political gain is self-hating, and every non-Jew who does so is an anti-Semite. :rolleyes: [/QUOTE] Exactly right. ---
**Author:** ![BrightSmite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@BrightSmite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrightSmite)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2006, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-hating-jew-norman-finkelstein/354392/10 "2006-05-01T16:31:35Z")
[QUOTE=Marley23] What makes this guys “self-hating,” in your opinion? [/QUOTE] It’s just a question… other people claim he is. I found Finkelstein while looking through Wiki in an Alan Dershowitz article. I probably could’ve titled the thread a bit better. No offence to anyone, just asking other’s opinions. I just think he is a disturbingly interesting fellow