Norman Finkelstein explores the corruption and bias of scholarship surrounding the Palestine-Israel conflict. The talk will examine the growing tendency of pro-Israel commentators to use spurious charges of anti-Semitism to deflect and discredit legitimate criticism of Israel.
[Please note that professor finkelstein will be speaking at two different venues on the same day.]
The misuse of anti-Semitism and the abuse of history
Norman Finkelstein explores the corruption and bias of scholarship surrounding the Palestine-Israel conflict. The talk will examine the growing tendency of pro-Israel commentators to use spurious charges of anti-Semitism to deflect and discredit legitimate criticism of Israel. With historical depth and intellectual integrity, Finkelstein rejects the view that the Israel-Palestine conflict is impossibly complex as a mystification, insists that the Palestinians were ethnically cleansed in 1948, and exposes Israel's damning human rights record.
Norman G Finkelstein is a Jewish American professor of Political Sciences and an internationally renowned academic. He is the author of five books, including 'The Holocaust Industry' and 'Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict'.
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Date: Monday 23rd February
Time: 6:00 - 7:30 pm
Venue: King's College, Harris Lecture Theatre, Hodgkin Building, Guy's Campus, London SE1 1UL
Entry fee: £2
Contact: mohammed.bakir [at] kcl.ac.uk 07845678048
mostafa.albayati [at] kcl.ac.uk 07825017826
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Date: Monday 23rd February
Time: 8:15 - 9:45 pm
Sponsors: Goodenough College - Arab Cultural Society
Place: Goodenough College, Mecklenburgh Square, WC1N 2AB
Time: 8:15 - 9:45 pm
Contact: hassan.elbahtimy [at] klc.ac.uk 077 47161350
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