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Mathew Abraham

Responding to Complaints about Beyond Chutzpah Review

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My review essay of Norman G. Finkelstein’s book, Beyond Chutzpah: The Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History, stirred Alan Dershowitz, Berel Dov Lerner, Maoz Azaryahu, and Jason Jungreis to write complaints to the Logos editors, alleging that my review: 1) was biased and vastly overstated its case; 2) contained historical inaccuracies; 3) had…

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Norman Finkelstein’s Beyond Chutzpah: On The Misuse Of Anti-semitism And The Abuse Of History

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Most of the controversy surrounding the Israel-Palestine conflict is, in my view, contrived. The purpose of contriving such controversy is transparently political: to deflect attention from, or distort, the actual documentary record. One can speak of, basically three sources of artificial disagreement: (1) mystification of the conflict’s roots, (2) invocation of anti-Semitism and the Holocaust…

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