Norman Finkelstein

Me and three of my dear British friends, colleagues and comrades: Alex Nunns (Jeremy Corbyn’s press secretary), Deborah Maccoby (my editor and the greatest living authority on British literature), and Talal Hangari (my literary assistant just graduated from Cambridge).  If there are three more wonderful people in the world, I’ve not met them. Me and […]

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I was invited to participate in a debate at the Oxford Union on November 28, 2024 that included Israeli professor Benny Morris.  I was subsequently informed by the Union that, after agreeing to attend, Professor Morris stipulated that he would only participate in the debate if former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was also invited.  […]

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It’s now pretty clear what happened in Amsterdam this week. But first some background.   For over a decade the football governing bodies FIFA, the International Federation of Football Associations, and UEFA, the Union of European Football Associations, have consistently rejected demands to suspend or expel the Israel Football Association (IFA) and individual Israeli football […]

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