(I just saw this on Gilad’s blog and it’s too good to pass)
Note: the full movie can be downloaded from the Pirate Bay here: http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5247499/American_Radical___The_Trials_Of_Norman_Finkelstein_-_AVI_-_GCJM
It is worth noting that unlike some pseudo-progressives or anarcho-capitalists, the producers of this movie are not threatening lawsuits about the so-called “illegal” downloads of their movie. Instead, they posted this message on The Pirate Bay:
Hello torrenters. I’m the owner of the film production company that released this film.
We’re a tiny operation of four employees working out of a hole in the wall in Seattle. In this current economy, we’re really fighting hard just to stay afloat – even big companies like Miramax are dying.
If you want us to be able to continue to deliver quality and controversial films like this one, we have to be able to make enough to survive.
Please consider buying this film:
http://arabfilm.com/item/509/(As you can see, we can’t even afford to hire a web designer.)
I can only urge everybody to either purchase this movie (even after seeing the torrented download) or send these folks a donation. These guys deserve our support and they need the $$$ to contine to make good movies. Let’s give them a hand!
The Saker
I don’t get it. Was Finkelstein’s analogy to Nazis denigrating to Germans, Jews or both?
-AA
@Neither. He was probably (have not seen the full movie yet) comparing Nazi atrocities with Israel atrocities and the tsumani of tears over the victims of the former and the Gobi desert of tears shed for the victims of latter.
So Finkelstein is tired of being mau-maued by the Zionists, but then he goes on to say he does not like being painted as giving talks to rooms of holocaust deniers. Well I am tired of being mau-maued over holocaust denial. The whole holocaust hypothesis is not even wrong. Its fluid and being so tagged as a holocaust denier simply means you are not willing to kneel to the keepers of the sacred Jewish founding myth. 6 million was a figure that came out of the Soviet Union just after world war II. That number goes farther back than that, but anyway, 4 million were attributed to Auschwitz alone. Then after a few years of abuse over the threadbare evidence (only self serving testimonials), “They” reduced the number at Auschwitz to 2 million, and then lately to about a million, but ignoring propaganda, the number is likely lower than that.- somehow the total number always stays at 6 million. How? Well the search all over Europe and come up with a few hindered thousand here and there with no evidence, and come up with – again 6 million. And if you say no, maybe 6 million is wrong, or even should be debated on hard evidence minus testimonials, you are a holocaust denier. Try buying the balanced treatment like “debating the holocaust” at any bookstore- or ordering it at Borders. Good luck. So like Finkelstein, but one bridge farther, the term holocaust denier has no sting now. David Irving might be closer to the truth, but I have an open mind. And they put him in jail for saying so. Maybe a million or so total, total in the camps, probably of neglect and typhus and cholera etc. mostly, where the ziklon b saved lives as it was used to disinfect the unfortunate prisoners. The misreading of Wannsee by people that have not heard both sides is an atrocity to fairness. Certainly hundreds of thousands of Jews were killed by vengeful Nazi soldiers. Almost certainly 6 million were not gassed to death in specially constructed death camps. The important point is that debate on any aspect of this is not allowed in polite company or in any public venue. The keepers of propriety serve their masters, and not the truth. The whole question is so fluid that it is almost impossible to reduce the matter to some verifiable facts, because the myth is protean, and will shape shift away from any attempt to look at it objectively. That’s the nature of the founding myth of Israel. It is not falsifiable, and so it hardly worth debating. The only aspect of it worth debate is what happens to people like Faurison and Irving who try.
I could have sworn that the girl said what Finkelstein had said was offensive to Germans and to those whose relatives had perished in the Holocaust. I can’t understand why she was talking about Germans. I doubt she really cares about the feelings of Germans when someone invokes the Nazi epithet.
I think she was overreaching a bit. But she seemed to be genuinely upset.
-AA