Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History / Edition 1

by Norman Finkelstein

Overview

Meticulously researched and tightly argued, Beyond Chutzpah points to a consensus among historians and human rights organizations on the factual record of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Norman G. Finkelstein exposes the corruption of scholarship and the contrivance of controversy shrouding human rights abuses, and interrogates the new anti-Semitism. This paperback edition adds a preface analyzing recent developments in the conflict, and a new afterword on Israel's construction of a wall in the West Bank.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520249899
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	06/02/2008
Edition description:	First Edition, Updated Edition, With a New Preface
Pages:	488
Sales rank:	122,471
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Norman G. Finkelstein is currently an independent scholar. For many years he taught political theory and the Israel-Palestine conflict. His books include The Holocaust Industry (2000); A Nation on Trial (1998; with Ruth Bettina Birn), named a notable book for 1998 by the New York Times Sunday Book Review; and Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict (1995).

Table of Contents

Preface to the First Paperback Edition 
Acknowledgments 
Introduction 

PART ONE THE NOT-SO-NEW “NEW ANTI-SEMITISM”
1 From Jesus Christ Superstar to The Passion of the Christ 
2 Israel: The “Jew among Nations” 
3 Crying Wolf 

PART TWO THE GREATEST TALE EVER SOLD
Introduction 
4 Impurity of Arms 
5 Three in the Back of the Head 
6 Israel’s Abu Ghraib 
7 Return of the Vandals 
8 Blight unto the Nations 
9 High Court Takes the Low Road 
Conclusion 

Postscript: Reconciling Irreconcilables:
How Israel’s High Court of Justice Proved
the Wall Was Legal 
Appendix I: Of Crimes and Misdemeanors 
Appendix II: History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict 
Appendix III: Peace Process 
Epilogue: Dershowitz v. Finkelstein: Who’s Right and Who’s Wrong,
 by Frank J. Menetrez 
Index