Raul Hilberg and Avi Shlaim on Finkelstein

Raul Hilberg and Avi Shlaim with Amy Goodman
on the Scholarship of Norman Finkelstein
May 9, 2007

First seven seconds of video is bad. The battle over political science professor Norman Finkelstein to receive tenure at DePaul University is heating up. Finkelstein has taught at DePaul for the past six years. Finkelstein’s two main topics of focus over his career have been the Holocaust and Israeli policy. We speak to two world-renowned scholars in these fields: Raul Hilberg, considered the founder of Holocaust studies, and Avi Shlaim, a professor of international relations at Oxford University and an expert on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Shlaim calls Finkelstein a “very impressive, learned and careful scholar”, while Hilberg praises Finkelstein’s “acuity of vision and analytical power.” Hilberg says: “It takes an enormous amount of academic courage to speak the truth when no one else is out there to support him.”
From Democracy Now!.

18 minutes