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Devastating critique of the “misuse” of the Nazi holocaust to serve political ends. Finkelstein (whose parents were camp survivors, the last of their respective lineages) blasts the “double shakedown” of the Swiss banks by organizations claiming to represent Holocaust victims.

Predictably, Finkelstein has provoked outrage among the usual suspects. However, no one seems able to dispute his scholarship, which is mind-numbingly thorough. They instead resort to inflamatory and unsupportable ad hominem (e.g. Finkelstein is a “holocaust denier”, Finkelstein’s mother was a Nazi collaborator, etc.)

Most recently Finkelstein has been made popular by his public dust up with the odious Alan Dershowitz. Finkelstein has ripped Dershowitz’s bestseller “The Case for Israel“, demonstrating that the book is filled with lazy, second-hand attributions. The arguments are laid out in Finkelstein’s new book, “Beyond Chutzpah”, which is definitely on my list.