Norman Finkelstein quotes

International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.

Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in common with religion than rational discourse.

Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.

Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.

The Zionists indeed learnt well from the Nazis. So well that it seems that their morally repugnant treatment of the Palestinians, and their attempts to destroy Palestinian society within Israel and the occupied territories, reveals them as basically Nazis with beards and black hats.

The real goal of politics has to be getting people to act on what they already know was wrong.

Personal convictions are not politics. Personal convictions, if they become the subject of a group conviction, they become a cult.

Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.