https://znetwork.org/author/normanfinkelstein/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Fri, 16 Jan 2026 01:31:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/author/normanfinkelstein/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/deconstructing-trumps-gaza-peace-plan/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/deconstructing-trumps-gaza-peace-plan/#respond Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:53:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1293554 Lawlessness has been a common theme characterizing the events of the first weeks of the year. The kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, the murder of Renee Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross, the threat of bombing Iran by the Trump administration. Perhaps one of the worst violations of the law has slipped under the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/deconstructing-trumps-gaza-peace-plan/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/norman-finkelstein-on-the-hamas-israeli-ceasefire/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/norman-finkelstein-on-the-hamas-israeli-ceasefire/#respond Sun, 26 Oct 2025 13:17:12 +0000 Finkelstein’s scholarship is notable for its rigorous critique of history, moral-political arguments, and especially the Holocaust and the Palestinian region. He emphasizes the ethical implications of scholarship, public policy and international affairs.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/norman-finkelstein-on-the-hamas-israeli-ceasefire/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/2-years-on-has-the-resistance-won/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/2-years-on-has-the-resistance-won/#respond Thu, 09 Oct 2025 15:55:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1289704 This week on The Thinking Muslim, we have Dr. Finkelstein to discuss Gaza two years after October 7, 2023. We explore the moral and political legitimacy of Palestinian resistance, Israel’s military response, and the role of the U.S. in enabling it. Dr. Finkelstein also examines Netanyahu’s motivations, the collapse of the two-state solution, and what [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/2-years-on-has-the-resistance-won/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/gazas-obliteration-has-been-paved-by-us-israeli-peace-proposals/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/gazas-obliteration-has-been-paved-by-us-israeli-peace-proposals/#respond Sun, 05 Oct 2025 15:18:12 +0000 Political scientist and historian Norman Finkelstein joins this special edition of UNAPOLOGETIC that marks two years since the October 7 Hamas-led attack and Israel’s devastating retaliation against Gaza, which the majority of genocide scholars around the world have labelled a genocide. In this nearly three-hour conversation, we ask whether Hamas regrets its attack on October [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/gazas-obliteration-has-been-paved-by-us-israeli-peace-proposals/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-comment-on-the-new-un-report-on-gaza/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-comment-on-the-new-un-report-on-gaza/#respond Tue, 23 Sep 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1288943 I devote a chapter of my forthcoming book, Gaza’s Gravediggers, to the point that describing the situation in Gaza as a “war” rather than a “genocide” egregiously distorts what is happening there. In a postscript to this chapter, reprinted below, I comment on the new UN report that found Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. In September [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-comment-on-the-new-un-report-on-gaza/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/in-conversation-with-dr-norman-g-finkelstein/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/in-conversation-with-dr-norman-g-finkelstein/#respond Fri, 22 Aug 2025 15:56:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1287623 A talk given by Norman Finkelstein at the New Millenium Church, Little Rock, Ar.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/in-conversation-with-dr-norman-g-finkelstein/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/norman-finkelstein-exposes-israels-hidden-agenda-on-piers-morgan/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/norman-finkelstein-exposes-israels-hidden-agenda-on-piers-morgan/#respond Fri, 06 Jun 2025 15:50:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1284603 Norman Finkelstein breaks down how Israel’s “humanitarian aid” to Gaza was a smokescreen for a massacre — a prediction he made on Piers Morgan. He explores global fallout, real left politics & AI. In this interview: Why the Gaza aid drops were never humanitarian How Israel’s actions are reshaping U.S., Europe & Arab world responses [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/norman-finkelstein-exposes-israels-hidden-agenda-on-piers-morgan/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/emptying-gaza-w-norman-finkelstein/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/emptying-gaza-w-norman-finkelstein/#respond Sat, 19 Apr 2025 15:52:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1282687 Israel, both materially and rhetorically, has made their intent to destroy the Palestinian people clear. One of the most renowned and courageous Middle East scholars, Norman Finkelstein, has assiduously documented the Palestinian plight for decades and he joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report. Finkelstein and Hedges assess the current [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/emptying-gaza-w-norman-finkelstein/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/malfeasance-at-the-icj/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/malfeasance-at-the-icj/#respond Fri, 07 Feb 2025 16:56:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1279393 Malfeasance at the International Court of Justice. Mouin Rabbani Interviews Norman Finkelstein.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/malfeasance-at-the-icj/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/prof-norman-finkelstein-on-the-gaza-genocide/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/prof-norman-finkelstein-on-the-gaza-genocide/#respond Thu, 23 Jan 2025 16:50:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1278772 Professor Norman Finkelstein talks to the Community Church of Boston about the genocide in Gaza. Following his talk, there is a Q&A discussion. Norman G. Finkelstein received his PhD from the Princeton University Politics Department in 1987. He is the author of many books that have been translated into 60 foreign editions, including The Holocaust [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/prof-norman-finkelstein-on-the-gaza-genocide/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/norman-finkelstein-mouin-rabbani-react-to-lebanon-attack-iran-ietaliation-nasrallahs-death/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/norman-finkelstein-mouin-rabbani-react-to-lebanon-attack-iran-ietaliation-nasrallahs-death/#respond Thu, 03 Oct 2024 15:50:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1273161 Norman Finkelstein and Mouin Rabbani in discussion with India and Global left on the current situation involving Israel, Lebanon and Iran.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/norman-finkelstein-mouin-rabbani-react-to-lebanon-attack-iran-ietaliation-nasrallahs-death/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/build-a-majority-for-palestine/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/build-a-majority-for-palestine/#respond Fri, 10 May 2024 15:50:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1266105 Holocaust scholar and pro-Palestine activist Norman Finkelstein expresses his support for the student protests, insisting on the importance of free speech and uniting the majority of Americans around solidarity with Gaza. On April 21, 2024, Holocaust scholar and prominent pro-Palestine activist Norman Finkelstein visited the Gaza solidarity encampment at Columbia University. Finkelstein expressed his support [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/build-a-majority-for-palestine/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/samson-and-cassandra/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/samson-and-cassandra/#respond Sun, 21 Apr 2024 15:09:01 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1265321 My Mother once told me the story of an emaciated woman in the Warsaw Ghetto who would wail from her window sill that all the Jews in the ghetto would be killed. She came to be called Cassandra, after the prophetess of doom in Greek mythology. Everyone just assumed that she was mad. My Mother [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/samson-and-cassandra/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-the-world-failed-gaza-the-great-march-of-return-six-years-on/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-the-world-failed-gaza-the-great-march-of-return-six-years-on/#respond Sat, 30 Mar 2024 14:26:22 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1264362 This year, March 30th commemorates the sixth anniversary of the Great March of Return, a mass mobilization effort initiated in Gaza in 2018. This March of Return aimed to highlight the dire circumstances faced by two million Palestinians in Gaza, 70% of whom are refugees, living under a severe blockade that has rendered the Gaza [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-the-world-failed-gaza-the-great-march-of-return-six-years-on/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/norman-finkelstein-talks-identity-politics-middle-east-chuck-schumer-and-cornel-west/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/norman-finkelstein-talks-identity-politics-middle-east-chuck-schumer-and-cornel-west/#respond Fri, 29 Mar 2024 15:50:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1264281 Dr. Norman G. Finkelstein, renowned political scientist and author of several books (Beyond Chutzpah, The Holocaust Industry, The Rise and Fall of Palestine), to name a few, joins Kiko’s Freethinker’s Forum for a THIRD time to provide some commentary on his latest book I’ll Burn That Bridge When I Get To It: Heretical Thoughts on [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/norman-finkelstein-talks-identity-politics-middle-east-chuck-schumer-and-cornel-west/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/conversation-on-the-gaza-genocide-with-norman-finkelstein-and-chris-hedges/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/conversation-on-the-gaza-genocide-with-norman-finkelstein-and-chris-hedges/#respond Tue, 26 Mar 2024 16:41:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1264207 Princeton Students for Justice in Palestine hosted this discussion with Norman Finkelstein and Chris Hedges on the ongoing genocide in Gaza.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/conversation-on-the-gaza-genocide-with-norman-finkelstein-and-chris-hedges/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/pramila-pattens-rape-fantasies/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/pramila-pattens-rape-fantasies/#comments Thu, 14 Mar 2024 15:54:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1263615 A Critical Analysis of the UN Report on Sexual Violence during the 7 October Attack I. The Mission 1.      The United Nations has published numerous reports on the Israel-Palestine conflict.  In general, stringent standards of evidence and law have been applied. (See for example the voluminous reports on, respectively, Israel’s 2008-9 assault on Gaza, and Israel’s 2018 [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/pramila-pattens-rape-fantasies/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/1262919/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/1262919/#respond Thu, 29 Feb 2024 16:52:00 +0000 Vijay Prashad, Norman Finkelstein and Jeffery Sachs discuss the situation in the Middle East and the role of the United States of America in the region.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/1262919/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/connections-podcast-with-norman-finkelstein-mouin-rabbani-south-africa-charges-israel-with-genocide/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/connections-podcast-with-norman-finkelstein-mouin-rabbani-south-africa-charges-israel-with-genocide/#respond Fri, 12 Jan 2024 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1260620 Connections Podcast Episode 86 South Africa Charges Israel with Genocide at the ICJ A 4-Part Series Mouin Rabbani Interviews Norman Finkelstein Wednesday, 10 January | 8:00 PM EST: Preview Thursday, 11 January | 8:00 PM EST: South Africa Presents Friday, 12 January | 8:00 PM EST: Israel Presents Saturday, 13 January | 8:00 PM EST: [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/connections-podcast-with-norman-finkelstein-mouin-rabbani-south-africa-charges-israel-with-genocide/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/palestine-the-harvard-controversy-and-attacks-on-academic-freedom/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/palestine-the-harvard-controversy-and-attacks-on-academic-freedom/#respond Thu, 04 Jan 2024 16:48:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1260220 Norman Finkelstein discusses Palestine, the Harvard controversy and attacks on academic freedom with Marc Lamont Hill.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/palestine-the-harvard-controversy-and-attacks-on-academic-freedom/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/norman-finkelstein-on-israel-hillary-human-shields-ben-shapiro/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/norman-finkelstein-on-israel-hillary-human-shields-ben-shapiro/#respond Sun, 26 Nov 2023 17:06:12 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1258117 Krystal Ball interviews author and political scientist Norman Finkelstein on Israel’s war in Gaza]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/norman-finkelstein-on-israel-hillary-human-shields-ben-shapiro/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/no-sanctuary-israels-long-war-on-gaza/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/no-sanctuary-israels-long-war-on-gaza/#respond Thu, 19 Oct 2023 15:50:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1255968 Israel has unleashed a horrific war of collective punishment against the people of Gaza, the latest in a long history of anti-Palestinian oppression. As corporate media shamelessly provides cover for what is undoubtedly a genocide unfolding in real time, the need to ground our understanding of the conflict in its proper history is more important [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/no-sanctuary-israels-long-war-on-gaza/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/israel-aims-to-declare-new-security-zone-in-northern-gaza/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/israel-aims-to-declare-new-security-zone-in-northern-gaza/#respond Sun, 15 Oct 2023 16:35:30 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1255842 Norman Finkelstein, an American author and political scientist, says Israel is aiming to expel Palestinians from the northern sector of Gaza and declare a new security zone there. He described the Israeli operation in Gaza as “somewhere between a crime against humanity and genocide under international law”, and said the nuclear-armed state’s goal appears to [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/israel-aims-to-declare-new-security-zone-in-northern-gaza/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/norman-finkelstein-and-mouin-rabbani-held-an-emergency-teach-in-on-gaza/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/norman-finkelstein-and-mouin-rabbani-held-an-emergency-teach-in-on-gaza/#respond Thu, 12 Oct 2023 15:46:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1255635 Norman Finkelstein and Mouin Rabbani held an emergency teach-in session yesterday regarding recent events in Gaza. This is the recording of that session as well as a rush transcript. There are some blips in the video here and there which we hope the audience will forgive as we’ve tried to put this out quickly in [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/norman-finkelstein-and-mouin-rabbani-held-an-emergency-teach-in-on-gaza/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-left-should-stand-behind-cornel-west/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-left-should-stand-behind-cornel-west/#respond Thu, 14 Sep 2023 15:55:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1254032 In an excerpt from the second episode of Norman Finkelstein’s new podcast TOVARISCH! Finkelstein discusses West’s run for president and the benefits of supporting it for now.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-left-should-stand-behind-cornel-west/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-mask-is-off-why-ukraine-will-never-be-a-nato-member/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-mask-is-off-why-ukraine-will-never-be-a-nato-member/#comments Tue, 25 Jul 2023 15:46:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1249931 At the 2008 Bucharest summit, Ukraine was promised eventual membership in NATO.  In 2022, on the eve of the Russian “special military operation,” Ukraine was already participating in joint military exercises with NATO, and was the massive recipient of NATO weapons and training.  But it still wasn’t granted membership status.  The Ukraine war is now [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-mask-is-off-why-ukraine-will-never-be-a-nato-member/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-we-should-rejoice-at-holocaust-deniers-not-suppress-them/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-we-should-rejoice-at-holocaust-deniers-not-suppress-them/#respond Mon, 26 Oct 2020 08:47:58 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1039799 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-we-should-rejoice-at-holocaust-deniers-not-suppress-them/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/kushners-threat-to-palestine/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/kushners-threat-to-palestine/#respond Tue, 20 Aug 2019 09:00:18 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1022917 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/kushners-threat-to-palestine/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/it-is-time-to-indict-israel/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/it-is-time-to-indict-israel/#respond Tue, 05 Mar 2019 09:02:11 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1018021 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/it-is-time-to-indict-israel/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/1011124/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/1011124/#respond Sun, 24 Jun 2018 09:00:44 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=video&p=1011124 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/1011124/feed/ 0