Finkelstein and Me
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By Khalid Amayreh, a journalist based in the Occupied Palestinian town of Dura.
Seeking to punish critics for communicating the truth about Israel to the world, Israel has barred an American scholar from entering the country and a Palestinian journalist from leaving the occupied territories for a brief trip to Germany.
Israel's chief domestic intelligence agency, the Shin Bet, as it is known by its Hebrew acronym, has detained and deported Professor Norman Finkelstein, a prominent American Jewish historian and intellectual.
Finkelstein is a well-known critic of the apartheid Israeli state, especially its 41-year-old Nazi-like occupation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip.
He is also the author of a famous book entitled “The Holocaust Industry,” in which he accused Israel and allied Zionist circles of using the memory of Holocaust victims for political ends.
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