Where did our money go?

Januar 27, 2009

by deutsche

„I want the Germans to know where the money they gave Israel went,“ he said angrily. „I want the Germans to know that Israel took the money we should have received. I want them to answer one question: Where did our money go?“

What we can do:

Finkelstein on organizing:
Audio: How can we help the Palestinian cause? (01.23.2008)
Video: „Towards a Just Peace in Israel-Palestine“ (10.18.2008)
Finkelstein: „We have to set goals which are realistic…. I have trouble with people focusing relentlessly on Israel being a ‚Jewish State‘ as if, if you abolished that everything’s gonna be fine.“
Jewish Voice for Peace: Lift the Gaza Blockade: Call on Congress to Speak Up and Join Us in the Streets! (01.24.2008)
The Free Gaza Movement
GazaSiege.org
Adalah-NY
Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions
ISM
Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Video: On the place of civility
in academic life (10.18.2007)
Finkelstein’s talk at the academic freedom conference

Tenure Denial Letters
(June – November, 2007)

On How Actual Survivors Were Cheated by
Jewish Organizations:

Haaretz: „The Claims Conference intentionally defrauded Holocaust survivors.“ (09.25.2008)
Ynet: Where did the Shoah money go? (12.11.2006)
‚First Class flights around the world, accommodation at deluxe hotels, dining at fancy restaurants and a series of credit cards, this is how the Claims Conference, which deals with restitution of stolen Jewish property from the Holocaust, operates.‘
Haaretz: Survivors‘ protest makes foreign journalists gasp, security vanish (08.06.2007)
„I want the Germans to know where the money they gave Israel went,“ he said angrily. „I want the Germans to know that Israel took the money we should have received. I want them to answer one question: Where did our money go?“
AP: Holocaust survivors blast $20 stipend (07.31.2007)
‚Survivors have long claimed that European countries treat them far better than Israel, where many elderly survivors live in poverty.‘
Jewish Week: Holocaust Cash Went To Shadowy Pal Of Ousted WJC Leader (05.04.2007)
‚Israeli finance minister, now being probed for corruption, urged death camp tour group to hire little-known N.Y. consultant; Singer friend Curtis Hoxter can’t explain what he did for $709,000.‘
Jewish Week: „Survivors Balking At Lawyer’s Fee“ (03.02.2006)
Shocking revelation in the London Jewish Chronicle. („The man on the left earns $437,811 a year handling Shoah claims. So why are so many survivors pleading poverty?“; 05.30.2006)
Survivors Protest Holocaust Industry Shakedown (08.29.2000)
Finkelstein: Will The Holocaust Industry Incite Anti-Semitism? (08.11.2000)
Finkelstein: Lessons of Holocaust Compensation (2001)

On Gaza & the Occupation:

The Free Gaza Movement (2008 – 2009)
Haaretz: Hezbollah chief calls on Arab, Muslim world to help lift Gaza blockade. (12.15.2008)
The Guardian: Tutu calls for end to blockade of Gaza (05.30.2008)
The Financial Times: Gaza’s misery has to be stopped (01.24.2008)
The Guardian: Carter urges ’supine‘ Europe to break with US over Gaza blockade (05.26.2008)
Unpublished op-ed on Gaza withdrawal. (September 2005)
Video: Breaking Down The Wall (02.02.2008)
„In the case of the Occupied Territories, I think there are other options…. ‚implementing the World Court decision.'“

On the Lobby & „the new anti-Semitism“

The Lobby: It’s Not Either / Or. (05.01.2006)
Chronicle of Higher Education: At Hillel Summit, Some See a ‚Golden Age‘ for Jews on Campuses, Not an Era of Anti-Semitism (05.23.2006)
The Jewish Advocate: Fighting Jewish anti-Semitism (12.22.2006)
Video/Mp3: Democracy Now! Debate: Part II
Natoinal Catholic Reporter: Neve Gordon: Review of Finkelstein’s Beyond Chutzpah (10.14.2005)
„…quietly fill the hall with those who cannot be influenced by Finkelstein’s rhetoric“ (03.12.2005)
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Calif. Press Will Publish Controversial Book on Israel. Legal wrangling and disputes over the author’s claims plagued ‚Beyond Chutzpah‘ (2005)
The Chronicle of Higher Education: „U. of California Press to Publish Book That Alan Dershowitz Has Criticized as Anti-Semitic“ (2005)
Thought Police At Work (2003)

On Hezbollah & Hamas:

Haaretz: Haniyeh: Hamas willing to accept Palestinian state with 1967 borders. (11.09.2008)
The Guardian: Hamas condemns the Holocaust. (05.12.2008)
Vanity Fair:
The Gaza Bombshell.
(April 2008)
„U.S. officials… backed an armed force under Fatah strongman Muhammad Dahlan, touching off a bloody civil war in Gaza and leaving Hamas stronger than ever.“
The Washington Post: No Peace Without Hamas. (04.17.2008)
Al Jazeera English: Talk to Jazeera – Khaled Meshaal. (03.05.2008)
International Herald Tribune: Bring in Hamas. (03.04.2008)
„the Hezbollah model“
and
„There is this claim that the obstacle [to peace] is that Hamas won’t recognize Israel…“ (09.30.2006)
„Israel always depended on the fact that its adversaries were stupid, incompetent… and, in fact, they were right… That when they were dealing with a Nasser, he was a blowhard; a Saddam Hussein, he was a windbag; when they were dealing with Yasser Arafat, he was a hot air ballon. They were nothing of any substance… [inaudible]… That was Israel’s ace in the hole. Now comes along an Arab leader who says we have to use „reason.“ It’s a very remarkable thing to read. We have to use „reason.“ We have to think, plan, organize.“
Hamas: A reasonable statement. (Los Angeles Times, 07.10.2007)
The Guardian: Hamas acted on a very real fear of a US-sponsored coup. (06.22.2007)
Salon.com: The „hiding among civilians“ myth. (07.28.2006)
AIPAC v. Norman Finkelstein: A Debate on Israel’s Assault on Gaza. (06.29.2006)
Foreign Policy: Habitat for Hezbollah. (08.2006)
The Irish Times: Hizbullah rockets cannot be fired from buildings. (07.31.2006)