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Top 30 Norman Finkelstein Quotes (2025 Update)

Norman Finkelstein Quote: “They used to say Palestinians fight like heroes, now they say heroes fight like Palestinians.”

1. “They used to say Palestinians fight like heroes, now they say heroes fight like Palestinians.”

— Norman Finkelstein

Norman Finkelstein Quote: “It’s utterly hypocritical for Israelis to wonder aloud why Palestinians don’t pursue a non-violent strategy. One obvious reason is that, whenever they have, Israel brutally represses it.”

2. “It’s utterly hypocritical for Israelis to wonder aloud why Palestinians don’t pursue a non-violent strategy. One obvious reason is that, whenever they have, Israel brutally represses it.”

— Norman Finkelstein

Norman Finkelstein Quote: “Every victory of Hezbollah, I celebrate.”

3. “Every victory of Hezbollah, I celebrate.”

— Norman Finkelstein

Norman Finkelstein Quote: “Why should these Palestinians, who have lived in Jerusalem for hundreds of years, be evicted from their homes so that Jews from Brooklyn can live in them?”

4. “Why should these Palestinians, who have lived in Jerusalem for hundreds of years, be evicted from their homes so that Jews from Brooklyn can live in them?”

— Norman Finkelstein

Norman Finkelstein Quote: “International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.”

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

— Norman Finkelstein

Norman Finkelstein Quote: “Israel has come out of the boils of the hell, a satanic state.”

6. “Israel has come out of the boils of the hell, a satanic state.”

— Norman Finkelstein

Norman Finkelstein Quote: “Given the nonsense that is turned out daily by the Holocaust industry, the wonder is that there are so few skeptics.”

7. “Given the nonsense that is turned out daily by the Holocaust industry, the wonder is that there are so few skeptics.”

— Norman Finkelstein

Norman Finkelstein Quote: “The Holocaust industry has always been bankrupt. What remains is to openly declare it so. The time is long past to put it out of business.”

8. “The Holocaust industry has always been bankrupt. What remains is to openly declare it so. The time is long past to put it out of business.”

— Norman Finkelstein

Norman Finkelstein Quote: “War is not a means to an end, it is the end, whereas politics is merely the hiatus between wars.”

9. “War is not a means to an end, it is the end, whereas politics is merely the hiatus between wars.”

— Norman Finkelstein

Norman Finkelstein Quote: “Judging by opinion polls, Israel has bigger problems than me. It is among the most hated countries on the planet. It should stop acting like a lunatic state. Once it carries on like a normal country, I will be happily redirect my energies elsewhere.”

10. “Judging by opinion polls, Israel has bigger problems than me. It is among the most hated countries on the planet. It should stop acting like a lunatic state. Once it carries on like a normal country, I will be happily redirect my energies elsewhere.”

— Norman Finkelstein

Norman Finkelstein Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

— Norman Finkelstein

Norman Finkelstein Quote: “When I was a young man, my mother said to me, ‘You can’t be a communist without being a militant atheist.’ So I had to be a militant atheist because I wanted to be a communist.”

12. “When I was a young man, my mother said to me, ‘You can’t be a communist without being a militant atheist.’ So I had to be a militant atheist because I wanted to be a communist.”

— Norman Finkelstein

Norman Finkelstein Quote: “There’s nothing Israel can do without US support. It can’t breathe without US support. The US bankrolls everything, and it’s just silly to think that Israel can do anything without the support.”

13. “There’s nothing Israel can do without US support. It can’t breathe without US support. The US bankrolls everything, and it’s just silly to think that Israel can do anything without the support.”

— Norman Finkelstein

Norman Finkelstein Quote: “I’m politically on the left, no question about it. I oppose sweatshops, I oppose exploitation of labour in the third world.”

14. “I’m politically on the left, no question about it. I oppose sweatshops, I oppose exploitation of labour in the third world.”

— Norman Finkelstein

Norman Finkelstein Quote: “September 11 was a godsend for Israel. It could now conjoin its merciless persecution of the Palestinians with Bush’s War against Terror. But my impression is that it wasn’t altogether successful.”

15. “September 11 was a godsend for Israel. It could now conjoin its merciless persecution of the Palestinians with Bush’s War against Terror. But my impression is that it wasn’t altogether successful.”

— Norman Finkelstein

Norman Finkelstein Quote: “Insofar as Zionism sought to solve the Jewish question, it must be reckoned not just a failure but a catastrophe: Israel is the main cause of anti-Semitism in the world today.”

16. “Insofar as Zionism sought to solve the Jewish question, it must be reckoned not just a failure but a catastrophe: Israel is the main cause of anti-Semitism in the world today.”

— Norman Finkelstein

Norman Finkelstein Quote: “I think Israel, as a number of commentators pointed out, is becoming an insane state. And we have to be honest about that. While the rest of the world wants peace, Europe wants peace, the US wants peace, but this state wants war, war and war.”

17. “I think Israel, as a number of commentators pointed out, is becoming an insane state. And we have to be honest about that. While the rest of the world wants peace, Europe wants peace, the US wants peace, but this state wants war, war and war.”

— Norman Finkelstein

Norman Finkelstein Quote: “Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis.”

18. “Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis.”

— Norman Finkelstein

Norman Finkelstein Quote: “I focus on my work. If I let myself get distracted by the insults and slanders I wouldn’t get anything substantive done.”

19. “I focus on my work. If I let myself get distracted by the insults and slanders I wouldn’t get anything substantive done.”

— Norman Finkelstein

Norman Finkelstein Quote: “There is no way a non-Jew could say what I did in ‘The Holocaust Industry’ without being labelled a Holocaust denier. I am labelled a Holocaust denier, too.”

20. “There is no way a non-Jew could say what I did in ‘The Holocaust Industry’ without being labelled a Holocaust denier. I am labelled a Holocaust denier, too.”

— Norman Finkelstein

Norman Finkelstein Quote: “The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel’s victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours.”

21. “The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel’s victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours.”

— Norman Finkelstein

Norman Finkelstein Quote: “Everybody wants peace. That’s a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.”

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

— Norman Finkelstein

Norman Finkelstein Quote: “There is a fundamental principle. People have the right to defend their country from foreign occupiers, and people have the right to defend their country from invaders who are destroying their country. That to me is a very basic, elementary, and uncomplicated question.”

23. “There is a fundamental principle. People have the right to defend their country from foreign occupiers, and people have the right to defend their country from invaders who are destroying their country. That to me is a very basic, elementary, and uncomplicated question.”

— Norman Finkelstein

Norman Finkelstein Quote: “I don’t feel particularly attached to Israel – ‘nationalism,’ as Noam Chomsky said, ‘is not my cup of tea’ – but I feel no particular need to demonize it.”

24. “I don’t feel particularly attached to Israel – ‘nationalism,’ as Noam Chomsky said, ‘is not my cup of tea’ – but I feel no particular need to demonize it.”

— Norman Finkelstein

Norman Finkelstein Quote: “Indeed, the field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense if not sheer fraud.”

25. “Indeed, the field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense if not sheer fraud.”

— Norman Finkelstein

Norman Finkelstein Quote: “You know, frankly speaking, money just doesn’t figure largely in my world view.”

26. “You know, frankly speaking, money just doesn’t figure largely in my world view.”

— Norman Finkelstein

Norman Finkelstein Quote: “People are motivated by the desires for privilege, for power, for profit. Those are not shocking revelations. Anyone who’s had any experience in life knows these things.”

27. “People are motivated by the desires for privilege, for power, for profit. Those are not shocking revelations. Anyone who’s had any experience in life knows these things.”

— Norman Finkelstein

Norman Finkelstein Quote: “My parents often wondered why I would grow so indignant at the falsification and exploitation of the Nazi genocide. The most obvious answer is that it has been used to justify criminal policies of the Israeli state and US support for these policies.”

28. “My parents often wondered why I would grow so indignant at the falsification and exploitation of the Nazi genocide. The most obvious answer is that it has been used to justify criminal policies of the Israeli state and US support for these policies.”

— Norman Finkelstein

Norman Finkelstein Quote: “Goldstone has done terrible damage to the cause of truth and justice and the rule of law. He has poisoned Jewish-Palestinian relations, undermined the courageous work of Israeli dissenters and-most unforgivably-increased the risk of another merciless IDF assault.”

29. “Goldstone has done terrible damage to the cause of truth and justice and the rule of law. He has poisoned Jewish-Palestinian relations, undermined the courageous work of Israeli dissenters and-most unforgivably-increased the risk of another merciless IDF assault.”

— Norman Finkelstein

Norman Finkelstein Quote: “I earn – I’m not – I don’t want to claim I’m a scholar of great stature, but I have made a certain reputation for myself, I’ve published several books, I’ve never been able to get a permanent teaching job.”

30. “I earn – I’m not – I don’t want to claim I’m a scholar of great stature, but I have made a certain reputation for myself, I’ve published several books, I’ve never been able to get a permanent teaching job.”

— Norman Finkelstein

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