Norman G. Finkelstein received his doctorate in 1988 from the Department of Politics at Princeton University.For many years he taught political theory and the Israel-Palestine conflict. He currently writes and lectures.
Finkelstein is the author of six books that have been translated into more than 40 foreign editions:
“This Time We Went Too Far”: Truth and consequences of the Gaza invasion (OR Books, 2010; expanded paperback version, 2011);
Beyond Chutzpah: On the misuse of anti-Semitism and the abuse of history (University of California Press, 2005; expanded paperback edition, 2008);
The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the exploitation of Jewish suffering (Verso, 2000; expanded paperback edition, 2003);
Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict (Verso, 1995; expanded paperback edition, 2003);
A Nation on Trial: The Goldhagen thesis and historical truth (with Ruth Bettina Birn) (Henry Holt, 1998);
The Rise and Fall of Palestine: A personal account of the intifada years(University of Minnesota, 1996);
Finkelstein has also published several pamphlets, most recently, Goldstone Recants: Richard Goldstone renews Israel’s license to kill (OR Books, 2011).
He is currently working on a new book entitled KNOWING TOO MUCH: Why the American Jewish love affair with Israel is coming to an end.
He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
