Finkelstein talk to focus on Israel-Palestine conflict
Author Norman Finkelstein will give a lecture titled "How to Solve the Israel-Palestine Conflict" at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 24, in Gannett Auditorium, Palamountain Hall.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Finkelstein will focus on practical approaches to resolving the conflict and provide insight on the future of the region.
For more than two decades, Finkelstein has researched and written about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and America's response. The topic was the focus of his doctoral dissertation when he received Ph.D. in political studies from Princeton in 1988. For many years he taught political theory and the Israel-Palestine conflict at various universities including Rutgers, New York University, Brooklyn College, Hunter College and DePaul University in Chicago. He is currently an independent scholar.
Aside from his academic writings, he is the author of six books that have been translated into over 40 different languages. The most recent, due this spring from OR Books, is titled Knowing Too Much ? Why the American Jewish Romance with Israel is Coming to an End. In it Finkelstein argues that the mostly liberal American Jewish community now knows too much about the historical, human rights, and dkplomatic record of the Israel-Palestine conflict to lend Israel blind support.
Other titles by Finkelstein include "This Time We Went Too Far": Truth and consequences of the Gaza invasion (2010, OR Books), Beyond Chutzpah: On the misuse of anti-Semitism and the abuse of history (2005, University of California Press), and The Rise and Fall of Palestine: A personal account of the intifada years (1996, University of Minnesota).
The son of Holocaust survivors, Finkelstein grew up in New York City. His life and career are the focus of the recent award-winning documentary, American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein.
Finkelstein's Skidmore appearance is sponsored by the Office of Student Diversity Programs, Intercultural Center, and Hayat.
