A few days ago, I posted footage of Israel-hater “Rat Fink” Norman Finkelstein speaking to Columbia University students, who did not appreciate his advice to sound less genocidey.
It turns out that Fink’s week got even worse.
He was slated to speak at Emory University, but apparently backed out after one of the speakers crossed a red line in his eyes.
According to CAIR-Georgia:
There is debate online as to what that red line was and who crossed it.
According to some like antisemite Nick Fuentes and his America First movement, a previous speaker had said “I don’t want people saying that Ziоnists control America and that Jews control America”, something the Fink found was too antisemitic.
Following from his disastrous @Columbia speech, @normfinkelstein apparently pulled out of an @EmoryUniversity speech due to antisemitism of another speaker (and is attacked for it by antisemites) pic.twitter.com/sGFj92rsVg
— 🎗️ David Lange (@Israellycool) May 1, 2024
While I am not sure who that speaker was, it could have been any number of antisemites who were invited to speak, such as Jackson Hinkle.
Hinkle and another speaker called Haz Al-Din have themselves claimed Fink walked out after a speaker called Ahmed (who some are saying was part of CAIR) praised the Oct 7 attacks:
Meanwhile, Jew-hater @jacksonhinklle and an Israel-hater called @InfraHaz claim @normfinkelstein left due to a speaker called Ahmed praising the #October7 attacks https://t.co/QFTaDLKKF4 pic.twitter.com/IM2UZIDiX9
— 🎗️ David Lange (@Israellycool) May 1, 2024
Curiously, the same publication associated with America First that claimed it was over the antisemitic comments has also claimed it was over this comment.
But given that Fink previously wrote that Hamas’ actions “warms [sic] every fiber of my soul” and “.. if we honor the Jews who revolted in the Warsaw Ghetto—then moral consistency commands that we honor the heroic resistance in Gaza. I, for one, will never begrudge—on the contrary, it warms every fiber of my soul—the scenes of Gaza’s smiling children as their arrogant Jewish supremacist oppressors have, finally, been humbled,” I find this version harder to believe.
I guess the tale of the tape will settle this, but what is already clear is how Finkelstein – despite being a rabid Israel-hater and author of an antisemitic book called The Holocaust Industry – is still the object of scorn from other Israel-haters because at the end of the day he is a Jew and they hate Israel because they are for the most part Jew-haters.
