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Norman Finkelstein
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American political scientist (born 1953)
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Norman Finkelstein is a United States-based author and spoken word artist. Born on December 8, 1953, he has produced a body of work that includes titles such as *The ratio of reason to magic*, *Like a dark rabbi*, *Inside the ghost factory*, *On Mount Vision*, and *Not One of Them in Place*. His writings have been cataloged in various databases, with one source listing 19 works and another noting five.
Finkelstein maintains an official website and has a social media following of 98,895. On the platform Last.fm, he is tagged with categories including spoken word and politics, as well as the description "person whom the Jews hate and call antisemite." The platform records 901 listeners and 6,107 plays for his content. He is also referenced by 222 other encyclopedia articles.
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Key facts
- Born
- Norman Gary Finkelstein , ( 1953-12-08 ) December 8, 1953 (age 72) , New York City , U.S.
- Education
- Binghamton University ( BA ) École pratique des hautes études Princeton University ( MA , PhD )
- Occupations
- Professor author
- Notable work
- The Holocaust Industry (2000)
- Website
- normanfinkelstein.com
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Official website
Norman Finkelstein
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Gary
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn
- Occupation
- academic
- Educated at
- École pratique des hautes études
- Employer
- DePaul University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- atheism
- Field of work
- political science
- Movement
- anti-Zionism
- Official website
- normanfinkelstein.com
- Image
- Norman finkelstein suffolk.jpg
- Residence
- Chicago
- Political ideology
- Maoism
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- NormanFinkelstein
- Commons category
- Norman Finkelstein
- date of birth
- 1953-12-08
- professorship
- extraordinary professor
- interested in
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- ethnic group
- Jewish people
- social media followers
- 49048
- member of
- Phi Beta Kappa Society
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Encyclopedic overview
Norman Gary Finkelstein (/ˈfɪŋkəlstiːn/ FING-kəl-steen; born December 8, 1953) is an American political scientist and activist. His primary fields of research are the politics of the Holocaust and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
Finkelstein was born in New York City to Jewish Holocaust-survivor parents. He is a graduate of Binghamton University and received his Ph.D. in political science from Princeton University. He has held faculty positions at Brooklyn College, Rutgers University, Hunter College, New York University, and DePaul University, where he was an assistant professor from 2001 to 2007. In 2006, the department and college committees at DePaul University voted to grant Finkelstein tenure. For undisclosed reasons the university administration did not tenure him, and he announced his resignation after coming to a settlement with the university.
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