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No conditions justify torture.
Every victory of Hezbollah, I celebrate.
Teaching is in my bones. I love to teach.
Israel has come out of the boils of the hell, a satanic state.
I am opposed to any state with an ethnic character, not only to Israel.
You know, frankly speaking, money just doesn't figure largely in my world view.
Indeed, the field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense if not sheer fraud.
Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis.
They used to say Palestinians fight like heroes, now they say heroes fight like Palestinians
War is not a means to an end, it is the end, whereas politics is merely the hiatus between wars.
No doubt one can, in light of further study and life experience, come to repudiate past convictions.
I don't think it's a good thing to have Christian states, Muslim states, or any kind of ethnic states.
International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.
Given the nonsense that is turned out daily by the Holocaust industry, the wonder is that there are so few skeptics.
State terrorism - and yet the Israeli invasion Goldstone investigated is still commonly referred to as the Gaza War.
As Israel becomes like South Africa, it's increasingly becoming a pariah state, being excluded from culture at large.
Public opinion in the United States has shifted significantly, not just outside but also within the Jewish community.
I don't want to become a rhetorical speaker. My effectiveness is mastering all of the data and being able to respond.
The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours.
I focus on my work. If I let myself get distracted by the insults and slanders I wouldn't get anything substantive done.
I'm politically on the left, no question about it. I oppose sweatshops, I oppose exploitation of labour in the third world.
The whole purpose of annual reviews is to keep you abreast of whether or not you are fulfilling the requirements of tenure.
Israel has been a stage on which American Jews have played out their fantasies of toughness - often from Martha's Vineyard.
Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.
I don't want to pretend to be a prophet or a saint. I'm very conscious of my limitations. I know my flaws. But I don't like lying.
Personal convictions are not politics. Personal convictions, if they become the subject of a group conviction, they become a cult.
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.
I was probably unusually close to my parents, so I do what I can now to preserve the integrity of their memory. The Holocaust deserves to be remembered.
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?
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.
As one Israeli said, "It's a big mistake for Israel to say it 'won' the war, when there was no war. There were no battles...no military enemy in the field."
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.
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.
The moment you have massive social and political commentary trying to explain a phenomenon, then you know we are no longer dealing with a strictly psychiatric question.
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.
People have to liberate themselves, because liberation is not a single act. It's a question of eternal vigilance. Otherwise, you'll just become enslaved by someone else.
If there were an Oscar for best theatrical performance by a country, Israel would win every year. It's a country based on theater. It's a lunatic state - completely insane.
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.
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.
Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis.
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.
Why should Americans go on with their lives as normal, worrying about calories and hair loss, while other people are worrying about where they are going to get their next piece of bread?
Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in common with religion than rational discourse.
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.
Each of the various tactics that have been tried to get Israel to budge.. nonviolent resistance, legal accountability, BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions).. has had some measure of success.
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.
My books don't sell anymore. There are many reasons why they don't sell, but one of the reasons is because people don't read anymore. Forget about reading books of detail - they don't read at all.
I voted for Nader, and I have no doubts at all that it was the right thing to do because the Nader candidacy was extremely energising and a terrific phenomenon in American life, and I hope he continues.
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.
There are many issues, as everyone knows, in the United States on which public opinion leans very much to the left of elite policy, but that's because public opinion hasn't been turned into a political force.