A review by nithya_natalya
The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering by Norman G. Finkelstein

informative fast-paced

5.0

This book was on a lot of lists being shared with resources for learning about Palestine. Norman Finkelstein's interviews have also been resurfacing quite a bit, so it was great to read some of his scholarship directly.  This particular book was helpful in understanding the ways in which Jewish grief has been exploited and misused to justify violent occupation, and deflect genuine critique of state-sponsored violence. There are people who have accused Finkelstein of being self-hating and antisemitic, but I think this text makes abundantly clear that he is very simply of the side of liberation. A quote from his introduction in speaking about his mother who was a concentration camp survivor, "In the face of the sufferings of African Americans, Vietnamese, and Palestinians, my mother's credo always was: We are all holocaust victims."