Finkelstein’s BDS Secrets
February 28, 2012 12:05 by GuestPost
Here’s how it works. Many Palestinians have poor, hard lives—high birth rates, low job qualifications, few income sources. Politically, they are caught between hammer and anvil: They are subject to both a traditionally Arabic “hamoola” system of lawless tribal power and the Palestinian Authority, which Finkelstein has called, not without reason, a “gang of corrupt, wretched collaborators.” Industries that bring in work and foreign money will thrive.
One such industry is international charity. Large, mostly Western donations flow through a web of international organizations to fund the fight against Palestinian suffering, distress, and brutalization under Israeli occupation. The more suffering, distress, and brutalization, the more money. The army of one-man NGOs is the fruit of this incentive system. If you’re the first to report injustice by Jews to Palestinians, you attract the cash.
So, low-level NGOs gather, report, and pay for these stories, true and false. The stories are picked up by larger human rights NGOs, like Amnesty International, B’tselem, Gush Shalom, and Human Rights Watch, whose staffers are not too picky about including uncorroborated testimony in their reports. The reports then go to UN agencies. They become the “facts” of media coverage, public debate, further UN actions. A story unearthed by a one-man NGO in Ramallah may reverberate throughout the international system.
If someone happens to double-check, he asks the same one-man Palestinian NGOs to supply the research. There is little risk of exposure: The entire process, bottom to top, is controlled by anti-Israel personnel, many of whom are actually Palestinians. Who was ever punished for fabricating allegations of Israeli human rights violations? In sum, heavily relying on local Palestinians to supply information, this system of incentives rewards and propagates almost all stories without providing sanctions for fabrication.
This is terrible news for the good, concerned people who want to understand the reality of the occupation: One cannot tell the difference between a true and a false human rights report. A hate industry manufactures the product; the West buys it, providing incentives for further production. We know the most notorious examples: the Goldstone report, the “murder” of Muhammad Al-Durah, the alleged Jenin massacre. But these are only symbols of a fabrication process that taints all human rights activity in Israel.
Then there is Finkelstein’s second accusation—that groups like BDS are effectively led by the “gurus in Ramallah.” It is true. European politicians and human rights organizations make pilgrimages to Ramallah and provide loyal soldiers for the Palestinian propaganda war machine. The real question is, why do we not hear about these relationships?
lippy
8:06 pm
Feb 28, 2012
unfortunately you are preaching to the proverbial choir. this must go out to all news media, major papers, t.v. networks and especially the white house,state department and the u.n.
i also believe that Israel should hire some good lawyers (Allan Dershowitz?) and sue these groups for libel and slander. drag them through the courts, the Hague, etc. and make them pay. when they start losing all the money they have been getting from the useful idiots of the world we will see how fast they all shut up and go away.
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steve mann
5:06 pm
Mar 01, 2012
His book the “Holocaust Industry”.
In it he accuses the Jewish Elite of perpetuating an industry using the holocaust as a ploy to extort money and gain influence to crush any dissent or criticism of the state of Israel.
The New York Times review of his book- described its premise as “ A novel variation of the Elders of Zion.” They concluded by accusing Finkelstein of being Juvenile stupid and arrogant. (Their issue Aug 6th 2000)
He has not changed a hair- Its just “Greyer”
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Michael
7:04 pm
Mar 01, 2012
Actually Soviets had lots of perfectly legal newspapers – Izvestia (News), Komsomolskaja Prawda, Trud, Krasnaja Zvezda, Literaturnaja Gazeta, Sovetskij Sport … Add to this multitude of local newspapers and journals(both local and not) and we see different picture… I despise everything Soviets did, but still, Honest reporting should be also correct (always)
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Nico Black
7:30 pm
Mar 01, 2012
I wrote about the BDS being a cult ages ago: http://bit.ly/bds-as-cult
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PAthena
12:32 am
Mar 02, 2012
Calling Arabs “Palestinians” is to fall for the lie perpetrated by Egypt under Nasser and the Soviet Union, haters of Jews, who, in Cairo in 1964, invented the “Palestine Liberation Organization” (P.L.O.), with phony history and propaganda. “Palestinian” has meant “Jew”, and “Palestine” “land of the Jews” (or “the Holy Land.” since Jesus was a Jew) since the Roman Emperor Hadrian, after defeating the last Jewish rebellion under Bar Kochba in 135 A.D., changed the name ofJudea to “Palestina,” to eradicate all memory of Judea. He also outlawed Judaism and changed the name of Jerusalem to “Aelia Capitolina,” “Aelius” being his gens name.
That is why Great Britain was awarded the “Palestine Mandate” after World War I to be the “homeland of the Jews.”
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Kris Kristian
8:19 am
Mar 02, 2012
Churchill was the man who went against the british mandate and the League of Nations, by cutting up what was to be the Jewish homelnd. He created Jordan and I thunk, Syria
. This all for oil. The league of Nations order to give the Jews what was required was never abrogated, which means that it is still international law. TheuN divided the land still futher. Ther UN’s division is surely illegal.
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Brent Pudsey
2:18 pm
Mar 02, 2012
He provides excellent analysis which demonstrates that the Palestinans need to rethink their actions and the implications they have. They must realize that it is horribly wrong to be so anit Israel and to learn to live in peace with them.
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Karin Berryman
2:16 am
Mar 04, 2012
In Australia we have a Finkelstein hearing an ‘investigation’ into the media, and their criticism of the government who has instituted this investigation. ‘The Australian’ newspaper has a stable of many and varied journalists across the board. Rarely is anything written of a personal nature, but the daily has a ‘Cut and Paste’ section where someone’s quotes of previous years are contrasted with recent quotes, highlighting how easily he/she will change positions to suit the agenda, often contradicting themselves. Our govt isn’t happy with Freedom of Speech!
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John Williams
6:52 am
Mar 14, 2012
lippy, I would be very careful about suggesting that, “drag them through the courts, the Hague, etc. and make them pay” as it could impact the leaders of Israel, especially the Hauge.
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