This month, political scientist and activist Norman Finkelstein, who is well-known for his vehement on-air accusations of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, will speak in Little Rock.
Finkelstein will talk on August 16 at 10 a.m. at New Millennium Church, 21 Lakeshore Drive, hosted by Little Rock Peace for Palestine. A Q&A session will follow at 10:30 a.m. Following that, participants can stay for a period of interactive call-to-action exercises, such as drafting letters to political officials, making protest signs, and phonebanking. Everyone is welcome to the free event.
Jewish and the son of Holocaust survivors, Finkelstein has devoted his professional life to studying and assessing Israeli-Palestinian relations and has written over a dozen books on the subject since the 1980s. On November 25, his most recent book, Gaza’s Gravediggers: An Inquiry into Corruption in High Places, will be published.
He has been interviewed by Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Columbia Political Review, and Democracy Now! He has accumulated millions of viewers from dozens of appearances on online podcasts and shows, demonstrating his familiarity with new media. However, Finkelstein’s most well-known relationship is perhaps his long-running conflict with disgraced former Harvard Law professor and Jeffrey Epstein partner Alan Dershowitz, which is so well-known that it has its own Wikipedia page.
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