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Dec 08, 1953 Brooklyn, New York, United States 70 years old

American political scientist and author

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About Norman Finkelstein

  • Norman Gary Finkelstein (; born December 8, 1953) is an American political scientist, activist, professor, and author.
  • His primary fields of research are the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust.
  • He is a graduate of Binghamton University and received his Ph.D.
  • in political science at 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 2007, after a highly publicized feud between Finkelstein and Alan Dershowitz, an academic opponent, Finkelstein was denied tenure at DePaul.
  • He was placed on administrative leave for the 2007–08 academic year, and on September 5, 2007, he announced his resignation after coming to a settlement with the university on largely undisclosed terms.
  • An official statement from DePaul strongly defended the decision to deny Finkelstein tenure and said that outside influence played no role in the decision.
  • In 2008 he was banned from entering Israel for 10 years for criticizing Israeli policies.Finkelstein taught at Sakarya University Middle East Institute in Turkey in 2014–15.

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