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- Nov 07, 2020
I would not have stayed at a university if it told me upfront that a condition for me getting tenure. my views have to be filtered through Catholic values. I would consider it a betrayal of my parents' legacy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents often wondered why I would grow so indignant at the falsification and exploitation of the Nazi genocide. The most obvious answer is that it has been used to justify criminal policies of the Israeli state and U.S. support for these policies.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Independence
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International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.
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Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm politically on the left, no question about it. I oppose sweatshops, I oppose exploitation of labour in the third world.
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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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fraud
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indeed, the field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense if not sheer fraud.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Zionists indeed learnt well from the Nazis. So well that it seems that their morally repugnant treatment of the Palestinians, and their attempts to destroy Palestinian society within Israel and the occupied territories, reveals them as basically Nazis with beards and black hats.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every victory of Hezbollah, I celebrate.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had been a Maoist, and then when the Gang of Four was overthrown, I was completely distraught. I was bedridden for three weeks; it was a very painful experience for me. Not only because I had been wrong, but because I felt really embarrassed that I had been lecturing and pontificating with such self-confidence.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a good writer, and I don't care. Unfortunately, after I left college, I didn't have time much for literature. I wish I did. Most of the time I read documents, and that's not going to help your writing. But I'm a very logical writer, and you can't get out of me. Once I've nailed you, you're finished.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Personal convictions are not politics. Personal convictions, if they become the subject of a group conviction, they become a cult.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teaching is in my bones. I love to teach.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020