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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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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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You know, frankly speaking, money just doesn't figure largely in my world view.

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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.

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Indeed, the field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense if not sheer fraud.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Educator

Born: December 8th, 1953

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