CLOSED OUT? NORMAN FINKELSTEIN, CONTROVERSIAL SCHOLAR DENIED TENURE, CAN’T FIND A JOB
Chronicle of Higher Education
July 7 2008
It’s been just over a year since DePaul University denied the
tenure bid of Norman G. Finkelstein, the political scientist who has
attracted both venom and praise for his writings on the Holocaust and
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Now no one in academe will give
him another job — not even as an adjunct, he told The Jewish Week
this month.
In an article, Mr. Finkelstein said he had lectured at 40 campuses
in the last year. "I would ask faculty there about a position and
was told it was out of the question," he said. "I can’t even get an
adjunct appointment for one semester."
Mr. Finkelstein is living in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he grew up,
in the apartment of his deceased father. He told The Jewish Week,
a local newspaper, that he doubted he could get even a job teaching
high school.
"The way they do background checks is to Google your name," he
said. "With me, they would get 30,000 Web sites, one-third of them
saying I am a Holocaust denier, a supporter of terrorism, a crackpot,
and a lunatic."
Mr. Finkelstein said he was working on a new book, A Farewell to
Israel: The Coming Break-Up of American Zionism, although he does
not yet have a publisher. –Robin Wilson
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
