Norman Finkelstein – Hezbollah, the Honour of Lebanon (Memritv propaganda in action)

Posted on May 25, 2008 by Antievil

Following are excerpts from an interview with American Political Scientist Norman Finkelstein, which aired on Future TV on January 20, 2008. The questions were posed in Arabic, and Finkelstein’s responses are in English. EMRI Nazis

Editor’s note: MEMRITV.org’s video clips are hosted by CastUp.net, a company whose clients also include:

* Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs * Israeli Broadcast Authority
* Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive * Taglit – Birthright Israel
* Israel Youth Movement

How MEMRI presents itself

[From the MEMRI website:]
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) explores the Middle East through the region’s media. MEMRI bridges the language gap which exists between the West and the Middle East, providing timely translations of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish media, as well as original analysis of political, ideological, intellectual, social, cultural, and religious trends in the Middle East. Founded in February 1998 to inform the debate over U.S. policy in the Middle East, MEMRI is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit, 501 (c)3 organization.

The truth about MEMRI

MEMRI is a main arm of Israeli propaganda. Although widely used in the mainstream media as a source of information on the Arab world, it is as trustworthy as Julius Streicher’s Der Sturmer was on the Jewish world.

The evidence

MEMRI recently posted what it alleged was an interview I did with Lebanese television on the Nazi holocaust. The MEMRI posting was designed to prove that I was a Holocaust denier. Below I juxtapose the MEMRI version of my interview (both the actual broadcast version as well as the transcript it prepared) against what I actually said in the interview.

Footnotes

1. Streicher was sentenced to death at Nuremberg.

2. “When the true history of this era is written…the dispatches of MEMRI will be copiously represented in every true scholar’s footnotes” – Martin Peretz, Editor and Publisher, The New Republic. (Another of Peretz’s notable predictions back in 1984 was that Joan Peters’s From Time Immemorial “will change the mind of our generation. If understood, it could affect the history of the future.”)

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3 Responses

  1. abufazl, on May 25th, 2008 at 11:33 Said:

    Thanks For the article, liked it a lot.

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  2. allysonrt, on May 25th, 2008 at 18:19 Said:

    I hope Norman is NEVER allowed back into Israel or the USA

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  3. Antievil, on May 25th, 2008 at 21:47 Said:

    I understand you very well.
    If I was FOR continuing israeli colonailisation, annexation, hat propaganda and ethnic cleansing then brillant persons like Norman Finkelstein is someone that you don´t want around. At all. Not even in the “world police” state that exports “democracy” and the “only democracy in the middle east” (which we already know is a lie)

    But the tide has changed.
    And the good side is winning.
    While the evils are standing with their pants down.

    May the force be with you Norman…

    : a

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