Tag: Anti-Zionism Vs. Anti-Semitism

NOVANEWS Dr. Norman Finkelstein says the U.N. has been generous to Israel since its beginning. Staff Photo J. Adas Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, June/July 2017, pp. 66 Dr. Norman Finkelstein addressed the question of whether anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism in a Feb. 16 talk sponsored by the Princeton Committee on Palestine. Finkelstein has been studying this issue since his time as a Ph.D. candidate at Princeton, where his dissertation focused on the theory of Zionism. He explained that Zionism developed at the end of the 19th century to address two concerns: the physical survival of Jews, and the spiritual survival of Judaism in an increasingly secular world and amid growing assimilation. Physical survival became more urgent beginning in the 1930s. Finkelstein described the...