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The Finkelstein Memos

Look, I'll save my favorite commenters the trouble on this one: How dare I repeat this Zionist/AIPAC/Dershowitzian libel about Norman Finkelstein's reputation at DePaul University? I'd like to see a handwriting analysis of these alleged "memos" suggesting that the professor failed to comport himself with the dignity befitting a scholar of political science at a third-rate Catholic college. Et cetera:

Oral and physical confrontations between Finkelstein and university officials began shortly after his tenure denial, according to a memo written by university Provost Helmut Epp.

The provost's memo, dated June 26, alleges that Finkelstein "angrily confronted" other faculty and staff and engaged them with "threatening and discourteous behavior" after being denied tenure.

On three such occasions, campus security officers were called to intervene, according to the provost's memo. When a dean attempted to escape a confrontation by ducking into an elevator, Finkelstein physically tried to keep the door from closing, according to the provost's account.

So despite a lengthy career of pissing off the big bad Israel Lobby with his take-down of Joan Peters, his polemic against the Holocaust reparations scandals, and his boosterism of Hezbollah, he actually had to chase his own dean into an elevator to lose his job. Right?  Of course not. The thread is open below. Enjoy yourselves.

Though I will say, the whole episode was value for money just to be able to read this:

At a convocation Friday marking the start of the academic year, several dozen protesters wore T-shirts proclaiming: "We are all Professor Finkelstein."

No mention of the handful or so wearing the "Professor Finkelstein's chickens have come home to roost" t-shirt. 

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