Norman Finkelstein – The "Triple Scam" of Wokeness

<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rvxnmIJ7yQ&#38;t=0s" target="_blank">0:00</a> Has Norman been shut out of mainstream political debates?</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rvxnmIJ7yQ&#38;t=474s" target="_blank">7:54</a> Norman’s conflict with Alan Dershowitz</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rvxnmIJ7yQ&#38;t=1010s" target="_blank">16:50</a> Is Israel an apartheid state?</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rvxnmIJ7yQ&#38;t=1165s" target="_blank">19:25</a> Identifying with Paul Robeson</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rvxnmIJ7yQ&#38;t=1988s" target="_blank">33:08</a> Norman’s new book, <em>I’ll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It!</em></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rvxnmIJ7yQ&#38;t=2682s" target="_blank">44:42</a> Norman: Wokeness is a “triple scam”</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rvxnmIJ7yQ&#38;t=3208s" target="_blank">53:28</a> What’s become of Angela Davis?</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rvxnmIJ7yQ&#38;t=3605s" target="_blank">1:00:05</a> Cornel West's chosen path</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rvxnmIJ7yQ&#38;t=4141s" target="_blank">1:09:01</a> Obama’s self-proclaimed “neat trick”</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rvxnmIJ7yQ&#38;t=5078s" target="_blank">1:24:38</a> The political intelligence of Carter, Clinton, and Obama</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rvxnmIJ7yQ&#38;t=5890s" target="_blank">1:38:10</a> South Carolina 2020: a case study in identity politics</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rvxnmIJ7yQ&#38;t=6444s" target="_blank">1:47:24</a> Would Bernie have won in 2016?</p><p>Recorded April 19, 2023</p><p>Links and Readings</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Heretical-Thoughts-Identity-Politics-Academic/dp/B0BSJXB7WN" target="_blank">Norman’s new book, </a><em>I’ll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It!: Heretical Thoughts on Identity Politics, Cancel Culture, and Academic Freedom</em></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Holocaust-Industry-Reflections-Exploitation-Suffering/dp/1781685614" target="_blank">Norman’s book, </a><em>The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering</em></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Chutzpah-Misuse-Anti-Semitism-History/dp/0520249895" target="_blank">Norman’s book, </a><em>Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History</em></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Gaza-Finkelstein/dp/0520318331" target="_blank">Norman’s book, </a><em>Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom</em></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Nation-Trial-Goldhagen-Thesis-Historical/dp/0805058729" target="_blank">Norman’s book, </a><em>A Nation on Trial: The Goldhagen Thesis and Historical Truth</em></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/What-Gandhi-Says-Norman-Finkelstein/dp/817599293X" target="_blank">Norman’s book, </a><em>What Ghandi Says: On Nonviolence, Resistance, and Courage</em></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/This-Time-Went-revised-expanded-ebook/dp/B004Y5FJCG" target="_blank">Norman’s book, </a><em>“This Time We Went Too Far”: Truth and Consequences on the Gaza Invasion</em></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Knowing-Too-Much-American-Romance/dp/1935928775" target="_blank">Norman’s book, </a><em>Knowing Too Much: Why the American Jewish Romance with Israel is Coming to an End</em></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-Palestine-Personal-Intifada/dp/0816628599" target="_blank">Norman’s book, </a><em>The Rise and Fall of Palestine: A Personal Account of the Intifada Years</em></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Time-Immemorial-Arab-Jewish-Conflict-Palestine/dp/0060152656" target="_blank">Joan Peters’s book, </a><em>From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine</em></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Case-Israel-Alan-Dershowitz/dp/0471679526" target="_blank">Alan Dershowitz’s book, </a><em>The Case for Israel</em></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzqTWpPI5Qw" target="_blank">Alan Dershowitz and Norman’s debate on </a><em>Democracy Now</em></p><p><a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/middle-east/israel-palestine-one-state-solution" target="_blank">Michael Barnett, Nathan Brown, Marc Lynch, and Shibley Telhami’s</a><em> Foreign Affairs </em><a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/middle-east/israel-palestine-one-state-solution" target="_blank">piece, “Israel’s One-State Reality”</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCa3Kslx-WI" target="_blank">Paul Robeson singing “The Four Insurgent Generals”</a></p><p><em>The Letters of Rosa Luxembourg</em></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eibRh5QUfNI" target="_blank">Mark Doss performing “Ol’ Man River”</a></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Here-I-Stand-Paul-Robeson/dp/0807064459" target="_blank">Paul Robeson’s autobiography, </a><em>Here I Stand</em></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Philadelphia-Negro-Social-Study/dp/0812215737" target="_blank">W.E.B. Du Bois’s book, </a><em>The Philadelphia Negro</em></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Black-Reconstruction-America-1860-1880-Burghardt/dp/0684856573" target="_blank">W.E.B. DuBois’s book, </a><em>Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880</em></p><p><a href="https://nymag.com/news/features/46170/" target="_blank">Tom Wolfe’s </a><em>New York Magazine</em><a href="https://nymag.com/news/features/46170/" target="_blank"> essay, “Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny’s”</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtN5bYZ0_NI" target="_blank">Angela Davis’s 2022 appearance at the University of South Carolina</a></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Promised-Random-House-Large-Print/dp/0525633766" target="_blank">Barack Obama’s memoir, </a><em>A Promised Land</em></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/My-Life-Bill-Clinton/dp/140003003X" target="_blank">Bill Clinton’s memoir, </a><em>My Life</em></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Keeping-Faith-President-Jimmy-Carter/dp/1557283303" target="_blank">Jimmy Carter’s memoir, </a><em>Keeping Faith</em></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Keeping-Faith-President-Jimmy-Carter/dp/1557283303" target="_blank">David Axelrod’s memoir, </a><em>Believer: My Forty Years in Politics</em></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Life-Times-Frederick-Douglass-Classics/dp/0198835329" target="_blank">Frederick Douglass’s third autobiography, </a><em>Life and Times of Frederick Douglass</em></p> <br /><br />This is a public episode. 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