'HIDEOUS!' Israeli Jews Cheer As Mosque Burns

#savesheikhjarrah Norman Finkelstein describes the "hideous" celebration engaged in by a group of young religious Jewish Israelis in front of Al Aqsa Mosque, where a tree had caught fire. The son of Holocaust survivors and a fierce critic of Israel, Finkelstein sees this as the behavior of what he calls Israel a "lunatic state." Plus Norman argues that Hamas has the moral right to throw rockets at Israel and Katie and Norm go over the stunning but not shocking media bias in reporting on Israel, Palestine, and The Occupation.

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See the full stream () where political scientist, prolific author, son of Holocaust survivors and fearless critic of Israel Norman Finkelstein talks about Israel's attacks on Palestinians, the significance of the reports on its apartheid state by Human Rights Watch and Israel's own human rights organization B'Tselem, why he thinks Israel may be at a turning point and overplayed its hand, and why it's a lunatic state. Finkelstein is the author of 11 books, including GazaAn Inquest into Its Martyrdom, The Holocaust IndustryReflections on the Exploitation of Human Suffering and Knowing Too MuchWhy the American Jewish Romance with Israel Is Coming to an End.

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