Reddit reviews Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History

>he didn't demolish any claims, in that instance he points out that Joan Peter's interpretation of a report in the British Archives could be exaggerated

He completely fucking demolished her hoax of a book.

>he is his own undoing

So the ineffable Dershowitz had nothing to do with it, in your opinion? Finkelstein also has shown the extent to which Dershowitz himself is a fraud. Which is partly why Desrshowitz invested so much of his own declining political capital in his persecution of Finkelstein.

> Netanyahu is the personification of Chutzpah.

And beyond...

https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Chutzpah-Misuse-Anti-Semitism-History/dp/0520249895/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1483129182&sr=8-2&keywords=the+holocaust+industry

It is indeed a complex situation, but these would be a good start:

• “State of Terror: How terrorism Created Modern Israel” by Thomas Suárez
  
• “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine” by Ilan Pappé
  
• “Culture and Resistance: Conversations with Edward W. Said” by David Barsamian
  
• “The Battle for Justice in Palestine” by Ali Abunimah
  
• “Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination, and Democracy” by Ben White
  
• “The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza” by Max Blumenthal
  
  Earlier history:
  
  
• “All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948” and “Before Their Diaspora: A Photographic History of The Palestinians 1876-1948” by Walid Khalidi
  
  For more contextual books, I would recommend:
  
  
• “Orientalism” by Edward Said
  
• “The Holocaust Industry” and “Beyond Chutzpah” by Norman Finkelstein
  
• “Not by Might, nor by Power: The Zionist Betrayal of Judaism” By Moshe Menuhin

Dershowitz polarizes, with many deeming him either an eloquent bona fide Zionist or a ruthless fraudulent shyster. (Given the amount of downvotes my comment received for naming just one book among three that goes against the pre-1988 narratives, it's quite foreseeable with which view /r/israel largely agrees.)

You've probably heard of the controversy surrounding The Case for Israel, how it was the target of another book (Beyond Chutzpah) by Dershowitz's arch-enemy Finkelstein — you might be interested in listening to this direct debate between the two.

Norman Finkelstein has also written eloquently about this in his books "The Holocaust Industry" and "Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History".

http://www.amazon.com/Holocaust-Industry-Reflections-Exploitation-Suffering/dp/185984488X

http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Chutzpah-Misuse-Anti-Semitism-History/dp/0520249895

http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Chutzpah-Misuse-Anti-Semitism-History/dp/0520249895/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1405874948&sr=8-1&keywords=Beyond+Chutzpah

It's a good book if you want factual documentation, and read the reviews.