Time to fight back - Rated 
The zionists have been using dubious claims about the events of World War 2 to justify their own holocaust against the unfortunate Palestinians. These disgusting people have to be removed from the middle east and speaking out in word, action and deed is the way we are going to achieve this.
A brave book and a thought provoking read - Rated 
I have read many books on the Nazi Holocaust and had a growing personal discomfort about the manner in which the non-Jewish element was increasingly marginalised (I must admit that I had a similar feeling when I started learning about the numbers of Asian non-POWS who had been killed in building the Death Railway in Burma in WWII, a feature that is ignored in most books of that event). This feeling was added to when I visited the Holocaust Museum in Washington. Now in this book I have some basis for understanding my discomfort though for reasons I had not envisaged.
Finkelstein's book delivers a very hard hitting analysis of how the Holocaust has been increasingly suborned to a mixture of Jewish American political and religious personal interests and the Israeli pursuit of garnering US support post the 1967 Six Days War, covering key events up to the current day. At times he has a very personal and edgy emotional style in dealing with counter arguments but given the personal abuse and attacks he has suffered from such groups, this adds to the drama of the story he tells. His analysis of the abuses engineered under the Swiss "Nazi Gold" claims alone is worth the price of this book in my mind.
Read and you will not be unmoved even if you disagree certain points.
Eye opener - Rated
A very interesting book with lots of facts and figures that really cause one to reflect. Unlike many books that I have read, it is not fiction pretending to be fact. It is a serious book, and often not easy to read. I would venture that it's not particularly well organised and at times perhaps not even that well written. But that's fine because our primary demand from factual books is that they are factual, not that they are great literary works.
a tour de force - Rated
For the various political currents of Zionism, Norman Finkelstein is a particularly terrifying foe - his polemical edge had me wincing with delight; his holocaust-survivor parents deflect the crude character assassinations so favoured of the ADL; and most of all, his rare erudition and sharp scholarship, which has won plaudits from such luminaries as Raul Hilberg (who uses much of the present work's research, citing it as a "breakthrough"), presents a serious intellectual challenge. Not many people could commit themselves to proving Alan Dershowitz's wholesale lifting of research on a footnote by footnote basis, but Finkelstein does it in another book, and he has you chuckling all the way at the sheer audacity of it all.
The case for the book has already been made, so I simply wish to briefly correct "a reader"'s complaints that "The Holocaust Industry" is a "polemical barrage" which "lacks context" and is inferior to the more nucanced approach of Peter Novick. This does not note that Finkelstein both refers to and criticises Novick in this work, criticisms unaddressed by comrade 'reader'. It also ignores the fact that nuance is not always desirable - there was nothing "nuanced" about Hitler's policy of mass extermination, for a start, and the Holocaust Industry's record, while obviously not nearly as horrendous as Hitler's, is no more possessed of shades of grey. In fact, Finkelstein's whole thesis is that this all represents an attempt to introduce shades of grey artificially into a fairly black and white issue - the ethnic cleansing and subsequent occupation of Palestinians by the state of Israel.
Ugly Businesses Are Rampant Worldwide - Rated
It seems a little odd at first glance that activists of the Anti-Nazi movement criticise this book like Mike Simons did in "Socialist Review" in September, 2000.
But it does totally make sense, as Simons wrote; "[The] memory of the Holocaust is the biggest barrier to the rebirth of a modern Nazi movement." I think they want to say at heart; "You should not throw a wet blanket over the righteous movement."
Still, those Anti-Nazi activists and other left-wingers who call the Israeli state "Fascist" make the matter indigestible. It seems to me that there are no differences, apart from the motivation, money on one hand and ideology on the other, between both the Jewish cheaters and the agents of the Anti-Nazi movement because both of them are, in reality, profiting from the Holocaust Industry. By the way, Holocaust Industry seems to be not only one industry of such kind that makes profits for various people worldwide involving money and ideological activities. Here, I name "Nanking Massacre/ Rape of Nanking", which was coincidentally called "forgotten holocaust of the world war 2" by Iris Chang, the author of the best-selling book, "the Rape of Nanking", for another "Industry".
Although many contemporary documented evidences suggest that such massacre on both civilians and the soldiers (other than legitimate executions of unlawful soldiers) never happened, the propaganda story has evolved into a large-scale profit-making machine hugely supported by a still influential historical view of the Tokyo Trial for over half a century. In this "Industry", however, as well as other "Japan's Wartime Atrocities Industries" mostly the Tokyo Trial created such as "Comfort Women Industry" and "Unit 731 Industry" and so on, there is a quite peculiar side that "the Holocaust Industry" never has: bogus perpetrators. Among those bogus perpetrators, there are a few hundreds of the victims of the Chinese "brain-washing" who "confessed" horrible crimes before the Chinese People's Court after "reformed" their "inhumane thought" to "righteous" Anti-Japanese Imperialism at the Fuxuan War Criminal Camp in China for 5 to 10 years after transported from Russian slave labour camps in Siberia in July, 1950, by the direct order of Stalin. (Of course, by doing that, both China and Soviet Union was violating the Potsdam Declaration art. 9 which stated the Japanese soldiers should be returned "to their homes" after the war.)
They were returned to Japan as planned and formed "Association of the Soldiers Returned from China" to advocate the Anti-Japanese Imperialism publishing books and giving lectures throughout Japan and China. However, the biggest profit they have made so far is, actually, not for themselves but for the Anti-Japanese campaigners of both the Japanese and the Chinese. (Sometimes for the Korean, too.)
Sadly, they will never be able to come to realisation that they were actually "brain-washed" and, most importantly, are not real perpetrators of the barbaric crimes they "confessed", therefore, there is no need for them to suffer from painful guilt, just because the Chinese Communist Party and their sympathisers in Japan, as well as other left-wingers who are of anti-Japanese sentiment, never ever let them unless, like the U.S. authority did to their own "brain-washing" victims of China, some decent authority in Japan take care of them as "victims" of the mental manipulation called "thought reform". But, that is unlikely because there are strong "China school" in Japanese authorities such as Foreign Ministry and the Justice Department and some MPs even in the "conservative" parties, not to mention both the Japan Communist Party and the Japan Socialist Party, that are said to be having some good "kickbacks" from the Chinese government. Having so much enjoyed those lucrative but ugly businesses, the profit-makers of both sides would have no intention to search for the truth of history. Never. The profits are too juicy and too many people involved for them to give it up altogether.
Finkelstein and other's struggle to reveal the truth and to change the situation to better one is, therefore, inevitably endless.
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