The Debrief with Briahna Joy Gray, April 8, 2022. Source: Transcript: Question: How much of a similarity maybe do you see between the kind of… the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the way …
Whatever you guys think about Finkelstein's opinion, you gotta hand it to him: the guy fucking paid his dues as a dissonant intellectual. It would have been so fucking easy to shut up about Israel and Dershowitz and just get tenured. The guy's a fucking living saint.
At the very least we know he stands in complete solidarity with them, since he has chosen to prioritize them over his own career, which I am not sure I know a lot of other people who would have.
Whatever you guys think about Finkelstein's opinion, you gotta hand it to him: the guy fucking paid his dues as a dissonant intellectual. It would have been so fucking easy to shut up about Israel and Dershowitz and just get tenured. The guy's a fucking living saint.
At the very least we know he stands in complete solidarity with them, since he has chosen to prioritize them over his own career, which I am not sure I know a lot of other people who would have.