Join us on Wednesday, 12 May for a conversation with Norman Finkelstein hosted by Jadaliyya co-editor Mouin Rabbani about Israeli apartheid. This episode of Connections Podcast will discuss the recent Human Rights Watch Report A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution, its political context, and potential implications. 

This interview is the third episode of Connections Podcast. Connections offers timely and informative interviews on current events and broader policy questions, as well as themes relevant to knowledge production. It combines journalism, analysis, and scholarship. Connections will focus primarily but not exclusively on the Middle East. 

Guest

Norman Finkelstein is a world-renowned forensic scholar. He first came to public attention in the 1980s, while still a doctoral student at Princeton University, for exposing a major study purporting to demonstrate that the Palestinians are an invented people as a work of fraud. He has since published ten books that have been translated into numerous languages. Among his most notable works are Image and Reality of the Palestine Conflict (1995); The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering (2000); and Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom (2018). His scholarship has been praised by, among others, Noam Chomsky, John Dugard, Raul Hillberg, and Avi Shlaim. Finkelstein’s exposure of the methods of Alan Dershowitz in Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History (2005) ultimately resulted in DePaul University denying Finkelstein tenure in 2007.

Host

Mouin Rabbani has published and commented widely on Palestinian affairs, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the contemporary Middle East. He was previously Senior Analyst Middle East and Special Advisor on Israel-Palestine with the International Crisis Group, and head of political affairs with the Office of the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria. He is Co-Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine.

Previous Episodes

Connections Podcast Episode 1: The Biden Administration and the Middle East with Noam Chomsky

Connections Podcast Episode 2: The Politics of Holy Cities with Mick Dumper and Maha Samman