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• The Holocaust Industry
• The Mystery of Israel in Ancient History     

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The Holocaust Industry -  Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering  

Paperback - 286 pages                                                            by Norman G. Finkelstein  

 
This iconoclastic study was one of the most widely debated books of 2000. Norman Finkelstein indicts with both vigor and honesty those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for their own personal political and financial gain. The paperback edition includes updated material discussing the book’s initial reception.

Finkelstein interrogates the conventional accounts of the place the Holocaust has come to occupy in American culture. It was not until the Arab-Israeli War of 1967, when Israel’s evident strength brought it into line with US foreign policy, that memory of the Holocaust began to acquire the exceptional prominence it enjoys today. Leaders of America's Jewish community were delighted that Israel was now deemed a major strategic asset and, Finkelstein contends, exploited the Holocaust to enhance this new-found status. Their subsequent interpretations of the tragedy are often at variance with actual historical events and are employed to deflect any criticism of Israel and its supporters.

Recalling Holocaust fraudsters such as Jerzy Kosinski and Binyamin Wilkomirski, as well as the demagogic constructions of writers like Daniel Goldhagen, Finkelstein contends that the main danger posed to the memory of Nazism’s victims comes not from the rubbish of Holocaust deniers but from prominent, self-proclaimed guardians of Holocaust memory. Scrupulously researched and closely argued, The Holocaust Industry is alI the more disturbing and powerful because the issues it deals with are so rarely discussed.

REVIEWS:
“When I read The Holocaust Industry, I was in the middle of my own investigations of these matters, and I came to the conclusion that he was on the right track. I would now say in retrospect that he was actually conservative, moderate, and that his conclusions are trustworthy … a breakthrough.” — Raul Hilberg, the world’s leading authority on the Nazi holocaust.
 
“Breathtaking in [its] angry accuracy and irony.” — The Jewish Quarterly 

“[Finkelstein] is scathing in his denunciation of the institutions and individuals who have cropped up around the issue of reparations in the last several years.” — New York Press 
 
“When it comes to analyzing how “The Holocaust” has been employed to advance political interests Finkelstein is at his best.” — The Nation

Norman Finkelstein teaches at DePaul University and contributes to the London Review of Books.

  
 
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The Mystery of Israel in Ancient History  

 Paperback - 228 pages                                      by   Louay Fatoohi and Shetha Al-Dargazelli         

The Exodus in the Qur’an, the Old Testament, Archaeological Finds, and Historical Sources.
 
Few events in history have fascinated the layperson and the scholar as much as the exodus of the Israelites from ancient Egypt. This phenomenal interest has led to extensive research into scriptural, historical, and archaeological sources. The Qur’an, however, has been completely ignored by Western researchers because of the faith put in the Biblical narrative and the prejudiced view that the Qur’an’s account is based on Jewish sources, including the Bible.

This book examines in detail the Biblical narrative of the exodus, showing that it contains a substantial amount of inaccurate and false information. It also shows that the similarities between the Qur’anic exodus and its Biblical counterpart are very limited and the differences between the two scriptures are much greater in number and detail. Particularly significant is the fact that the Qur’an is free of the erroneous and inaccurate Biblical statements that have contributed to the rejection of the historicity of the exodus by many scholars. The book demonstrates that the Qur’anic account is consistent with what we know today from archaeological finds and historical sources. This pioneering study is an attempt to create what might be called “Qur’anic archaeology.”

***A comprehensive scriptural and historical analysis of the exodus of Israel from ancient Egypt: The Israelites in ancient Egypt

---The Qur’anic and Biblical accounts of the exodus

---Historical problems in the Biblical narrative

---The exodus in archaeological finds

---The exodus in historical sources

---Identifying the Pharaoh of the exodus  

 
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