Tag Archives: Norman Finkelstein

everything must go

Posted on May 19, 2012 by Dave

That entire cultures could be formed on the basis of hated, or villainization seems almost too absurd to be possible. As the Arab Spring revealed, the whole phony nature of restricting civil rights, outright repression was based on the phony … Continue reading →

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sunset of a new dawn

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Dave

The Enlightenment. Its the basis of our secular society and ints values underpin much of the consumer economy. Its values have dominated the public sphere since the dawn of the industrial age. This liberal, rational, humanitarian way of thought has … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Christopher Hitchens, Edward Gibbon, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hannah Arendt, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Heidegger, Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Peter Howson, Richard Dawkins, Slavoj Zizek, Voltaire | Leave a comment

remolding the scattered

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Dave

There is no question there has been a fragmentation, a near collapse of the relationship between the ruling class of Israel, the secular establishment and all its state sanctioned apparatus of control , the bureaucracy, and the disparate elements that … Continue reading →

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radical chic: return of the ekosians

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Dave

Truth to power. A kind of truth to power. Neo-Nazi? Patriot? Freedom fighter? Misguided genius? Eccentric gadfly and publicity hound? Clearly inscrutable, but all part of the mystery of radical Jewish culture, the people, the remnant of the remnant as … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alan Dershowitz, Art Spiegelman, art spiegelman maus, Arthur Butz, children of holocaust survivors, david ridgen, Elie Wiesel, Eva Fogelman, fara kaplan, George Grosz, Gideon Levy, Israel Shamir, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Beckmann, Natasha Mozgovaya, nicolas rossier, Norman Finkelstein, Steven Plaut, Thomas Klocek, Tom Segev | Leave a comment

redemption through damascus gate

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Dave

Society of the Spectacle. A game. In part, an attempt to gain social acceptance in an environment hostile towards Jews or can it be attributable to an infantile effort to correct a haunting victim status through self-blame, the kinds of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Allan Dershowitz, benny morris, De Paul University Norman Finkelstein, George Grosz, Guy Debord, Israel Shamir, Jeff Halper ICAHD, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Beckmann, Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Otto Dix, Ruthie Blum, Salvoj Zizek, Steven Plaut, Yair Lapid | Leave a comment

tumbling dice: rocking the casbah

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Dave

In the disapora, the absence of political sovereignty presented some opportunities for self-improvement, it was never regarded as an end in itself. Much like the Old Country proverb about dying, it was more of a tradition than a good deed. … Continue reading →

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old doctor: same sick disease

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Dave

Days of their lives…The United States Congress established the Days of Remembrance as our nation’s annual commemoration of the Holocaust and created the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a permanent living memorial to the victims. Holocaust Remembrance Day is … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged aryeh eldad, Band of Brothers movie, Effi Eitam, Holocaust Memorial Day, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Januscz Korczak, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nissan Slomianski, Norman Finkelstein, Rabbi Wolpo, Raul Hilberg, Robert Capa, Zoltan Kluger | Leave a comment

new frontier: beyond his grassp

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Dave

Do you believe that on that day all the children of Abraham are going to lay down their swords forever and eternally in Jerusalem. What to make of Gunter Grass? The pen as sword but within the context of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Allan Dershowitz, beinart, Daniel Gordis, Emma Thompson actress, gershom gorenberg, Gunter grass, Gunter Grass israel, Gunter Grass Zionism, gush emunim, Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, richard falk, Salman Rushdie, Stephen Lendman, Steven Plaut | Leave a comment

short lease: after this commercial break

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Dave

The industry of memory. A industry setting boundaries on how we remember and the nature of interpretation. Ultimately, you can’t really portray real life tragedy. Even the original experiences of the holocaust victims, those closest to near death experiences are … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged albert hackett, Ann Frank, Anne Frank, Anne Frank Museum, Bruno Schulz, Elie Wiesel, frances goodrich, Gene Wilder, holocaust industry, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Norman Finkelstein, Otto Frank, Primo Levi, sharon dogar | Leave a comment

kamp: a day in the life

Posted on February 12, 2012 by Dave

All acts of reconstruction in which what saves the meaning, is its necessary incompletion. Like Da Vinci never quite finishing a work, or more particularly, unable to complete Jesus’s face in The Last Supper frescoe. The holocaust, despite what Art … Continue reading →