Norman Finkelstein: "It is precisely and exactly because of the lessons my parents taught me that I will not be silent when Israel commits its crimes against the Palestinians. And I consider nothing more despicable than to use their suffering to try to justify it."
Norman Finkelstein, son of Holocaust survivors: "The irony is that the Holocaust has become the main ideological weapon for launching wars of aggression. It's the suffering used as a pretext and excuse to humiliate, degrade and torture the Palestinians."