The Wit, Wisdom & Wituperation of Emanuel L. Strunin
“A few steps ahead of the curve”




NORMAN “THE HOLOCAUST FINK” FINKELSTEIN

The name Norman Finkelstein is certainly not a household word, or name, among most Americans. He is a political science professor who has carved out a profitable career for himself by attacking the “holocaust industry.” He claims that the Jews involved in keeping the memory of the holocaust alive, or fighting to reclaim the billions upon billions of dollars in monies and properties, or seeking compensation for victims are merely attempting to “blackmail” the European nations that managed and participated in the holocaust.

What may, or may not, be unusual about Norman, is that he is the son of holocaust survivors. We are well aware of the capos in the death camps. They were Jewish prisoners in the camps who, for some favorable treatment for themselves, served as surrogates for the Germans in the mistreatment of other Jewish prisoners. This type of self-serving behavior can be found in prisons everywhere. I couple this physical behavior with a psychological phenomenon which takes place in prisons/death camps, as well as in minority communities that are heavily oppressed by majorities. This involves turning the hatred one experiences, inward, against your own community, your own people.

I’m a white Jew

“All those terrible things they say about my people are true, but I’m not like the rest of them,” is the psychological escape hatch for the self-hater.

I don’t know what Norman’s parents were, or are, like but they may have transmitted to Norm both of the attitudes I’ve described. On the one hand, he describes the despicable behavior of the Jews who are “blackmailing” the nations that initiated and helped carry out the murders, rapes, robberies and tortures that was the holocaust, and on the other hand, he separates himself from those “blackmailers.” As the old expression goes, he paints himself as the white Jew—the different Jew—the non-Jew Jew.

Here are some additional suggestions how Norm might expand his reputation, increase his income and endear himself to all the organization he claims are being blackmailed.
He could become a consultant to the Swiss Banks and prove that the cost of hiding Jewish accounts was greater than the value of the accounts so that the banks are not liable
to pay survivors or their families anything. Conceivably, he could demonstrate that the survivors and their families owe the banks money.


Stopping blackmail in its tracks

He also may be able to prove that the German industries that used slave laborers actually “overpaid” these slaves. A clever man like Norm should be able to show that the cost of the food provided the slave laborers greatly exceeded their productivity.

In places like Poland, he likely could prove that the Jewish properties that were taken over by Poles were in such states of disrepair that the cost to the Poles of making the properties livable or workable were higher than their actual value. Norm also may be able to demonstrate that the cost of maintaining Jewish artworks for 50 years was so high that the Jews who received their artworks back must return them to their European guardians.

Stormin’ Norman Finkelstein is valiantly trying to stop the holocaust “blackmail” business right in its tracks and put a real crimp in the flourishing holocaust industry.

As another old expression goes, Norm is a perfect example of the pot calling the kettle black. Any way you slice it, Norm also is an integral part of the same holocaust industry that he condemns and from which he makes a very good living. Without his holocaust industry scribbling and posturing, he couldn’t get his name published in a telephone directory.

Unfortunately, the holocaust industry, which Norm decries, has made very little impact on educating the world. Jew-hate is back in almost full force and small-scale holocausts have taken place and continue to take place against many people on many parts of the globe.

Ode To Norm, The Fink

Finkel, finkel little pot,
Blast the kettle that you think you’re not.
To the nations, you’re no light,
Though you think you’re the Jew that’s white.