Norman Finkelstein: Israel Is 'A Nation Of Murderers'

[Beastly Boy]

13. To answer your question, here is where his bigotry is at its most obvious:

It starts at 5:45 of the video: '"But now, Israel... has turned into a nation if not of murderers, if not of war criminals. Because israel's is not a non-representative army. It's a citizen army." He goes on at 7:18:"It's a representative army, it's a citizen army. Either you are carrying out the execution, the genocide, or your son is carrying out the genocide, or your daughter is carrying out the genocide, or your father is carrying out the genocide, or your brother is carrying out the genocide, and there is no question or quarrel that were they, the relatives were in the shoes of those who were carrying out the genocide, they wouldn't be carrying it out reluctantly - that is factually untrue."

To begin with, he takes the term "genocide" for granted, as if it requires no reasonable accounting for its use. He misuses the term repeatedly, not even bothering to put it in the context of his previous statements. He bases his accusations on a single recollection of an event in 2018, citing his recollection of a UN report, a source that in itself is suspect of having bias against Israel. This rather incomplete and one sided recollection is then projected onto the entirety of IDF, then onto each individual soldier, then onto the relatives of these soldiers, then onto all of the nation of Israel, all in the most transparently irrational and prejudicious succession, ending up with condemning the entirety of the nation of Israel as "the nation of murderers".

That's the definition of bigotry.

And then he dives into the batshit deep end of the bigotry pool (at about 7:52 into the video): "And there is no question or quarrel that were they, the relatives were in the shoes of those who were carrying out the genocide, they wouldn't be carrying it out reluctantly - that is factually untrue.They are carrying it out joyfully. euphorically, enthusiastically, they are posring the horrors committed by them all over the social media in the knowledge that they are not going to be ostracised for posting what they are doing. They are pop singers, compose songs, like may Gaza burn".

These are not the words of a mentally stable man, not even a rational bigot. These are the fantasies of a hater who crossed the boundary between the rational and the irrational, and feels liberated by his act of lunacy.

At first, I thought he was your run of the mill bigot. But on closer examination I see a man who is not well.