Norman Finkelstein, the new darling of pro-Israel bloggers?

In a taped interview, Finkelstein derides the BDS campaign for covering up it is out to destroy Israel

By Stewart Ain 27 February 2012, 9:40 am

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NEW YORK (N.Y. Jewish Week) — Norman Finkelstein, the son of Holocaust survivors whose anti-Israel statements and actions got him barred from the country until 2018 for suspected ties to Hezbollah terrorists, has become the darling of pro-Israel bloggers — sort of — and a traitor to Palestinian supporters.

The Brooklyn political science professor stunned supporters Feb. 9 when in a taped interview at the Imperial College London he derided the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign for concealing the fact that it is out to destroy Israel.

“It is not an accident, an unwitting omission, that BDS does not mention Israel. They won’t mention it because they know it will split the movement, because there is a large part of the movement that wants to eliminate Israel,” he said.

“BDS says we are rights-based. Is Israel part of the law or not? When the International Court of Justice made its findings, it said the June 1967 border is Israel’s border. How can you claim you want to enforce the law and omit that aspect of the law? They don’t want to recognize Israel.”

He went on to say, “At least be honest with what you want — to abolish Israel. But you know full well that if you say it, you don’t have a prayer of reaching the public.”