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Norman Finkelstein
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Norman Finkelstein's personal blog at normanfinkelstein.com covers politics and history. Since 2012, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link Norman Finkelstein's writing on Israel and Palestine, US foreign policy and state surveillance. The comments discuss those political subjects rather than judging how the posts are written.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
I agree for the most part, with a minor disagreement on the following statement: >The only confusing actor is Bin Laden, who attacked a superpower that had already expressed a desire to invade his people. The superpower was already occupying much of his people through puppet dictators; the Saudi, Egyptian, Yemeni, Bahraini, Jordanian and Lebanese for example. Israel was created out as a "Jewish state" on 78% of Pale…
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on “Whistleblower Binney says the NSA has dossiers on nearly every US citizen”Submitted Sensible commentary on Turkey as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYeah, nukes were almost a survival necessity for apartheid South Africa, weapons were necessary for white supremacists in US to continue killing any black people that demanded equal rights. A country that continues to reject a peace treaty being offered by dozens of its neighbors, refuses to return the occupied land to its neighbors (for example, Syria's Golan Heights, Lebanon's land, not to talk of the Palestinian…
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on “Gene Sharp: A dictator's worst nightmare”Submitted Norman Finkelstein as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou mean it's a dictatorship run by the minority rich western white countries that force their imperialism on the majority of the world through the various arms of UN? That the US is able to impose sanctions on Iraq and now Iran even though the majority of the world is opposed to the sanctions? That the US is able to shield Israel from any sanctions despite its grave violations of human rights, its refusal to end th…
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on “Internet Access Is a Human Right, Says United Nations”Submitted Sanity and Lunacy, in Nassau County, NY as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI'll direct you to the Nat Turner rebellion [1]. Or the practice of "necklacing" in apartheid South AFrica [2]. Or the Mau Mau rebellion [3]. As Nelson Mandela put it [4]: > A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle, and the oppressed is often left no recourse but to use methods that mirror those of the oppressor. At a certain point, one can only fight fire…
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on “Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes”