Comments on: Critiquing the excesses

By: Levi

Levi — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 23:18:25 +0000

Just a response to Zero’s comment:

After looking at the Bloggers’ profiles at the site, zero seems to be referring to a book entitled “The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering” by Norman G. Finkelstein. So I looked the book up at Amazon (I hadn’t heard of it).

A few of the blurbs in Editorial Reviews:

The Economist:

“His basic argument that memories of the Holocaust are being debased is serious and should be given it’s due.”

New Statesman:

“A lucid, provocative, and passionate book.”

Guardian:

“The most controversial book of the year.”

I also read many of the 116 reader’s reviews at Amazon. No sign of neo-nazis. Several of the reviews point out (I assume truthfully) that the author’s parents were Holocaust survivors.

Zero says “Mr. Finkelstein is a holocaust denier and self-hating anti-semite….”

It seems to be a bit of a stretch.

By: Zero

Zero — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 20:08:21 +0000

Sean: I did not expect to see many Hayek books on the recommendation list of the UnCapitalist Journal, but it is rather disturbing to find a book by Norman Finkelstein being promoted by one of their bloggers. If you are not already aware, Mr. Finkelstein is a Holocaust denier and self-hating anti-semite whose work is often featured on neo-Nazi websites. I just wanted to point that out, because I doubt you would share his ugly views.

Zero

By: Clifford

Clifford — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 09:26:02 +0000

Hi Pyracantha, I hope JoAnne won’t thump me for this, but by way of motivating you and others to return, I should mention that she’s already thought about doing a regular feature that would be a sort of “day in the life of a physicist” from time to time. She works at a wonderfully active lab (SLAC), with all sorts of activity and people which would make for fascinating backdrop to the already interesting work that she does. Let’s hope that she does it. I’m also about to post a bit more on some physics activity here at Durham, following on from my earlier post.

-cvj

By: danithew

danithew — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 03:04:31 +0000

I like your blog design. Nice work. The posts already look interesting.

By: Shakespeare's Sister

Shakespeare's Sister — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 02:56:47 +0000

Thanks for the shout-back!

By: Pyracantha

Pyracantha — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 01:17:55 +0000

So far there’s a lot of politics but not much science. I am looking forward to reading about physics and the physicist’s life. Sean and Mark have been eloquent about these things on their own weblogs and I hope this will continue here.
This from Pyracantha at ELECTRON BLUE weblog, I’m an artist who is studying physics.