As’ad AbuKhalil |
As many noted last week, there’s a video circulating around the internet of infamous Israel-defamer and former DePaul professor Norman Finkelstein slamming the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, calling it a “cult” whose goal is the elimination of Israel. As one would expect, Finkelstein’s--perhaps former--comrades in the anti-Israel world are none too pleased with his break from the party line. One of them, As’ad AbuKhalil--California State University, Stanislaus political science professor and purveyor of the “Angry Arab News Service"--provides a “critique” at al-Akhbar in which he makes the following admission:
Finkelstein rightly asks whether the real aim of BDS is to bring down the state of Israel. Here, I agree with him that it is. That should be stated as an unambiguous goal. There should not be any equivocation on the subject. Justice and freedom for the Palestinians are incompatible with the existence of the state of Israel.
