https://normanfinkelstein.substack.com/p/norman-finkelsteins-gazas-gravediggers

By Alfred de Zayas - October 6, 2026
Norman Finkelstein
3 hours ago

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/10/06/norman-finkelsteins-gazas-gravediggers-is-a-tour-de-force/
[Source: orbooks.com]

There are facts without consequences, books without follow-up. What shall we make of this monumental piece of research and logic that speaks to our conscience and should move us all to action? The very essence of civilized existence, of the values of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, of the purposes and principles of the United Nations are at stake.

The genocide in Gaza is not just another monstrous Holocaust, it is a public spectacle.[1] The failure of the United Nations to stop it and the inaction of most Americans and Europeans makes us all complicit in the crime, because qui tacet consentire videtur. If we are only voyeurs of this ongoing massacre, we bear at the very least moral responsibility.

Over the past 30 years Norman Finkelstein has given us many brilliant books, including Method and Madness, I Accuse, Knowing Too Much, Gaza, Beyond Chutzpah, and The Holocaust Industry.

This 400-plus page book documents the civilizational collapse of the ruling classes in the West, the betrayal of all humanistic values, the all-too-public Israeli rejection of international law and morals with the complicity inter alia of the U.S., UK, France, Germany and the European Union.

This is all accompanied by the cacophony of the Orwellian mainstream media, which disseminate fake news, fake history and fake law, especially with respect to the Palestinians as a people, who are wrongly depicted as “terrorists,” while they possess the right, recognized in international law, to resist colonization and occupation.[2]

Nelson Mandela too was once called a “terrorist,” but he was crucial in the struggle to liberate his people. Today everyone acknowledges that the end of Apartheid in South Africa was overdue. When will we see the end of Apartheid in Israel and the Occupied Territories? This is what Jimmy Carter demanded in his book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.[3]

Western politicians and the mainstream media have reversed the roles, and blamed the victim for its misery. Israel is the terrorist that practices State terrorism and booby-traps pagers, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu obscenely showed during his rant at the UN General Assembly on September 24, 2026.[4]

It is Israel that was born out of terrorism[5] against Brits and Palestinians, that has been an aggressor State since its inception, in a very real sense a failed state, because it has not learned how to live in peace with its neighbors.

Israel has attacked Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Egypt, etc. In an infamous false-flag operation it even attacked the United States Navy intelligence ship USS Liberty[6] in June 1967, killing 34 U.S. sailors, in a failed attempt to bring the U.S. into Israel’s war of aggression.

Israel has been a rogue state since its creation in 1948—and even before.

The Gaza genocide is only a continuation of the criminal intent to establish an anachronistic, imperialistic “Greater Israel” in the midst of the Arab and Muslim world. Ctd....