norman finkelstein   n_finkelstein finkelstein rose to prominence in 2000 after publishing the holocaust industry, a book in which he writes that the memory of the holocaust is exploited as an ideological weapon to provide israel a degree of immunity from criticism. he is a critic of israeli policy and its governing class. the israeli government barred him from entry to the country for ten years in 2008. finkelstein has called israel the "jewish supremacist state", and views it as committing the crime of apartheid against the palestinian people. through personal accounts in one of his books, he compares the plight of the palestinians living under israeli occupation with the horrors of the nazis.
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