Truth vs “Truth”
March 1st, 2006 by ktula
Whatever respect i had for Dr. Deborah Lipstadt all but vanished after i listened to her unprovoked personal attack on Professor Norman Finkelstein during a Talk of the Nation show on NPR. When a listener called in during the show and asked her to comment on Professor Finkelstein, she said:
“Think of him as the dirt you step in on the street and you know what kind of dirt I’m talking about. It has no importance unless you fail to clean it off your feet before you go into the house.”
In Dr. Lipstadt’s comment on David Irving’s sentencing, she emphasized the best way to combat holocaust deniers is to use truth and history. She also wrote that “Jewish tradition teaches that the word emet, truth, composed as it is from the first, middle and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet, encompasses everything.”
So why not practice what she preaches? Instead of making a vulgar personal attack on Professor Finkelstein publicly on a show in which he was not a participant, why not debate him in public with facts and see if his meticulously researched books and papers stand up to her “truth”?
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