Interview with Norman Finklestein by Chris Hedges, re-broadcast here on The Multiplural World, April 24, 2025
This interview was originally broadcast on the ‘Chris Hedges Report’,
on Substack on April 17, 2025 (58 minutes)
‘We have to be very careful not to use the language of ‘war’ to describe what has taken place in Gaza since October 7, 2023 because once you begin to do that, Israel has won 99 per cent of the propaganda war… Before Israel forces move one inch in Gaza, they obliterate everything in front of them and everything beside them. How in such circumstances can you expect strong resistance, how can you speak of a ‘war’ between two sides?… I had some hope in the student encampments that spread rapidly around the world in solidarity with the Palestinian people, but I was suprised by the ease with which they were crushed. It must be born in mind in this regard the very high personal price that the students were expected to pay for their stands… When you look at the front pages of the New York Times since the presidential inauguration in January 2025, it’s all ‘Trump, Trump, Trump’, and this is all Israel needed to continue rampaging in Gaza…
Norman Finklestein is a scholar and left-wing philosopher. Among his many books on the history of the Israel settler-colonial project is ‘Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom’, published by University of California Press in 2028, 438 pages.
