McQuinn responds to smears - Q2

Todd Archer todda39 at hotmail.com
Thu Aug 22 18:28:18 PDT 2002


Chip, where, in your opinion, does McQuinn and his statements stand in relation to Norm Finkelstein's new work, "The Holocaust Industry".

In his words (from his website, the intro to the German edition of the book):

"In The Holocaust Industry, I report how American Jewish organizations, institutions, and prominent individuals have instrumentalized the Nazi holocaust to shield Israel from criticism and, more recently, to blackmail Europe. The main criticism of the book was not that I got the facts wrong but that in depicting this coordinated undertaking I had contrived a "conspiracy theory." In The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith observes that capitalists "seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices." Does this also make Smith's classic a "conspiracy theory"? (5)"

http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/

Todd

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