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“YOU CAN RUN BUT YOU CAN’T HIDE” (boxer Joe Louis) – The Lex Fridman Debate
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Norman Finkelstein
In a recent debate moderated by Lex Fridman, I challenged Professor Benny Morris to answer my detailed book chapter on his scholarship (“History by Subtraction,” in my book Knowing Too Much).
The root cause of the conflict was no longer the rational Arab fear of Zionist expulsion but, on the contrary, an irrational Arab hatred of Jews.
Morris thus displaced the moral onus of the conflict from Zionist expulsion to Arab expulsion.
(Oddly, you concluded by deploring my lack of ‘civilized academic argumentation.’) I have nonetheless, and unhesitatingly, acknowledged the indispensability of your scholarship.
Millions of viewers of the LexFridman debate heard you commit yourself to answering me, and many—not least myself—look forward with great curiosity to your learned response.
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