Between September 29th and October 1st, Professor Norman Finkelstein will be in Portugal. Controversial expert on Middle East issues, Norman Finkelstein will be giving a lecture in Lisbon and another in Porto, as well as directing a seminar in Coimbra.

On September 29^th, in Lisbon, at the Secondary School Luís de Camões, at 18:30h, Norman Finkelstein will present a lecture on «The Repercussions of Israel’s Cast Lead Operation for the Future of its Occupation of the Palestinian Territories». He will present the same lecture in Porto on September 30^th, at 18:00h, at Cooperativa Árvore. On October 1^st, at 11:00h, at room T2 of the Department of Architecture of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Norman Finkelstein will direct the seminar «Myths and Realities of the Israel-Palestinian Conflict».

The lectures and seminar are promoted by the Portuguese Support Commission for the Russell Tribunal on Palestine, Palestine Action Group, Lisbon Teachers' Union (SPGL), Teacher's Union of North Region (SPN), Mário Soares Foundation and Centre for Social Studies.

Note: The requests for interview with Norman Finkelstein must be submitted to alan.stolerov@netcabo.pt and ant.eloy@gmail.com

Biographic Note:

Norman Finkelstein is an internationally renowned scholar on subjects related to Zionism, Palestine and the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. He is the author of several papers and books focused on those fields, and also an active lecturer in favor of political and human rights of the Palestinian people and against Israeli occupation. As an American Jew, son of Holocaust survivors, Finkelstein applies a radical and consistent universal humanism to his criticism about Israeli occupation and its defenders.

His persistent criticism of the occupation and its defenders has cost him much. The DePaul University denied Finkelstein tenure due to unprecedented interventions and obvious pressure from Zionist lobby (namely Alan Dershowitz).

Finkelstein’s life and work were also portrayed in a documentary film entitled “American Radical”.

His most recent book, «This Time We Went Too Far: Truth and Consequences of the Gaza Invasion» (OR Books, New York, 2010), is a critical analysis of the massacre perpetrated in Gaza between December 2008 and January 2009, during Operation Cast Lead. His book The Holocaust Industry does the critical analysis of the different forms of opportunistic use of the Holocaust reality by the State of Israel and its defenders in order to cover up real crimes committed by the Palestinian occupation.

To know more, please visit his website at http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/