Anyone who attempts to comment on the Israel/Palestine question (including Amazon reviewers) is stymied by the obvious way in which the charge of antisemitism lurks in the background. To even point to the obvious, the existence of a Washington Jewish lobby, is under threat from a bogus accusations in this vein. As a novel form of censorship it might seem clever but the consequences in the end are disastrous in the context of the Holocaust. So it is a welcome and overdue contribution to the debate to have Finkelstein blow the whistle on this game. Beyond that this is a very thorough, and somewhat devastating expose of the density of propaganda that pervades all public discourse on the subject of Israel. This situation is dangerous because it is doomed to backfire and has gone on too long for anything but a deflation endgame.

...I've read all of the professor's books. They're all excellent works of scholarship and yet BEYOND CHUTZPAH supercedes its predecessors. After reading Finkelstein's latest I don't think anyone can make the excuse that we can't get involved in the Israel-Palestine issue because it's so complicated. This is a comprehensive book, a culmination of many years of work, that answers all of the hard questions and demystifies what's become needlessly convoluted. Interesting, fascinating, necessary. The chapters on Dershowitz and his plagarism are funny. Maybe I shouldn't say that but I'm guessing Mr Dershowitz doesn't get called on his bull crap very often and it's worth the price of admission to see how he responds to this...