Norman Finkelstein, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Norman Finkelstein

American political scientist and author

Date of Birth: 08-Dec-1953

Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Profession: writer, historian, political scientist, human rights activist, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

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Norman Gary Finkelstein (; born December 8, 1953) is an American political scientist, activist, professor, and author.
His primary fields of research are the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust.
He is a graduate of Binghamton University and received his Ph.D.
in political science at Princeton University.
He has held faculty positions at Brooklyn College, Rutgers University, Hunter College, New York University, and DePaul University, where he was an assistant professor from 2001 to 2007. In 2007, after a highly publicized feud between Finkelstein and Alan Dershowitz, an academic opponent, Finkelstein was denied tenure at DePaul.
He was placed on administrative leave for the 2007–08 academic year, and on September 5, 2007, he announced his resignation after coming to a settlement with the university on largely undisclosed terms.
An official statement from DePaul strongly defended the decision to deny Finkelstein tenure and said that outside influence played no role in the decision.
In 2008 he was banned from entering Israel for 10 years for criticizing Israeli policies.Finkelstein taught at Sakarya University Middle East Institute in Turkey in 2014–15.