Norman Finkelstein is an American political scientist and activist. Born to Jewish Holocaust-survivor parents, his primary fields of research are the politics of the Holocaust and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. He received his PhD in political science from Princeton University and rose to prominence in 2000 after publishing The Holocaust Industry, in which he writes that the memory of the Holocaust is exploited as an ideological weapon to provide Israel a degree of immunity from criticism. Norman’s website: https://www.normanfinkelstein.com/