{"id":304555,"date":"2025-10-20T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T11:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=304555"},"modified":"2025-10-07T10:17:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T09:17:49","slug":"genocide-is-the-means-not-the-ends-norman-finkelstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/10\/genocide-is-the-means-not-the-ends-norman-finkelstein\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cGenocide Is the Means, Not the Ends\u201d &#8211; Norman Finkelstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>3 Oct 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">Political scientist and historian Norman Finkelstein joins this special edition of UNAPOLOGETIC that marks two years since the October 7 Hamas-led attack and Israel\u2019s devastating retaliation against Gaza, which the majority of genocide scholars around the world have labelled a genocide. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">In this nearly three-hour conversation, we ask whether Hamas regrets its attack on October 7th, probe the realities of Trump\u2019s latest Gaza plan &#8211; and question if it is just another ruse to create cover for more of Netanyahu\u2019s atrocities. and entrench his government&#8217;s plans to make Gaza uninhabitable for Palestinians. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">Norman laments the depth of Israel\u2019s brutality over the past 24 months and the roles of Israeli society, Arab states, Western governments, and the media in enabling it. He also reflects on the collapse of international law and shifting global politics and discusses whether recognition of Palestine makes any difference, where the genocide leaves the future of the Palestinian liberation struggle, and why the horrors of Gaza defy facts alone. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">Prof. Finkelstein\u2019s research into Israel\u2019s actions since October 7th and the complicity around those actions will all be published in a new book entitled, Gaza\u2019s Gravediggers : An inquiry into corruption at high places.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u201cGenocide is the means, not the ends\u201d | Norman Finkelstein | UNAPOLOGETIC\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wkraKVOAqOk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>TRANSCEND VIDEOS <\/em>STAY POSTED FOR 2 WEEKS BEFORE BEING ARCHIVED<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 Oct 2025 &#8211; Political scientist and historian Norman Finkelstein joins this special edition that marks two years since the Oct 7 Hamas-led attack and Israel\u2019s devastating retaliation against Gaza, which genocide scholars around the world have labelled a genocide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[431],"tags":[87,865,1029,88,427],"class_list":["post-304555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-videos","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-hamas","tag-israel","tag-palestine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304559,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304555\/revisions\/304559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}