{"id":305510,"date":"2025-10-20T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T11:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=305510"},"modified":"2025-10-19T14:54:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T13:54:24","slug":"norman-finkelstein-gaza-truth-the-battle-for-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/10\/norman-finkelstein-gaza-truth-the-battle-for-free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Norman Finkelstein: Gaza, Truth &#038; the Battle for Free Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>8 Oct 2025 &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>FULL TALK<\/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\">Acclaimed scholar &amp; author Norman Finkelstein delivered a powerful and defiant address at UMass, Amherst, on Sept. 24, 2025. Speaking before a packed audience, Finkelstein dissected Israel&#8217;s mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza; the long history of Israel\u2019s brutal occupation, siege, and successive &#8220;high-tech killing sprees&#8221; and atrocities in the Strip; the bipartisan complicity of U.S. political leaders, corporate media, and global institutions in the face of these crimes; the mounting McCarthyite crackdown on free speech, dissent, and academic freedom at home; and the need for a resurgent movement led by young people to reclaim free speech and renew democracy.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FULL TALK | Norman Finkelstein at UMass: Gaza, Truth &amp; the Battle for Free Speech\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zFoHXuhq9mU?start=81&#038;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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking before a packed audience, Finkelstein dissected Israel&#8217;s mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza; the long history of Israel\u2019s brutal occupation, siege, and successive &#8220;high-tech killing sprees&#8221; and atrocities in the Strip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[1854,2376,87,865,88,2416,427,70,965],"class_list":["post-305510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-depth-videos","tag-crimes-against-humanity","tag-freedom-of-speech","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-israel","tag-israeli-occupation","tag-palestine","tag-usa","tag-war-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305510","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=305510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305511,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305510\/revisions\/305511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}