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The intellectual wrestling match over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict rages on at UC Davis as the Muslim Student Association brings to campus Wednesday a son of Nazi concentration camp survivors who accuses Israel of exploiting the Holocaust. Norman Finkelstein, a DePaul University professor who got his doctorate from Princeton, will speak at 8 p.m. on "Israel and Palestine -- Roots of Conflict, Prospects for Peace." Finkelstein, author of "The Holocaust Industry: Reflections On The Exploitation of Jewish Suffering," has been called a self-hating Jew and a Holocaust denier by his critics.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Shira Rawlinsonstrawlinson@ucdavis.edu UC DAVIS SPONSORS HOLOCAUST DENIER LECTURE WITH TAXPAYER DOLLARS Normal Finkelstein was invited guest to the Tehran Holocaust Deniers Conference (DAVIS, CA) – The University of California, Davis is sponsoring an appearance by noted Holocaust denier Norman Finkelstein on the UCD campus on May 16, 2007. Norman Finkelstein has authored numerous works accusing Jewish people of exploiting the Holocaust for personal and political gain. Finkelstein’s targets include respected Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz and the Anti-Defamation League. The Associated Students of the University of California, Davis (ASUCD) and the University’s Student Programs and Activities...

Retired General Salah al-Din Salim, an Egyptian researcher at the Strategic Studies Institute in Cairo, said that it could not be ruled out that the Israeli Mossad was involved in the terror attack in Dahab. "The Mossad's ability to penetrate the Bedouins in Sinai is known," Salim said in an interview with al-Jazeera. (Roee Nahmias)