Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom
Norman Finkelstein
Finkelstein's prosecutorial inquest, built from the human rights record, into Israel's repeated assaults on Gaza and the blockade that frames them.
The Gaza Strip is among the most densely populated places on earth; more than two-thirds of its people are refugees, and more than half are children. This book is Norman Finkelstein’s inquest into what has been done to it. Working from the human rights record — reports by the United Nations, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, B’Tselem, and Israeli veterans’ groups — Finkelstein examines the major assaults on the Strip and the blockade, in force since 2007, that frames them: Operation Cast Lead (2008–2009) and the Goldstone Report, the 2010 attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, Operation Pillar of Defense (2012), and Operation Protective Edge (2014), which killed more than 2,200 Palestinians, including over 500 children. His method is prosecutorial: official claims are set against the documented evidence, and the documentation, he argues, tells a single story of civilian suffering inflicted with impunity while international institutions looked away. It is a grim, exacting reference work on Gaza’s recent martyrdom.
About the author
Norman G. Finkelstein is an American political scientist. The son of Holocaust survivors, he received his doctorate from Princeton University and is the author of many books on the Israel–Palestine conflict, including The Holocaust Industry, Beyond Chutzpah, and Method and Madness.
Details
- Published by University of California Press, Oakland, 2018
- ISBN 9780520295711
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- Operation Cast Lead
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: …Watch, B'Tselem, and Israeli veterans' groups — Finkelstein examines the major assaults on the Strip and the blockade, in force since 2007, that frames them: Operation Cast Lead (2008–2009) and the Goldstone Report, the 2010 attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, Operation Pillar of Defense (2012), and Operation Protective Edge (2014), which killed more than 2,200…
- Operation Pillar of Defense
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: …the blockade, in force since 2007, that frames them: Operation Cast Lead (2008–2009) and the Goldstone Report, the 2010 attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, Operation Pillar of Defense (2012), and Operation Protective Edge (2014), which killed more than 2,200 Palestinians, including over 500 children.…
- Operation Protective Edge: The 51-Day War on Gaza
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: …frames them: Operation Cast Lead (2008–2009) and the Goldstone Report, the 2010 attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, Operation Pillar of Defense (2012), and Operation Protective Edge (2014), which killed more than 2,200 Palestinians, including over 500 children.…
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- Al Mezan Center for Human Rights
Evidence — From a recorded field in this archive: Shared tags: "human rights", "blockade".
- 'You Feel Like You Are Subhuman': Israel's Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: Shared tag: "human rights".
- 30 Seconds from Gaza: Diary of Genocide
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: Shared tag: "gaza".
- A Long Walk from Gaza
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: Shared tag: "gaza".
- Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: Shared tag: "human rights".
- Amnesty International — Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territories
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: Shared tag: "human rights".
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@misc{falasteen-gaza-an-inquest-into-its-martyrdom, title = {Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom}, howpublished = {\url{https://falasteen.ai/library/gaza-an-inquest-into-its-martyrdom/}}, organization = {FALASTEEN.AI — A Living Archive for Palestine}, year = {2026}, note = {Accessed 2026-08-22} }