How long does it take to read Beyond Chutzpah?
On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History
Beyond Chutzpah by Norman G. Finkelstein takes about 6 hours 32 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 32 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2005. 356 pages, about 97,900 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 53 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 32 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 5 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Finkelstein, a political science professor and author of The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering, has conducted a rancorous public feud with Harvard Law professor and pro-Israel stalwart Alan Dershowitz over the latter's The Case for Israel, and here expands his arguments into a vigorous polemic on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The first part of the book examines what he feels is a growing tendency of pro-Israel commentators to use spurious charges of anti-Semitism to deflect and discredit legitimate criticism of Israel. The second, much longer, part is a line-by-line debunking of The Case for Israel, which he compares to Communist apologetics for Stalinist Russia.
Subjects: Arab-israeli conflict, Palestinian arabs, Zionism, Human rights, middle east, Human rights, Crimes against
