Let's look at Finklestein's lies a little more closely - he says that his entire family on both sides was exterminated. Well, we know he is lying about his mother and father, and that raises the question, who else is he lying about?
Of course, the truth is that no member of Finklestein's family was exterminated, as the holocaust is a hoax. But, I'm willing to be proven wrong, so the challenge to the holocaust believers is to supply the name of ONE of Finklestein's relatives who was 'exterminated' and the evidence that supports that claim. Perhaps Finklestein has been thoughtful enough to provide this info in his writings.
Oh for pity's sake he wasn't lying. You misunderstood him because you are a moron. I didn't even have any trouble understanding that he was trying to express that his family ON BOTH HIS PARENTS SIDES were completely exterminated, not his parents. As we have pointed out over and over to you, he specifically talks about how his parents taught him lessons from their experience in the Holocaust in the clip you post. I honestly don't know how you can be so dense as to not be able to understand what he is saying.
Not to mention, he is a speaker at an closed event. it's not like it was out in public, it was a closed room. It isn't a speech you would just come across, you would be going to see him specifically. People would have come to see him speak KNOWING AHEAD OF TIME who he was. As what he is most well known for is being the son of Holocaust survivors and writing about their experiences in relation to the post Holocaust world. The idea that he would 'lie' and say he was not the son of Holocaust survivors is ludicrous because the fact that he is the son of Holocaust survivors is the main reason people even know who he is. When he said "my entire family was exterminated" the people in the audience would KNOW that doesn't mean his parents because they would know ahead of time the speaker's parents were survivors because that's the main reason they even are at this guy's speech in the first place!
but as I said, without even knowing this guy's back ground before hand, when I heard his speech I very clearly understood what he meant, that his entire family was exterminated on both his mother and his father's side, but that his parents survived.
Also, when the girl in the video (the crying one) speaks, she talks about how he had just finished talking to them in detail about the holocaust and it's victims. Considering how open he is about his family history, how do you know that he didn't just spend half an hour detailing his parents experiences and the fact that they were the only survivors? You are basing your judgment off his claims from a two minute clip having no idea what came before it.
But again, that is moot. his family history is why he is even in a position to be a speaker. People seeing his speech would know who he is.
Obviously many people in the video do not like him or what he is saying. Why doesn't anyone call him out on this "lie" you claim he made? No one stands up and cries out, 'Wait a minute, your parents didn't die in the camps, you talk about them all the time!" or "Wait a minute, you are too young to have had parents killed in the Holocaust!"
Maybe because, like everyone on this board except you, they were perfectly capable of understanding the sentiment he was trying to convey.
You are basically stating that if human beings do not speak completely literally at all times, they are trying to trick you. That is just stupid. if you are famous for being the son of Holocaust survivors, and you talk constantly about being the son of holocaust survivors, and you're giving a speech specifically BECAUSE you are the son of Holocaust survivors, it is frankly not your problem if some people are SO stupid that when you say 'my entire family was exterminated on both my mother and father's side' they don't get that that means ASIDE FROM the parents who survived who you talk about constantly.
My foster sister, who I brought up above, was recently talking about the abuse she had suffered all throughout her child hood at the hands of her mother and other foster homes. when talking about this, at one point she said to me, "Everyone in my life who was supposed to take care of me just hurt me." Now that is not LITERALLY true because my family took her in and she became part of our family and she was not abused. But my foster sister knows that I know her background, so she knows that I know when she says "everyone in my life" she doesn't mean MY family, even though she uses the words "everyone in my life." She did not need to specify, "except for you and your family" because she knows i already know this.
So according to you, was my foster sister lying to me and actually claiming that my parents and myself abused her? Because that's the logic you're using with Finklestein.
also, you STILL haven't answered my question on if i can kidnap your kids and keep them in a diseased ridden camp that gives them typhus and they die if you'll be okay with that. Or how you can justify non combatant children being put in a prisoner of war camp.
Or, as has been asked as well, why homosexuals were put in the camps? And what motivation homosexuals have about lying about the Holocaust, or non Jewish German victims? or the thousands of soldiers from all different countries who liberated the camps?