06 September 2007
A US college professor who accused Jews of improperly using the legacy of the Holocaust has resigned. Norman Finkelstein issued a joint statement with officials from the DePaul University in Chicago saying that he was resigning ''for everybody's sake.'' Finkelstein, who taught political science, was denied tenure in June after spending six years on the faculty. Finkelstein, the son of Holocaust survivors, said in the statement that he believed the tenure decision was ''tainted'' by external pressures. He had been embroiled in controversy since the publication of his most recent book ‘Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History’.
