I’m usually careful to distinguish between the words “ignorant” and “stupid.’ That’s why I used “ignorant” in the title above. But in the following interview, brilliant Jewish scholar and Palestinian expert Norm Finkelstein examines a small but important portion of the vast territory of Maher’s ignorance, and the scholar seems to vacillate between the two words. I’m inclined to grant him a special dispensation to use the two words interchangeably in the case of Maher, who reaches more zealously for a laugh than he does for truth, and in this case achieves neither. [Don]

Norm Finkelstein Corrects Bill Maher’s Numerous Mistakes