The New York Times Hits Rock Bottom with Max Blumenthal

max-blumenthalThe New York Times, the paper that earned the dubious distinction of being the recipient of the “Most Dishonest Reporting” award for 2013 is at it again. This time, The Gray Lady featured an op-ed piece by the notorious anti-Semite Max Blumenthal, providing this provocateur with a mainstream platform to express his odious views.

True to form, Blumenthal, the darling of radical extremists, conflates, distorts and simply makes things up. But I’m not here to analyze Blumenthal’s arrant nonsense. Others have already done a good job of that. What I wish to highlight is the depths to which the New York Times has sunk.

To be sure, the New York Times has in the past given a broad range of anti-Israel types a platform to express their opinions in the op-ed section, far more than those expressing positive views of Israel. But Blumenthal’s pernicious views veer uncomfortably close to old fashion anti-Semitism and this time, the New York Times exceeded the bounds of decency and fair play and has partnered with those who openly express Jew-hatred.

An analysis of Blumenthal’s history reveals the following disturbing facts;

•Blumenthal was disinvited from a scheduled speaking engagement by the German “Die Linke” (The Left) party due to his anti-Semitic (not to mention anti-Israel) views.

•Blumenthal’s antics earned him a lifetime ban from the German parliament.

•The Simon Wiesenthal Center has labeled Blumenthal an anti-Semite and his comments earned him a spot in the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s “Top 10” list of anti-Semitic slurs.

•Blumenthal’s “works” have been cited and praised by radical extremists and neo-Nazis  and have been featured on the anti-Semitic blog, Electronic Intifada as well as the neo-Nazi Internet forum, Stormfront.

•Blumenthal’s comments have been cited with approval by Frazier Glenn Miller, the KKK murderer who massacred three people at two separate Jewish community centers in Overland Park, Kansas.

•The Left-leaning Forward referred to Blumenthal’s book as so anti-Israel it, “makes even anti-Zionists blush.”

•Prominent liberal Eric Alterman of The Nation referred to Blumenthal’s book as a screed that belongs in the “Hamas Book-of-the-Month Club.”

•Blumenthal compared Israel with ISIS (the group that lops people’s heads off for eating dinner with the wrong fork) calling the Jewish state “JSIL” or the “Jewish State of Israel and the Levant.”

•Blumenthal called Israelis “Judeo-Nazis.” (I wonder if he could say that to a Holocaust survivor and walk away with his head intact.)

•Writing for the Hezbollah paper Al-Akhbar, Blumenthal stated that American law enforcement is “schooled in Israeli killing methods.”

•Blumenthal was caught red-handed conjuring up fictitious quotes maligning Israel.

And that’s Max Blumenthal in a nutshell. One wonders whether Hillary Clinton’s senior advisor Sidney Blumenthal, Max’s father and passionate defender had anything to with the Times’ decision to host the notorious anti-Semite. Either way, the Times’ demonstrates that it has tossed journalistic standards and any semblance of decency out the window.

So what’s next for the New York Times? I hear former KKK “Grand Wizard” David Duke is in town. Perhaps the Times can enlighten its readership and provide the former Klan leader a forum on its op-ed pages to explain how the diabolical Zionists were responsible for the Holocaust or alternatively, how the Zionists propagated the Holocaust hoax to inflict suffering on the poor Palestinians. That should make for interesting reading.

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  • SCREW SOCIALISM

    Like son.
    Like father.

  • http://gerardjackson.com/ gerard jackson

    And the majority of Jews still support Democrats.

    • Michael Garfinkel

      …and patronize the New York Times.

      • Surak1

        Including my elderly parents – don’t give them no stinking facts – fierce blowout arguments – they’d rather see Israel nuked than admit the psychotic left to which they belong is anti-Semitic. Can’t reason with mentally ill.

        • Michael Garfinkel

          Sounds more like self-serving bias than mental illness.

          Sorry – must be very frustrating.

        • DavidG

          I’m sad/ sorry but stupid can never be fixed. These lefty Camp survivors turning against Israel are the very worst..The best diagnosis is Transference Psychopathology that can’t be cured. I’m sorry but any Commie ” Jew” isn’t any real ” Jew” because all Communosocialists are the same True Believers of the very worst kinds. They booed God they denied in there ” party” platform and leave Israel off of their maps. I say they are all the biggest threats to Israel/the world all by themselves. I call them Google stupid ” educated” idiots and are usually young punks..I assume this isn’t new and senility etc may not apply…?

    • DavidG

      They are fake Commie ” Jews” because all Communosocialists are all the same NWO True Believers! Yes our 75% Commie ” Jewish-Americans” exceeds the population of Israel and the 25% of real American-Jews. Nobody counts us many millions of Drop of Blood ” Jews”. With about 150M Antisemites in just Europe today says it all about the Church being the original Commie/Antisemite that truly started it all… This guy and his daddy/family needs to be stripped of their citizenship and deported to his fake ” Pallistinian ” friends…

  • dwayne roberson

    Haman lives on.

  • Underzog

    The “New York Times” opposed the Jewish state as far back as the 1897 zionist conference in Basil, Switzerland. During the holocaust, the grey lady buried the news of that horror on the inside pages. During the battle for the creation of the state of Israel, the yekkes of the Times portrayed the pitch battle of Dir Yassin as a massacre while ignoring the real massacre of Jews at Gush Etzion. The “New York Times” said it would change its reporting since their minimization of the holocaust horror during WWII. They did. Their reporting is much worse today under “pinch” Sulzberger than under Pinch’s father. The grey lady has descended into the socialist gutter (national socialist and otherwise).

  • Nabilam Nabilam

    israheili intel is running a worldwide propaganda op with
    its agents running stories about “rising tide of anti semitism”. but
    it is all a lie, just propaganda designed to get sympathy for the “poor
    jews, i.e. zionist thugs” who are committing mass murder in gaza. just
    google: rising tide of anti semitism…………you can see the operation for yourself.

    p.s. google also: robert maxwell israels superspy…………..learn how mossad controls media in the usa and europe.

    to identify the truly sick racists google: chief rabbi of
    israel says goyim exist only to serve jews, goyim life worth same as a donkey.

    netanyahu says this chief rabbi was the greatest mind of
    this generation.

    http://www.timesofisrael.com/5-of-ovadia-yosefs-most-controversial-quotations/

  • carpe diem 36

    Wasn’t it the Times that said “all the news that is fit to print”? I believe this Blumenthal stuff is not fit to print, so why print it? Tthe readers are not forced to read the bad stuff he is writing, they have the duty to remind the NYT that it should not insult their intelligence and print garbage.

    • Lightbringer

      No, you misread their motto. The correct one is, “All the news that fits the print.”

      • carpe diem 36

        thank you for this correction.

  • mtnhikerdude

    A Jew hating Jew and an America hating president they should wed.

  • mickBelker

    Leftist Jews are more leftist than Jews. They hate Israel.

  • cree

    The NYTimes, the American socialist rival to Russia’a socialist Pravda.

  • joe kulak

    Nobody is as antisemitic as a self-hating Jew. Wasn’t this guy the jerk who Andrew Breitbart exposed as a liar, as seen in “Hating Breitbart”?

  • Hank Rearden

    His father Sidney Blumenthal is a VERY nasty piece of work. It looks as if Max learned his trade in the family. Israel is confronted by the anti-human eruption of Islam and this fool sides with with the bad guys. Go figure.

    • Dallasyaherd

      Turkey becoming an Islamic State? You are pretty brainwashed.
      Turkey has always been infinitely more of an Islamic state than Israel a Jewish one in law, that’s one of the antisemitc tricks the world gets away with bullying the jews. Italy is inf
      nicely more a cathol
      ic state than
      Israel a Jewish one, ever
      y country in e
      rope for that matter,
      imagine if
      Israel had a law like swi
      tzeralnd that no house of worship could be taller than a church, that same law exists in every m
      Muslim country for a thousand y
      ears, or like Turkey where every public sc
      h
      o
      ol child must pray to Allah 5 times a day no matter what their family believes, Israel is the exact opposite on the ground it is non Jews whose c
      culture is bent over backwards for. except
      in the lies the world
      says about the Jews. http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2011/03/turkey_and_the_restoration_of.html

  • hashimoto

    Attention ISIS…please blow up the NYTimes building…Thank You

  • SoCalMike

    Max Blumenthal is a stinking spineless Jew-hating coward too afraid to even put contact information on his website.
    What a sorry BOY brainwashed and conditioned to carry water for genocidal aspirants.

  • Cappy1437

    Everything about Max Blumenthal is evil. What a poor excuse of a person he is.

  • Red Baker

    The Left is committing suicide. All we have to do is report the facts about them.