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		<title>Catholic Praise for Anti-Semitic Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2014 05:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ari Lieberman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA['America' magazine joins ranks with neo-Nazis in support of Blumenthal screed. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/America_Jesuit_magazine.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-247750" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/America_Jesuit_magazine.jpg" alt="America_(Jesuit_magazine)" width="232" height="300" /></a>Among critics of Israel today, there emerges a handful whose opposition to the existence of the Jewish State is so pernicious that their criticism can accurately be described as Jew-hatred. <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ari-lieberman/the-new-york-times-hits-rock-bottom-with-max-blumenthal/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Max Blumenthal</span></a>, a marginal character who is desperately trying to make inroads into the mainstream, stands at the lead of this fringe group of miscreants. Even those on the far left, who are often critical of Israel, find Blumenthal to be a repugnant malcontent. So outrageous is his conduct that his mischief earned him a <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/max-blumenthal-banned-from-german-parliament-after-attack-blames-jewish-conspiracy/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">lifetime ban</span></a> from the German parliament.</p>
<p>Blumenthal, the author of “<i>Goliath</i>: <i>Life and Loathing in Greater Israel</i>,” a book widely viewed as an anti-Semitic screed that one prominent leftist critic noted could easily make it to the top of the “<a href="http://forward.com/articles/186557/max-blumenthals-goliath-is-anti-israel-book-that-m/?p=all"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Hamas book of the month club</span></a>,” has largely been ignored by the mainstream and rightfully so. It represents the modern day equivalent of the notorious <i>Protocols of the Elders of Zion</i> and is filled with invective, conspiracy, distortion, conflation, and outright fabrication designed to malign and disparage the Mideast’s only democracy.</p>
<p>Though most within the mainstream recognize <i>Goliath</i> for what it is, an <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/176691/i-hate-israel-handbook"><span style="color: #0433ff;">unscholarly, error-ridden, heap of rubbish</span></a>, there are still some who flirt with its premise that an “undemocratic,” “racist,” “war-like” Israel is the cause of the Mideast’s ills and the angelic Muslim world remains blameless. Elements within the Catholic Church have unfortunately subscribed to this narrative.</p>
<p>In December, <i>America</i> magazine, a national weekly magazine with Roman Catholic affiliation and published by the Jesuits of the United States, <a href="http://americamagazine.org/issue/culture/majority-rules"><span style="color: #0433ff;">featured</span></a> an extremely positive review of Blumenthal’s version of <i>Mein Kampf </i>that lacked any form of critical analysis. The reviewer swallows Blumenthal’s racist calumny lock, stock and barrel and accepts its vitriolic premise without reservation or equivocation.</p>
<p><i>Goliath</i> engages is some of the most pernicious forms of anti-Semitism. Comparisons of Israel with Nazi Germany – a common tactic of Jew haters – are peppered throughout the book with chapters entitled, “The Concentration Camp” and “The Night of Broken Glass,” the latter, a reference to <i>Kristallnacht </i>when Nazi hooligans went on a rampage executing a pogrom against the Jews of Germany. There’s also a near infantile but equally malevolent chapter entitled “How to Kill Goyim and Influence People,” evoking medieval imagery of scheming Jewish plotting to murder non-Jews.</p>
<p>By subscribing to the odious views espoused by Blumenthal,<i> America</i> magazine now finds itself in the unenviable position of being in the same company of various hate groups.  Extreme neo-Nazi forums have also taken up Blumenthal’s cause, whose opinions have been cited with approval on <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2014/04/antisemite-max-blumenthal-incites-murder-of-three"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Nazi Internet forums</span></a> like <i>Stormfront</i> as well as by serial murderer, Frazier Glenn Miller, the KKK man who slaughtered three people at two separate Jewish community centers in Overland Park, Kansas.</p>
<p>I considered the possibility that the publication of this review by a prominent Catholic magazine was perhaps a mere oversight and simply reflected a lack of proper editorial review, but a <a href="http://americamagazine.org/issue/current-comment-66"><span style="color: #0433ff;">recent editorial</span></a> by the magazine trashes that possibility.  The one-sided editorial blasts Prime Minister Netanyahu and other “Zionist radicals” for obstructing a “two-state solution” and imposing “collective punishment.”</p>
<p>As is customary with Israel bashers, facts harmful to the pro-Palestinian narrative are <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ari-lieberman/western-indifference-to-the-palestinian-culture-of-hate/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">routinely overlooked</span></a> making a mockery of any claim to impartiality and insightful analysis. The editors of <i>America</i> fail to note the <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/jihad-in-jerusalem-1416356018"><span style="color: #0433ff;">endless flow of anti-Semitic vitriol</span></a> and violently hateful rhetoric spewed forth daily from the Palestinian Authority’s propaganda apparatus. It’s an inconvenient truth they prefer to ignore.</p>
<p>They also tend to ignore the heinous acts of murder and butchery leading up to Israel’s imposition of so-called “collective punishment” and shamefully only note these murders within the context of Israeli retaliation. In other words, it takes an act of house demolition to highlight the more egregious act of murder that preceded it. Jewish blood is cheap, but heaven forbid, take down a few cinder blocks, and the self-proclaimed humanitarians of the world scream from the rooftops.</p>
<p>Another salient point brings <i>America </i>magazine’s hypocrisy into sharper focus. While they are indignant over the destruction of less than a half-dozen homes belonging to terrorist-murderers responsible for killing women and children, not a single word is uttered over Egypt’s recent decision to destroy some <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/30/world/middleeast/egypt-sinai-peninsula-gaza-buffer-zone.html?_r=1"><span style="color: #0433ff;">eight-hundred homes</span></a> bordering Gaza to pave the way for the construction of an anti-tunnel barrier. And while those slated for house demolition in Israel have the right to appeal (and often win), no such appellate process is offered for Egyptians whose recourse is either to comply or face the business end of an AK-47.</p>
<p>Jewish-Catholic rapprochement has come a long way since the Holocaust. Pope Benedict XVI and his predecessor Pope John Paul II did much to advance relations between Israel and the Vatican. Sadly, however, old habits die hard and there remain vestiges of those within the Catholic Church who harbor anti-Semitic views and hostile attitudes toward Israel and wish to see the Church regress to positions of darker times past. Judging by its recent editorials blasting Israel exclusively and book reviews extolling the works of a rabid anti-Semite, the publishers of <i>America</i> magazine can include themselves among this ignominious group.</p>
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		<title>Max Goes Mad Over Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2013 04:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Nation teams up with the Hamas Book-of-the-Month club.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/blumenthal-560x280.gif"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-209867" alt="blumenthal-560x280" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/blumenthal-560x280.gif" width="263" height="195" /></a>In 1948, <i>The Nation</i> <a href="http://emperor.vwh.net/history/br.htm">featured a column about</a> the growing conflict between Israel and the Arab powers which warned that “The strength of the [Arab] league is based on the suppression of all progressive movements and civil rights at home”</p>
<p>That was then.</p>
<p>Now The Nation Institute has decided to publish <i>Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel</i>, a book which the magazine’s own reviewer, Eric Alterman, no friend of Israel, <a href="http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/10/bds-movement-distilled-when-israeli-soldiers-not-raping-arab-women-is-racist/">wrote could have been published by</a> the “Hamas Book-of-the-Month Club.”</p>
<p>But not all the reviews were bad.</p>
<p>Glenn Greenwald, who defended Hamas, called it, “eye-opening and stunningly insightful.” Stephen Walt, who claimed that the Jews controls America (in a thesis he originally published in the house organ of the Saudi Lobby), wished Blumenthal could write for the New York Times.</p>
<p>Charles Glass, who once wrote that “Gaddafi could learn much about crowd control from Israel’s security forces”, praised it; as did Charles H. Manekin, who has written that boycotting the Jewish State “may be the best hope for liberal Zionists who haven’t given in entirely to ethnic loyalties.”</p>
<p><i>Goliath</i> should be recommended to liberals who haven’t “given in” to their shameful ethnic loyalties and know that Israel is worse than Gaddafi, Hamas and Assad put together and must be boycotted to within an inch of its life (a policy popularized by the Arab League and Saudi Lobby). It not only makes a great Nakba present, but can also be wrapped in a brick and tossed through the window of a Jewish store.</p>
<p>The perfect target audience for <i>Goliath</i> would be <i>The Finkler Question’</i>s Merton Kugle who &#8220;had ruined his spine and all but worn out his eyes&#8221; searching for racist Israeli goods at the supermarket to boycott and had taken to shoplifting Israeli produce and carrying it around in his coat pockets until it rotted.</p>
<p>Kugle may be fictional, but his real-life counterparts make up most of the small numbers of protesters denouncing Israel, alongside younger recruits from various campus Communist societies. Their academic careers create the illusion that they represent some larger consensus outside their airless rooms where they debate how to best destroy a country that they know, despite their hate, will outlive them.</p>
<p>These are the old men with clenched teeth and dead eyes who are always on the lookout for Israeli produce to pocket and the next enfant terrible of Jewish Anti-Semitism to promote.</p>
<p>A few years ago it was Peter Beinart. Now it’s Max Blumenthal.</p>
<p>Blumenthal’s<i> Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel</i> has little life in it and a great deal of loathing. It’s a cheap screed full of Jew-baiting chapter titles like “How To Kill Goyim And Influence People” that uses some of the narrative techniques of journalism, but would probably even be rejected by the Hamas Book-of-the-Month Club for hating too much.</p>
<p><i>Goliath</i> isn’t really about Israel. Like everything that Max Blumenthal writes; it’s about him. In <i>Goliath</i>’s lopsided version of reality, David isn’t really the oppressed Muslim terrorist firing anti-tank rockets at Israel school buses or killing Jewish babies with sniper rifles.</p>
<p>Max Blumenthal, privileged son of Sidney Blumenthal, a Clinton aide, is the David who battles the Israeli Goliath.</p>
<p>Blumenthal braves the perils of an Israeli airport “With bated breath I wait for the loud thump of the metal visa stamp when it meets the pages of my passport,” lectures Israeli leftists on everything they’re doing wrong by not listening to him and singlehandedly “loosens the blockade of suppression of thought and discussion on the subject of Israel-Palestine.”</p>
<p>That’s quite a feat.</p>
<p>Blumenthal begins <i>Goliath</i> by talking about himself and never stops. Even as he babbles on about his privilege and entitlement, it never seems to occur to him that his entire narrative is an exercise in both. Max Blumenthal attributes his “privilege” to being an Ashkenazi Jew in the racist Zionist devil state. Most sensible readers will put it down to being the spoiled brat offspring of an important father.</p>
<p><i>Goliath </i>exists in an alternate universe in which Israel isn’t fighting terrorism, but going on a killing spree motivated by racism, religious fanaticism and a desire to eat puppies. If Max Blumenthal were reporting on WW2, the story would begin with an armada of American bombers flown by demented murderers hopped up on war propaganda bombing the unarmed and innocent National Socialists of Berlin.</p>
<p>And that’s exactly how <i>Goliath</i> begins, as an Israeli F-16 “roared across the sky” and launched a missile at a bunch of Hamas terrorists who lie “writhing in pain, their uniforms stained with the flesh and blood of their comrades.”</p>
<p>From the first page, it’s obvious where Max Blumenthal’s sympathies lie. It’s also obvious that he missed his calling writing for soap operas.</p>
<p><i>Goliath</i> isn’t just overwrought; it’s downright hysterical. Like a werewolf, Abbas “howls” in the throes of “militant histrionics.” The even eviler Netanyahu “stumps through fever swamps” as an “apocalyptic” “prophet of doom” and Israelis cheer as their army “exacts blood vengeance on the enemy.”</p>
<p>Like a street corner demagogue, Max Blumenthal blares everything at his shrillest pitch, certain that he will lose his audience the moment they begin to think about what he is saying.  And so the wars of a region that go back centuries and millennia are reduced to Blumenthal’s bad suspense novel in which nothing exists except the moment and Jewish villains borrowed from Goebbels prance on stage.</p>
<p>It’s the same hysterical tone of Blumenthal’s <i>Republican Gomorrah</i> transplanted to Israel. Shrillness is the only journalistic trick in Blumenthal’s book. He turns up the volume to eleven to compensate for his inadequacies as a journalist and a writer. And all the while he accuses the Israelis, in the shrillest tones, of being shrill murderous hysterics who live on a diet of Arab blood and murderous biblical passages.</p>
<p><i>Goliath</i> is tiresome, which may be one reason why even many anti-Zionists are panning it. It’s too nakedly cynical, too obviously a screed pandering to the worst impulses of the Merton Kugles and too immersed in its own hatefulness to be taken seriously by anyone else.</p>
<p>Max Blumenthal revels in the political pornography of violence, lovingly describing every mutilated corpse and announcing each political development with all the subtlety of a car alarm. But subtract the hysterics and morgue photos and all that’s left<i> is</i> a rant with the context deliberately stripped away.</p>
<p>Every negative item that fits Blumenthal’s agenda is assembled into a distorted narrative that has a funhouse mirror relationship to reality until David becomes Goliath and Goliath becomes David.</p>
<p><i>Goliath</i> is the literary equivalent of those bloody photos of children that both sides in a war brandish for propaganda purposes. They’re awful, but they don’t actually tell you anything except that someone is playing on your emotions instead of giving you the whole story.</p>
<p>Despite Blumenthal’s pretense of telling a new story while “loosening thought blockades,” <i>Goliath</i> is full of the same Israel-bashing stories that appear on a regular basis in the mainstream media.</p>
<p>When the BBC and <i>Time </i><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2011/0621/Did-a-Jerusalem-court-really-sentence-a-dog-to-death-by-stoning">can publish stories based</a> on a completely false report that an Israeli Rabbinical court had sentenced a dog to be stoned, it’s obvious that no malignant story about Israel can fail to find a place in the media.</p>
<p>What Max Blumenthal brings to the table in <i>Goliath</i> is not journalism, but uncompromising hatred for Israel. In a media environment where every fake &#8220;Jew Stones Dog&#8221; story goes to the top of the heap, the fake journalists like Max can only distinguish themselves by setting aside the pretenses of journalism.</p>
<p>And that’s what Max Blumenthal does.</p>
<p>Blumenthal knows his audience well. It’s those bitter old men with coat pockets full of stolen rotting fruit who want the raw product. And it’s the Eric Altermans, the liberals who are hostile to Israel, who are eager to shine a light on him so that they seem more reasonable by comparison.</p>
<p>Max Blumenthal isn’t reasonable. He’s a coiled-up ball of hate in the way that only a malignant narcissist can be. Max hates Israel for the same reason that he hates any number of things that aren’t him. Israel’s real crime is that it exists and stands in the way of his career objectives.</p>
<p><i>Goliath</i> is the cynical work of a cynical man. Blumenthal is selling hate while accusing Israelis of the same thing. He has blatantly promoted genocide in a public appearance while accusing Israelis of lusting for blood. His book plays on the worst emotions of the worst people.</p>
<p>And that makes <i>Goliath</i> into a book that has almost as much contempt for its readers as it does for Israel.</p>
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