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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>The New York Times Hits Rock Bottom with Max Blumenthal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2014 05:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ari Lieberman]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/max-blumenthal.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247115" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/max-blumenthal.jpg" alt="max-blumenthal" width="255" height="255" /></a>The New York Times, the paper that earned the dubious distinction of being the recipient of the “<a href="http://honestreporting.com/a-year-of-biased-reporting-why-the-new-york-times-won/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Most Dishonest Reporting</span></a>” award for 2013 is at it again. This time, The Gray Lady <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/12/07/if-israel-turns-right-where-will-it-end-up-12/a-rightward-shift-in-israel-would-reflect-whats-always-been-true"><span style="color: #0433ff;">featured</span></a> an op-ed piece by the notorious anti-Semite Max Blumenthal, providing this provocateur with a mainstream platform to express his odious views.</p>
<p>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. <a href="http://tabletmag.com/scroll/187518/rolling-stone-apologized-will-the-times"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Others</span></a> have already done a <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/12/08/new-york-times-attempts-to-resuscitate-reputation-of-american-anti-semite-max-blumenthal/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">good job</span></a> of that. What I wish to highlight is the depths to which the New York Times has sunk.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>An analysis of Blumenthal’s history reveals the following disturbing facts;</p>
<p>•Blumenthal was <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/11/06/german-opposition-party-cancels-event-featuring-american-anti-semite-max-blumenthal/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">disinvited</span></a> from a scheduled speaking engagement by the German “Die Linke” (The Left) party due to his <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ari-lieberman/max-blumenthal-rejected-by-german-radicals/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">anti-Semitic</span></a> (not to mention anti-Israel) views.</p>
<p>•Blumenthal’s antics earned him a <a href="http://www.dw.de/israel-critics-visit-to-parliament-turns-ugly-for-gysi/a-18059221"><span style="color: #0433ff;">lifetime ban</span></a> from the German parliament.</p>
<p>•The Simon Wiesenthal Center has labeled Blumenthal an anti-Semite and his comments earned him a spot in the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s “<a href="http://www.wiesenthal.com/atf/cf/%7B54d385e6-f1b9-4e9f-8e94-890c3e6dd277%7D/TOP-TEN-2013.PDF"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Top 10</span></a>” list of anti-Semitic slurs.</p>
<p>•Blumenthal’s “works” have been cited and praised by radical extremists and <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2014/04/antisemite-max-blumenthal-incites-murder-of-three"><span style="color: #0433ff;">neo-Nazis</span></a>  and have been <a href="http://www.brandeiscenter.com/images/uploads/articleuploads/marquardt-Bigman_research_paper.pdf"><span style="color: #0433ff;">featured</span></a> on the anti-Semitic blog, <i>Electronic Intifada</i> as well as the neo-Nazi Internet forum, <i>Stormfront</i>.</p>
<p>•Blumenthal’s comments have been cited with approval by <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2014/04/antisemite-max-blumenthal-incites-murder-of-three"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Frazier Glenn Miller</span></a>, the KKK murderer who massacred three people at two separate Jewish community centers in Overland Park, Kansas.</p>
<p>•The Left-leaning <i>Forward</i> referred to Blumenthal’s book as so anti-Israel it, “<a href="http://forward.com/articles/186557/max-blumenthals-goliath-is-anti-israel-book-that-m/?p=all"><span style="color: #0433ff;">makes even anti-Zionists blush</span></a>.”</p>
<p>•Prominent liberal Eric Alterman of <i>The Nation</i> referred to Blumenthal’s book as a screed that belongs in 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>.”</p>
<p>•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.”</p>
<p>•Blumenthal called Israelis “Judeo-Nazis.” (I wonder if he could say that to a Holocaust survivor and walk away with his head intact.)</p>
<p>•Writing for the Hezbollah paper <i>Al-Akhbar</i>, Blumenthal stated that American law enforcement is “<a href="http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/occupation-%E2%80%9Coccupy%E2%80%9D-israelification-american-domestic-security"><span style="color: #0433ff;">schooled in Israeli killing methods</span></a>.”</p>
<p>•Blumenthal was caught red-handed <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/12/did-israel-train-american-interrogators-in-torture-updated/249630/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">conjuring up fictitious quotes</span></a> maligning Israel.</p>
<p>And that’s Max Blumenthal in a nutshell. One wonders whether Hillary Clinton’s senior advisor Sidney Blumenthal, Max’s father and <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/clinton-adviser-sid-blumenthals-new-cause-his-sons-anti-isra"><span style="color: #0433ff;">passionate defender</span></a> 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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		<title>Max Blumenthal: Too Extreme for German Commies, Just Right for the New York Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2014 14:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>How bad is the New York Times?</p>
<p>A party of <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/max-blumenthal-too-anti-semitic-even-for-german-commies/">East German Commies gave Max Blumenthal the boot for</a> being a bigot. The left-wing Forward called his book <a href="http://www.cameraoncampus.org/campus-figures/max-blumenthal/#.VIUa2zGooeU">the &#8220;I Hate Israel&#8221; handbook</a>. His colleague at The Nation <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/ron-radosh/the-liberal-supporters-of-max-blumenthal-and-the-campaign-to-delegitimize-israel/">said it could have been put out by</a> “The Friends of Hamas Book Club.”</p>
<p>One of Blumenthal&#8217;s smears about Israel <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/anti-semitic-violence-neo-nazis-and-the-anti-israel-left/">was picked up by the Neo-Nazi gunman </a>responsible for the Kansas City Jewish community center shootings.</p>
<p>But the influence of Clinton adviser Sidney Blumenthal is still strong enough to get his racist son in at the New York Times. (<a href="https://twitter.com/jkirchick/status/541791316003549186">hat tip to Jamie Kirchik for the link and headline</a>)</p>
<p>Blumenthal rants about how far &#8220;rightward&#8221; Israel has gone. That&#8217;s an ironic accusation coming from a man so far to the left that even German Communists find him extreme and even critics of Israel consider him anti-Semitic.</p>
<p>Max Blumenthal has called for the destruction of Israel. So maybe the New York Times should have looked a little closely at his claims about Israel.</p>
<p>But of course they didn&#8217;t.</p>
<p>Instead Blumenthal gets a free hand to make the case for Israel&#8217;s destruction via &#8220;Zionism is Racism&#8221;. Because creepy bigotry that even German Communists will draw the line at is still good enough for the old gray lady.</p>
<p>The New York Times really has no standards.</p>
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		<title>Max Blumenthal, Rejected by German Radicals</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2014 05:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ari Lieberman]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/MaxBlumenthal.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245276" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/MaxBlumenthal.jpg" alt="MaxBlumenthal" width="303" height="202" /></a>The Norwegians had their Quislings, and the Jews now have their Max Blumenthal. Blumenthal, a fringe gonzo journalist, Goebbels-like propagandist and BDS activist, who once worked for a pro-Hezbollah daily, represents today’s new face of anti-Semitism and is arguably one of the most reprehensible figures of the radical left.</p>
<p>Blumenthal routinely spews forth the anti-Semitic canard that compares Israelis to Nazis, referring to them as “Judeo-Nazis.” Recently, he compared the Jewish State to ISIS calling it “JSIL” – or the “Jewish State of Israel and the Levant.” Blumenthal’s views are so extreme that he is often cited approvingly by <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2014/04/antisemite-max-blumenthal-incites-murder-of-three"><span style="color: #0433ff;">neo-Nazi groups</span></a> as well as depraved murderers.</p>
<p>His vitriol and depravity know no bounds and earned him a spot in the Simon Wiesenthal <a href="http://www.wiesenthal.com/atf/cf/%7B54d385e6-f1b9-4e9f-8e94-890c3e6dd277%7D/TOP-TEN-2013.PDF"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Top 10</span></a> list of anti-Semitic, anti-Israel slurs, placing him in the company of such lovely bottom feeders as Iran’s “Supreme Leader,” Ayatollah Khamenei and Turkey’s grand Islamic narcissist, Recip Erdogan.</p>
<p>Anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism are warped ideologies that go hand-in-hand and so it’s unsurprising that Blumenthal has expressed rabidly anti-America views as well. Among some of his more zany <a href="http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/occupation-%E2%80%9Coccupy%E2%80%9D-israelification-american-domestic-security"><span style="color: #0433ff;">conspiracy theories</span></a> is that American law enforcement is “schooled in Israeli killing methods” and law enforcement personnel are trained in Israeli methods of torture. These risible allegations were first published by Blumenthal for the Hezbollah mouthpiece <em>Al-Akhbar</em>, where Blumenthal worked as a staff writer, but were quickly discredited as arrant nonsense when it was revealed that Blumenthal simply <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/12/did-israel-train-american-interrogators-in-torture-updated/249630/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">invented fictitious quotes</span></a> to support his fabrications.</p>
<p>Recently, Blumenthal’s antics caught the attention of Germany’s main opposition party, Die Linke<i> </i>(“The Left”), a radical leftist party considered the successor to the former ruling Communist Party in East Germany. Two party members with anti-Israel affiliations, Inge Höger and Annette Groth, invited Blumenthal to speak at a party seminar at the German parliament on November 10, just a day after the anniversary of the <a href="http://www.dw.de/november-9-a-fateful-day-for-germany/a-15515692"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>Kristallnacht</i> outrage</span></a>. But as it turns out, Blumenthal’s odious views proved too extreme even for the Communists who scrubbed his appearance.</p>
<p>As expected, the narcissistic and paranoid Blumenthal blamed his repudiation on the vast Zionist network stretching from Sheldon Adelson to the Simon Wiesenthal Center. And as expected, Blumenthal and another one of his Brown Shirt associates entered the parliament building where they harassed and bullied Die Linke’s party leader, Gregor Gysi. Blumenthal’s antics earned him an immediate and deserved <a href="http://www.dw.de/israel-critics-visit-to-bundestag-turns-ugly-for-gysi/a-18059221"><span style="color: #0433ff;">lifetime ban</span></a> from the German federal parliament building.</p>
<p>It is rather ironic and strange that while German Communists have enough commonsense to recognize Blumenthal as nothing more than a purveyor of anti-Semitism, elements within the American Left and more disturbingly, within the highest levels of the Democratic Party, continue to entertain his views and provide him with a platform.</p>
<p>Despite his overt anti-Semitism, Blumenthal’s articles are still featured in the leftist blog Mondoweiss. Moreover, the New America Foundation (NAF), a Washington think tank headed by Anne-Marie Slaughter, a former high-level Obama-administration official, provided Blumenthal with a <a href="http://www.brandeiscenter.com/images/uploads/articleuploads/marquardt-Bigman_research_paper.pdf"><span style="color: #0433ff;">platform</span></a> to peddle his book, <i>Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel</i>, a screed widely recognized as anti-Semitic (one prominent leftist writer noted that it could have made 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>) and adopted by the world’s most virulent and notorious anti-Semites. It should be noted that the NAF receives funding from organizations like the Ford Foundation and the State Department. While Mondoweiss is recognized as a fringe partisan blog that routinely features guttural gibberish, the NAF is viewed as a prestigious think tank and its actions with respect to the promotion of Blumenthal’s book served to bolster world-wide anti-Semitism.</p>
<p>Just as troubling is Hillary Clinton’s association with Sidney Blumenthal, Max Blumenthal’s father as well as his defender. Sidney Blumenthal advised Clinton during her 2008 campaign and was <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/11/08/Dershowitz-Warns-Clintons-Blumenthal-s-a-Problem-for-2016"><span style="color: #0433ff;">rumored</span></a> to have nearly landed a job in the State Department following her appointment as Secretary of State. Sidney is also a <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/clinton-adviser-sid-blumenthals-new-cause-his-sons-anti-isra"><span style="color: #0433ff;">passionate defender</span></a> of his son’s anti-Semitic book, attacking with single-minded purpose those critics who found its repulsive contents to be beyond the pale.</p>
<p>Critics of those who warned about Barack Obama’s close associations with the likes of <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/10/the_saidkhalidiobama_connectio.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Rashid Khalidi</span></a>, Bill Ayers, Edward Said and Jeremiah Wright were dismissed as being paranoid. Jeffrey Goldberg went so far as to call those sounding the alarm “<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2008/10/dear-jews-stop-the-obama-paranoia/8913/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">rumor-mongering, fever-headed Jewish conspiracists</span></a>.” Well, we now know that those rumor mongering conspiracists were <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/ditching-israel-embracing-iran_817766.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">spot-on</span></a> in their analysis and, if anything, underestimated Obama’s disdain for America’s closest ally in the Middle East and one of its closest in the world.</p>
<p>Sidney Blumenthal has failed to disassociate himself from the views expressed by his son in his anti-Semitic screed but continues to maintain close relations with Clinton. Another high-level Clinton aide, Huma Abedin, has <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2556"><span style="color: #0433ff;">confirmed connections</span></a> to the radical Muslim Brotherhood. Those who warned us about Obama’s past radical ties and the negative influence they had on him were scorned and ridiculed but were ultimately proven right. Hopefully, the American electorate, deemed to be <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/11/13/pelosi-cited-obamacare-architect-in-push-for-law-now-claims-hasnt-heard-him/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">shallow and stupid</span></a> by the current administration, has learned its lesson and understands the ramifications of the old adage, “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.”</p>
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		<title>Max Blumenthal Banned from German Parliament After Attack, Blames Jewish Conspiracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2014 15:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>The Vast Jewish Conspiracy doesn&#8217;t just run America, it also controls Germany.</p>
<p><a href="http://forward.com/articles/186557/max-blumenthals-goliath-is-anti-israel-book-that-m/?p=all">Max Blumenthal</a>, who recently tried to turn deranged anti-Semitism into a career, thought he would have a great time smearing the Jewish State in Germany. He brought along David Sheen, a guy who likes to rant about &#8220;Jewish Supremacism&#8221; and whose only function is to make Blumenthal seem a little less crazy.</p>
<p>But he didn&#8217;t check his calendar and forgot that it was 2014, not 1934.</p>
<p>The only people who wanted to host him were East German Commies and even they didn&#8217;t want to host him after seeing some of the crazy anti-Semitic things in his book. (One of his chapters is titled &#8220;How to Kill Goyim and Influence People&#8221;.)</p>
<p>So <a href="http://blog.camera.org/archives/2014/10/how_max_blumenthal_lies_about.html">Max Blumenthal</a> and David Sheen handled the problem in exactly the reasonable way you would expect. They entered the German parliament and began trying to harass and intimidate the head of the German Left Party.</p>
<p>And then they videotaped it because Hitler wannabes like to document their thuggery.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://brandeiscenter.com/blog/max-blumenthal-brings-the-bds-war-to-berlin/">German media lit up with headlines</a> about &#8220;Israel Haters Chasing the Head of the Left Party.&#8221; (from <a href="http://www.brandeiscenter.com/images/uploads/articleuploads/marquardt-Bigman_research_paper.pdf">Petra Marquardt Bigman,</a> who has been <a href="http://brandeiscenter.com/blog/tag/max-blumenthal/">documenting this lunatic for some time</a>.)</p>
<blockquote><p>The popular Bild posted the blunt headline “Lunatic Israel-haters pursue Gysi into the loo” and featured several screen shots showing a clearly distressed Gysi – who, it should perhaps be noted in this context, survived brain surgery and a heart attack 10 years ago. Berlin’s B.Z. featured similar pictures under the headline “Political thugs [Polit-Pöbler] chase Gysi through the Bundestag [i.e. parliament building];” the magazine Focus headlined their story “Shocking incident: Enemies of Israel chase Gysi through Bundestag,”</p></blockquote>
<p>The two Commie parliamentarians who invited them, after hitching a ride on the pro-Hamas flotilla, had to apologize. And <a href="http://brandeiscenter.com/blog/tag/max-blumenthal/">Max Blumenthal</a> is banned from the German parliament.</p>
<p>Because of Sheldon Adelson and the Vast Jewish Conspiracy&#8230; but mostly because they harassed a member of the German parliament.</p>
<p>Apparently they ban you for that sort of thing.</p>
<p><a href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/max-blumenthal-too-extreme-for-far-left-anti-israel-german-party/">Max Blumenthal</a> is of course taking full responsibility&#8230; no he&#8217;s blaming a vast conspiracy. The Zionist puppet masters who made him act like a jackass in the government building of a foreign country&#8230; and every day of his miserable life.</p>
<p>So far Blumenthal is blaming&#8230;</p>
<p>1. Legislators from the left-wing Green Party and the Social Democratic Party</p>
<p>2. An &#8220;Anti-Palestinian Network&#8221; funded by Sheldon Adelson</p>
<p>3. The Simon Wiesenthal Stasi</p>
<p>So it&#8217;s an alliance between Sheldon Adelson, the German left and the Secret Jewish Conspiracy out to &#8220;smear&#8221; <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2014/04/antisemite-max-blumenthal-incites-murder-of-three">Max Blumenthal</a> by accusing him of comparing Jews to Nazis&#8230; which he only does every Tuesday.</p>
<p>Clearly Germany hasn&#8217;t worked out for <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/tag/max-blumenthal/">Max Blumenthal</a>. It&#8217;s already under Jewish control. Maybe he should try someplace friendlier. Like Saudi Arabia. Or time travel back to 1930s Germany. They would love him there.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2014 16:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Max Blumenthal really hates Jews. He hates Jews so much that one of his conspiracy theories about Israel was reposted by the Neo-Nazi gunman who opened fire at a Kansas City Jewish community center.</p>
<p>His book Goliath does its best to mock the Holocaust while depicting Jews as the New Nazis with chapters like &#8220;How To Kill Goyim And Influence People&#8221;. It&#8217;s the sort of deranged hatefest you expect from a guy living in a trailer in the woods, except it comes from a Clinton associate backed by The Nation.</p>
<p>So Germany&#8217;s Left Party, the successors of the East German Communist dictatorship, decided to invite Max Blumenthal and his even crazier pal David Sheen to spew hate about Jews under the guise of being &#8220;Anti-Zionist&#8221;. Sheen, like Blumenthal, also specializes in calling Jews, Nazis. Except that Sheen also rants about Judaism and &#8220;Jewish Supremacy&#8221;.</p>
<p>If Sheen sounded a lot like a Nazi, that made the invite more appropriate and controversial.</p>
<p>In the end Max Blumenthal proved to be too anti-Semitic<a href="http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Berlin-theater-cancels-anti-Israel-event-381265"> even for German Commies</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Volksbühne, a popular theater in East Berlin, pulled the plug on an anti-Israel event slated for Sunday because of expected anti-Semitism.</p>
<p>The Roter Salon was to host two fringe anti-Zionist activists, Max Blumenthal and David Sheen, for a discussion on the “Middle East Conflict and the Drift of Israeli Society toward the Right.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The timing of the event<a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/11/06/german-opposition-party-cancels-event-featuring-american-anti-semite-max-blumenthal/"> was also predictable</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The seminar had been scheduled for this coming Monday, November 10 – one day after the 76th anniversary of the infamous Kristallnacht pogrom in Nazi Germany. Blumenthal’s appearance was secured by two Die Linke MPs, Inge Höger and Annette Groth, who were both on board the Turkish Mavi Marmara ship that attempted to illegally break the Israeli security blockade of Gaza in 2010.</p>
<p>The Green Party MP Volker Beck, who is also chairman of the German-Israeli parliamentary group, declared that “while there are legitimate criticisms of Israeli policy, Blumenthal has consistently made anti-Semitic comparisons between Israel and Nazism.”</p>
<p>The Simon Wiesenthal Center has included Blumenthal in its “top 10″ list of anti-Semitic slurs for 2013, because of chapter headings in “Goliath,” such as “The Concentration Camp” and “How to Kill Goyim and Influence People.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Maybe Max Blumenthal can travel back in time to the 30s. He would be much more popular in Germany then.</p>
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		<title>Anti-Israel Left: Netanyahu Threatened to Kill Obama by Saying &#8220;Lawn&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2014 02:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>The latest loony idea spreading through the ranks of the anti-Israel left is that Netanyahu threatened to kill Obama by talking about lawns.</p>
<p>The origin of this latest BDS mental breakdown seems to be Anti-War Paultard Justin Raimondo who claimed that Netanyahu said&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;When there are pressures on Israel to concede its security, the easiest thing to do is to concede. You get a round of applause, ceremonies on grassy knolls, and then come the missiles and the tunnels.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Raimondo then took a double handful of meds and wrote that,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Bibi, who spent many years in the United States, is surely cognizant of what his &#8220;grassy knoll&#8221; reference connotes&#8230; And so the question must be asked: was Bibi threatening the President of the United States?</p>
<p>&#8220;&#8230;As we’ve seen recently, the White House isn’t exactly an impregnable fortress. In the meantime, it’s time to start reevaluating the &#8220;special relationship&#8221; in light of an Israeli leader who talks about the &#8220;grassy knoll&#8221; while denouncing an American president.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Netanyahu wasn&#8217;t talking about a grassy knoll. He was talking about the Rose Garden ceremony where Rabin shook hands with Arafat.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not a subtle point since Netanyahu mentions a ceremony and applause. I don&#8217;t think the JFK assassination came with applause.</p>
<p>Furthermore Netanyahu was speaking in Hebrew. He didn&#8217;t say grassy knoll. He said something like manicured lawn. But it&#8217;s hard to stop crazy once the ball begins rolling.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/left-wing-mondoweiss-editor-claims-israel-behind-passover-kansas-city-shootings/">Anti-Semitic hate site Mondoweiss </a>swiftly picked up Raimondo&#8217;s claim where demented bigot<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/left-wing-mondoweiss-editor-claims-israel-behind-passover-kansas-city-shootings/"> Annie Robbins</a> quickly began spinning another conspiracy theory.</p>
<p>Last time we checked in with Annie Robbins, a Mondoweiss editor,<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/left-wing-mondoweiss-editor-claims-israel-behind-passover-kansas-city-shootings/"> she was suggesting that the Kansas City shooter</a> who tried to Jews was really a Mossad agent.</p>
<div id="attachment_223592" style="width: 210px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/2df2c576e9800f5ef0bc7295ac6f3a45.jpeg"><img class="size-full wp-image-223592" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/2df2c576e9800f5ef0bc7295ac6f3a45.jpeg" alt="Faces of Anti-Semitic Meth" width="200" height="200" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Faces of Anti-Semitic Meth</p></div>
<p>This time around, <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/left-wing-mondoweiss-editor-claims-israel-behind-passover-kansas-city-shootings/">Annie Robbins</a> insisted that the press was covering up Netanyahu&#8217;s death threat of lawn. (Because they&#8217;re run by the Jews. Obviously.)</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Do you think anyone at the White House noticed Netanyahu’s phraseology? Me too. So why the silence from the press? Grassy knoll, it only means one thing here in America&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Also mental illness only means one thing in America.</p>
<p>But wait, maybe Netanyahu traveled through time to kill JFK? Why the silence from the press?</p>
<p>Mondoweiss commenters, who make their editors look sane, chimed in to explain that Israel had killed JFK. From there it drifted on to even messed up places like Stormfront, where the Neo-Nazis hang out, closing the same classic circle that had actually helped lead to the Kansas City shootings when a Neo-Nazi began mainlining left-wing anti-Israel propaganda from bigots like Max Blumenthal.</p>
<p>And now it&#8217;s all over Twitter. Because that&#8217;s how the anti-Israel left works.</p>
<p>Veterans Today vomited up this, &#8220;Let’s imagine Bibi decides to really, truly fly a 9/11 plane into the Grassy Knoll – by arranging another JFK-style assassination of the President of the United States.&#8221;</p>
<p>If Netanyahu flies a plane into Obama, that means the Secret Service really sucks. </p>
<p>Rhone Fraser, Ph.D, a self-proclaimed gay marxist Christian, with a degree in African-American studies, claimed that Haaretz was engaging in a coverup of what Netanyahu had said.</p>
<p>And the whole thing climaxed, as it always does, with a new era of sensitivity.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>At the JFK memorial. Putting it on a grassy knoll was a bit insensitive, to my mind. <a href="http://t.co/nYgZxncPTe">pic.twitter.com/nYgZxncPTe</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Political Animal (@politic_animal) <a href="https://twitter.com/politic_animal/status/528523608529055745">November 1, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
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		<title>The SPLC’s Attack on Rush Limbaugh, David Horowitz, and Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2014 04:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Radosh]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lies of a twisted smear campaign. ]]></description>
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<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2014/04/14/who-inspired-the-nazi-klan-leaders-actions-in-kansas-the-answer-here/">column</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> I wrote last week, it turns out, has created somewhat of a storm. This is due to one thing only: </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2014/04/14/coverage_of_the_school_knife_attack_and_kansas_shooting_by_a_democrat_anti_semite_klansman_neo_nazi">Rush Limbaugh</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> read it aloud on his radio program. (Start reading in the middle from where it says “BREAK TRANSCRIPT.”) That one decision by Rush led all of our mutual enemies to go viral, sending numerous Tweets and Facebook posts attacking Rush and me for supposedly arguing that the anti-Semitic neo-Nazi Glenn Miller acted because of Max Blumenthal.</span></p>
<p>Of course, as I wrote last week in an addendum, this was not the point I was making. I wrote the following, and repeat it once again:</p>
<blockquote><p> Joan Walsh of <i>Salon</i> has tweeted my column, saying that a two year old blog post by the killer does not show that Blumenthal inspired his actions. What it does show, I argue, is how Blumenthal and his ilk have the same perspective on Israel and the Jews as does this neo-Nazi. Yes, he did not need Max Blumenthal’s book to get him to engage in murder against Jews, only classic antisemitism. My point is simple: It is revealing how the work of this would-be leftist is endorsed by a Nazi sympathizer, who sees things in the same way as Blumenthal. As <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2014/04/antisemite-max-blumenthal-incites-murder-of-three">Dan Pipes</a> asks, how will <i>The Nation</i> folks respond to this?</p></blockquote>
<p>Now, an even more important attack has been made on Rush, David Horowitz and me, and it comes from that so-called civil-rights organization, the Southern Poverty Law Center. It appears in a report from what the SPLC calls its “Intelligence Project,” and is in their publication called <i>HATEWATCH: Keeping an Eye on the Radical Right</i>. Its headline proclaims: “<a href="http://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2014/04/20/the-splcs-attack-on-rush-limbaugh-david-horowitz-and-me/Limbaugh,%20Right-Wing%20Pundits%20Try%20to%20Blame%20Max%20Blumenthal%20for%20Kansas%20Rampage.">Limbaugh, Right-Wing Pundits Try to Blame Max Blumenthal for Kansas Rampage.</a>”</p>
<p><strong>To continue reading this article, click <a href="http://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2014/04/20/the-splcs-attack-on-rush-limbaugh-david-horowitz-and-me/">here</a>. </strong></p>
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		<title>Crooks and Liars Lies About Max Blumenthal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2014 19:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I do not consider myself an anti-Semite, but I can understand why some are.”]]></description>
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<p>The appropriately named left-wing Crooks and Liars site has pathetically tried to defend bigot Max Blumenthal over his involvement in influencing Kansas City shooter Frazier Glenn Miller.</p>
<p>And it did that, appropriately enough, by lying about Max Blumenthal.</p>
<p>Writing at Crooks and Liars, David Neiwert attempts to falsely claim that Blumenthal only opposes &#8220;the right&#8221;, not Israel.</p>
<p>Neiwert calls Blumenthal a &#8220;liberal&#8221;. That&#8217;s an understatement. Blumenthal is much further left-wing than that.  He refers to, &#8220;Blumenthal’s against-the-grain reporting on the right wing in Israel&#8221;. Blumenthal doesn&#8217;t limit his attack to the Israel right.</p>
<p>&#8220;Blumenthal&#8230;does not “despise” Israel,&#8221; he claims. &#8220;Blumenthal has written a number of articles that criticize Israeli policies.&#8221;</p>
<p>Neiwert may choose not to believe criticism of Blumenthal from the right, but he&#8217;s been amply criticized by the left.</p>
<p>Eric Alterman of The Nation called Goliath, &#8220;The I Hate Israel Handbook&#8221; and <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/176861/eric-alterman-replies-max-blumenthals-letter">a potential selection of</a> the Hamas Book of the Month Club.</p>
<p>&#8220;Never before has anyone defended the analogizing of the behavior of Israeli Jews to that of the war criminals who led Nazi Germany. Such arguments are, unfortunately, consistent with both the quality of Blumenthal’s judgments and the honesty of his journalism,&#8221; Alterman wrote.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s <a href="http://forward.com/articles/186557/max-blumenthals-goliath-is-anti-israel-book-that-m/?p=all">The Forward on Max Blumenthal</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;He’s written a collection of 73 short vignettes, weaving together reportage, history and interviews to show the suffering and unbroken spirit of the Palestinians and the callous cruelty of the Israelis. Lest anyone miss the point, many of his chapters have titles like “The Concentration Camp,” “The Night of Broken Glass,” “This Belongs to the White Man” and “How to Kill Goyim and Influence People.”</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>Almost halfway through their 83-minute encounter (minute 34:00 on YouTube), Lustick emotionally asks Blumenthal whether he believes, like Abraham at Sodom, that there are enough “good people” in Israel to justify its continued existence — or whether he’s calling for a mass “exodus,” the title of his last chapter, and “the end of Jewish collective life in the land of Israel.”</p>
<p>Blumenthal gives a convoluted answer that comes down to this: “There should be a choice placed to the settler-colonial population” (meaning the entire Jewish population of Israel): “Become indigenized,” that is, “you have to be part of the Arab world.” Or else…? “The maintenance and engineering of a non-indigenous demographic majority is non-negotiable.”</p>
<p>Lustick appears stunned. And not only Lustick. Philip Weiss, founder and co-editor of Mondoweiss, who was in the audience, wrote afterwards, in a rare rebuke of his own writer, that he saw “some intolerance in that answer.”</p>
<p>We live in a “multicultural world,” Weiss wrote. There should be room for Israelis. “The issue in the end involves the choice between an Algerian and a South African outcome.” Mass expulsion versus coexistence. “I’m for the South African outcome.”</p>
<p>Blumenthal isn’t. It’s a chilling moment, even for the anti-Zionists among us.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Pretending that Blumenthal is a critic of the Israeli right, as opposed to an opponent of Israel, is simply a lie. Even veteran critics of Israel have blasted him. Israeli figures on the left showed him the door.</p>
<p>Neiwert attacks me using material from Mondoweiss. As I discussed in this week&#8217;s article, <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/anti-semitic-violence-neo-nazis-and-the-anti-israel-left/">Mondoweiss is an openly bigoted site</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Blumenthal had also posted at Mondoweiss which is closest to the intersection between Neo-Nazis and the Anti-Israel left.</p>
<p>One of its writers had said, “I do not consider myself an anti-Semite, but I can understand why some are.” Another had written that, “Israel is no normal state, but one governed by the forging of Zionist system-logic into a Satanic ideology.”</p>
<p>Alan Sabrosky, wrote at Mondoweiss that “an awful lot of American Jews” are “agents of a foreign government” and called for “excising” the cancer. Elsewhere he wrote that, “I don’t care if we’re called anti-Semites or not,” claimed that most American Jews are “traitors” and accused Israel of being behind the September 11 attacks.</p>
<p>Mondoweiss’ Jeffrey Blankfort went so far in his hatred for Israel as to assert that, “When it comes to talking about Israel-Palestine — David Duke and Pat Buchanan are more informative than Noam Chomsky or people on the left.”</p>
<p>He also endorsed Holocaust denial.</p>
<p>Blankfort’s statements show how thin the line between the Neo-Nazi and the Anti-Israel activist has become.</p></blockquote>
<p>And Crooks and Liars and David Neiwert insist on lying about it.</p>
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		<title>Left-Wing Mondoweiss Editor Claims Israel Behind Passover Kansas City Shootings</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2014 02:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of its writers has claimed that Israel was behind September 11 ]]></description>
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<p>Mondoweiss is probably the leading anti-Israel site on the internet after Stormfront. Its editors<a href="http://mondotruth.tumblr.com/"> are often openly bigoted</a>. One Mondoweiss editor said, &#8220;I do not consider myself an anti-Semite, but I can understand why some are.&#8221;</p>
<p>One of its writers has claimed that Israel was behind September 11 and even <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/07/25/997457/-This-Stuff-Could-be-at-Stormfront">DailyKos banned Mondoweiss</a> for its recurring anti-semitism.</p>
<p>While it has been revealed that the Kansas City shooter <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2014/04/antisemite-max-blumenthal-incites-murder-of-three">used anti-semitic material from Max Blumenthal</a>, who is often promoted on Mondoweiss, a Mondoweiss editor, Annie Robbins, suggested<a href="https://twitter.com/a01939388/status/456408114007252992"> that Israel was behind it all</a>.</p>
<p>Responding to a Muslim who asked, &#8220;Who was his handler?&#8221;, she asked,  &#8220;is miller the same white supremacist who took a screenshot of his desktop and accidentally revealed he had the israeli foreign ministry&#8217;s megaphone onto his computer? that was a wild moment.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Later Robbins attempted to walk back her claim, denying that she had accused the Israeli government of being behind the attack and her claim that the KC killer had Megaphone on his computer, but it&#8217;s not like the facts have ever mattered at Mondoweiss.</p>
<p>Annie Robbins has a history of manufacturing her own reality where Jews are concerned.</p>
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<p>When Annie Robbins isn&#8217;t exploring her Vast Jewish Conspiracy Theory, she exhibits hideous vases <a href="http://www.museo.cc/museo.html">at Museo in Seattle</a>. You can contact them to express your opinion of her artwork at <a href="mailto:museo@museo.cc">museo@museo.cc</a>.</p>
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		<title>Anti-Israel Leftist Cited by Anti-Semitic Killer Mocked Idea that American Jews are At Risk</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2014 16:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's time to examine the link between Neo-Nazi groups and the left's New Anti-Semitism ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Leftist Anti-Israel journalist Max Blumenthal, who is affiliated with The Nation, ridiculed the idea that American Jews are an at risk population.</p>
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<p>Blumenthal, whose attacks on Israel and Jews were described as anti-Semitic even by many on the left, <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/kansas-city-anti-semitic-shooter-inspired-by-leftist-anti-israel-demagogue-max-blumenthal/">and whose work was allegedly cited by the Kansas City killer </a>and has been mentioned hundreds of times on Neo-Nazi forums such as Stormfront and VNN, found the idea that the Jews he was putting at risk would need special security to be ridiculous.</p>
<p>But in fact, despite the constant <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/leftist-dons-hijab-disproves-existence-of-islamophobia/">clamor of a mythical Islamophobia</a>,<a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/4224/another-hate-crimes-report-contradicts-islamist?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter"> American Jews are far more likely to be at risk</a> than Muslims.</p>
<p>Anti-Israel and anti-Semitic demagogues like Max Blumenthal spread hate toward Jews around the world and then mock the idea that the people they target will be attacked by some of their readers and viewers.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s time to seriously examine the intersection between Neo-Nazi groups and the left&#8217;s New Anti-Semitism characterized by hatemongers like Max Blumenthal.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s time for The Nation and other outlets that publish hatemongers like Blumenthal to do some serious soul-searching about their role in the killings.</p>
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		<title>Kansas City Anti-Semitic Shooter Inspired by Leftist Anti-Israel Demagogue Max Blumenthal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2014 16:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's time for The Nation to take responsibility for promoting the culture of hate that led to the murders]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2014/04/14/who-inspired-the-nazi-klan-leaders-actions-in-kansas-the-answer-here/">I hope Max Blumenthal is very proud today</a>. He finally achieved his great dream. Inspiring the murder of Jews. It&#8217;s what his hatefilled work, that even those on the left have disavowed, has been leading to.</p>
<blockquote><p>Frazier Glenn Miller was identified Sunday afternoon by the Southern Poverty Law Center as the gunman who killed three people in an attack on two Jewish sites in Overland Park, Kansas. According to SPLC’s file on Miller, who was arrested under the alias Glenn Frazier Cross, he has been involved in white supremacist movements since the later 1970s, mostly ads a “grand dragon” in the Ku Klux Klan.</p></blockquote>
<p>As Ron Radosh points out, Miller wasn&#8217;t just inspired by the KKK, but also cited the work of leftist anti-Israel activist Max Blumenthal.</p>
<blockquote><p>A quick look at some of the antisemitic extremist websites has led to the following post by Mr. Miller, reproduced verbatim below:</p>
<p>Israel Forming Super PAC to Attack Paul &amp; Obama</p>
<p>This is some big dookee, yaw’ll.</p>
<p>http://runronpaul.com/interviews/isr…on-paul-obama/</p>
<p>Jew journalist Max Blumenthal exposes and explains this attempt by a foreign government Israel, to buy the presidential election for the neo-con, war-mongering republican establishment.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Ron Paul fan site is since defunct, but it appears to refer to a Blumenthal interview on Putin&#8217;s propaganda channel RT, which he has since defended, in which he claimed that Netanyahu was targeting Ron Paul and Obama.</p>
<p>Blumenthal is unsurprisingly fairly popular on the Ron Paul sites and there are 382 results for him on the Neo-Nazi VNN forum that the Kansas City killer patronized.</p>
<p>Neo-Nazis have found Max Blumenthal&#8217;s left-wing anti-semitism quite useful and VNN&#8217;s forums follow Blumenthal&#8217;s career. Blumenthal is likewise popular on Stormfront with over 100 mentions.</p>
<p>After these shootings, it&#8217;s time for The Nation&#8217;s Katrina vanden Heuvel to take some responsibility for promoting the culture of hate spread by Max Blumenthal and its role in the Kansas City murders.</p>
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		<title>Max Blumenthal Now Shilling for Putin</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2014 13:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blumenthal is clearly ready for a gig at RT.]]></description>
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<p>Max Blumenthal, a creepy fellow you may know as Clinton aide Sid Blumenthal&#8217;s son who caught some public attention for writing a book that even critics of Israel referred to as a selection of the Hamas Book of the Month Club, is going Full Greenwald.</p>
<p>After an anchorwoman for Putin&#8217;s RT propaganda network resigned, Max Blumenthal wrote up an &#8220;expose&#8221; claiming that &#8220;Cold War-Hungry Neocons&#8221; were behind it.</p>
<p>By &#8220;Cold War-Hungry Neocons&#8221;, Blumenthal means James Kirchik, a gay writer for the Daily Beast who was around 9 when the USSR fell.</p>
<p>Apparently a &#8220;cadre of neoconservatives&#8221; hungry for Cold War and Hot Dogs targeted a propaganda news network that 99 percent of its viewers only encounter while searching for dashcam accidents on YouTube&#8230;. &#8220;to deepen tensions with Russia.&#8221;</p>
<p>Forget invading Crimea. The real tension deepening comes from an on-air resignation.</p>
<p>&#8220;With isolated skeptics branded as useful idiots for Putin, the scene has been kept clean of neoconservative fingerprints, obscuring their interest in Wahl’s resignation and the broader push to deepen tensions with Russia,&#8221; Blumenthal writes, preemptively defending himself against anyone who might accuse him of shilling for Putin.</p>
<p>So Max Blumenthal, intrepid journalist, went straight to the source. Putin. That is his employees and got the real scoop on Liz Wahl, the anchorwoman, the vast neocon conspiracy to revive the Cold War with an on-air resignation and how much Liz sucked&#8230; according to the employees of the propaganda network she resigned from.</p>
<p>According to RT, Wahl was a &#8220;deeply disgruntled employee seeking an exit strategy from a job where, sources say, she was disciplined for unprofessional behavior and had been demoted&#8221;.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s completely atypical of the sort of thing a company would say about an employee who vocally quit. At least they didn&#8217;t claim she stole the silverware.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not sure how you can be demoted from reciting Putin&#8217;s propaganda on a news network no one watches. Maybe scrubbing Putin&#8217;s golden toilet?</p>
<p>More damningly, &#8220;Wahl did not return several voice and text messages sent to her cellphone.&#8221; A woman didn&#8217;t return Max Blumenthal&#8217;s voice and text messages? She must be one of those evil Cold War neo-conservatives!</p>
<p>According to Blum, &#8220;Kirchick worked for part of 2011 out of Prague for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, a media network funded by Congress (formerly backed by the CIA) that functions like the American answer to RT in Russian-aligned Eastern European countries.&#8221;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s telling that Max Blumenthal compares Radio Liberty to RT, but you can&#8217;t really expect much from the author of a Hamas Book-of-the-Month Club worthy tome.</p>
<p>Meanwhile Blumenthal cheerfully litters his piece with bizarre alternate universe Putin propaganda like this.</p>
<p>&#8220;Saakashvili adopted a confrontational stance toward Putin. In 2008, his American-trained military briefly intervened in the breakaway Georgian territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, then retreated after a crushing defeat at the hands of the Russian military.&#8221;</p>
<p>Blumenthal is clearly ready for a gig at RT.</p>
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		<title>Obama and Soros Funded Liberal Think Tank Promotes Destruction of Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2013 00:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Creepy Nazi manchild <a href="http://freebeacon.com/new-america-foundation-under-fire-for-hosting-event-for-anti-israel-book/">Max Blumenthal is getting a new forum to promote his </a>deranged screed about the Jewish State. The liberal Nation&#8217;s book review said his book could have been published by the &#8220;Hamas Book of the Month Club&#8221;. The liberal Forward paper <a href="http://forward.com/articles/186557/max-blumenthals-goliath-is-anti-israel-book-that-m/?p=all">described Blumenthal calling</a> for the elimination of Israel&#8217;s Jewish population.</p>
<p>But Blumenthal Jr is the son of Sidney Blumenthal; a former Clinton aide and pal of Hillary Clinton. <a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/11/26/new-america-founation-puts-anti-zionism-on-the-table-max-blumenthal/">And that name opens a lot of door</a>s.</p>
<p>One of those doors is at the New America Foundation. The NAF received $1 million from the State Department, the Ford Foundation, Bill Gates and Google&#8217;s CEO. Other donors include the McArthur Foundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the Bank of Palestine, the Rockerfeller Foundation, the Tides Foundation and various Soros franchises.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s not surprising since Soros&#8217; son sits on its Board of Directors.</p>
<blockquote><p>The New America Foundation (NAF) is one of the most prosperous and influential think tanks in Barack Obama’s Washington. It’s run by Anne-Marie Slaughter, who was director of policy planning in the Obama State Department from 2009 to 2011.</p>
<p>Its executive board is chaired by Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and is filled with luminaries of the world of finance like Steve Rattner (Obama’s “car czar”), media stars like Fareed Zakaria, public intellectuals like Francis Fukuyama and even a token centrist like Walter Russell Mead as well as the likes of George Soros’s son Jonathan. In other words, it’s about as connected to the pulse of the Obama-era capital as you can be outside of the West Wing.</p>
<p>In one sense, it is hardly surprising that Slaughter’s group would embrace Blumenthal’s book at the same time that the current head of the State Department is counseling Congress to “ignore” Israeli concerns about Iran and betraying its democratic ally with deals that legitimize Iran’s nuclear ambitions.</p></blockquote>
<p>Should the State Department be in the business of dropping 1 million on a liberal think tank where Soros Jr sits on the board when it couldn&#8217;t afford to provide security for the diplomatic mission in Benghazi?</p>
<p>But apparently there&#8217;s always cash on hand to promote the mass murder of Jews and the destruction of Israel.</p>
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		<title>Will Hillary Clinton Banish Anti-Israel Sidney Blumenthal?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/max-goes-mad-over-israel/">Sidney Blumenthal&#8217;s son hates Israel</a>. I mean really, really hates Israel. As in &#8216;Hitler level hatred&#8217;. <a href="http://forward.com/articles/186557/max-blumenthals-goliath-is-anti-israel-book-that-m/?p=all">And no, this isn&#8217;t an exaggeration. </a></p>
<blockquote><p>Lustick emotionally asks Blumenthal whether he believes&#8230; that there are enough “good people” in Israel to justify its continued existence — or whether he’s calling for a mass “exodus,” the title of his last chapter, and “the end of Jewish collective life in the land of Israel.”</p>
<p>Blumenthal gives a convoluted answer that comes down to this: “There should be a choice placed to the settler-colonial population” (meaning the entire Jewish population of Israel): “Become indigenized,” that is, “you have to be part of the Arab world.” Or else…? “The maintenance and engineering of a non-indigenous demographic majority is non-negotiable.”</p>
<p>Lustick appears stunned. And not only Lustick. Philip Weiss, founder and co-editor of Mondoweiss, who was in the audience, wrote afterwards, in a rare rebuke of his own writer, that he saw “some intolerance in that answer.”</p>
<p>We live in a “multicultural world,” Weiss wrote. There should be room for Israelis. “The issue in the end involves the choice between an Algerian and a South African outcome.” Mass expulsion versus coexistence. “I’m for the South African outcome.”</p>
<p>Blumenthal isn’t. It’s a chilling moment, even for the anti-Zionists among us.</p></blockquote>
<p>That is an except from a J.J. Goldberg piece in the Forward, hardly a pro-Israel paper, and one that tends far to the left. Mondoweiss is a straight up hate site.</p>
<p>And Max Blumenthal is a bit much even for them. But <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/clinton-adviser-sid-blumenthals-new-cause-his-sons-anti-isra">not for his proud papa </a>and Clintonite, <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/11/08/Dershowitz-Warns-Clintons-Blumenthal-s-a-Problem-for-2016">Sidney Blumenthal, who&#8217;s going after anyone</a> who messes with sonny boy.</p>
<blockquote><p>A veteran confidant of Hillary Clinton has waded into a bitter argument over the explosive topic of Israel, defending his son’s intensely anti-Israel book from a liberal critic.</p>
<p>Sidney Blumenthal, a former New Yorker writer turned Clinton adviser from the White House to the 2008 campaign, has been waging an online campaign against Nation columnist Eric Alterman for negatively reviewing his son Max Blumenthal’s book, Goliath. The book was described by Alterman, himself a frequent critic of Israel, as “awful” and something that “could have been published by the Hamas Book-of-the-Month Club (if it existed).”</p>
<p>Reached for comment on the email flap, Alterman said he understood why Blumenthal would want to defend his son’s book.</p>
<p>“I actually feel for Sid,” Alterman said. “Leaving aside the quality of Max’s journalism, it has to be painful for any Jew to see your own kid going around calling Jews ‘Nazis’ and ‘fascists,’ and insisting that not only should Israel be destroyed, but its Jewish population should be kicked out.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Maybe. It doesn&#8217;t seem that painful for Sidney Blumenthal.</p>
<blockquote><p>In a follow-up blog post after the initial review, Alterman wrote that he had become the target of emails sent around by Blumenthal to friends and associates as a result of his review of the book.</p>
<p>“I attribute to these friendly relations the fact that until now, Sid Blumenthal had not seen fit to make me the object of any of the unflattering e-mails he so often sends around to journalists and others — myself included — about individuals of whom he disapproves,” Alterman wrote. “Privately, I worried that by telling the truth about his son’s book, I would soon hear of nasty e-mails about me sent by Sid to our mutual friends and professional acquaintances. Call it ‘bizarre,’ if you will, but sadly, that’s just what happened.”</p>
<p>“The thing about Sidney is that he’s absolutely obsessed with his enemies and his way of communicating and dealing with his obsession is that he sends out emails to this very elite list of liberal journalists mostly,” said one source who has been on Blumenthal’s list.</p>
<p>Blumenthal’s current role in the Clinton universe is unclear. In the bio on his author page on the Atlantic’s website, he is described as an “adviser” to the Clinton Foundation, Bill and Hillary Clinton’s non-profit. Several phone calls and emails to the Clinton Foundation seeking clarification on Blumenthal’s role in the organization went unanswered. A BuzzFeed reporter who went to the Clinton Foundation’s offices in New York on Tuesday seeking the organization’s most recent IRS 990 form was turned away.</p>
<p>Emails alleged to be from Blumenthal that were made public earlier this year suggest that he was in communication with Clinton on matters relating to Benghazi and other national security issues this year.</p></blockquote>
<p>Not only was Sidney Blumenthal emailing Hillary with solicited or unsolicited advice, <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/hillary-clinton-sid-blumenthal/">but he was forwarding her material from his son</a>.</p>
<p>And Dershowitz is speaking out<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/11/08/Dershowitz-Warns-Clintons-Blumenthal-s-a-Problem-for-2016"> and warning that Hillary Clinton is going to have</a> break with Sidney Blumenthal over this.</p>
<blockquote><p>On Friday, Dershowitz told Breitbart News that Sid Blumenthal&#8217;s vociferous advocacy for his son&#8217;s book could damage Hillary Clinton&#8217;s widely anticipated run for her party&#8217;s nomination for president in 2016:</p>
<p>&#8220;Max Blumenthal is well outside the acceptable range of rhetoric about Israel. His constant comparisons between Nazi Germany and the Jewish state establish him as an extremist bigot whose greatest appeal is to antisemites and others who apply a double standard to the Jewish state. Any political candidate who would associate himself or herself with such views would be unacceptable to Americans. In addition to being extremist in his anti-Israel views, Blumenthal is also vehemently anti-American. I have long known his father and have worked with him. But even understanding how a father would want to identify with a son, no decent person should ever support the views expressed by Max Blumenthal. I would sincerely hope that Sid, while continuing to love his son, would completely dissociate himself from his son&#8217;s bigotry. And I ask decent people to ask themselves what they would do if they had a son who espoused views akin to those expressed by the KKK, Hamas and other antisemites. I would hope they would do the right thing and dissociate themselves from such views.</p>
<p>&#8220;In light of the long association between the Clintons and Sid Blumenthal, I hope that the Clintons ask Sid to expressly disassociate himself from his son&#8217;s views&#8211;and if he refuses to, that they no longer work with him on any matters.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>I wouldn&#8217;t count on Hillary Clinton asking Sidney Blumenthal to make any tough choices. But they may ask him to back off his vocal campaign against critics of his son Max &#8220;Hamas Book of the Month Club&#8221; Blumenthal</p>
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		<title>Max Goes Mad Over Israel</title>
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		<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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		<title>Israeli Demonization Week</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Tapson]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anti-Israel leftists take their annual hate-fest on tour.]]></description>
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<p>The title above may be a bit confusing, since the left and their media cohorts essentially treat <em>every</em> week as Israeli Demonization Week. So to be more precise: the official, organized, designated demonization of Israel known as <a href="http://apartheidweek.org/en/frontpage" target="_blank">Israeli Apartheid Week</a> (IAW) is gearing up to launch later this month.</p>
<p>IAW is an annual (2012 is the eighth) international series of events held in cities and on campuses across the globe. It aims “to educate people about the nature of Israel” – by which it means to spread disinformation and propaganda – “and to build Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns” in order to delegitimize it. They demand full equality for Arab citizens of Israel (who already have it), an end to what they falsely call the occupation and colonization of all Arab lands, dismantling of the security wall that protects Israelis from Palestinian terrorist attacks, and the Palestinian right of return, which would essentially mean the end of Jews in Israel.</p>
<p>The IAW program begins in Europe in late February, shortly afterward in the United States, then Canada, the “Arab World” (as the website refers to it) and South Africa early in March, and finally in “Palestine.” Its speakers, conferences, rallies, workshops, panel discussions, film screenings, protests, even “flash mobs” will help hammer home their monstrous lies about Israel. The speakers featured this year at IAW include:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2465" target="_blank">Max Blumenthal</a>, a vicious character assassin masquerading as a journalist. In addition to playing an entire deck full of race cards against Republicans in his capacity as smear merchant for such entities as <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7150" target="_blank">Media Matters</a>, the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6780" target="_blank">Nation Institute</a> (funded in part by <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977" target="_blank">George Soros</a>), and the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7129" target="_blank">Huffington Post</a>, Blumenthal kicked off the Internet frenzy over <a href="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mtapson/2010/01/29/clinton-supporter-robert-iger-dga-honors-exec-who-banished-path-to-911-miniseries/" target="_blank">The Path to 9/11</a>, a $30 million ABC miniseries in 2006 about the history behind the 9/11 attacks. He <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/discover-the-secret-right_b_29015.html" target="_blank">claimed ridiculously</a> that the project was a secretive “propaganda operation” on the part of a stealth conservative cabal in Hollywood, and sparked death threats against the director and writer thanks to his lies about their political agenda.</p>
<p>Palestinian-Canadian attorney Diana Buttu is an international law expert and former advisor to the Palestine Liberation Organization. CAMERA, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, notes <a href="http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=8&amp;x_nameinnews=140&amp;x_article=1582" target="_blank">many instances</a> of the media-savvy Buttu’s distortions and outright lies about Israel; for example, she buttresses her argument that Palestinian violence is the result of Israeli military occupation with her often-repeated claim that not a single Israeli died from suicide bombings during the period of the Oslo peace process. CAMERA points out that in fact, 24 Israelis died from suicide bombings during this period, and 14 more by other means at the hands of Palestinian terrorists. Not to mention the Arab violence against Israelis that predates the latters’ control over the West Bank and Gaza. Jew-hatred, not “occupation,” is to blame for terrorism against the Israelis.</p>
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