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'''Max Blumenthal''' (born December 18, 1977) is an American author, journalist, and blogger. Formerly a writer for '']'' and '']'', he is the author of ''Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party'' (2009).<ref> ] September 10, 2009.</ref><ref>Blumenthal, Max. ''Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party.'' New York: Nation Books, 2009. ISBN 1-56858-398-2</ref><ref name="Nation">'']'', No date. Accessed 2009-09-12</ref><ref name="HTBlum"> ''The Huffington Post''. No date. Accessed 2009-09-12</ref> and ''Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel'' (2013). He used to work for the ]<ref name="CNN Census Story"> ''CNN'' May 23, 2012. Accessed 2012-05-23</ref> organization ].<ref name="Fox Dershowitz"> ''Fox news'' February 13, 2012. Accessed 2012-05-23</ref> '''Max Blumenthal''' (born December 18, 1977) is an award-winning American author, journalist, and blogger. A senior writer for Alternet and formerly a writer for '']'' and '']'', he is the author of '']''-bestselling ''Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party'' (2009).<ref> ] September 10, 2009.</ref><ref>Blumenthal, Max. ''Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party.'' New York: Nation Books, 2009. ISBN 1-56858-398-2</ref><ref name="Nation">'']'', No date. Accessed 2009-09-12</ref><ref name="HTBlum"> ''The Huffington Post''. No date. Accessed 2009-09-12</ref> and ]-winning ''Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel'' (2013). <ref>'']'', </ref> <ref>'']'', </ref> <ref>'']'', </ref>
He used to work for the ]<ref name="CNN Census Story"> ''CNN'' May 23, 2012. Accessed 2012-05-23</ref> organization ].<ref name="Fox Dershowitz"> ''Fox news'' February 13, 2012. Accessed 2012-05-23</ref>


==Background== ==Background==
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==Career== ==Career==
Blumenthal won the ]'s Independent Feature Award for his 2002 article on ], ''Day of the Dead''.<ref>Blumenthal, Max. ]. December 4, 2002. </ref><ref>"Neighborhood Briefing." ''].'' September 17, 2004.</ref> The piece stated that the ] in ], ] was connected to the policies of corporate interests in the border city.<ref> 2003 ONA Conference Participant's Blog. November 15, 2003. Accessed 2009-09-12</ref> Blumenthal contributed to '']'' from 2009 to 2011.<ref>'']'', </ref> Blumenthal won the ]'s Independent Feature Award for his 2002 article on ], ''Day of the Dead''.<ref>Blumenthal, Max. ]. December 4, 2002. </ref><ref>"Neighborhood Briefing." ''].'' September 17, 2004.</ref> The piece revealed that the ] in ], ] was connected to the policies of corporate interests in the border city.<ref> 2003 ONA Conference Participant's Blog. November 15, 2003. Accessed 2009-09-12</ref> Blumenthal contributed to '']'' from 2009 to 2011.<ref>'']'', </ref>

⚫ Blumenthal joined Lebanon's '']'' in late 2011 primarily to write about Israel-Palestine issues and foreign-policy debates in Washington, noting on leaving in mid-2012 in protest of its coverage of the ] that it "gave me more latitude than any paper in the United States to write about ... Israel and Palestine".<ref name=TheRealNews/> He ended his association with ''Al Akhbar'' in June 2012, over what he viewed as the newspaper's pro-Assad editorial line during the Syrian Civil War that he said was spearheaded by ].<ref name=TheRealNews>], 22 June 2012, </ref><ref>{{cite web |last= Blumenthal |first= Max |date= 20 June 2012 |title= The right to resist is universal: A farewell to Al Akhbar and Assad's apologists |url= http://maxblumenthal.com/2012/06/the-right-to-resist-is-universal-a-farewell-to-al-akhbar-and-assads-apologists/ |publisher= MaxBlumenthal.com |accessdate= 9 July 2012 |quote= I was forced to conclude that unless I was prepared to spend endless stores of energy jousting with Assad apologists, I was merely providing them cover by keeping my name and reputation associated with Al Akhbar. }}</ref>

==Controversies==


In 2011, Blumenthal wrote a story claiming that Israeli forces trained American police departments in anti-protester techniques, including torture, quoting ] Law Professor ].<ref>How Israeli Occupation Forces, Bahraini Monarchy Guards Trained U.S. Police For Coordinated Crackdown On “Occupy” Protests, The Exiled, Dec. 2, 2011 </ref> Contacted by ] of '']'' and Adam Serwer of '']'', Greenberg told Goldberg that "I never made such a statement", while she told Serwer "I did not intend to assert these allegations as fact…the entire sense of the quote is inaccurate."<ref>Jeffrey Goldberg, Did Israel Train American Interrogators in Torture? (UPDATED), The Atlantic, Dec. 7, 2011 </ref><ref>Adam Serwer: '''' In: ''].'' December 7, 2011</ref> Blumenthal responded that he quoted Greenberg accurately and speculated that she had been "intimidated by Goldberg and the pro-Israel forces he represents".<ref>Max Blumenthal, '']'', Dec. 7, 2011 </ref><ref>Max Blumenthal and Mark Ames, , 7 December 2011 with undated Updates.</ref> In 2011, Blumenthal wrote a story claiming that Israeli forces trained American police departments in anti-protester techniques, including torture, quoting ] Law Professor ].<ref>How Israeli Occupation Forces, Bahraini Monarchy Guards Trained U.S. Police For Coordinated Crackdown On “Occupy” Protests, The Exiled, Dec. 2, 2011 </ref> Contacted by ] of '']'' and Adam Serwer of '']'', Greenberg told Goldberg that "I never made such a statement", while she told Serwer "I did not intend to assert these allegations as fact…the entire sense of the quote is inaccurate."<ref>Jeffrey Goldberg, Did Israel Train American Interrogators in Torture? (UPDATED), The Atlantic, Dec. 7, 2011 </ref><ref>Adam Serwer: '''' In: ''].'' December 7, 2011</ref> Blumenthal responded that he quoted Greenberg accurately and speculated that she had been "intimidated by Goldberg and the pro-Israel forces he represents".<ref>Max Blumenthal, '']'', Dec. 7, 2011 </ref><ref>Max Blumenthal and Mark Ames, , 7 December 2011 with undated Updates.</ref>


In 2013, Blumenthal appeared in ninth place on that year's ] list of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel slurs, reasons given being that chapter titles in the book Goliath were used to "equate Israel with the Nazi regime" and that Blumenthal had quoted "approvingly characterizations of Israeli soldiers as 'Judeo-Nazis.'"<ref>, December 30, 2013, ]</ref> Blumenthal responded humorously to being awarded ninth place on 'Top Ten 2013 anti-Semitic, anti-Israel slurs' list published by ], noting he was tied with ].<ref>{{cite web|title=Max Blumenthal - Russell Tribunal 2014 - 24/09|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWrOuGNrzZc|website=YouTube}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Wiesenthal releases 'Top Ten 2013 anti-Semitic, anti-Israel slurs' list|url=http://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-Features/Wiesenthal-releases-Top-Ten-2013-anti-Semiticanti-Israel-slurs-list-336564|publisher=]}}</ref> He commented that he, ], and ] (who also appear on the list, alongside European Sports Venues) "had stiff competition: Ayatollah Khomeini was number one." <ref>{{cite web|title=Max Blumenthal - Russell Tribunal 2014 - 24/09|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWrOuGNrzZc|website=YouTube}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Wiesenthal releases 'Top Ten 2013 anti-Semitic, anti-Israel slurs' list|url=http://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-Features/Wiesenthal-releases-Top-Ten-2013-anti-Semiticanti-Israel-slurs-list-336564|publisher=]}}</ref>
⚫ Blumenthal joined Lebanon's '']'' in late 2011 primarily to write about Israel-Palestine issues and foreign-policy debates in Washington, noting on leaving in mid-2012 in protest of its coverage of the ] that it "gave me more latitude than any paper in the United States to write about ... Israel and Palestine".<ref name=TheRealNews/> He ended his association with ''Al Akhbar'' in June 2012, over what he viewed as the newspaper's pro-Assad editorial line during the Syrian Civil War that he said was spearheaded by ].<ref name=TheRealNews>], 22 June 2012, </ref><ref>{{cite web |last= Blumenthal |first= Max |date= 20 June 2012 |title= The right to resist is universal: A farewell to Al Akhbar and Assad's apologists |url= http://maxblumenthal.com/2012/06/the-right-to-resist-is-universal-a-farewell-to-al-akhbar-and-assads-apologists/ |publisher= MaxBlumenthal.com |accessdate= 9 July 2012 |quote= I was forced to conclude that unless I was prepared to spend endless stores of energy jousting with Assad apologists, I was merely providing them cover by keeping my name and reputation associated with Al Akhbar. }}</ref>


⚫ During the ], Blumenthal made a comparison between Israel and ]. In a follow-up, journalist Rania Khalek created the ] hashtag JSIL; "The Jewish State of Israel in the Levant".<ref>, September 30, 2014, ]</ref>{{Better source|reason=the given source does not fit the Misplaced Pages criteria for source reliability, particularly as it relates to statements about living people|date=November 2014}}
In 2013, Blumenthal appeared in ninth place on that year's ] list of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel slurs, reasons given being that chapter titles in the book Goliath were used to "equate Israel with the Nazi regime" and that Blumenthal had quoted "approvingly characterizations of Israeli soldiers as 'Judeo-Nazis.'"<ref>, December 30, 2013, ]</ref>


In November 2014, after being invited by Inge Höger and Annette Groth, members of the Parliamentary left to talk with them in the German parliament, the ], Blumenthal and Canadian-Israeli journalist David Sheen found that senior German left-wing politician ], himself critical of what he termed Israel's violation of international law, in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank after 1967, tried to cancel the meetings on the grounds that the two held radical views on ]s,<ref>{{Citation|last = Delfs| first = Arne| title = Israel Critics Chase Left Leader in German Parliament|newspaper = ]| date = 12 November 2014| url = http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-12/israel-critics-chase-left-leader-in-german-parliament.html}}</ref><ref name="Zeit" > ] 11 November 2014</ref> and he wished to dissociate the Left from anti-Israel campaigning.<ref name="Zeit" /> As Max Blumenthal describes in a later article, Volker Beck of the Green Party wrote that Max Blumenthal's work was "consistently anti-semitic", while neoconservative writer Benjamin Weinthal accused him of "public abuse of Jews" <ref>{{cite web|title=Why I Was Censored From Talking About Israel In Germany - 12/1/2014|url=http://www.alternet.org/world/why-i-was-censored-talking-about-israel-germany}}</ref>.
⚫ During the ], Blumenthal made a comparison between Israel and ]. In a follow-up, journalist Rania Khalek created the ] hashtag JSIL; "The Jewish State of Israel in the Levant".<ref>, September 30, 2014, ]</ref>{{Better source|reason=the given source does not fit the Misplaced Pages criteria for source reliability, particularly as it relates to statements about living people|date=November 2014}} Max also took pride in being awarded ninth place on 'Top Ten 2013 anti-Semitic, anti-Israel slurs' list published by ].<ref>{{cite web|title=Max Blumenthal - Russell Tribunal 2014 - 24/09|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWrOuGNrzZc|website=YouTube}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Wiesenthal releases 'Top Ten 2013 anti-Semitic, anti-Israel slurs' list|url=http://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-Features/Wiesenthal-releases-Top-Ten-2013-anti-Semiticanti-Israel-slurs-list-336564|publisher=]}}</ref>
There ensued an incident, later dubbed "toiletgate", where Blumenthal and Sheen confronted Gysi, to "confront him about Israel’s crimes in Gaza and the smears that Gysi and his acolytes had disseminated against them"<ref>{{cite web|title=Video: German politician hides in toilet from truth about Israel - 12/11/2014|url=http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/video-german-politician-hides-toilet-truth-about-israel}}</ref>.


In November 2014, after being invited by Inge Höger and Annette Groth, members of the Parliamentary left to talk with them in the German parliament, the ], Blumenthal and Canadian-Israeli journalist David Sheen found that senior German left-wing politician ], himself critical of what he termed Israel's violation of international law, in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank after 1967, tried to cancel the meetings on the grounds that the two held radical views on ]s,<ref>{{Citation|last = Delfs| first = Arne| title = Israel Critics Chase Left Leader in German Parliament|newspaper = ]| date = 12 November 2014| url = http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-12/israel-critics-chase-left-leader-in-german-parliament.html}}</ref><ref name="Zeit" > ] 11 November 2014</ref> and he wished to dissociate the Left from anti-Israel campaigning.<ref name="Zeit" /> There ensued an incident, later dubbed "toiletgate", where Blumenthal and Sheen confronted Gysi, imputing to him the suggestion that he had called one of them an anti-Semite. It was further argued that he had employed methods typical of the ]. Gysi fled, chased by the two down a parliament corridor and into a bathroom, where he locked himself in a toilet stall. Experts said the presence of the two might have harmed Germany's image in Israel.<ref name="Zeit" /> German media denounced Blumenthal and Sheen as "anti-Semites" and the talks they had been scheduled to deliver were cancelled.<ref name=Mikcis/> They were banned from setting foot in the Bundestag in the future. In an e-mail explaining the ban, Bundestag president, ] stated: "Every attempt to exert pressure on members of parliament, to physically threaten them and thus endanger the parliamentary process is intolerable and must be prevented”.<ref name=Mikcis>{{cite news|last1=Mikcis|first1=David|title=Wild Thing: Max Blumenthal’s Creepy Anti-Zionist Odyssey|url=http://tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/189172/max-blumenthal-and-anti-zionists?utm_source=tabletmagazinelist&utm_campaign=899a0258ff-Tuesday_March_10_20153_10_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c308bf8edb-899a0258ff-185261213|accessdate=10 March 2015|publisher=Tablet Magazine|date=10 March 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Citation| last = Weinthal| first = Benjamin| title = German politicians, media outraged over leftists anti-Israel ‘toiletgate’| newspaper = The ] Gysi fled, followed by the two and other parliamentary members down a parliament corridor and into a bathroom. After this event, Blumenthal and Sheen were banned from setting foot in the Bundestag in the future. In an e-mail explaining the ban, Bundestag president, ] stated: "Every attempt to exert pressure on members of parliament, to physically threaten them and thus endanger the parliamentary process is intolerable and must be prevented”.<ref name=Mikcis>{{cite news|last1=Mikcis|first1=David|title=Wild Thing: Max Blumenthal’s Creepy Anti-Zionist Odyssey|url=http://tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/189172/max-blumenthal-and-anti-zionists?utm_source=tabletmagazinelist&utm_campaign=899a0258ff-Tuesday_March_10_20153_10_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c308bf8edb-899a0258ff-185261213|accessdate=10 March 2015|publisher=Tablet Magazine|date=10 March 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Citation| last = Weinthal| first = Benjamin| title = German politicians, media outraged over leftists anti-Israel ‘toiletgate’| newspaper = The ]
| date = 15 November 2014| url = http://www.jpost.com/In-Jerusalem/German-politicians-media-outraged-over-leftists-anti-Israel-Toiletgate-381883}}</ref><ref>{{Citation | date = 15 November 2014| url = http://www.jpost.com/In-Jerusalem/German-politicians-media-outraged-over-leftists-anti-Israel-Toiletgate-381883}}</ref><ref>{{Citation
| title = Israel critics chase Gysi into bathroom stall| newspaper = The Local | title = Israel critics chase Gysi into bathroom stall| newspaper = The Local

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Max Blumenthal
Blumenthal on RT America on 8 December 2011
Born (1977-12-18) December 18, 1977 (age 47)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania
Occupation(s)Journalist, blogger, filmmaker
RelativesSidney Blumenthal (father), Jacqueline Jordan (mother)
Websitemaxblumenthal.com

Max Blumenthal (born December 18, 1977) is an award-winning American author, journalist, and blogger. A senior writer for Alternet and formerly a writer for The Daily Beast and Al Akhbar, he is the author of New York Times-bestselling Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party (2009). and Lannan Literary Award-winning Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel (2013).

He used to work for the progressive organization Media Matters for America.

Background

Max Blumenthal was born on December 18, 1977 in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Jacqueline (Jordan) and Sidney Blumenthal, former administration presidential aide to Bill Clinton.

Blumenthal graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999 with a B.A. degree in history.

Career

Blumenthal won the Online News Association's Independent Feature Award for his 2002 article on Salon.com, Day of the Dead. The piece revealed that the killing of hundreds of women in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico was connected to the policies of corporate interests in the border city. Blumenthal contributed to The Huffington Post from 2009 to 2011.

Blumenthal joined Lebanon's Al Akhbar in late 2011 primarily to write about Israel-Palestine issues and foreign-policy debates in Washington, noting on leaving in mid-2012 in protest of its coverage of the Syrian Civil War that it "gave me more latitude than any paper in the United States to write about ... Israel and Palestine". He ended his association with Al Akhbar in June 2012, over what he viewed as the newspaper's pro-Assad editorial line during the Syrian Civil War that he said was spearheaded by Amal Saad-Ghorayeb.

Controversies

In 2011, Blumenthal wrote a story claiming that Israeli forces trained American police departments in anti-protester techniques, including torture, quoting Fordham University Law Professor Karen J. Greenberg. Contacted by Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic and Adam Serwer of Mother Jones, Greenberg told Goldberg that "I never made such a statement", while she told Serwer "I did not intend to assert these allegations as fact…the entire sense of the quote is inaccurate." Blumenthal responded that he quoted Greenberg accurately and speculated that she had been "intimidated by Goldberg and the pro-Israel forces he represents".

In 2013, Blumenthal appeared in ninth place on that year's Simon Wiesenthal Center list of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel slurs, reasons given being that chapter titles in the book Goliath were used to "equate Israel with the Nazi regime" and that Blumenthal had quoted "approvingly characterizations of Israeli soldiers as 'Judeo-Nazis.'" Blumenthal responded humorously to being awarded ninth place on 'Top Ten 2013 anti-Semitic, anti-Israel slurs' list published by The Simon Wiesenthal Center, noting he was tied with Alice Walker. He commented that he, Richard Falk, and Roger Waters (who also appear on the list, alongside European Sports Venues) "had stiff competition: Ayatollah Khomeini was number one."

During the Russel Tribunal on Palestine, Blumenthal made a comparison between Israel and ISIL. In a follow-up, journalist Rania Khalek created the Twitter hashtag JSIL; "The Jewish State of Israel in the Levant".

In November 2014, after being invited by Inge Höger and Annette Groth, members of the Parliamentary left to talk with them in the German parliament, the Bundestag, Blumenthal and Canadian-Israeli journalist David Sheen found that senior German left-wing politician Gregor Gysi, himself critical of what he termed Israel's violation of international law, in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank after 1967, tried to cancel the meetings on the grounds that the two held radical views on Israeli settlements, and he wished to dissociate the Left from anti-Israel campaigning. As Max Blumenthal describes in a later article, Volker Beck of the Green Party wrote that Max Blumenthal's work was "consistently anti-semitic", while neoconservative writer Benjamin Weinthal accused him of "public abuse of Jews" . There ensued an incident, later dubbed "toiletgate", where Blumenthal and Sheen confronted Gysi, to "confront him about Israel’s crimes in Gaza and the smears that Gysi and his acolytes had disseminated against them".

Gysi fled, followed by the two and other parliamentary members down a parliament corridor and into a bathroom. After this event, Blumenthal and Sheen were banned from setting foot in the Bundestag in the future. In an e-mail explaining the ban, Bundestag president, Norbert Lammert stated: "Every attempt to exert pressure on members of parliament, to physically threaten them and thus endanger the parliamentary process is intolerable and must be prevented”.

Blumenthal caused controversy in late 2014 and early 2015 when he compared decorated Navy SEAL Chris Kyle to mass murderer Lee Malvo via Twitter, and in an interview on The Real News, criticized the film American Sniper which depicts Kyle's tours of duty in Iraq. Blumenthal said the movie heavily distorts the historical, political and social truth of the war on Iraq, that the film falsely portrays all Iraqis including even children and women as "endemic terrorists," and that the movie is a "bogus whitewash of the atrocities committed by U.S. troops in Iraq and Falluja."

Videos

2007-2008

Blumenthal made a short video which he titled Generation Chickenhawk. It featured interviews with convention attendees at the July 2007 College Republican National Convention in Washington, D.C. Blumenthal asked why they, as Iraq War supporters, had not enlisted in the United States Armed Forces. In 2007, Blumenthal made a short video called Rapture Ready, about American Christian fundamentalists' support for the State of Israel. He also attended the June 2007 Take Back America Conference (sponsored by the Campaign for America's Future), where he interviewed Barack Obama supporters and 9/11 conspiracy theorists. Blumenthal says that conference organizers were angered by Blumenthal's video, and refused to air it.

In 2008, he posted video footage of Christian preacher Thomas Muthee praying over Sarah Palin (then a candidate for Governor of Alaska) and asking God to keep her safe from witchcraft.

"Feeling the Hate" (2009)

In 2009, Max Blumenthal posted a 3-minute video on YouTube titled "Feeling the Hate in Jerusalem on the Eve of Obama's Cairo Address". The video was a montage of footage of drunken Jewish-American youth in Jerusalem in June 2009, shortly before Obama's Cairo address. The youths used expletives and racist rhetoric about Barack Obama and Arabs, which included referring to Obama as a "nigger" and suggesting that he is "like a terrorist". According to The Jerusalem Post, the video "garnered massive exposure and caused a firestorm in the media and the Jewish world". A Bradley Burston Op-Ed in Haaretz described the video as "an overnight Internet sensation".

The Huffington Post publicly stated that after reviewing the video, they found it lacked any newsworthy content and had no merits to be included on the site. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency quoted Blumenthal as stating: "I won’t ascribe motives to Youtube I am unable to confirm, but it is clear there is an active campaign by right-wing Jewish elements to suppress the video by filing a flood of complaints with Youtube".

Blumenthal stated he received death threats for his publication of the video. He identifies the radicalism of the interviewees with the "indoctrination" of Birthright Israel tours, a program in which several of the interviewees were participating.

Publications

Blumenthal says that the 2009 book Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party is inspired by the work of psychologist Erich Fromm, who asserted that "the fear of freedom propels anxiety-ridden people into authoritarian settings." Blumenthal says that in his view a "culture of personal crisis" has defined the American "radical right".

He released the book Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel in 2013. In the preface to the book, Blumenthal wrote that it is "Americans’ tax dollars and political support that are crucial in sustaining the present state of affairs" in Israel and that, in the book, he wanted to show what that money is paying for and to present the facts, using the same journalistic methods used in his previous book, Republican Gomorrah, "as they really are today, in unadorned and unsanitized form, without sentimentality or nostalgia." Blumenthal sees it as “an unvarnished view of Israel at its most extreme.” It has been slammed as bigotedly anti-Israel to the point of being anti-Semitic, while James Fallows argues that his exposé "is no more “anti-Israel,” let alone anti-Semitic, than The Shame of the Cities and The Jungle and The Grapes of Wrath were anti-American for pointing out extremes and abuses in American society."

Books

  • Max Blumenthal (2009): Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party New York. Nation Books. ISBN 978-1568583983
  • Max Blumenthal (2013): Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel. New York: Nation Books. ISBN 978-1568586342

References

  1. Begala, Paul. "Commentary: Obama Lucky With His Enemies." CNN.com September 10, 2009.
  2. Blumenthal, Max. Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party. New York: Nation Books, 2009. ISBN 1-56858-398-2
  3. The Nation, Max Blumenthal." No date. Accessed 2009-09-12
  4. "Max Blumenthal." The Huffington Post. No date. Accessed 2009-09-12
  5. Alternet, Max Blumenthal
  6. New York Times Bestseller, Republican Gomorrah
  7. Lannan Cultural Freedom Award for An Especially Notable Book, Goliath
  8. "Getting rid of census survey is wasteful" CNN May 23, 2012. Accessed 2012-05-23
  9. "Dershowitz warns Democrats to drop Media Matters" Fox news February 13, 2012. Accessed 2012-05-23
  10. "Max Blumenthal". The Investigative Fund. Retrieved 2012-10-23.
  11. Blumenthal, Max. Salon.com. December 4, 2002. "Day of the Dead."
  12. "Neighborhood Briefing." Arizona Daily Star. September 17, 2004.
  13. Mandell, Jonathan. "Why Awards Matter." 2003 ONA Conference Participant's Blog. November 15, 2003. Accessed 2009-09-12
  14. The Huffington Post, Max Blumenthal
  15. ^ The Real News, 22 June 2012, "Max Blumenthal Resigns Al Akhbar Over Syria Coverage"
  16. Blumenthal, Max (20 June 2012). "The right to resist is universal: A farewell to Al Akhbar and Assad's apologists". MaxBlumenthal.com. Retrieved 9 July 2012. I was forced to conclude that unless I was prepared to spend endless stores of energy jousting with Assad apologists, I was merely providing them cover by keeping my name and reputation associated with Al Akhbar.
  17. How Israeli Occupation Forces, Bahraini Monarchy Guards Trained U.S. Police For Coordinated Crackdown On “Occupy” Protests, The Exiled, Dec. 2, 2011
  18. Jeffrey Goldberg, Did Israel Train American Interrogators in Torture? (UPDATED), The Atlantic, Dec. 7, 2011
  19. Adam Serwer: Is Israel Responsible For The Occupy Crackdowns? In: Mother Jones. December 7, 2011
  20. Max Blumenthal, Al-Akhbar, Dec. 7, 2011 A Response to Cpl, Jeffrey Goldberg on Greenberg, Israel and Torture
  21. Max Blumenthal and Mark Ames, Max Blumenthal Responds To Sleaze Campaign Waged By Atlantic Monthly’s Ex-Detention Camp Guard Jeffrey Goldberg…And Why The Atlantic Monthly’s Sleaze Reminds Us Of Putin’s Russia…, 7 December 2011 with undated Updates.
  22. Wiesenthal releases 'Top Ten 2013 anti-Semitic, anti-Israel slurs' list, December 30, 2013, Jerusalem Post
  23. "Max Blumenthal - Russell Tribunal 2014 - 24/09". YouTube.
  24. "Wiesenthal releases 'Top Ten 2013 anti-Semitic, anti-Israel slurs' list". Jerusalem Post.
  25. "Max Blumenthal - Russell Tribunal 2014 - 24/09". YouTube.
  26. "Wiesenthal releases 'Top Ten 2013 anti-Semitic, anti-Israel slurs' list". Jerusalem Post.
  27. Activists seek to rebrand Israel as 'JSIL', September 30, 2014, Al Jazeera
  28. Delfs, Arne (12 November 2014), "Israel Critics Chase Left Leader in German Parliament", Bloomberg News
  29. ^ 'Gysis ungebetene Gäste,' Die Zeit 11 November 2014
  30. "Why I Was Censored From Talking About Israel In Germany - 12/1/2014".
  31. "Video: German politician hides in toilet from truth about Israel - 12/11/2014".
  32. Mikcis, David (10 March 2015). "Wild Thing: Max Blumenthal's Creepy Anti-Zionist Odyssey". Tablet Magazine. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
  33. Weinthal, Benjamin (15 November 2014), "German politicians, media outraged over leftists anti-Israel 'toiletgate'", The Jerusalem Post
  34. "Israel critics chase Gysi into bathroom stall", The Local, 12 November 2014
  35. Max Blumenthal, American Sniper: Honoring a Fallen Hero or Whitewashing a Murderous Occupation? (January 2015), The Real News
  36. Discussion on Rare.us
  37. ^ Treiman, Daniel. "Max Blumenthal, Scourge of Conservative Conferences." The Forward. August 10, 2007.
  38. Greenwald, Glenn. "The Weekly Standard's '9/11 Generation'." Salon.com. July 23, 2007. Accessed 2009-09-12.
  39. LaSalle, Mick. "Maximum Strength Mick." San Francisco Chronicle. July 19, 2007.
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External links

Frank/Counterpunch, about Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel and the reactions to it

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