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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 mater	University of Pennsylvania
Occupation(s)	Journalist, blogger, filmmaker
Relatives	Sidney Blumenthal (father), Jacqueline Jordan (mother)
Website	maxblumenthal.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

Max Blumenthal’s articles and video documentaries have appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Daily Beast, the Nation, the Guardian, the Independent Film Channel, the Huffington Post, Salon.com, Al Jazeera English, and many other publications.

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.

Max Blumenthal contributes weekly articles to Alternet where he has been a senior writer since September 2014. He focuses on the deepening crisis in the Middle East and its role in shaping political dynamics and public opinion in the US, particularly the special relationship with Israel. He also occasionally covers essential domestic political issues from corporate media consolidation to education privatization. His reporting from the Gaza strip during the Israeli invasion in the Summer of 2014 was developed into a book, The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza, coming out next June.

The Border

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.

In 2014, Blumenthal covered hunger strikes in the privatized Northwest Detention Center by undocumented migrants for The Nation . He had written about the rise of the so-called Minuteman movement for Salon.com in 2003, describing its members as “border vigilantes” who “have harassed and detained hundreds, perhaps thousands, of migrants suspected of entering the country illegally.”

In 2010, Blumenthal covered the federal immigration enforcement program known as Operation Streamline for Truthdig. “The program represents the entrenchment of a parallel nonproductive economy promoting abuse behind the guise of law enforcement and crime deterrence,” he wrote.

Blumenthal testified as a prosecution witness in the civil trial of Vicente v. Barnett, in which Arizona business owner Roger Barnett was forced to pay $73,000 for assaulting a migrant on the US-Mexico border.

Haiti Coup

In a 2004 article in Salon, Blumenthal exposed the role of the Bush administration and the government funded International Republican Institute in fomenting the US-backed coup that removed Jean Bertrand Aristide from power.

Sarah Palin

Along with journalist David Neiwert, Blumenthal exposed Sarah Palin’s links to the secessionist Alaska Independence Party and how the party “played a quiet but pivotal role in electing Palin as mayor of Wasilla and shaping her political agenda afterward.” As CBS revealed, Palin responded to the story in an email to John McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt: "Pls get in front of that ridiculous issue that's cropped up all day today - two reporters, a protestor's sign, and many shout-outs all claiming Todd's involvement in an anti-American political party," Palin wrote. "It's bull, and I don't want to have to keep reacting to it ... Pls have statement given on this so it's put to bed."

Palestine/Israel

Known for his in-depth reporting in Israel and in Palestine, leading to Goliath and The 51 Day War, Max Blumenthal was one of the reporters reporting in the Gaza strip during the Israeli offensive in the Summer of 2014. At the forefront of the offensive, he revealed testimony of Gaza Strip residents used as human shields by the Israeli army during Operation Cast Lead and provided details from the Gaza Strip city of Rafah on Israel’s use of the controversial Hannibal Directive against residents of the area: in an offensive that killed 190 civilians in Rafah, the Israeli army seemed to have "aimed to kill one of its own. Indeed, Israeli forces had invoked the Hannibal Directive, opening up an indiscriminate assault on the entire circumference of the area where one of its soldiers, Lt. Hadar Goldin, was allegedly taken captive by an ambush team from the Hamas military wing known as the Qassam Brigades." The goal seemed to be to "den Hamas the leverage it might have gained at the negotiating table with a live soldier in its possession." Blumenthal also reported from the Gaza Strip city of Shujaiya on Israel’s destruction of their neighborhoods and the killing of civilians.

This led Blumenthal to testify at the Russell Tribunal on September 25, in Brussels, Belgium, in front of a jury examining allegations of war crimes and genocidal intent by the Israeli military against residents of the Gaza Strip during Operation Protective Edge. As Blumenthal testified: "I was able to gain unfettered access to residents who had borne the brunt of the Israeli ground invasion in the hardest hit border areas, places like Khuza’a, Shujaiya, Beit Hanoun, Rafah, and the villages surrounding Beit Lahiya. I recorded testimonies from scores of residents of these areas, documenting war crimes committed by the Israeli armed forces. The atrocities formed an undeniable pattern, suggesting that the crimes committed by Israeli forces in Gaza during Operation Protective Edge were the product of stated military policies, or at least rules of engagement that enabled massacres, summary executions, wholesale residential destruction, the use of civilians as human shields, and abductions."

Blumenthal's wrote his observations on Gaza in an upcoming book, The 51 Day War, published by Nation Books in June 2015.

Syria

In 2013, Blumenthal reported from the Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan for The Nation, exposing harrowing conditions Syrian refugees lived in.

Islamophobia

Blumenthal has also been covering the troubling rise of Islamophobia in the world today. In TomDispatch, Blumenthal documented the rise of a trans-Atlantic Islamophobic political network that “spans continents, extending from Tea Party activists here to the European far right. It brings together in common cause right-wing ultra-Zionists, Christian evangelicals, and racist British soccer hooligans.” He also reported on one of the Islamophobia industry’s most prolific funders, Nina Rosenwald, in The Nation and in a long expose, called out Somali-born author Ayaan Hirsi Ali as an “anti-Muslim author” who has “a history of fraud.”

Controversies

Israeli Forces Training American Police Departments

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".

Simon Wiesenthal Center

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." James Fallows argues that Goliath "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."

JSIL

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". JSIL became a popular Twitter hashtag after Blumenthal introduced it alongside journalist Rania Khalek. It was covered in many publications including Israel’s Ha’aretz, New York Magazine and Al Jazeera.

German Parliament

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 waited for 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”.

As journalist Ali Abunimah writes, an investigation by Max Blumenthal led him to discover that the “smear campaign against him and Sheen – and more importantly the effort to prevent discussion about Israel’s crimes in Gaza - was the product of the anti-Palestinian network funded by American billionaire Sheldon Adelson (…) Blumenthal notes that it was Benjamin Weinthal, a Berlin-based anti-Palestinian activist, who initiated the smear campaign with an article in the right-wing Berliner Morgenpost, and later in The Jerusalem Post, falsely claiming that the Bundestag meeting would not take place. Weinthal is a fellow of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), which Blumenthal calls “one of the most right-wing neocon think tanks there is.” FDDdescribes Weinthal as its “eyes and ears on the ground in Central Europe.” Weinthal was also behind an unsuccessful 2010 smear campaign against The Electronic Intifada." . This was explained by Max Blumenthal in a later article written for Alternet, entitled "Why I Was Censored From Talking About Israel In Germany".

American Sniper

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".

After YouTube removed the video from its website, 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, a look inside Israel’s increasing totalitarianism, its aggressive shift to the far-right, and crackdown on local activism. Goliath got awarded the 2014 Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Notable Book Award. 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.”

Recommended by journalists like Glenn Greenwald and Charles Glass, the book received great critical acclaim. Among many reviews, Goliath was praised by Akiva Eldar, a veteran Israeli political correspondent, in Al Monitor: according to Eldar, “a significant part of the book’s strength lies in the effect that is naturally created when a foreign correspondent describes the reality of your life and surroundings. Thus, as if from a bas relief, details are raised to which the local eye has become so accustomed that it no longer notices their existence.”

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
• Max Blumenthal (2015): The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza. New York: Nation Books. ISBN 978-1568585116

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. Max Blumenthal, , April 24, 2015 Max Blumenthal Author Page
12. ^ The Real News, 22 June 2012, "Max Blumenthal Resigns Al Akhbar Over Syria Coverage"
13. 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.
14. Max Blumenthal, Alternet, September 15, 2014 Editorial: Max Blumenthal Joins AlterNet as a Senior Writer
15. The 51 Day War, Nation Books, September 15, 2014 The 51 Day War
16. Blumenthal, Max. Salon.com. December 4, 2002. "Day of the Dead."
17. "Neighborhood Briefing." Arizona Daily Star. September 17, 2004.
18. Mandell, Jonathan. "Why Awards Matter." 2003 ONA Conference Participant's Blog. November 15, 2003. Accessed 2009-09-12
19. The Huffington Post, Max Blumenthal
20. Why Immigrant Detainees Are Turning to Civil Disobedience, , March 23, 2014 Why Immigrant Detainees Are Turning to Civil Disobedience
21. Vigilante Injustice, Salon.com, May 22, 2003 Vigilante Injustice
22. Profiting From Immigration Injustice, , Feb 14, 2010 Profiting From Immigration Injustice
23. My Day Testifying in the Courtroom of John Roll, , January 9, 2011 My Day Testifying in the Courtroom of John Roll
24. Max Blumenthal, , July 17, 2004 The other regime change
25. Max Blumenthal, , October 10, 2008 Meet Sarah Palin’s radical right-wing pals
26. Palin E-mails Show Infighting With Staff, CBS News, July 1, 2009 Palin E-mails Show Infighting With Staff
27. Gaza Residents Share Allegations of Abuse, Claim Israeli Soldiers Used Them as Human Shields, Alternet, August 26, 2014 Gaza Residents Share Allegations of Abuse, Claim Israeli Soldiers Used Them as Human Shields
28. The Hannibal Directive: How Israel Killed Its Own Troops and Massacred Palestinians to Prevent Soldier's Capture, Alternet, September 2, 2014 The Hannibal Directive: How Israel Killed Its Own Troops and Massacred Palestinians to Prevent Soldier's Capture
29. The Hannibal Directive: How Israel Killed Its Own Troops and Massacred Palestinians to Prevent Soldier's Capture, Alternet, September 2, 2014 The Hannibal Directive: How Israel Killed Its Own Troops and Massacred Palestinians to Prevent Soldier's Capture
30. Gruesome Tales Surface of Israeli Massacres Against Families in Gaza Neighborhood, Alternet, August 17, 2014 [http://www.alternet.org/world/gruesome-tales-surface-israeli-massacres-against-families-gaza-neighborhood Gruesome Tales Surface of Israeli Massacres Against Families in Gaza Neighborhood]
31. Israel Is Put on Trial for War Crimes, Alternet, September 26, 2014 Israel Is Put on Trial for War Crimes
32. The 51 Day War, Nation Books, The 51 Day War, Max Blumenthal
33. "We Just Wish for the Hit to Put an End to the Massacres", The Nation, September 13, 2013 "We Just Wish for the Hit to Put an End to the Massacres"
34. The Great Islamophobic Crusade, TomDispatch, December 19, 2010 The Great Islamophobic Crusade
35. The Sugar Mama of Anti-Muslim Hate, The Nation, June 13, 2012 The Sugar Mama of Anti-Muslim Hate
36. Exposing Anti-Islam Author Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Latest Deception, Alternet, March 26, 2015 Exposing Anti-Islam Author Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Latest Deception
37. How Israeli Occupation Forces, Bahraini Monarchy Guards Trained U.S. Police For Coordinated Crackdown On “Occupy” Protests, The Exiled, Dec. 2, 2011
38. Jeffrey Goldberg, Did Israel Train American Interrogators in Torture? (UPDATED), The Atlantic, Dec. 7, 2011
39. Adam Serwer: Is Israel Responsible For The Occupy Crackdowns? In: Mother Jones. December 7, 2011
40. Max Blumenthal, Al-Akhbar, Dec. 7, 2011 A Response to Cpl, Jeffrey Goldberg on Greenberg, Israel and Torture
41. 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.
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47. James Fallows,'Afraid of Free Speech, on Many Fronts: PEN, Google, China, Goliath,' The Atlantic 19 December 2013.
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49. JSIL,Activists seek to rebrand Israel as 'JSIL' Al Jazeera September 30, 2014.
50. Routine Emergencies, Haaretz, 1 October, 2014 Routine Emergencies
51. Awful #JSIL Campaign Likens Israel to ISIS, NYMag, 30 September, 2014 Awful #JSIL Campaign Likens Israel to ISIS
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59. "Video: German politician hides in toilet from truth about Israel - 12/11/2014".
60. "Why I Was Censored From Talking About Israel In Germany - 12/1/2014".
61. Max Blumenthal, American Sniper: Honoring a Fallen Hero or Whitewashing a Murderous Occupation? (January 2015), The Real News
62. Discussion on Rare.us
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65. LaSalle, Mick. "Maximum Strength Mick." San Francisco Chronicle. July 19, 2007.
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73. Nina Burleigh (29 October 2013) Goliath vs. Goliath: Blumenthal Book Is Right About Israeli Myopia, but Naive on Islamists New York Observer
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75. No Longer David: The State of Israel As Goliath Al Monitor No Longer David: The State of Israel As Goliath

External links

• Blumenthal's website
• Goliath, Life and Loathing in Greater Israel - Max Blumenthal pt1 (Oct. 2013),   Ethnic Cleansing and the Israeli "Center" - Max Blumenthal pt2 (Oct. 2013),   Greater Israel is Based on Expulsion and Annexation - Max Blumenthal pt3 (Oct. 2013),   Architect of Apartheid in Israel: "If we don't kill, we will cease to exist" - Max Blumenthal pt4 (Nov. 2013),   Racism, Occupier and the Occupied - Max Blumenthal pt5 (Nov. 2013),   The Real News
• GOLIATH: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel (Dec. 2013), New America Foundation
• Max Blumenthal Interview November 2009 on Robert W. McChesney's Media Matters
• Story Archive at AlterNet
• Blog Archive at The Huffington Post
• NPR Audio Interview with Max Blumenthal + Book Excerpt
• Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party by Max Blumenthal - report at Democracy Now!
• Republican Gomorrah discussion at Berkeley Arts and Letters, September 2009
• Max Blumenthal Interview January 2014, Joshua
• Life and Loathing in Greater Israel - Max Blumenthal on Reality Asserts Itself The Real News Network

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

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