Comments for Max Blumenthal

Comment on Towards Civil War in Egypt? (Updated) by Wrong About Morsi | Tony Johnson

Wrong About Morsi | Tony Johnson — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 23:12:32 +0000

[...] on doing, can hardly advance the country or the region. In these tense days, I’m reading the intrepid Max Blumenthal, who is now in the center of things in Cairo, and the contributors to The Arabist, a sophisticated [...]

Comment on Giulio Meotti: Serial Plagiarist or Common Hasbarist? (Updated) by AShaanan

AShaanan — Thu, 31 May 2012 18:54:20 +0000

Dear Mr.Blumenthal,
Your article here mentions the importance you place on “journalistic ethics”. On your site is space reserved to navigate us to the video of Joseph Dana “Feeling the Love in Jerusalem”.
After having viewed the video in which approximately 20 young Israelis, most of whom seem to be drunken revellers mostly interested in spouting obscenities, in particular against Obama, we are apparently to be convinced from this of the racist nature of Israeli society!
Tell me, Mr. Blumenthal, how does this videoclip even remotely come close to demonstrating “journalistic ethics” ?!
If, for example, you went to some town In Oklahoma ( a state in which, by the way, not one county voted for Obama in 2008), and filmed 20 drunken locals also badmouthing the US president, would you then want us to believe that such a provocation thereby proved American racism?
The only thing, in my eyes, that your use of this video proves is your apparent desperation to justify in any way firmly held prejudices on your part.
If you wish intelligent people to respond openly to your writings (and not only those who are in total agreement with you), I would hopefully expect to be shown a modicum of respect with your selection of and/or referral to
appropriate sites/videoclips that truly lead us to admire the journalistic integrity involved (regardless of political viewpoint espoused) as opposed to some expectation of being automatic cheerleaders for someone’s firmly held and perhaps inflexible political positions.

Comment on In a fear society, where some facts are crimes by JamesCM

JamesCM — Thu, 24 May 2012 07:51:53 +0000

Assuming the title of this post means something to you, can you reupload “Ben Yehuda St, Jerusalem — Catwalk of Jewish Extremism”? It was taken down from YouTube before I got to see it. There are a million other safe places to host it, including archive.org or Vimeo or your own server.I can’t see any justifiable reason to keep it away from the public (to be honest, I do see some reasons, albeit ones that can’t be called courageous), and I’m not the only one who would appreciate it.

Comment on (Updated) Nailed Again: IDF Description of Suspicious Photo It Distributed Is Retracted by talknic

talknic — Thu, 24 May 2012 04:39:38 +0000

Definitely Photoshopped http://wp.me/pDB7k-WA and very poorly done at that

Comment on Giulio Meotti: Serial Plagiarist or Common Hasbarist? (Updated) by Chayma

Chayma — Fri, 18 May 2012 22:45:01 +0000

After reading this, i’m reminded of something Ellen Horowitz wrote about Guilio Meotti when she commented on his anti missionary stance,

Max, if you havn’t already seen this, you may find it interesting, Ellen’s insight into his motivations appear to back up what you say. Though Ellen didn’t say he plagiarised, after reading the above, I think he must have just plagiarised Rabbi Soloveitchi

Journalist Giulio Meotti calls for rejection of Judeo-Christian blend

http://jewishisrael.ning.com/profiles/blogs/journalist-giulio-meotti-calls-for-rejection-of-judeo-christian-b

However, it’s likely he recently pulled the counter-missionary card and Rabbi Soloveitchik out of a hat in an attempt to quell the internal Jewish debate over evangelical support which threatens to erode a much larger “theo-political” agenda.

Muslim persecution of Christians, and the death of Christianity in the Middle East, appears to be a primary motivation behind Meotti’s love for Israel. His articles passionately lament the demise of Arab Christianity in the region:

“The cross is near extinction in the lands of its origin.”

“The Islamic tiger is now devouring the Christian lamb. Indeed, the Christian era in the Middle East is coming to an end.”

There is currently empathy for the plight of Christians and the future of Christianity emanating from Jewish Zionist circles and Meotti would like to maintain that momentum.

He feels the fate of Israel is “intertwined” with the fate of Christians in the Middle East. For Meotti, Israel represents the great white hope for a resurgence of Christianity in the region:

Comment on In a fear society, where some facts are crimes by FancyNancy

FancyNancy — Sun, 06 May 2012 12:12:13 +0000

“Limor Livnat, a right-wing Knesset member who co-sponsored the so-called Nakba Law and banned textbooks using the word during her term as Israel’s Education Minister, declared that merely allowing students to learn about the mass expulsion of Palestinians during 1947 and 1948 would encourage them to work against the Jewish state.”

No wonder the rise of Arab Holocaust denial is being reported. It appears to be a regional tactic of oppression and sectarian incitement.

It’s hard to battle an injustice you yourself is guilty of…

Comment on In a fear society, where some facts are crimes by AdamAW

AdamAW — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 17:49:32 +0000

I would just like to add that I am not questioning the value of educating people about the Nakba – only whether this was the most effective way of going about doing so.

Comment on The arms sale that inspired Grass’s “What Must Be Said” (and a footnote on Deir Yassin) by AdamAW

AdamAW — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 17:47:24 +0000

I really don’t know what the Hadassah Hospital massacre has to do with the poem by Gunter Grass ‘What Must be Said.’ Whilst the Hadassah Hospital massacre may have been a terrible thing, it something that now belongs in the past. For someone to be posting a totally irrelevant remark like this here looks to me to be symptomatic of a mind-set that believes that Israeli lives are more important than those of Arabs or Iranians.

The belief that Jews have a monopoly on victimhood seems to me to be one of the most dangerous ideas in the world today.

Comment on In a fear society, where some facts are crimes by AdamAW

AdamAW — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 10:03:15 +0000

I’m not sure if I would class them as ‘thought police.’ As you said: “there is some reason to believe the Zochrot activists could have been subjected to harsh violence if they had been allowed to proceed with their action.”

Whilst I don’t want to belittle the nobel sentiments and commitment of the Zochrot activists, it is a bit difficult to see what is acheived by this sort of thing. With regards to this issue in particular I sometimes think that people should follow the dictum “Choose your battles wisely.” Tactics that have worked well in another context won’t necessarily work well in this one. Is there any prospects whatsoever of converting people celebrating ‘Independence Day’ into champions of Palestinian Rights? I really doubt it – so perhaps another way forward is required.

Comment on The arms sale that inspired Grass’s “What Must Be Said” (and a footnote on Deir Yassin) by Joel

Joel — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:55:47 +0000

Lest we forget. Tomorrow is the anniversary of the Hadassah Hospital massacre, where 65 doctors, nurses and medical staff were massacred by Arab forces.
No one can make the claim that these poor souls were armed or resisted.