http://maxblumenthal.com Max Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and blogger whose articles and video documentaries have appeared in The New York Times, The Daily Beast, The Nation, The Huffington Post, Salon.com, Al Jazeera English and many other publications. He is a senior writer for The Daily Beast and a writing fellow for the Nation Institute. His book, Republican Gomorrah: Inside The Movement That Shattered The Party, is in stores now. Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:09:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_1527" align="alignleft" width="168" caption="Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin is cursed with a penchant for intellectual honesty"][/caption] In a little noticed article on page 19 of the September 1 edition of Maariv, the Speaker of the Israeli Knesset, Reuven Rivlin, assailed the actors and artists who have refused to perform at the ... http://maxblumenthal.com/2010/09/knesset-speaker-reuven-rivlins-admission-israel-expelled-arabs-across-palestine-in-1948/ When I went into the Jewish religious book emporium, Pomeranz, in central Jerusalem to inquire about the availability of a book called Torat Ha'Melech, or the King's Torah, a commotion immediately ensued. "Are you sure you want it?" the owner, M. Pomeranz, asked me half-jokingly. "The Shabak [Israel's internal security ... http://maxblumenthal.com/2010/08/how-to-kill-goyim-and-influence-people-leading-israeli-rabbis-defend-manual-for-for-killing-non-jews/ [caption id="attachment_1507" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="From the Facebook page of Pam Geller's Stop The Islamization Of America (SIOA)"][/caption] After working tirelessly to inspire a nationwide pogrom against Muslim citizens of the United States, the leading online race hustler Pam Geller is pantomiming outrage about a video showing her supporters harassing and nearly ... http://maxblumenthal.com/2010/08/neocon-pogromist-pam-geller-attacks-her-allies-and-supporters/ Italy's leading newspaper, Europa, has excerpted the new epilogue to Republican Gomorrah. Read the full epilogue in English here. http://maxblumenthal.com/2010/08/republican-gomorrah-in-italys-europa/ Conservative columnist George Will was recently in Israel. His trip resulted in a series of laughably error-laden columns revealing not only a crude view of the Israel-Palestine conflict and obsequious admiration for Bibi Netanyahu, but a lack of knowledge about major historical events in his own country. In his third column, ... http://maxblumenthal.com/2010/08/george-wills-irrepressible-conflict-with-facts/ This piece was co-authored by Joseph Dana and was reposted in Hebrew here by Itamar Sha'altiel. [caption id="attachment_1476" align="alignleft" width="272" caption="Tamir Kafri, Ben Gurion University campus coordinator for Im Tirtzu"][/caption] Fresh off a campaign of nationwide intimidation against the New Israel Fund, countless damaging personal attacks against leftists and professors condemned as ... http://maxblumenthal.com/2010/08/revenge-of-the-nerds-partying-with-the-boys-of-im-tirtzu/ [caption id="attachment_1463" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Eden Abergil during "the most beautiful time" of her life"][/caption] Is there anything shocking about the Facebook photos showing the Israeli female soldier Eden Abergil posing in mocking positions next to bound and blindfolded Palestinian men? While her conduct was abominable, I did not find it especially ... http://maxblumenthal.com/2010/08/eden-abergil-typical-product-of-a-blindfolded-society/ Since publishing his long piece about the likelihood of a preemptive Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, "The Point Of No Return," Jeffrey Goldberg has been accused by foreign policy writers from Hillary and Flynt Leverett to Stephen Walt to Tony Karon of using his access to top Israeli officials ... http://maxblumenthal.com/2010/08/the-point-of-no-credibility-jeffrey-goldberg-echoes-pastor-hagee/ "The Negev affords me the pleasure of watching a wasteland develop into the most fruitful portion of Israel by a totally Jewish act of creation." --David Ben Gurion, Memoirs In the middle of the night on August 10, residents of the unrecognized Bedouin village of al-Arakib sent a panicked text message ... http://maxblumenthal.com/2010/08/israels-third-destruction-of-al-arakib/ [caption id="attachment_1424" align="alignleft" width="319" caption="A t-shirt sold by Richard Quinn's Southern Partisan Magazine"][/caption] With the Cordoba House controversy, the mainstream press has suddenly discovered that the Anti-Defamation League is more than willing to give sanction to bigotry. But the ADL has a long history of allowing cynical political calculations to trump ... http://maxblumenthal.com/2010/08/when-the-adl-gave-white-nationalism-a-free-pass-did-pro-israel-considerations-come-into-play/