Allison Hoffman at Tablet does an uneven piece on Max Blumenthal, here's the best part:
Growing up, Blumenthal said, Zionism was never discussed; engaging
with Jewishness meant cheering when Kevin Youkilis, a Jewish player,
made it to the Boston Red Sox. He made his first trip to Israel in
2001, before the Sept. 11 attacks but after the launch of the Second
Intifada, and said seeing the circumstances of the Palestinians living
in Israel and the occupied territories prompted him to question
Israel’s role in the conflict. After President Bush launched the War on
Terror, Blumenthal said, he was upset to hear rabbis at High Holiday
services drawing parallels between Israel’s fight against Palestinian
militants and America’s war on al-Qaida terrorists.
“I wanted to describe myself as a liberal Zionist, but there was no
way—the liberal values I’d been raised on were not compatible with
Zionism,” he said.
He returned to Israel for the first time this spring after turning in the manuscript for his book, Republican Gomorrah, which will be published in September.
The piece is marred by the sly claim that Blumenthal's video work has hurt his father Sid's career in D.C. (because Sid was notioned for a job in State Department and it didn't happen). The piece offers no evidence for the alleged patricide and worse, pegs the piece to Sid's career. These are two writers, each working his own field…
