Author Archives: Max Blumenthal

3-year-old Geraldine Blingoai was born to non-Jewish migrants. That was her crime.

Yesterday the Washington Post ombudsman finally weighed in on neoconservative Post blogger Jennifer Rubin’s endorsement of Rachel Abrams’s murderous rant against Palestinians. Max Blumenthal had exposed Rubin’s retweet endorsement in the first place, and pointed out that Octavia Nasr lost … Continue reading →

By agreeing to speak at the Islamophobic Clarion Fund’s 92nd Street Y event on November 7 beside neoconservative Richard Perle and uber-hawk John Bolton, Ethan Bronner is explicitly violating New York Times ethical guidelines. After I published my report about … Continue reading →

Yesterday, I attended Rick Perry’s press conference at the W Hotel in New York City, where the Texas Governor and Republican presidential frontrunner denounced President Barack Obama for supposedly “appeasing” America’s enemies in the Middle East and failing to sufficiently … Continue reading →

Yesterday I reported for the Columbia Journalism Review that New York Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief Ethan Bronner is on the speaker’s bureau of Lone Star Communications, an Israeli public relations firm that pitches him stories. Bronner has provided extensive coverage to several … Continue reading →

On August 26, Joseph Dana and I published an article, “Israel’s Exclusive Revolution,”bringing extensive reporting together with an analysis of Israel’s separation principle to describe the July 14 protest movement’s (J14) cognitive dissonance regarding the occupation. So far, no one — not … Continue reading →

Many observers of the massive July 14 “social justice revolution” sweeping through Israel have been wondering when the protest movement would deal directly with the occupation of Palestine, or whether it would it all. On August 14, a month after … Continue reading →

When I wrote my analysis last December on the “Axis of Islamophobia,” laying out a new international political network of right-wing ultra-Zionists, Christian evangelicals, Tea Party activists and racist British soccer hooligans, I did not foresee a terrorist like Anders … Continue reading →

  Two boats among the fleet of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla have been sabotaged. Passengers scheduled to sail on the second boat, the Saoirse, which hails from Ireland, discovered that the propelled had been cut and “dangerously  bent.” “If this boat … Continue reading →

Israelis woke up to a front page Jerusalem Post story claiming flotilla passengers planned violence against soldiers. The story has completely unraveled. On June 27, the Israeli army released a highly suspect claim that passengers on the flotilla planned to … Continue reading →

On June 24, Joseph Dana, a journalist who will traveling aboard the US boat to Gaza, discovered that an anonymous private legal complaint had been filed against the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. The complaint alleged that US boat, “The Audacity of … Continue reading →

On June 22, the Jewish Federation of America’s new, multi-million dollar “Israel Action Network” hosted a conference call with Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren. The call was an urgent response to the flotilla preparing to cruise towards … Continue reading →

On May 22, thousands of supporters of America’s most powerful pro-Israel lobbying group, the America-Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, converged on Washington for the group’s annual conference. For two days they watched Democratic and Republican congressional leaders pledge their … Continue reading →

On May 15, a group of San Antonio-based community organizers disrupted a service at Pastor John Hagee’s Cornerstone Church dedicated to celebrating Israel. The Christian Zionist Pastor Hagee has sent tens of millions to Israeli organizations, including illegal settlements and the … Continue reading →

The Nakba briefly appears in Tom Segev’s magisterial history of Israel and the Holocaust, The Seventh Million. In a single (very long) paragraph, Segev tells the story of how survivors of a genocide were transformed by the Zionist enterprise into … Continue reading →

On Israel’s Memorial Day observances for “fallen soldiers and victims of terror attacks,” the Defense Ministry’s commemoration unit claimed that 183 Israelis “were killed in the line of duty or in terror attacks since last year’s Remembrance Day,” according to … Continue reading →

63 years ago today, before the Arab armies had entered Palestine, and before Israel had declared its independence, Zionist militias were engaged in the conquest and ethnic cleansing of dozens of villages, from Abu al-Fadl near present-day Ramle to Akbara, … Continue reading →

Max Blumenthal writes about the political liability to Israel of Osama bin Laden’s death. His full post is here. But even before he had announced his upcoming trip to Washington, Netanyahu offered evidence that he would prefer for Bin Laden … Continue reading →

Max Blumenthal follows up on his post the other day revealing that J Street refused to have non-Jews debate the issue of boycotting Israel. Jeremy Ben-Ami is the head of the liberal Zionist organization. “I think it is essentially important … Continue reading →

Last night I went to Columbia University to see Omar Barghouti discuss his new book, Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights. For those who don’t know, Barghouti is one of the BDS movement’s most effective strategists and … Continue reading →