Max Blumenthal spoke in Brooklyn last Thursday, at the Friends Meeting House. Photo below by Bud Korotzer. Thanks to Terri Ginsberg, of New Yorkers Against the Cornell Technion Partnership (NY-Act).
Max Blumenthal event in Brooklyn, photo by Bud Korotzer
Extremely impressive speech by Max, covering A to Z in current breaking news on Inside Israel, US special relationship, collapse of the latest peace process, providing historical context along the way, and what needs to be done, and who’s doing it, and what are the most effective tactics, and, always pointing out the moral issues behind it all. The first hour is Max talking; the last 5o minutes he does Q & A.
Set yourself some time to listen–I did some house chores while doing so; if you’re a newbie to the issues and facts, you might be overwhelmed; if you have some knowledge, you will appreciate new things (to you) he relates to what you know, and if you know a lot about the issues, and keep up with them as they unfold, you will appreciate Max’s immense command of it all, his honesty, his high ethics and morality. Just breath-taking. It’s like a condensed, off-the-cuff Goliath (which I’m still wading through).
Yonah Fredman
May 12, 2014 3:50 am
Max B. tells us that Lieberman is the second most popular man in Israel and Bennett is the 3rd most popular man in Israel. This is not true, although it is useful for his rhetoric. Here are two columns written about recent polls regarding Israel’s cabinet members, in which neither Leiberman nor Bennett fared well. http://www.jpost.com/Features/Front-Lines/Politics-The-Teflon-prime-minister-334156 http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Poll-Lapid-least-popular-among-ministers-334179
I don’t know if these two columns give a clear understanding of who stands first as an alternative to Netanyahu, but clearly 972’s Aaron Magid feels that these polls indicate that Lieberman has peaked and is on the way down.
It seems that Moshe Yaalon, defense minister, is probably the 2nd most popular man in Israel, not Lieberman.
Of course Max B. gets extra pleasure describing Lieberman as a bar bouncer back in Moldava. Whoever hates Israel obviously will hate a Jewish Israeli who comes from Moldava and bar bouncer adds to the bad odor. But then why add that Lieberman was a baggage handler at Ben Gurion airport? This part of Lieberman’s c.v. is actually worthy of praise, part of the working class. But to an upper middle class, son of the elite, like Max B. physical labor is worthy of disdain. This part of his disdain for Lieberman should be deleted from Max B.’s spiel, along with his outdated info on Lieberman’s popularity. Whereas popularities wax and wane, so who knows what the future holds, there are things that remain constant: among them: disdain for the working class is a permanent stain. This disdain betrays Max B.’s class bias against the working class.
Philip Munger
May 12, 2014 3:52 am
I agree with Citizen. Finally had time to listen to this late this evening. Max starts out a bit diffuse, but ten minutes in to his address he comes into focus and stays that way. An important statement in favor of BDS.
Yonah Fredman
May 12, 2014 6:33 am
Max again presents the essence of Passover as “in every generation they have risen up to destroy us”. This is his distillation of Passover. He is anti Passover and thus he is useful to those who would overthrow Passover and not those who would attempt to use Passover to create a continuity of Jewishness that somehow overcomes the influence of Zionism. He presents nothing to Jews who want some continuity. He is only of use to the radicals and not to those who see anything positive in continuity.
John Salisbury
May 12, 2014 9:29 pm
One lesson of The Shoah is that almost certainly God does not exist.
If he does,then he certainly doesn’t answer prayers or intervene in any way with earthly matters….Think of all the wasted words by concentration camp victims beseeching the almighty to stop the carnage.Nothing.Zero.Indifference.Relief only came by way of those atheist Soviet forces who liberated Auschwitz etc….
Extremely impressive speech by Max, covering A to Z in current breaking news on Inside Israel, US special relationship, collapse of the latest peace process, providing historical context along the way, and what needs to be done, and who’s doing it, and what are the most effective tactics, and, always pointing out the moral issues behind it all. The first hour is Max talking; the last 5o minutes he does Q & A.
Set yourself some time to listen–I did some house chores while doing so; if you’re a newbie to the issues and facts, you might be overwhelmed; if you have some knowledge, you will appreciate new things (to you) he relates to what you know, and if you know a lot about the issues, and keep up with them as they unfold, you will appreciate Max’s immense command of it all, his honesty, his high ethics and morality. Just breath-taking. It’s like a condensed, off-the-cuff Goliath (which I’m still wading through).
Max B. tells us that Lieberman is the second most popular man in Israel and Bennett is the 3rd most popular man in Israel. This is not true, although it is useful for his rhetoric. Here are two columns written about recent polls regarding Israel’s cabinet members, in which neither Leiberman nor Bennett fared well. http://www.jpost.com/Features/Front-Lines/Politics-The-Teflon-prime-minister-334156
http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Poll-Lapid-least-popular-among-ministers-334179
I don’t know if these two columns give a clear understanding of who stands first as an alternative to Netanyahu, but clearly 972’s Aaron Magid feels that these polls indicate that Lieberman has peaked and is on the way down.
http://972mag.com/the-downfall-of-avigdor-liberman/90414/
It seems that Moshe Yaalon, defense minister, is probably the 2nd most popular man in Israel, not Lieberman.
Of course Max B. gets extra pleasure describing Lieberman as a bar bouncer back in Moldava. Whoever hates Israel obviously will hate a Jewish Israeli who comes from Moldava and bar bouncer adds to the bad odor. But then why add that Lieberman was a baggage handler at Ben Gurion airport? This part of Lieberman’s c.v. is actually worthy of praise, part of the working class. But to an upper middle class, son of the elite, like Max B. physical labor is worthy of disdain. This part of his disdain for Lieberman should be deleted from Max B.’s spiel, along with his outdated info on Lieberman’s popularity. Whereas popularities wax and wane, so who knows what the future holds, there are things that remain constant: among them: disdain for the working class is a permanent stain. This disdain betrays Max B.’s class bias against the working class.
I agree with Citizen. Finally had time to listen to this late this evening. Max starts out a bit diffuse, but ten minutes in to his address he comes into focus and stays that way. An important statement in favor of BDS.
Max again presents the essence of Passover as “in every generation they have risen up to destroy us”. This is his distillation of Passover. He is anti Passover and thus he is useful to those who would overthrow Passover and not those who would attempt to use Passover to create a continuity of Jewishness that somehow overcomes the influence of Zionism. He presents nothing to Jews who want some continuity. He is only of use to the radicals and not to those who see anything positive in continuity.
One lesson of The Shoah is that almost certainly God does not exist.
If he does,then he certainly doesn’t answer prayers or intervene in any way with earthly matters….Think of all the wasted words by concentration camp victims beseeching the almighty to stop the carnage.Nothing.Zero.Indifference.Relief only came by way of those atheist Soviet forces who liberated Auschwitz etc….