Max Blumenthal

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Max Blumenthal (2011)

Max Blumenthal (born December 18, 1977 in Boston ) is an American author , journalist , blogger and filmmaker .

Life

Blumenthal is the son of Jaqueline and Sidney Blumenthal , a US journalist, political activist and former advisor to former US President Bill Clinton and long-time confidante of Hillary Clinton .

Blumenthal graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999 . He was a Research Fellow for Media Matters for America .

reception

In 2009, Blumenthal's first book, Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party , was published, which made it onto the New York Times bestseller list . Paul Begala called the first book an "important" book.

Blumenthal's second book, Goliath , was reviewed by American historian and journalist Eric Alterman in his political column for The Nation as a "carelessly constructed" "I-hate-Israel-Handbook", which all but the most fanatical anti-Zionists (" most fanatical anti-Zionist extremists ”). By contrast, the book was well received by the former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan , David Duke .

Blumenthal's statements, such as the comparison of Israel with National Socialism in Germany, are classified as anti-Semitic by the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) . An event planned with Blumenthal formed the occasion for the toilet affair , which the SWC described as one of the worst anti-Semitic attacks of 2014.

Awards

Publications

  • 2009: Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party , New York, Nation Books, ISBN 9781568583983 . (For the ISBN, see: Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog .)
  • 2013: Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel
  • 2015: The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza.
  • 2019: The Management of Savagery: How America's National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump. London / New York: Verso Books; ISBN 9781788732284

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Max Blumenthal ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on theinvestigativefund.org. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theinvestigativefund.org
  2. ↑ Author and Journalist Max Blumenthal to Speak at UC Riverside . UC Riverside, September 24, 2009.
  3. ↑ http://www.thenation.com/authors/max-blumenthal/ He is the author of the bestselling book Republican Gomorra on thenation.com
  4. ↑ Begala, Paul. Commentary: Obama Lucky With His Enemies , CNN.com, September 10, 2009, accessed June 18, 2016
  5. ↑ Udi Greenberg, Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins: The 'I Hate Israel' Handbook. In: thenation.com. June 29, 2015, accessed March 19, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Shmuley Boteach : No Holds Barred: Hillary's Clinton's troubling relationship with Israel-hating adviser , Jerusalem Post, January 11, 2016
  7. ^ Daniel Bax: Max Blumenthal and the toilet affair: "I am outraged" , Die Tageszeitung - November 13, 2014. Accessed June 9, 2016.
  8. ↑ Marcus Meier: Gysi-Jäger: Jewish billionaire "uses" German parties , Telepolis - November 13, 2014. Accessed June 9, 2016.
  9. ↑ Day of the Dead . In: Salon . December 4, 2002. Retrieved May 21, 2015.
  10. ^ "Neighborhood Briefing," Arizona Daily Star , Sept. 17, 2004.
  11. ↑ Max Blumenthal awarded 2014 Cultural Freedom Award for An Especially Notable Book , lannan.org, accessed October 10, 2019.
  12. ^ The 51 Day War: Resistance and Ruin in Gaza - Palestine Book Awards . Retrieved May 17, 2018.

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BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author, journalist, blogger, and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 18th December 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston