The Humor-Impaired @MaxBlumenthal and His Hamas-Loving Gang of Thugs

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Max Blumenthal in the classic 2010 YouTube video, “Hannah and the Booger.”

“It is no exaggeration to say that this book could have been published by the Hamas Book-of-the-Month Club (if it existed) without a single word change once it’s translated into Arabic.”
— Eric Alterman on Max Blumenthal’s Goliath

“Egged on by bloodthirsty radicals both Arab and non-Arab, Muslim and non-Muslim, Palestinian leaders have made the annihilation of Israel their casus belli for decades, and have recruited killers around the world to rally to that banner.”
— Robert Stacy McCain, Dec. 5, 2010

In the rancid stew of leftover Bush-era hatreds, one of the many foul ingredients is anti-Semitic fear-mongering about the “Israel lobby.” This typically manifests itself in mutterings that blame “neo-cons” for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and paranoid rhetoric about the allegedly omnipotent influence of AIPAC (The American Israel Public Affairs Committee) and various other shadowy Zionists.

The Sirhan Sirhan Wing of the Democrat Party, as I’ve called this far-left faction, overlaps but is not coterminous with that sphere of radical Islamic sentiment which gives rise to concern about Muslim Brotherhood influence in American politics. You don’t have to buy into any tinfoil-hat conspiracy theories to see that if there is such a thing as an “Israel lobby” in Washington, then opposition to Israel would also tend to form a discernible coalition, some of whose members are sympathetic to, and supported by, Islamic extremists.

In this context, it helps to remember that one reason the unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers was denied “professor emeritus” honors was that a Weather Underground manifesto was dedicated to a constellation of radical figures which included Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin, the Palestinian fanatic Sirhan Sirhan. The anti-American Left and the anti-Israel Left share a quite similar worldview. Quod erat demonstrandum.

When I learned Saturday that BuzzFeed reporter Rosie Gray was under attack for her article about a dispute involving Max Blumenthal, Max’s father Sidney Blumenthal and liberal journalist Eric Alterman, I immediately checked Rosie’s Twitter timeline:

See? Offend the anti-Israel mob, and you’re automatically accused of being a “neoconservative,” even if you’re a card-carrying liberal like Rosie Gray or Eric Alterman. It’s almost a joke.

There are layers of irony here, but fanatics don’t get irony or sarcasm, and my remark about the strange ad hoc coalition against the Blumenthal book sailed right over Max’s dimwitted head:

Short answer: Yes, you are confused, Max. And also, evil.

In case anyone missed the point, the “werewolf” in my analogy referred to Eric Alterman, a detestable leftist about whom I have never had a good word to say. But there is a microscopic subset of Leftists More Loathsome Than Eric Alterman, and it includes Max Blumenthal.

You may ask: Is there anyone worse than Max Blumenthal?

Yes, and the vile little creep is suing me for $1 million.

 

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62 comments

  3. I’d be surprised at the invective coming out of the left on any topic, but at this point, it just seems to be routine.

    They came at us in the same old way, we beat them in the same old way.

  6. The Left’s shift from being pro-Israel in the late ’40s and ’50s to virulent anti “Zionist,” is interesting to contemplate. People forget that Israel was a darling of the left because it was started as a democratic socialist country. Think the communal life of the kibbutz. The shift started after the Six Day War, which Israel had the temerity to win decisively and coincides with the rise of petrodollar influence in Europe. The Eurosocialists were more concerned about staying warm in the winter than being philosophically consistent, and of course, their American brethren had to follow suit. Throw in Jimmy Carter’s embracing of Replacement Theology as a theological prop, and voila, you have the rabid antisemitism masquerading as anti-Zionism we have today.

  9. Don’t forget the Soviet campaign to cultivate Arab clients; leftist antisemitism was certainly part of the price.

    Not that they needed much prodding.

  10. Two points: Anti-Semitism is NOT Anti-Zionism. One is racial/ethnic bigotry, and the other is to be against the existence of Israel. There are some communities of Jews (some of whom were guests of Achmedinejad) who are against Israel because its existence means the end of the world from the tradition of the prophets. It is important to keep the terms correct, although Blumenthal, the SPLC and their ilk will conflate the terms to their advantage.
    Second point: American Jews of Blumenthal’s ilk are not Anti-Zionists because they hate orthodox Judaism, but because of their political pedigree: Marxism-Leninism. Israel was America’s proxy in the Cold War, just as the PLO and other anti-Zionist efforts were proxies of the USSR. The USSR was defeated, but Blumenthal continues to the fight. The aim of anti-Zionists is to defeat America by destroying Israel.

  11. However, when Israel was founded on of her major arms suppliers was the Soviet Union, as a means to poke the Western democracies in the eye and complicate our problems in the Middle East.

    My guess is the USSR figured out that as inept as the Arabs are, if they had a contract to arm them they’d be set supplying replacement tanks and fighters forever. Cha-ching!

  12. The existence of tiny, resource poor but wealthy and successful Israel is a rebuke to the Arab world. It also is a rebuke to transnational socialists and all they stand for.

    But I can’t accept that anti-Zionism is not, at heart, anti-Semitism. Saying you have nothing against Jews but just don’t believe they should have a place to live in peace is splitting some pretty fine hairs.

  13. Unfortunately, using analogies credits them with understanding such things. Smaller words and easier concepts in future please.

  15. Maybe what he’s saying is there are some Israel haters out there who would like Israel just fine if Israel was a socialist state hostile to the US.

  17. No, I’m saying some Jews are against Israel because in their interpretation of prophecy, the existence of Israel means the end of the world. Orthodox Christians (orthodox = doctrinal soundness) believe the same thing. Other Jews believe Israel should not exist because its destruction represents a victory for the Russians and a defeat for America.
    Would they like Israel just fine if it was a socialist state hostile to the US? Well, do they like the Palestinian Authority and Hamas’s Gaza Strip? Yep.

  19. I agree there is a semantic difference between antisemitism and anti-Zionism. The problem is the latter is used to camouflage the former. People can squawk about “western imperialists” creating a nation out of whole cloth when referring to Israel, but are conspicuously silent when one points out that Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Gulf States all owe their existence to the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and western intervention. As P.J. O’Rourke said, they’re not nations; they’re quarrels with borders.

  20. Many of the Orthodox are anti-Zionists, and they are hardly self hating Jews. DaveO is correct in his difference. You have to know the religious foundation of the opposition to Zionism to realize it is not a racial thing as Anti-Semitism is.

  22. I’d find that distinction more convincing if the same “Muslim Leaders” and their sympathizers who talk to us about “Zionism” didn’t go right back to talking about “Jews” when they think we aren’t listening.

  23. And you have to know that the motivation for Orthodox Jews opposing Zionism is not the same as an Arab Muslim’s, a German’s, a Dutchman’s, a Frenchman’s or a Brit’s…

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