Monday, August 15, 2016
Elder of Ziyon
As you all probably know, Max Blumenthal is an award-winning
author – sort of: in 2013, he made the Simon Wiesenthal Center list of the “Top
10 Anti-Semitic/Anti-Israel Slurs” in the category “The
Power of the Poison Pen.” It was a well-deserved
award for his book “Goliath,” which presents Israel as the Nazi Germany of our
time. Just as the Nazis were convinced that “the
Jews are our misfortune,” Blumenthal and his fans are convinced that the world’s
only Jewish state is our misfortune. So it’s no coincidence that Blumenthal has
fans wherever there are Jew-haters.
But of course, Max Blumenthal has long complained that it is
terribly terribly unfair to consider his writings antisemitic, and he was therefore
no doubt enormously pleased last week when he could finally show the world – or
at least his Twitter followers – who the real big bad antisemitic wolves are: isn’t
it a dreadful scandal, and definitely a groise shanda, that Max Blumenthal caught “digital
McCarthyite @JGreenblattADL favoriting an anti-Semitic account that defends him”?!?!?!?!
So yes, this would be Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Director Jonathan
Greenblatt palling around with antisemites – but no, most definitely NO, Max
Blumenthal doesn’t get sarcasm when it comes to his own antisemitism … In fact
he knows so little about antisemitism that he doesn’t even realize that
antisemites are not in the habit of defending the ADL. But perhaps Max
Blumenthal thought the ADL is paying antisemites to pretend being all for the
ADL??? You know, sort of like the “pro-Israel lobby” bought
Congress and would LOVE to buy Black Lives Matter in order to muzzle them???
Incidentally, the article on the “hate
site” Mondoweiss that Blumenthal linked to attacks
the ADL, and in particular Greenblatt. And it just happens to be written by the
very same “professional poker player and dog trainer” who not that long ago
valiantly defended
Max Blumenthal’s vilification of Elie Wiesel.
But back to the image that
provided Blumenthal his gotcha moment. It was posted by Twitter user Randy Barnes – who describes himself
in his Twitter bio as a Zionist Jew and has “עם ישראל חי”
in it (something few antisemites really like). From this alone it should have
been quite obvious that Barnes meant to mock Blumenthal’s own world view. After
all, Blumenthal is one of the leading anti-Israel activists who try to connect pretty much everything that can be
criticized in the US to Israel in a desperate attempt to piggyback on social
unrest that has nothing whatsoever to do with Israel. (That’s in addition to
being convinced that the “pro-Israel lobby” is on a shopping spree in the US…)
In any case, Barnes eventually got back to Blumenthal, telling him:
“I consider myself honored to be at the receiving end of one of your FactFree™
smears, Max. כל הכבוד!” Blumenthal – who
can’t really afford to admit that he made an embarrassing mistake because such
a habit would take a really big chunk of his time – responded: “Glad to have
confirmation that @JGreenblattADL approved of you appropriating Nazi propaganda
to harass Jews who oppose apartheid.”
Sometime somewhere we can now probably look forward to a
book, or an article, or at least a presentation in which Max Blumenthal will claim
that ADL Director Jonathan Greenblatt approves of “appropriating Nazi
propaganda to harass Jews who oppose apartheid.” Barnes really was on to
something when he mentioned Blumenthal’s “FactFree™ smears,” because this is
exactly how Blumenthal proceeded when he was smearing
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, or, for that matter, Elie
Wiesel. “FactFree™ smears” is actually an excellent description of Max
Blumenthal’s modus operandi.
What’s a bit strange is that Max Blumenthal now seems to
regard himself as a ‘Jew who opposes apartheid.’ Makes you wonder what
happened: Blumenthal was so proud of all his hard work demonizing the world’s
only Jewish state as the Nazi Germany of our time, and soon afterwards, as the
Jewish version of the Islamic
State (ISIS) terror group – and now we’re back to calling Israel just an
apartheid state?!? Or maybe Max Blumenthal felt it just wouldn’t have sounded
so good if he tweeted: “Glad to have confirmation that @JGreenblattADL approved
of you appropriating Nazi propaganda to harass Jews who oppose Nazi-ISIS-Israel”???
Could it be that Max Blumenthal is worried about exposing
himself as an antisemite?
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