Max Blumenthal

@MaxBlumenthal

While sucking up to Genocide Joe’s press secretary & propagandist Jen Psaki, Mehdi did not dare ask if she considered her boss a war criminal. Careerists like him are more comfortable slapping that label on the targets of Washington, and leveraging it to bully antiwar activists.

[Image of Jen Psaki and Mehdi]

@mehdirhasan

Me: "Vladimir Putin is a war criminal in your view? And Assad is a war criminal?"

Jill Stein: "Uh, yes. In so many words."

Me: "What does that mean, 'in so many words'?"

My exchange with the Green Party candidate on war crimes.

Full interview: https://zeteo.com/p/exclusive-mehdi-interviews-jill-stein

[Video, https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1835747356777594881/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/rQKi7Jat8DlAiz5D.mp4]

Source: https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1836229790921101355

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@MaxBlumenthal

*Linsey Davis co-hosted the debate, not Kristin Welker. I watch political coverage on ABC maybe once every 4 years, so forgive the mistake.

@MaxBlumenthal

Trump supporters are deluding themselves if they think he won the debate. Trump fell for the bait Kamala's handlers set for him at every possible point, spent much of the debate on the defense, stammered, spewed references that only extremely online members of his base would recognize, and got clobbered on abortion. When Kamala taunted Trump about the size of his rallies, he stumbled cluelessly into her trap.

If Trump had entered the debate with an actual strategy, he would have responded that after Kamala's massive, elaborately staged campaign launch in Oakland in 2020, she failed to win a single delegate, wasted tens of millions of donor money, and was only installed as the Dem nominee by the media and party elites. (That critique only came in latter half of the debate, when it was too late, and most viewers' perceptions had solidified). Similarly, when Kamala cited Goldman Sachs and Wharton to tout her economic credentials, Trump had an easy opportunity to hammer home Goldman's role in the foreclosure crisis that destroyed the lives of millions of hard working Americans. Instead, he grumbled that he graduated from Wharton, before veering off track again. When Kamala predictably raised Trump's call for executing the Central Park 5, he could have reminded voters of how she boasted of jailing massive numbers of Black youth for truancy and marijuana possession. On foreign policy, Trump should have homed in on Dick Cheney's endorsement of Kamala for a redux of his demolition of Jeb Bush in the 2016 primary debates. He had two hours to put forward a critique of a candidate who was not well known to most swing voters, to paint her as a media created phony and reckless warmonger afraid of her own record, and he failed.

Trump supporters are correct that the moderators, David Muir and Kristen Welker, orchestrated the debate in Kamala's favor, never fact checking her and feeding her one alley-oop after another, while relentlessly cornering Trump. Muir and Welker clearly saw the Beltway press corps' disappointment with Dana Bash and Jake Tapper for failing to ruthlessly fact check Trump in the first debate, and seized the chance to burnish their status. In the past, Trump would have recognized the moderators as a second opponent, and blasted the fake news media for its shameless bias. But the Trump of 2016, whose campaign was propelled by a popular sense of anti-establishment betrayal after the Iraq war and financial crash, is a ghost. If he somehow makes it into the Oval Office after this performance, he will be focused on personal survival, with his agenda hijacked and subverted by the forces he once thundered against.

Source: https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1833909786024521831

@MaxBlumenthal

Here’s the clearest indication yet that Kamala Harris is Bought and Bossed by the Israel lobby, and will do nothing different than Genocide Joe

In between tired bromides, Kamala repeats the “Hamas mass rape” hoax that was fed to her by Israel lobbyists

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Direct video link: https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1829334485927665664/pu/vid/avc1/886x488/6clG-t6ECWKd_0xy.mp4

Source: https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1829373450726650275

@MaxBlumenthal

Here’s our mastercut from the DNC

“That’s not what’s up for discussion,” said SNL’s Keenan Thompson when asked about the Biden-Harris policy of sponsoring Israel’s genocide

To be fair, Keenan was the only DNC speaker I questioned who seemed to have a guilty conscience

@TheGrayzoneNews

WATCH The Grayzone's @MaxBlumenthal & @wyattreed13 challenge Democrat leadership and celebrity performers at #DNC2024 on the Biden-Harris support for Israel's genocide in Gaza

Featuring:

1. Keenan Thompson of SNL
2. Chuck Schumer
3. Rev. Al Sharpton
4. Stevie Wonder
5. Sen. Cory Booker
6. Wolf Blitzer of CNN
7. Kaitlan Collins of CNN
8. Rep. Steny Hoyer
9. Terry McAuliffe

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Direct video link: https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1827387833423654912/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/sEb5-Zha491CE6nT.mp4

Source: https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1827402075862409323

@MaxBlumenthal

NYU has issued new rules declaring the use of the term Zionist a "code word" which could constitute hate speech

Which means NYU has made a protected group out of the apartheidist billionaires who dominate its administration and the genocidal military that occupies Palestine

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[Headline] NYU issues hate speech guidelines discouraging students from targeting 'Zionists'

[Sub-Headline] Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel activists claim targeting Zionists isn't antisemitic because not all Jews identify as Zionists; new policy shows school disagrees, given that most Jews do

By ANDREW LAPIN | Today, 5:43 am

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New York Jewish Week via JTA – Students and faculty who discriminate against or harass "Zionists" may be violating New York University's hate speech policies, according to the school's updated guidelines for the fall semester.

In July, Meta banned the use of “Zionist” as a cover for attacks on Jews or Israelis on its platforms. Now, NYU, which like many universities became embroiled in pro-Palestinian unrest during the last school year year, appears to be the first college to take a stance on the term's use.

"Using code words, like ‘Zionist,' does not eliminate the possibility that your speech violates the NDAH [Nondiscrimination and Anti-Harassment] Policy," read NYU's new student community standards, which it published on Thursday.

Article: https://www.timesofisrael.com/nyu-issues-hate-speech-guidelines-discouraging-students-from-targeting-zionists/

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Source: https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1827433842480996506

@MaxBlumenthal

When you fabricate key parts of your harrowing life story for fame and marry a millionaire investment banker, there’s no limit to what you can become in America

@YeonmiParkNK

I am a survivor of a Socialist system in North Korea, and I am voting for @realDonaldTrump this November 🇺🇸

#MAGA24

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Source: https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1825374222148886718

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@MaxBlumenthal

Here’s one to grow on

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[Meaning of antisemitism in English]

[Antisemitism]

[noun] [(also anti-Semitism, anti-semitism)]

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[When you say that IDF soldiers are not allowed to gang rape Palestinian detainees]

Source: https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1822484298584531195

FYI:

TRT is a Turkish public broadcast service.

US Democratic Representative Cori Bush has lost her Missouri primary to Wesley Bell, a challenger funded by America's most influential pro-Israel lobby AIPAC. She's the third Congress member - who's been critical of Israel's war in Gaza - to be unseated by a candidate backed by pro-Israel groups. Max Blumenthal, author and the editor-in-chief of the news website Greyzone, explains how powerful this lobby group is in the US.

#AIPAC #Gaza #Israel

Independent news and investigative journalism on politics and empire.

Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the latest stage of the Kamala coup, including her brutal hippy punching of anti-genocide protesters, and cover the new wave of pro-rape protests in Israel, as well as the latest from Gaza and the looming retaliation by Iran and Hezbollah.

@MaxBlumenthal

Apartheid Israel has spent the past several days bombing schools in Gaza, burning scores of children alive

Now, the US and UK mobilizing their militaries to defend the ethnosupremacist state responsible for the modern Holocaust

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@MaxBlumenthal

*are mobilizing

[NSFW, unalive kid] Direct video link: https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1820220272147914752/pu/vid/avc1/720x720/8MZlbHktKm-c5Fa4.mp4

Source: https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1820236079233896687

Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the countdown to another Iranian counterattack following Israel's brazen assassination of Ismail Haniyeh and insurrectionist riots inside Israel. Anya Parampil joins to discuss the latest from Venezuela, where Washington has officially endorsed regime change and accused President Nicolas Maduro of rigging an election.

@MaxBlumenthal

Apartheid Israel eliminates another eyewitness to its Gaza Holocaust with full support from the Biden-Harris-Blinken cartel

@moawady

Here is Ismail’s tribute to himself and the dying humanity.

“Let me tell you, my friend, that I no longer know the taste of sleep. The bodies of children and the screams of the injured and their blood-soaked images never leave my sight. The cries of mothers and the wailing of men who are missing their loved ones never fade from my hearing.

I can no longer bear the sound of children’s voices from beneath the rubble, nor can I forget the energy and power that reverberates at every moment, turning into a nightmare. It is no longer easy for me to stand before the rows of coffins, which are locked and extended, or to see the dead people more than the living who are fighting death beneath their homes, not finding a way out to safety and survival.

I am tired, my friend…”

Ismail Al-Ghoul

Al Jazeera Correspondent in Gaza

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[Image of Ismail Al-Ghoul with a blue press vest and helmet, holding an Al Jazeera microphone]

Source: https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1818673398618226738

@MaxBlumenthal

Only in the Middle East's "only democracy" can a debate take place over whether it is legitimate to "insert a stick in a person's rectum"

@AdameMedia

MK Ahmad Tibi (TA'AL): To insert a stick in a person's rectum, is that legitimate?

MK Hanoch Milwidsky (Likud): Yes! If he is a Nukhba everything is legitimate to do him!

This is a scum society from top to bottom. Boycott anyone who supports them.

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Direct video link: https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1817903029921660928/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/Q_IeXNpc_Cd7EqeR.mp4

Source: https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1818159418254430325

The Grayzone’s publication of an embarrassing phone call with a National Endowment for Democracy VP triggered an institution-wide meltdown at the US government’s regime change laboratory. Following the call, the group’s founding president privately admitted the “fiasco” exposed major “problems beneath the polished surface.”

Read a collection of the NED files exclusively obtained by The Grayzone here.

Link: https://thegrayzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/NED-Master-Files.pdf

@MaxBlumenthal

Everyone from Netanyahu's son, Yair, to Israel's Economy Minister Nir Barkat, to Justice Minister Yariv Levin, has chimed in to defend the right of soldiers to rape Palestinian prisoners. What was intended as a legal charade to demonstrate to the ICC that Israel could hold its soldiers accountable for crimes – in this case, the gang rape of a prisoner at the Sde Teiman concentration camp – has backfired and exposed the psychological sickness emanating from the heart of Jewish Israeli society.

The sadistic torture that has taken place at Sde Teiman and other Israeli dungeons was undeniably fueled by the state-led propaganda hoax accusing Hamas of "systemic sexual violence" on October 7. Legacy Western outlets like the NY Times, BBC, The Guardian, along with the voice of Israel's "enlightened public," Haaretz, legitimized the hoax, and have refused to retract or even correct reports that were comprehensively debunked. Thus, to the common Jewish Israeli, Hamas militants not only violated hundreds of women before butchering them for pleasure, they cruelly emasculated the Israeli male who supposedly conquered the land.

Behind the walls of Sde Teiman, the shadowy goon squad known as Force 100 has been tasked with restoring Zionist machismo by revenge-raping defenseless Palestinian men kidnapped from Gaza. All prisoners are "terrorists" in their minds, therefore anything is permissible. As Hanoch Milwidsky, a member of Knesset from the ruling Likud Party stated openly in a parliamentary debate, "If he is a [Hamas] Nukhba member, everything is legitimate to do him!"

The same media outlets that propagated the Hamas "mass rape" hoax are predictably downplaying the documented gang rape of a Palestinian prisoner. Haaretz has referred to the rape in a front page headline as mere "abuse." Currently, there is nothing on the NY Times front page about the incident, while the Washington Post refers cryptically to "detainee abuse" in its coverage, which is buried at the bottom of its website. Prominent liberal Zionists, meanwhile, are pronouncing Israel's "democracy" and its international image as the ultimate victims of the crisis, and not the Palestinians who have endured rape and torture at the hands of the occupation's enforcers.

The war in Gaza suffocated the national protests against Netanyahu's judicial reform plans, seemingly breathing new life into the PM's career. But now, after nine months of blood-letting, the war is setting the stage for an existential civil meltdown if and when Netanyahu agrees to a ceasefire without scoring the "total victory" he's promised. If that day comes, let it be recorded that the turning point was a violent Zionist riot in support of the right to rape Palestinian men.

@Resist_05

Israel could be the first country in history to start a civil war over the right of its military to rape prisoners…

Direct video link: https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1818074669406371844/vid/avc1/1280x718/ME1C2EH8XHJnUZ1N.mp4

Source: https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1818152941804470725

@MaxBlumenthal

Eyepatch McCain hoists the Stars and Stripes after bowing before a foreign apartheid leader and pledging billions to his genocidal militias

@DanCrenshawTX

We raised the flags back up🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Earlier today, terrorist sympathizers tore down the American flags at Union Station, burned them, and raised the Palestinian flag in its place. After votes tonight, a group of members, including many veterans and the Speaker of the House, took our flag back and raised it.

Took a while to get it done because the Hamas supporters broke the connections, but DC police helped us out and got us zip ties.

Source: https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1816350602642776079

@MaxBlumenthal

When you raise your hand to veto ceasefires, you ensure that tens of thousands will die agonizing deaths at the hands of the foreign ethnosupremacist state you serve. Behind the mask of diversity and democracy, you commit titanic administrative crimes. You’re a Little Eichmann.

@USAmbUN

There is no place for antisemitism from UN-affiliated officials tasked with promoting human rights. While the United States has never supported Francesca Albanese’s mandate, it is clear she is not fit for this or any position at the UN.

@USAmbHRC

UN Special Rapporteur @FranceskAlbs’s comparison of Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler is reprehensible and antisemitic​. There should be no place for such dehumanizing rhetoric. Special rapporteurs should be striving to improve human rights challenges, not inflame them.

Source: https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1817019986235232396

@MaxBlumenthal

The NY Times puffs Maria Corina Machado, the de facto opposition candidate running to unseat Pres. Nicolas Maduro, as "the 'Iron Lady' of Venezuela.

I first encountered Machado on Feb 23, 2019 outside the Carlota Airbase in Caracas, where she was leading a mob of putchists as part of the US-sponsored military coup that failed to topple Maduro by force. As @anyaparampil explains in her new book, Corporate Coup, that regime change plot was not necessarily designed to remove Maduro, but to create the context for recognizing an alternative government that would place Venezuelan state assets like Citgo into the hands of Washington.

Machado's campaign represents the latest stage of the corporate coup, and indeed, her entire career has been propelled by the forces behind it. Her original party, Sumate, received massive grants from the National Endowment for Democracy, the regime change arm of the US government, around the time when George W. Bush welcomed her in the Oval Office. Machado has lobbied for devastating sanctions against her own country, fueling the migrant crisis on the US-Mexico border. She has even called for US military intervention in Venezuela to remove the elected Chavista government. Naturally, she would be eager to hand control over Venezuela's natural resources to US multinationals.

None of this background was mentioned by the NY Times, yet it perfectly explains why a putschist fanatic receives such positive coverage in US corporate media.

Source: https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1816695664270512544

@MaxBlumenthal

What is the average body count of members of Israel’s Olympic team?

Source: https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1816874116739215511

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17956529

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#TheGrayzone

WASHINGTON D.C.

During Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s recent appearance on The Jimmy Dore Show, the topic of Israel came up, and the Democratic presidential candidate expressed a range of perspectives and opinions that could have come straight out of the most pro-Likud Israeli apologist. Now The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal has come on to set the record straight and explain the misrepresentations, half-truths, propaganda and outright lies RFK shared.

Jimmy and The Convo Couch host Craig Jardula go through RFK's statements and ask Max to respond point by point.

@MaxBlumenthal

Rare moment when CNN states an uncomfortable truth

@EylonALevy

Dana Bash on @CNN: This looked like an American President giving a State of the Union address. 🇺🇸🇮🇱

Source: https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1816227091245056291