(1977-12-18) December 18, 1977 (age 46) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation
Journalist
author
blogger
Alma mater
University of Pennsylvania (BA)
Subject
US politics
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Syrian Civil War
Years active
2002–present
Notable works
Republican Gomorrah (2009)
Goliath (2013)
The 51 Day War (2015)
The Management of Savagery (2019)
Spouse
Anya Parampil
(m. 2020)
[1]
Parents
Jacqueline Jordan
Sidney Blumenthal
Max Blumenthal (born December 18, 1977) is an American author and blogger. He was a writer for The Nation, AlterNet,[2]The Daily Beast, Al Akhbar, Mondoweiss,[3] and Media Matters for America,[4][5] and has contributed to Al Jazeera English, The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times.[4] He has been a writing fellow of the Nation Institute.[6] He is a regular contributor to Russian state-owned Sputnik and RT.[7][8][9]
Blumenthal is the editor of The Grayzone website, which is known for its apologetic coverage of authoritarian regimes such as the Chinese, Russian, Syrian, and Venezuelan governments, including its denial of chemical attacks by the Syrian government and of human rights abuses against Uyghurs.[10][11][12][13]
Blumenthal has written four books. His first, Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party (2009), made the Los Angeles Times and New York Times bestsellers lists.[14] He was awarded the 2014 Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Award for an Especially Notable Book for Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel, which was published in 2013.[15][16]
^@MaxBlumenthal (March 17, 2020). "No one I'd rather self-quarantine with than my queen @anyaparampil A huge thank you to everyone who's shown ♥" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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^"Max Blumenthal". Mondoweiss. July 29, 2015. Retrieved January 8, 2024.
^ ab"Max Blumenthal". The Nation. April 2, 2010. Retrieved December 28, 2019.
^"Dershowitz warns Democrats to drop Media Matters". Fox News. February 13, 2012. Retrieved May 23, 2012.
^"Max Blumenthal". The Daily Beast. Retrieved February 27, 2019.
^Hurst, Sarah (July 12, 2018). "Russia's UN Mission tags friends on Twitter to spread message". Stop Fake. Retrieved June 17, 2022.
^Carroll, Oliver (February 24, 2021). "Anger after Amnesty strips Navalny of 'prisoner of conscience' status". The Independent. Archived from the original on May 12, 2022. Retrieved May 27, 2021.
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^Foresta, Matthew (April 29, 2022). "Meet the Sneakiest Defenders of Putin's Invasion of Ukraine". The Daily Beast. Retrieved June 17, 2022. At a recent similar event in New York he [Blumenthal] praised the people in the [anti-vax] movement, spun conspiracy theories, stated the issue wasn't one of left versus right. ...One of his [Blumenthal's] past assertions was that the White Helmets, famed for their rescue efforts on behalf of innocents, were nothing more than al Qaeda—a conspiracy theory that has been thoroughly exposed and refuted.
^Ross, Alexander Reid (November 8, 2019). "Fooling the Nation: Extremism and the Pro-Russia Disinformation Ecosystem". Boundary 2. Duke University Press. Retrieved June 13, 2022. Max Blumenthal, who has been criticized for promoting conspiracy theories about Syria's White Helmets. ... The GrayZone Project, which spreads conspiracy theory narratives about Venezuela, Xinjiang, and Syria, among other places. The source Ross cites is: Blumenthal, Max (January 6, 2018). "How 'Russiagate' Helped Secure a Dangerous Arms Deal". Truthdig. Retrieved June 13, 2022.
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^"Max Blumenthal". The Guardian. Retrieved August 12, 2020.
^"Max Blumenthal awarded 2014 Cultural Freedom Award for An Especially Notable Book". Lannan Foundation. Retrieved April 2, 2022.
^"Max Blumenthal". Los Angeles Review of Books. Archived from the original on March 22, 2019. Goliath, winner of the Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Notable Book Award.
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the First Amendment." In March 2018, several journalists, including MaxBlumenthal, were mentioned in an article by Alexander Reid Ross which the SPLC...
is there to be in the closet in Israel in 2009? It's embarrassing." MaxBlumenthal claimed that the film was shot in "a Palestinian village that was ethnically...
saying to journalist MaxBlumenthal that he found him to be "a jerk" and "a despicable human being" over a blog entry in which Blumenthal accused Breitbart...
publications promoting far-right anti-Semitism. Journalists David Frum and MaxBlumenthal described the publication as pseudo-scholarly or pseudo-academic. The...
Western apologists", alongside Vanessa Beeley, Sharmine Narwani, and MaxBlumenthal; their work is disseminated by a "spectrum of far-left, anti-West conspiracy...
15–17 Matthew Yglesias, A Friend Indeed The Atlantic.com March 7, 2008 MaxBlumenthal, AIPAC Cheers an Antisemitic Holocaust Revisionist (and Abe Foxman Approves)...
Zionist all her life" as well as the "Sugar Mama of Anti-Muslim Hate" by MaxBlumenthal. Born and raised in New York City, Rosenwald is one of three daughters...
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MaxBlumenthal that evening, we took it down, pending further review,' the SPLC said in a statement. Proyect, Louis (14 March 2018). "MaxBlumenthal and...
news website, citing unspecified "external concerns". Grayzone founder MaxBlumenthal said he believed the concerns were political and related to the platform's...
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conferences where visiting Israeli experts have spoken. According to MaxBlumenthal in his book The Management of Savagery, JINSA has claimed that it has...
Center. Archived from the original on 2010-12-29. Retrieved 2010-12-28. Blumenthal, Max (2005-06-03). "Hannity's Soul-Mate of Hate". The Nation. Archived from...
The Party. pp. 59–60. MaxBlumenthal. Republican Gomorrah: Inside The Movement That Shattered The Party. p. 60. MaxBlumenthal. Mehren, Elizabeth (February...
"ominously similar to the indictment of Julian Assange" and quoted MaxBlumenthal and Jen Robinson as remarking on the similarity of the two sets of charges...
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