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His father is a journalist and writer who served as an aide to President Bill Clinton.

In late 2011, Blumenthal joined Lebanon’s Al Akhbar newspaper primarily to write about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and foreign-policy debates in Washington, DC.

He has contributed on multiple occasions to Sputnik radio, as well as to Iran’s Press TV and China’s CGTN. Blumenthal founded The Grayzone website within a month after his visit to Moscow. In an October 2019 article for New Politics magazine, Gilbert Achcar wrote that Blumenthal’s Grayzone, along with the World Socialist Web Site, has “the habit of demonizing all left-wing critics of Putin and the likes of Assad by describing them as ‘agents of imperialism’ or some equivalent”.

In 2011, Blumenthal reported that Israeli occupation forces and Bahraini monarchy guards trained American police departments in anti-protester techniques, including torture, and quoted Fordham University Law Professor Karen J. Greenberg. Contacted by Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic and Adam Serwer of Mother Jones, Greenberg told Goldberg that while she “never made such a statement”, Blumenthal “was looking for corroboration but I told him I didn’t have any.” She told Serwer that “I did not intend to assert these allegations as fact ... the entire sense of the quote is inaccurate.”

Blumenthal has written two books based on the periods of time he spent in Gaza and the Israeli-occupied territories in the West Bank. He documented what he said were Israeli and Palestinian war crimes in two books: Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel (2013) and The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza (2015).

Goliath, published by Nation Books, outlines what Blumenthal characterizes as Israel’s aggressive shift to the far-right, and its crackdown on local activism. In the preface, he writes: “Americans’ tax dollars and political support [that] are crucial in sustaining the present state of affairs” in Israel. The book consists of 73 short chapters. Chapter titles include “To the Slaughter”, “The Concentration Camp”, “The Night of Broken Glass”, “This Belongs to the White Man” and “How to Kill Goyim and Influence People”.

A “choice needs to be placed to the Israeli Jewish population” (which he also referred to as the “settler-colonial population”) “and it can only be placed to them through external pressure.” “The maintenance and engineering of a non-indigenous demographic majority is non-negotiable”, he said.

Blumenthal appeared before the Russell Tribunal on Palestine on September 25, 2014, in Brussels, Belgium, to testify on allegations of war crimes and genocide by Israel against residents of the Gaza Strip during Operation Protective Edge. Blumenthal was in Gaza during Protective Edge....

In The 51 Day War (2015), Blumenthal writes that he was in Gaza during and following Operation Protective Edge, the Israeli military offensive in Gaza during the summer of 2014. Blumenthal said that the catalyst for the military offensive was the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers by a Hamas cell. He stated that the Israel’s West Bank operation was not aimed at rescuing the teens, who were known to be dead, or capturing their killers, but destroying a political agreement between Hamas and the Palestinian National Authority

According to Petra Marquardt-Bigman, Blumenthal testified at the Russell Tribunal that he arrived in Gaza “at the onset of a five-day humanitarian ceasefire on August 14”. She said his interviews at the end of July indicated he was in Washington, DC which suggested he was probably elsewhere, rather than “on the ground”, for the first few weeks of the war.

Of the Battle of Shujaiya in July 2014 in 51 Days War, Blumenthal wrote of the Al-Qassam Brigades (the military wing of Hamas) who ambushed IDF soldiers, that although they “had not vanquished the vaunted Israeli Army”, “they delivered a bloody nose to its most elite units.”

In a video recording of an event at the London School of Economics in March 2016, Blumenthal described the Al-Qassam commandos as having “burst into the [Nahal Oz] Israeli base and kill[ed] every soldier they encountered in hand-to-hand combat. [...] The message it sent to young Palestinians in the West Bank, in Jerusalem and abroad, was incredible ... You see your people in commando uniforms, bursting into a military base and showing up the occupier.”

Avi Benlolo CEO of the Simon Wiesenthal Center told The Canadian Jewish News in 2016: “While shunned by conventional media outlets, the book is popular on major anti-Semitic, neo-Nazi and conspiracy theory websites such as Stormfront and David Duke’s Rense, where his work is used to promote anti-Jewish hate.”

...during Hillary Clinton’s four years as Secretary of State, Sidney Blumenthal had sent her at least 19 articles by Max Blumenthal concerning Israel which she had distributed among her staff.

When author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel died in July 2016, Max Blumenthal tweeted that “Wiesel went from a victim of war crimes to a supporter of those who commit them”, referring to Israel, and “did more harm than good and should not be honored”. According to Blumenthal, Wiesel “repeatedly lauded Jewish settlers for ethnically cleansing Palestinians in East Jerusalem”. Wiesel was criticized for supporting Elad, an Israeli group which encourages Jewish settlement in the area.

Subsequently, Jake Sullivan, then senior policy adviser for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, said: “Secretary Clinton emphatically rejects these offensive, hateful, and patently absurd statements about Elie Wiesel.”

He has asserted that the exaggeration or manufacture of crimes against humanity in Xinjiang are part of a United States government campaign to discredit China.

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