He describes Israel’s assault on Gaza without telling of the thousands of rockets bombarding Negev towns for years beforehand. This speech has led to tensions with Jordan, while his spokesperson attributed the symbol's presence to the organizers of the event, which was dedicated to a man connected to the Irgun (see above for Irgun emblem). This law did not pass, but it has been reintroduced by Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked, who is his deputy from the Jewish Home party, which has done very well in recent municipal elections.

Alterman, he wrote, is just the latest in a long line of “self-appointed enforcers” who have been trying—“especially since the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin” — to “suppress an honest, free and full debate.Blumenthal came to Israel looking for racists, bigots, Zionist extremists, Arab haters, land stealers, settlers, crazed rabbis, Jewish supremacists, messianists, maniacs and near lunatics and by golly he found them, interviewed them and put them in his book. But he did not annex the West Bank and Gaza to Israel after he took office, reflecting a recognition that absorbing the Palestinians could turn Israel into a bi-national state instead of a Jewish one. And she was held and interrogated at the airport for well over two hours in a humiliating interrogation that really was a form of poetic justice. While others see it as a dangerous ideology centring ethno-supremacy and the marginalisation of the land’s indigenous Palestinian population.

The Bank of Israel denies this conspiracy theory since the coin is a replica of a historical coin dating from 37 to 40 BCE and the alleged "map" is actually the irregular shape of the ancient coin. One story, for instance, relates Blumenthal’s interactions with liberal Israeli novelist David Grossman, who is shown to be afflicted with profound cognitive dissonance regarding the origins of Israeli violence. These are the terms used by Jewish and Palestinian activists to describe the situation in Israel and the occupied territories. THE seed was sown in 1977, when Menachem Begin of Likud brought his party to power for the first time in a stunning election victory over Labor.

The book is the product, the author says, of four years’ work, including more than a year living in Israel and the Palestinian territories to study the facts on the ground. As to the Palestinian citizens of Israel, those who believe in the myth of equal rights for all Israeli citizens now have reason to be less optimistic about the condition of Israeli democracy.

S.) government to continually strengthen its military capabilities while its settler population slowly devours what's left of Palestinian land by force, which includes assaults, murder and intimidation of Arab men, women and children regardless of age. The views and opinions expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Forward. He misrepresented Blumenthal’s substantive assertions about Israeli “fascism,” “racism,” “militarism” and more (entirely untrue). We’re happy to make this story available to republish for free, unless it originated with JTA, Haaretz or another publication (as indicated on the article) and as long as you follow our guidelines.

In an earlier version of this column, Max Blumenthal was misquoted to have said “The maintenance and engineering of a non-indigenous demographic population is non-negotiable. Allerdings sind einige Kapitel-Überschriften bewusst provozierend gewählt: „The Silence of the Lambs“, „How to kill Goyim and influence people“, „The Concentration Camp", und Zitate wie „Judeo-Nazis“. This was an amendment to Israel’s Citizenship law, which requires new citizens to swear loyalty to the Jewish and democratic state, which relates completely to Jerusalem, where Palestinian residents who live in occupied East Jerusalem are offered the option of taking citizenship, but this is an attempt to pretty much rule that out. Kirkus Reviews described it as "A rich, roiling examination of" the country, [15] while John Hudson in Foreign Policy described the book as an "indictment of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians".

The rise of Lieberman more or less demarcates Blumenthal’s temporal focus, though Blumenthal is good about providing contextual analysis to contemporary matters. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.Annexation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip was part of the platform of the mainstream Israeli Likud party, and of some other, often more extreme Israeli political parties. Zionists, and the State of Israel, have been accused of plotting to expand Israel from the Nile to the Euphrates.