Censored by the Huffington Post and Imprisoned By The Past: Why I Made ‘Feeling the Hate in Jerusalem’
Max Blumenthal - June 06, 2009
On Wednesday, I walked around central Jerusalem with my friend, Joseph Dana, an Israel peace activist who has lived in the country for three years. We interviewed young people on camera about the speech President Barack Obama planned to deliver to the Muslim world the following day in Cairo. Though our questions were not provocative at all – we simply asked, “What do you think of Obama’s speech” – the responses our interview subjects offered comprised some of the most shocking comments I have ever recorded on camera. They were racist, hateful, and incredibly ignorant, and were mostly couched within a Zionist context – “this is our land, Obama!” The following day, we edited an hour of interviews into a 3:30 minute video package and released it on Mondoweiss and on the Huffington Post.
Within a few hours, I received an email from a Huffington Post administrator informing me he had scrubbed my video from the site. “I don’t see that it has any real news value,” the administrator told me. “For me it only proves that one can find drunk people willing to say just about anything. Especially drunk, moronic people.” For the first time, the premier clearinghouse for online news and opinions had suppressed one of my posts.
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June 13th, 2009 at 11:14 am
I think the world would be more hospitable to the fact that Israel needs to be its own state and stay that way if by watching videos like this they perceive all the peoples of G-d’s land to talk like this…..it’s a shame that the youth are being portrayed as all Israel when they talk and act like —rabble USA youth…it’s a shame they don’t realize the wrong they are doing by speaking and acting in such a horrible foul-mouthed way—they need to realize, yes, you have an opinion and that opinion counts—BUT please remember all the world is just looking for another reason to hate Israel—don’t give them fuel for the fire—–I see why Huffington post “killed” the video/story—-if I weren’t such a saunch supporter of Israel—my mind would definitely be swayed by the fact that these foul mouthed people are representing G-d’s land—no wonder the world hates Israel—-I would if this is the representation of His land and His people……….
June 13th, 2009 at 11:38 am
Get past your Zionism. It serves you no good to cling to an ideal, when it has metastasized into precisely what is represented by those punk kids. They got that attitude by being indoctrinated by their elders. The views expressed are hereditary and serious to the peace of the world at large.
Read Max Blumenthal’s article in full. Ponder his reasoning and explanations, and then spend some quality time at Mondoweiss itself; subscribe to his RSS feed and you can be updated to his frequent posts. Take your blinders off and read with an open mind. Both Blumenthal and Philip Weiss are Jews, know what Zionism is from first hand experience - the real face of Zionism, not the advertised version for sympathetic Christians - and have offered a wide range of penetrating analysis of its cause and effect.
A one state solution is the only solution. That means full democracy and representation for all inhabitants of the country - i.e. no more apartheid.
June 13th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
The “peoples of G-d’s land,” as you say, talk like this too (send that to your pastor), and act like this and this.