Report: Clinton Confidante Sidney Blumenthal’s Son Compares Israel to ISIS, Praises Terror Attack

[Purveyor]

by Jon Nicosia | 7:15 pm, April 3rd, 2016
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Screen Shot 2016-04-03 at 7.14.47 PMActivist and journalist Max Blumenthal, the son of close Bill and Hillary Clinton confidante Sidney Blumenthal, is in hot water this week, according to a London newspaper. The British government has cut off funding to the charity “war on want,” partially due to incendiary remarks Blumenthal made comparing the state of Israel with ISIS, according The Telegraph:

The Department for International Development (Dfid) said that it no longer supported War on Want, which helped pay for “Israeli Apartheid Week” in February this year.

The statement comes as the Telegraph obtained undercover recordings of events where anti-Semitism, demands for the destruction of Israel or naked support for terror were expressed by academics and others at meetings in some of Britain’s most prestigious universities.

One speaker, Max Blumenthal, the son of a close adviser to Bill and Hillary Clinton, praised a massacre by Hamas as sending an “incredible message” and said that taking up arms should be “normal” for Palestinians. He compared Israel to the terrorist group Isil, describing it as “the Jewish State of Israel and the Levant, Jsil”.

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http://www.mediaite.com/online/clinton-confidante-sidney-blumenthals-son-compares-israel-to-isis-praises-terror-attack/

Charity Backing Anti-Israel Rallies Has State Cash Pulled

By Andrew Gilligan, London Editor
2 April 2016 • 10:02pm

The government has ceased funding a British charity which sponsored events accused of promoting hatred and violence against Jews.

The Department for International Development (Dfid) said that it no longer supported War on Want, which helped pay for “Israeli Apartheid Week” in February this year.

The statement comes as the Telegraph obtained undercover recordings of events where anti-Semitism, demands for the destruction of Israel or naked support for terror were expressed by academics and others at meetings in some of Britain’s most prestigious universities.

One speaker, Max Blumenthal, the son of a close adviser to Bill and Hillary Clinton, praised a massacre by Hamas as sending an “incredible message” and said that taking up arms should be “normal” for Palestinians. He compared Israel to the terrorist group Isil, describing it as “the Jewish State of Israel and the Levant, Jsil”.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/02/charity-backing-anti-israel-rallies-has-state-cash-pulled/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

[geek tragedy]

1. So now you've resorted to spreading wingnut smears against critics of Israel

because it helps you score points in the presidential primary.

Against a guy who is the son of a guy who is friends with the Clintons.

[MattP]

2. Better not vote for Max

[roguevalley]

3. there's a shit storm of anti-semitism in the UK lately. This is

news.

[cpwm17]

4. Probably a fabrication against a charity

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/articles/debate/24838-sunday-telegraph-attack-on-anti-poverty-charity-a-complete-fabrication

On Sunday morning, the charity issued a statement, dismissing the story as a “complete fabrication”, in the words of executive director John Hilary.

War on Want has not sought any UK government support for its operations for a number of years now, so it is absurd to suggest that we have had our funding ‘pulled’. The insinuation that we have been criticised by the government for standing up for the rights of the Palestinian people is equally bogus. We will be contacting the Telegraph to help it set the record straight.

According to Gilligan, Blumenthal “praised a 2014 massacre carried out by ‘commandos’ of Hamas’s armed wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, against Nahal Oz, a kibbutz and army base near the Gaza border.” The Jewish Chronicle yesterday reduced this to Blumenthal having “praised a massacre at a kibbutz carried out by Hamas.”

This so-called ‘massacre’ refers to an attack on an army guard tower during ‘Operation Protective Edge’ that killed five Israeli soldiers. In the words of Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz, it was “clear” that the Hamas fighters “had planned to storm the position from the start and were not en route to the nearby kibbutz to massacre civilians.”