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Film: Exposing Occupied Minds Max Blumenthal Saturday, October 17, 2009 2:30pm Oak Park Public Library Veterans Room 834 Lake St. Oak Park |
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Meet Max Blumenthal and see excerpts of his soon-to-be-released film documentary, Israel’s Terror Inside, a joint project with the exciting new website The Daily Nuisance. The film is the culmination of the work that Blumenthal and others have been doing to cover an important story largely ignored in the U.S. media: Israel’s repression of internal dissent and its discriminatory attitudes and activities–official and informal–directed against its own non-Jewish citizens.
Max Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and blogger whose articles and video documentaries have appeared in The New York Times, The Daily Beast, The Nation, The Huffington Post, Salon.com, Al Jazeera English, Mondoweiss, and many other publications. He is a senior writer for The Daily Beast and a writing fellow for the Nation Institute. His New York Times best-selling book, Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party, is in stores now.
Blumenthal’s previous video work on Israel/Palestine issues includes Feeling the Hate in Tel Aviv, a sequel to a piece the Israeli blogger Joseph Dana and Blumenthal released in June 2009 called Feeling the Hate in Jerusalem. That video, which featured a cast of mostly American Jews in Jerusalem leveling racist vitriol at Obama, stirred immediate controversy, prompting the Huffington Post to remove it on the grounds that it was not “newsworthy.” The video was racing towards 400,000 hits on YouTube before it was banned by YouTube without explanation.