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Upcoming Events: Max Blumenthal speaking in Hamilton May 21

What: Max Blumenthal speaking about his new book Goliath

When: Wednesday May 21, Doors 7:00 PM, talk begins at 7:30 PM

Where: CENTENARY UNITED CHURCH, 24 Main Street West, Hamilton

This event is cosponsored by: Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War; Independent Jewish Voices (IJV), Hamilton; International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN), Canada; McMaster Muslims for Peace and Justice (MMPJ); Palestinian Association of Hamilton; Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) - McMaster

Tickets: $10 advance, $12 at door
Advance Tickets Available:
Online: http://ijvcanada.org/max-blumenthal-tickets-on-sale/

In person: Bryan Prince Bookseller. 1060 King Street West, Hamilton
The Button Pushers. 119B Locke Street South, Hamilton

For more information: max@jelithin.ca

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Max Blumenthal is the award-winning author of Republican Gomorrah. He has been featured in The New York Times, Al Jazeera English, The Guardian, and many others.

Here's what's been written about Goliath:

Chris Hedges, Truthdig:

There are very few intellectuals or writers who have the tenacity and courage to confront this reality [the self-adulation and latent racism that lie at the
core of modern Zionism]. This is what makes Max Blumenthal’s ’Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel’ one of the most fearless and honest books ever written
about Israel.

Blumenthal burrows deep into the dark heart of Israel. The American journalist binds himself to the beleaguered and shunned activists, radical
journalists and human rights campaigners who are the conscience of the nation, as well as Palestinian families in the West Bank struggling in vain
to hold back Israel’s ceaseless theft of their land. Blumenthal, in chapter after chapter, methodically rips down the facade. And what he exposes, in the end, is a corpse.

James Fallows, The Atlantic:

Blumenthal has made a sobering prima facie case that there are extreme forces to be reckoned with more fully that American discourse usually does. And his
doing so is no more “anti-Israel,” let alone anti-Semitic, than The Jungle and The Grapes of Wrath were anti-American.

Justin Raimondo, Anti-war.com:

Goliath proves that liberal democracy is now, for all intents and purpose, defunct: indeed, it may have never existed in the first place. The book demonstrates
this on every page with brutal real-life firsthand reporting. Starting off slowly, Blumenthal paints a portrait of a society living in a bubble, with the
Israeli Ashkenazi aristocracy on top, the Mizrahi drone-workers charged with police work and other non-elite tasks near the bottom, and the Palestinian helots
on the lowest rung, eking out a problematic existence with all the legal and economic factors pointing to their eventual expulsion from Israeli society. As the rightist
wave engulfs what had been the dream of socialist Zionists to build an egalitarian society, and turns it into a bastion of religious nationalism and outright racism,
Blumenthal moves through this society-in-transition with the unforgiving eye of a born documentarian, mercilessly exposing the hypocrisy, mendacity, and criminality of a country that is coming unhinged.