Award Winning Journalist Max Blumenthal Will Speak at UMass on Crackdown on Campus Protests

Source: Media Education Foundation

Award-winning journalist and bestselling author Max Blumenthal will appear at UMass-Amherst Wednesday, May 8, to talk about the intensifying effort by university administrators, the United States government, and the police, to crush pro-Palestinian student protests and silence criticism of Israel’s ongoing mass slaughter in Gaza. The talk is scheduled for 7 p.m. in the Integrative Learning Center (ILC N151) at UMass. The talk will not be live-streamed but will be recorded and posted on Media Education Foundation’s YouTube channel. The event is free and open to the public.

Max Blumenthal is the editor-in-chief of The Grayzone, an award-winning journalist, and the author of several books, including the bestsellers Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel, The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza, and The Management of Savagery: How America’s National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump. Blumenthal’s writing has appeared in The Nation, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Daily Beast, Salon, Al Jazeera English, and many other publications. He has also produced numerous viral video reports and feature documentaries, including Killing Gaza. Blumenthal founded The Grayzone in 2015 to shine a journalistic light on America’s state of perpetual war and its dangerous domestic repercussions.

For more information about the event, email Sut Jhally at sutj@umass.edu.