Jeffrey Blankfort
Jeff Blankfort is a radio program producer with KPOO in San Francisco, KZYX in Mendocino and KPFT/Pacifica in Houston. He is a journalist and Jewish-American and has been a pro-Palestinian human rights activist since 1970. He was formerly the editor of the Middle East Labor Bulletin and co-founder of the Labor Committee of the Middle East. He was also a founding member of the Nov. 29 Coalition on Palestine. He won a sizable lawsuit against the Jewish Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in February 2002 for its vast illegal spying against him, as well as other peaceful political groups and individuals (including anti-Apartheid groups/activists).
Blankfort sends out an influential annotated/commented emails of articles appearing mostly in the US press about Israel, Palestine, Middle East, neocons, and the Zionist lobby.
Memorable Quotes
- I consider Zionism to be a mental illness which makes otherwise decent folks behave like Nazis or Afrikaners. — 1 January 2006.
- Over the years Congress has been at the ready to give Israel additional funding, even when money has been unavailable for essential domestic programs, as happened in 2002 when the Senate, after defeating a bill that would have provided $150 million for inner-city schools that had been impacted by 9-11, turned around and tucked an additional $200 million for Israel into the Homeland Security Bill as if Israel had been targeted that day and not New York and Washington.— May 2005.
Publications
A long list of Blankfort's articles, interviews, and commentary can be found here
- Jeffrey Blankfort, Steve Zeltzer, Anne Poirier,The ADL Spying Case Is Over, But The Struggle Continues, CounterPunch, 25 February 2002.
- Jeffrey Blankfort, The pro-Israel lobby as a Fifth Column within the United States, MidEast Realities, 16 February 2003.
- Jeffrey Blankfort, The Israel Lobby and the Left: Uneasy Questions, Left Curve, April 2003.
- Jeffrey Blankfort, A War for Israel, Left Curve, 22 April 2004.
- Jeffrey Blankfort, Control: Noam Chomsky and the Israel-Palestine Conflict, DissidentVoice, 24 May 2005.
- Jeffrey Blankfort: Jewish-American anti-Zionist journalist, IndyMedia-SF, 20 November 2006.
- Jeffrey Blankfort, A Debate on the Israel Lobby, CounterPunch, 24 February 2007.
