Jeffrey Blankfort: The ADL: Covert action, censure, and courting law-enforcement.

The following is a presentation made at the 2015 Israel Lobby Con held at the National Press Club.

 

Jeffrey Blankfort is a photojournalist and radio host. His articles have appeared in CounterPunch, Dissident Voice, Mondoweiss, Pulse Media, Left Curve, the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs and the Encyclopedia of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.

Since the 1960s his photographs have appeared in major publications in the U.S. and around the world. During this past Black History Month, an exhibit of his photos of the Black Panthers from 1968 and Palestinians taken from 1970 to 2004 was on display at the African American Art and Cultural Complex in San Francisco. It was his first trip to Lebanon and Jordan in 1970 to take photos for a book on the Palestinian struggle (Palestine: the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Ramparts Press, 1972) that led to his involvement in their cause.

Blankfort became a founding member of the November 29th Committee on Palestine and a co-founder of the Labor Committee on the Middle East, and was editor of its publication, The Middle East Labor Bulletin (1988-1995).

He currently hosts a twice-monthly program on international affairs for KZYX, the public radio station for Mendocino County in Northern California where he now lives.

Since 2015 the annual IsraelLobbyCon conference series at the National Press Club explores the latest research, innovations and tactics for countering the Israel lobby’s damaging policies in the U.S. and around the globe.

 

The conference is solely sponsored by the American Educational Trust, publisher of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, and the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRmep).