Outspoken journalist Max Blumenthal gives talk at Dundee University

Award-winning journalist and bestselling author Max Blumenthal pulled in the crowds at Dundee University when he appeared as guest speaker at the Dalhousie building.

The controversial Blumenthal, whose articles and video documentaries challenging both Israel and the United States’ Middle East policies have appeared in newspapers worldwide, attracted a near-capacity audience for the lecture on his outspoken views on Israel and its policies.

Blumenthal caused controversy in late 2014 and early 2015 when he compared decorated Navy SEAL Chris Kyle to mass murderer Lee Malvo and criticised the film American Sniper which depicts Kyle’s tours of duty in Iraq.

Blumenthal said the movie heavily distorts the truth of the war on Iraq and calls it a “bogus whitewash of the atrocities committed by US troops there”.