 In the Acknowledgements to "Goliath", Blumenthal wrote that websites such as "Electronic Intifada" and "Mondoweiss" had "provided essential outlets for much of the reporting" contained in the book.In 2013, Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, said that the center ranked Blumenthal as ninth that year for one of the "Top Ten 2013 Anti-Semitic, Anti-Israel Slurs".Hier said that "we judge him by what he wrote.