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Philip Weiss | |
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| Occupation(s) | Journalist, Writer |
| Known for | Creator and co-editor of Mondoweiss with Adam Horowitz |
| Spouse | Cynthia Kling[1] |
| Website | mondoweiss |
Philip Weiss is an American journalist who co-edits Mondoweiss ("a news website devoted to covering American foreign policy in the Middle East, chiefly from a progressive Jewish perspective")[2] with journalist Adam Horowitz.[2][3] Weiss describes himself as an anti-Zionist and rejects the label "post-Zionist."[4]
Weiss is the author of the novel Cock-a-doodle-doo (1996)[5] and the non-fiction book American Taboo: A Murder In The Peace Corps (2004).[6] He co-edited The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict (2011) with Adam Horowitz and Lizzy Ratner.[7]
Weiss has written for Spy magazine,[8] New York magazine,[9] Harper's,[10] Esquire, and The New York Observer.[11][12]
In 2006 he began writing a daily blog called Mondoweiss for The New York Observer website which began to focus only on "Jewish issues" like "the Iraq disaster and my Jewishness, Zionism, neo-conservatism, Israel, Palestine." In the spring of 2007, he began Mondoweiss as an unaffiliated blog.[13][14]
Weiss and Horowitz, along with Lizzy Ratner, co-edited the 2011 book The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict.[15] Publishers Weekly's review noted that the abridged version of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict ("the Goldstone Report") included an introduction by Naomi Klein and an "eloquent" foreword by Bishop Desmond Tutu. The review said the book was "enhanced" by oral testimonies that "inject a harrowing human element to counterbalance the report's dispassionate tone" and called the book an "essential read for those concerned with accurate documentation of historical events and nations' accountability for their treatment of civilians living in war zones".[16] Kirkus Reviews called the book an "eye-opening document and an urgent call for accountability".[17]
In a Democracy Now! interview, Horowitz discussed Richard Goldstone's later correction of one item in his report, his saying "Civilians were not intentionally targeted [by Israel] as a matter of policy." Horowitz said that he viewed this as a minor issue and "[m]uch larger was the issue of intentionally attacking the civilian infrastructure of Gaza, which he doesn't mention, and the idea of just disproportionate and indiscriminate violence, which he doesn't address and which affects civilians disproportionately."[18][19]
