Philip Weiss is an American

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who co-edits ''

Mondoweiss ''Mondoweiss'' is a news website that began as a general-interest blog written by Philip Weiss on ''The New York Observer'' website. It subsequently developed into a broader collaborative venture after fellow journalist Adam Horowitz joined it ...

'' ("a news website devoted to covering

American foreign policy in the Middle East United States foreign policy in the Middle East has its roots in the 19th-century Barbary Wars that occurred shortly after the 1776 establishment of the United States as an independent sovereign state, but became much more expansive in the a ...

, chiefly from a progressive Jewish perspective")About: Mondowiess
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and rejects the label "

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Career

Weiss is the author of the novel ''Cock-a-doodle-doo'' (1996) and the non-fiction book ''American Taboo: A Murder In The Peace Corps'' (2004). He co-edited ''The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict'' (2011) with Adam Horowitz and Lizzy Ratner.

Other Writing

Weiss has written for

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, ''

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'' magazine, '' Harper's'', ''Esquire'', and ''

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''. 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 ''

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''The Goldstone Report''

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''. ''

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'''s review noted that the abridged version of the

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("the Goldstone Report") included an introduction by

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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". ''

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'' called the book an "eye-opening document and an urgent call for accountability". In a ''

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'' interview, Horowitz discussed

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's later correction of one item in his report, his saying "Civilians were not intentionally targeted

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as a matter of policy." Horowitz said that he viewed this as a minor issue and " ch 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."

Books

* 1996:'' Cock-a-doodle-doo'' * 2004: ''American Taboo: A Murder In The Peace Corps'' * 2011: ''The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict'', by Adam Horowitz, Lizzy Ratner, Philip Weiss, Naomi Klein, et al.''Publishers Weekly'' review
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