Philip Weiss is an American
journalist
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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]
/ref> with journalist Adam Horowitz.[ Weiss describes himself as an ]anti-Zionist
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and rejects the label "post-Zionist
Post-Zionism refers to the opinions of some Israelis, diaspora Jews and others, particularly in academia, that Zionism fulfilled its ideological mission with the formation of the modern State of Israel in 1948, and that Zionist ideology should ...
."
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 ''New York
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* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
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Film and television
* '' ...
'' magazine, '' Harper's'', ''Esquire'', and ''The New York Observer
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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 ''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 ...
'' as an unaffiliated blog.[Adas, Jane.]
From The Link's Links - http://www.mondoweiss.net
" ''The Link,'' Vol. 43, Issue 1, Americans for Middle East Understanding, January - March 2010:12.
Books
* 1996:'' Cock-a-doodle-doo''
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References
Further reading
* Adas, Jane.
From The Link's Links - http://www.mondoweiss.net
" ''The Link,'' Vol. 43, Issue 1, Americans for Middle East Understanding, January - March 2010:12.
* PBS
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.
Extended Interviews: American Jews and Israel - Philip Weiss, writer and blogger
" ''PBS
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'', June 12, 2009.
Philip Weiss: A Jewish Argument around the Arab Revolt
at Radio Open Source
Masters of the Universe Go to Camp: Inside the Bohemian Grove
Spy Magazine, November 1989, pages 59–76
External links
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Living people
American online journalists
Jewish American writers
Jewish anti-Zionism in the United States
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American Jews
Anti-Zionist Jews