Philip Weiss

Philip Weiss
Occupation(s)Journalist, Writer
Known forCreator and co-editor of Mondoweiss with Adam Horowitz
SpouseCynthia Kling[1]
Websitemondoweiss.net

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]

Career

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]

Other Writing

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]

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.[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]

Books

  • 1996: Cock-a-doodle-doo[20]
  • 2004: American Taboo: A Murder In The Peace Corps[21][22]
  • 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.[23]

References

  1. ^ "Mondo Weiss". Tablet. 20 January 2011.
  2. ^ a b About: Mondowiess
  3. ^ Phil Weiss at Mondoweiss.
  4. ^ Philip Weiss, "I'm gonna wave my freak flag high (why I say I'm an 'Anti-Zionist,' not a 'Post-Zionist')", Mondoweiss blog, January 10, 2009.
  5. ^ Philip Weiss, Cock-a-doodle-doo, St. Martin's Press, March 1996, ISBN 0312141009 ISBN 978-0312141004
  6. ^ Publisher Harper Collins web page Archived 2013-05-27 at the Wayback Machine on Philip Weiss, American Taboo: A Murder In The Peace Corps, 2004.
  7. ^ Philip Weiss, Adam Horowitz, Lizzy Ratner, The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict, Nation Books , January 11, 2011, ISBN 1568586418 ISBN 978-1568586410
  8. ^ Spy Magazine. Sussex Publishers, LLC. 1989.
  9. ^ "Philip Weiss Archive". NYMag.com. Retrieved 2023-12-10.
  10. ^ Philip Weiss at Harper's magazine.[dead link‍]
  11. ^ "Biography from Harper Collins". Archived from the original on 2013-03-30. Retrieved 2012-01-12.
  12. ^ "Philip Weiss". Observer. Retrieved 2023-12-10.
  13. ^ Philip Weiss, Blogging about Israel and Jewish identity raises Observer hackles, The American Conservative, June 4, 2007.
  14. ^ Adam Horowitz, Lizzy Ratner and Philip Weiss, "The Goldstone Affair", The Nation, April 14, 2011.
  15. ^ Review of The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict, Publishers Weekly, February 14, 2011.
  16. ^ Review of The Goldstone Report, Kirkus Reviews, published online October 26, 2010.
  17. ^ "Judge Goldstone Retracts Part of His Report on Israeli Assault on Gaza, Leaves Rest Intact", Democracy Now!, April 4, 2011.
  18. ^ Lawrence Davidson, "Judge Goldstone alters his verdict", Ma'an News Agency, July 4, 2011, updated November 4, 2011.
  19. ^ "Cool Cynic: Philip Weiss". Entertainment Weekly. 30 June 1995. Archived from the original on January 9, 2008.
  20. ^ Bob Shacochis, Nonfiction: "American Taboo" by Philip Weiss Review of American Taboo Salon.com, July 20, 2004.
  21. ^ Peter Godwin, "A Cold Case". Review of American Taboo in The New York Times Book Review, June 27, 2004.
  22. ^ Publishers Weekly review

Further reading