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")[ About: Mondowiess] with journalist Adam Horowitz.[ Phil Weiss at Mondoweiss.] Weiss describes himself as an anti-Zionist and rejects the label "post-Zionist."[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.]
Career
Weiss is the author of the novel Cock-a-doodle-doo (1996)[Philip Weiss, Cock-a-doodle-doo, St. Martin's Press, March 1996, ] and the non-fiction book American Taboo: A Murder In The Peace Corps (2004).[ Publisher Harper Collins web page on Philip Weiss, 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.[Philip Weiss, Adam Horowitz, Lizzy Ratner, The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict, Nation Books , January 11, 2011, ]
Other writing
Weiss has written for Spy,[ Philip Weissat Harper's magazine. ] Esquire, and The New York Observer.
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.[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.][Philip Weiss, Blogging about Israel and Jewish identity raises Observer hackles, The American Conservative, June 4, 2007.]
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.[Adam Horowitz, Lizzy Ratner and Philip Weiss, "The Goldstone Affair", The Nation, April 14, 2011.] 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".[ Review of The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict, Publishers Weekly, February 14, 2011.] Kirkus Reviews called the book an "eye-opening document and an urgent call for accountability".[ Review of The Goldstone Report, Kirkus Reviews, published online October 26, 2010.]
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 as a matter of policy." Horowitz said that he viewed this as a minor issue and "much 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."[ "Judge Goldstone Retracts Part of His Report on Israeli Assault on Gaza, Leaves Rest Intact", Democracy Now!, April 4, 2011.][Lawrence Davidson, "Judge Goldstone alters his verdict", Ma'an News Agency, July 4, 2011, updated November 4, 2011.]
Books
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1996: Cock-a-doodle-doo
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2004: American Taboo: A Murder In The Peace Corps
[Bob Shacochis, Nonfiction: "American Taboo" by Philip Weiss Review of American Taboo Salon.com, July 20, 2004.][Peter Godwin, "A Cold Case". Review of American Taboo in The New York Times Book Review, June 27, 2004.]
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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]
Further reading
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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.
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PBS. " Extended Interviews: American Jews and Israel - Philip Weiss, writer and blogger," PBS, June 12, 2009.
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Philip Weiss: A Jewish Argument around the Arab Revolt at Radio Open Source
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Masters of the Universe Go to Camp: Inside the Bohemian Grove Spy Magazine, November 1989, pages 59–76
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