Author Archives: Philip Weiss and Adam Horowitz

Terrible news. Hamas authorities have found the body of activist Vittorio Arrigoni, 36, inside a house in the Gaza Strip, the BBC is reporting. The International Solidarity Movement member was abducted early on Thursday. BBC: Hamas police reportedly found his … Continue reading →

The writer Matthew Phillips was remembered as an ardent and isolated pursuer of intellectual “devotion” at a service in an Upper West Side chapel yesterday jammed with nearly 300 mourners. Phillips, 26, committed suicide on April 4 in New York. … Continue reading →

The editors of this site are griefstricken today. We learned last night that our friend Matthew Phillips, a hugely-gifted young writer who contributed to us often, died Monday April 4 in New York. Our hearts go out to Matt’s parents … Continue reading →

If you are in the New York Area please join us for what is sure to be an interesting event to promote our new book The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict. It’s free, … Continue reading →

While parts of the Middle East seem on the verge of revolutionary change, in other parts it appears to be business as usual. This is a whack settler video, narrated by Eliyokim Cohen of Framingham, MA, gloating over the goldrush … Continue reading →

Thank you. We have reached our goal of raising $40,000 in the month of December. When we were challenged by a generous donor to ask our readers to match their $20,000 donation we were doubtful we could do it. The … Continue reading →

We are now in crunch time. We have ten more days in our current fund raising drive. This means we only have to raise $3,000 more to meet the $20,000 matching fund challenge presented to us by a very generous … Continue reading →

Just a quick update on our current fund raising drive. We are off to our best start ever! You can follow the progress in the graphic to the right, but we’ve already raised over $8,000, which means thanks to our … Continue reading →

An extremely generous anonymous donor has offered to match donations to Mondoweiss of $100 or more up to $20,000. We’ll add an offer including some very special gifts for our loyal supporters tomorrow. We just wanted you to know about … Continue reading →

You asked and we delivered. You can now subscribe to Mondoweiss on Amazon’s Kindle. Just another way to follow the action. Also remember, you can also follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and through our new email newsletter (there is a … Continue reading →

Thank you everyone! We’ve reached our goal of raising $10,000. This was our quickest fundraising drive to date having hit our mark just nine days from when we posted the appeal. In addition to all the financial support we’ve received, … Continue reading →

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Mondoweiss is growing – we’ve had over 700,000 unique visitors and 1.2 million page views in the past three months alone. This traffic is being driven by our coverage of the stories that matter to you: the Eden Abergil Facebook … Continue reading →

We have a chapter in the new book Midnight on the Mavi Marmara: The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and How It Changed the Course of the Israel/Palestine Conflict. Alternet is running an excerpt of our piece today: The … Continue reading →

We’ve hit a couple of impasses on comments policy at this site in the last two years. Now we’re at another. As the site has grown more popular, we’ve gotten more enthusiastic debate, but also more invective, profanity, and racism … Continue reading →

Is J Street finally getting traction? Brilliant fake AIPAC press release showed up on Al Jazeera and all over CSPAN during Hillary’s speech to the policy conference. We bought it! This just drives the wedge between AIPAC and J Street … Continue reading →

Youtube poster Media Matters Action Network says that Wolf Blitzer was "surprised" by Jack Cafferty’s viewer criticisms of Israel, and this is the case. Cafferty takes an atypically-sober tone, cautiously criticizing the Israel-US special relationship, suggesting that we should "start … Continue reading →

Just over three weeks ago we asked you to join us in laying a foundation for the future of Mondoweiss and help us raise $10,000. Thank you, you’ve come through! We have just hit our goal and can’t thank you … Continue reading →