Author Archives: Philip Weiss

About Philip Weiss

Philip Weiss is Founder and Co-Editor of Mondoweiss.net.

US official — we went to Israel first

US gov’t negotiators on Iran issue briefed Israel on recent talks before they briefed their own government

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Iranian talks fail after neocon ‘blitz’ — as Obama dispatches aide to reassure Tel Aviv

Neocons drove Obama hardline on Iranian sanctions, as Wendy Sherman, former moderate at State, rushes to Israel to assure them of our commitment

Posted in Iran, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Neocons, US Politics | 28 Comments

American Zionist responses to Tel Aviv riots– largely indifferent, but some outrage

AIPAC, AJC and Conference of Presidents have nothing to say about anti-African riots in South Tel Aviv

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine | 40 Comments

Division: Romney supporter puts kibosh on Wasserman Schultz appearance at Miami temple

Romney supporter puts kibosh on Wasserman Schultz appearance at Miami synagogue

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Media, US Politics | 7 Comments

‘Obama will only go as far on Iran as AIPAC permits him to go’

Israel lobby ratchets pressure on Iran, preempting global talks and threatening world peace

Posted in Iran, Israel Lobby, Media, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 32 Comments

Aaron Sorkin’s anachronism

Writer of The Social Network imposed a victimized narrative on Mark Zuckerberg, who’s anything but

Posted in American Jewish Community, Beyondoweiss, Egypt, Israel/Palestine | 27 Comments

Honest broker? Israeli consulate sponsors Obama’s former Middle East peace adviser at Stanford talk!

Dennis Ross worked for Obama for several years on Middle East peace. And before that he worked for Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush too. But he was always accused of bias toward Israel. Aaron David Miller called him Israel’s … Continue reading

Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 13 Comments

Philip Roth on the Israel lobby

Philip Roth wrote that Israel was dependent on the Israel lobby in the U.S. for its existence, in 1986

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 15 Comments

If Obama really has things under control, then why the loose talk from CentCom’s Mattis?

Obama’s strategy on Iran: keep ratcheting up pressure on Iran with the Israelis, put off military action till after November

Posted in Iran, Israel/Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 10 Comments

The charmingest flashmob you ever did see

Has there ever been a charming flashmob? I can’t remember one. They’re usually loud, wordy, in your face. Well here is a group of students at the Ohio State University doing the dabka, the Palestinian dance to alert the campus … Continue reading

Posted in Israel/Palestine | 4 Comments

Bill Clinton’s $80 million swagbag includes some dough from ‘Israel First’ interests

MJ Rosenberg left Media Matters partly because of his use of the term Israel Firster. Well Matt Stoller says Israel Firsters gave Bill Clinton money

Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, US Politics | 9 Comments

Passive-aggressive George Bush namechecks neocons for getting us into that mess

George Bush brings up neocons in his memoir only to show how they gave bad advice on Iraq war

Posted in Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Neocons, US Politics | 83 Comments

‘Foreign Policy’ peddles productive Iranian war theory

Only a bloody war of attrition with Iran will lead Israel to resolve Palestinian conflict, says Israeli prof

Posted in Iran, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, US Politics | 25 Comments

Google is partnering with Technion and Cornell in NY

E tu Google

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Media, US Politics | 26 Comments

Biden meets major Israel lobby group at White House

The three black politicians who broke with Obama are members of the ‘AIPAC generation,’ says MJ Rosenberg

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Media, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 21 Comments

Latest video’d settler shooting could defuse third rail in US discourse

Soldiers stood by as Israeli settlers shot unarmed Palestinian demonstrators in occupied West Bank — and American media are noticing

Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, US Politics | 13 Comments

Bill Kristol celebrates Republican Party purge of ‘oldfashioned Arabists’ Scowcroft, Baker and Bush I

Republican Party boss Bill Kristol is treated like royalty on the Upper West Side in a “communal” Jewish conversation

Posted in American Jewish Community, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 83 Comments

Neocons in Washington Post: Military strike on Iran would ‘calm nerves in the region’

Washington Post pushes war with Iran with argument by two neoconservatives

Posted in Iran, Israel Lobby, Media, Middle East, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 33 Comments

Feeling the hate in Long Island

Obama’s Jewish support has gone from 78% to 62% and rightwing rabbi stirs the pot with video of old Jews hinting Obama is a secret Muslim

Posted in American Jewish Community, Iran, Israel Lobby, Media, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 97 Comments

The awakening: Missouri paper runs a Jew’s call for equal rights for all

Columbia (MO) Daily Tribune runs article exposing the ‘Zionist mythology’ that covers up the Nakba

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Nakba, Occupation | 35 Comments

New US demographics make Israel’s demographic fears seem all the more prehistoric

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How long will Obama be able to honor Israel’s demographic concerns without sounding like a total racist?

Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Occupation, US Politics | Tagged | 28 Comments

What forestry teaches us about ethnic cleansing

Our ancestors got away with destroying old growth forests. South Americans today are held to a higher standard

Posted in Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine | 33 Comments

In ’92, AIPAC president raised $1 million for Bill Clinton — and he supported the settlements

‘Clinton has Jewish friends.’ MJ Rosenberg publishes influence-peddling phone conversation with Israel lobby president, in 1992, that cost the AIPAC president his job

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, Settlers/Colonists, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 27 Comments

Dershowitz attacked from right for supporting two-state solution

Settlers push the one state paradigm

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Media, One state/Two states, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 30 Comments

Walzer says Jews were on the left because the left supported Jews

The Jewish idea of chosenness is reaching its rendezvous with the American destiny; and the Jewish universalist tradition will triumph

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Media, Neocons, US Politics | 75 Comments