Author Archives: Philip Weiss

About Philip Weiss

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

Nakba consciousness-raising… in our nation’s capital

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Philip Weiss

Photos by Dan Sisken of Nakba commemoration in Washington, D.C.

Posted in Activism, Nakba | 18 Comments

‘New York Review of Books’ calls it ‘apartheid’ and prepares Americans for the end of the Jewish state

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Philip Weiss

Israel has disenfranchised millions of Palestinians, and robbed them of their dignity and their land, and killed the two state solution — New York Review of Books

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, Occupation, One state/Two states, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 41 Comments

American’s cartoon on Israeli site shows Netanyahu cannibalizing Obama and compelling him to service him sexually

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Philip Weiss

Eli Valley cartoon pictures Netanyahu and Obama as astronauts, and Obama is subservient

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 24 Comments

It will be easier for our movement of subcultures to change the US than to change Israel — Sarah Schulman

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Philip Weiss

Novelist and queer activist Sarah Schulman premiered a film on AIDS activism in Israel and Palestine last month

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel/Palestine, Media, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 11 Comments

Oren’s defensive piece on ‘sinister’ delegitimization movement shows boycott is working

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Philip Weiss

Michael Oren knows that Israel is losing its reputation

Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, BDS, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 49 Comments

The left lacks an analysis of the neocon rise

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Philip Weiss

Rachel Maddow’s foreign policy speech and Ari Berman’s piece on Romney’s neocons both fail to mention the Israel lobby as a source of American foreign policy ideas

Posted in American Jewish Community, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Media, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 44 Comments

West Virginia newspaper: ‘Apartheid imposed on Palestinians’

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Philip Weiss

Preferential services and benefits for Jewish settlers alongside harsh conditions for Palestinians is apartheid in Desmond Tutu’s book

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Media, US Politics | 43 Comments

Israel still holds 1000s of political prisoners, including 27 Palestinian members of Parliament

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Philip Weiss

There are 308 prisoners being held in administrative detention, which violates international human rights law and is conducive to torture

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Occupation | 12 Comments

AIPAC’s Iran resolution (What if Congress had told JFK he couldn’t ‘rely on containment’ with Soviets?)

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Philip Weiss

HRes 568, AIPAC’s main goal. is a resolution telling Obama he can’t use containment for Iran nuclear activities

Posted in Iran, Israel Lobby, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 45 Comments

At Ohio State, a week of events on the Nakba and apartheid

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Philip Weiss

‘What is Palestine?’ What is the Nakba? What is apartheid? Ohioans dare to ask these questions

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Nakba | 5 Comments

‘Orgy in the desert’ fails to wed young Jewish woman to Zionism

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Philip Weiss

He had a thigh tattoo and was 100% for Israel. She had sex with him in ‘Jew Camp’ but broke up with him in NY

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby | 60 Comments

Pogroms — Palestinian teachers and veterinarian have their cars taken away from them

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Philip Weiss

Even Peter Beinart has written about the pogroms against Palestinians. But the American press doesn’t keep up on this pressing story of human rights violations by an ally

Posted in Media, Occupation, US Politics | 4 Comments

The neocon machine

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Philip Weiss

The three horsemen the neocon propaganda organs: Kristol, Abrams and Goldberg

Posted in Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Media, Neocons, US Politics | 23 Comments

On the sidewalk in Hamburg– ‘Hier wohnte’

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Philip Weiss

Memorials to victims of the Holocaust are embedded in Hamburg street in front of house where the couple lived

Posted in American Jewish Community, Beyondoweiss | 285 Comments

In power shortages, cuts should go to ‘Gaza first,’ says Israeli minister

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Philip Weiss

For those who claim that Gaza is not occupied…

Posted in Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Occupation | 29 Comments

Artifacts of the early Israel lobby: 1917 map for American consumption

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Philip Weiss

Brooklyn bookseller sells map produced in 1917 for Federation of American Zionists

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby | 33 Comments

Foxman says Google and Facebook are on his team to combat ‘internet hate’

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Philip Weiss

Israeli colonist who equates criticizing Israel with anti-Semitism is reported to have joined with Google and Facebook reps to combat ‘internet hate’

Posted in Israel Lobby, Media, US Politics | 49 Comments

Thaer Halahleh, dying, tells the daughter he’s never seen why he took a stand for human dignity

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Philip Weiss

It is the destiny of the Palestinian people to have their parents taken away from their children– in this generation

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Occupation | 33 Comments

Obama’s Jewish liaison reached out to Orthodox group that coddles those charged with child abuse

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Philip Weiss

Agudath Israel seeks to handle child abuse cases internally in the Orthodox community. Brooklyn D.A. Hynes is palsy with Agudath. So is Obama’s Jewish outreach liaison Bernstein

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, US Politics | 19 Comments

We’re still losing

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Philip Weiss

I told them about human rights abuses in the Occupied Territories. Then they saw the IBM research building in Haifa and fell in love with Israel

Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, US Politics | 61 Comments

State Dep’t has nothing to say about hunger strikers ‘one way or another’

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Philip Weiss

Victoria Nuland, spox for Hillary Clinton, kicks the can down the road when asked about Palestinian hunger strikers on the verge of death

Posted in Israel/Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 9 Comments

Liberal Zionists are afraid their parents will reject them if they come out

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Philip Weiss

‘I’m terrified I could be rejected by those I most love,’ leading progressive Ilyse Hogue said of coming out with even mild criticisms of Israel

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, US Politics | 196 Comments

‘NYT’ child abuse story is latest episode in a great awakening

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Philip Weiss

NYT expose of child abuse in ultra Orthodox community is latest evidence of awakening that will advance our society

Posted in US Politics | 12 Comments

Neocons + Goldberg see coalition as heightening likelihood of war

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Philip Weiss

Belligerence in the US press: Charles Krauthammer says it’s May 1967 and Israel’s neighbors are threatening it once again

Posted in Iran, Israel Lobby, US Politics | 13 Comments

‘NYT’ exposes pattern of Ultra Orthodox community covering up sexual abuse, punishing accusers

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Philip Weiss

Ultra Orthodox community in NY comes together to help families in need — except when they report sexual abuse by officials, and they are denounced

Posted in American Jewish Community, Media | 95 Comments