Category Archives: Beyondoweiss

Ninny Middleton doesn’t understand the job description

Prince Charles has mommy issues, and the Queen has a hard life. But that’s the job

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‘Commentary’ slams me for struggling with the elite issue

A report on a Vuillard show on NPR highlights the importance of a Jewish elite in European cultural politics, and ours too

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Soccer’s tragic flaw made a farce of Euro Cup final

During the Euro Cup final between Spain and Italy yesterday, ESPN commentators said that they were hoping for a spectacular game to show off the greatness of soccer to an American audience– as opposed to the ugly final between Spain … Continue reading

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Race, class, religion– an American wedding

Middle class kids are building postracial America

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My wife explains the conflict to a friend

People say the Israel Palestine conflict is complicated. It’s not

Posted in Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine, US Politics | 130 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

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

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On the sidewalk in Hamburg– ‘Hier wohnte’

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

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‘Death of a Salesman’ came out of an intermarriage

‘I had arrived at the psychological role of mediator between the Jews and America, and among Americans themselves’ –Arthur Miller on his intermarriage in 1940

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Shmully and guilt

Sabbath dinner at the Eliezer Society at Yale turns into a heated discussion of Israel/Palestine

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Auden wrote ‘by far’ the best book in 1945, but was denied the Pulitzer for alleged Communism and aloofness from WW II

Frankly political considerations guided the Pulitzer Prize award for poetry in 1945, at the end of the war

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Episcopalian twit (a review of JFK’s former mistress’s memoir)

We read memoirs in order to judge the people who wrote them

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My spirit is American (a religious manifesto)

The Israel lobby colonized American Jewish spiritual identity, and consecrated it to nationalist myths half a world away, when our inspirations are American

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The trespassing Jew

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Five rustic tales of an upstate N.Y. Jew touch on new social conditions

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Happy New Year

Here’s a mental health break going into 2012. Thanks again everyone for a great year and we’ll see you soon.

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The gift of the Jews

America’s philosemitism grew out of the gifts that Jewish culture brought to modern society.

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Is portrait of Mark Zuckerberg in ‘The Social Network’ anti-Semitic?

We’ve had a Netflicks DVD of The Social Network hanging around the house for months. My wife watched it ages ago, by herself, but because I’m so dependent, I’ve been pressing her to watch it again, with me. Last night … Continue reading

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Israel isn’t good for the Jews anymore

Israel isn’t good for the Jews anymore. That’s the news from New York. It happened in the last week, or the last two years. A feeling has taken root deep in the American Jewish community that Israel is hurting us, … Continue reading

Posted in American Jewish Community, Beyondoweiss, Gaza, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Nakba, US Policy in the Middle East | Tagged | 263 Comments

Mondo… Beyondo

Mondoweiss began as personal blog for Philip Weiss 6 years ago. Now the site is professional, that stuff will be filed under Beyondo

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The progressive vanity of the colonial, per Doris Lessing

I struggle to understand the righteousness of Israelis when it comes to international criticism, and so I’ve typed up a fascinating passage about the colonial mindset from Doris Lessing’s novel A Proper Marriage, which is set in Southern Rhodesia, now … Continue reading

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‘Commentary’ smear of Occupy Wall St. doesn’t bother to get basic facts right

If you’re intent on derailing the Occupy Wall Street protests by tarring demonstrators as anti-Semites, you might bother to get basic facts right. But Alana Goodman at the neoconservative Commentary magazine doesn’t even do that in her zeal to link … Continue reading

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Glenn Beck, the American Right and the myth of ‘the International Jew’

Glenn Beck will likely soon regale us all with the valuable lessons he learned in Israel. Perhaps the rally turnout was lower than expected, but you can bet that any book he writes about it will become a bestseller in … Continue reading

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The end of civilization: no ‘dignity’ in remaining silent at BBC Proms

In a Guardian review of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) at the BBC Proms, and referring to the boycott protests that disrupted their concert in London’s Royal Albert Hall on Thursday, classical music critic Erica Jeal praises IPO conductor, Zubin Mehta, … Continue reading

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Colonel Qaddafi’s Tech Support

Reporting from Tripoli, The Wall Street Journal’s Paul Sonne and Margaret Coker reveal the depths of collusion between Colonel Qaddafi’s spooks and their foreign tech support: The recently abandoned room is lined with posters and English-language training manuals stamped with … Continue reading

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Israel will hear your confession now

‘From stabbing IDF soldiers to having them as teammates, Palestinian uses football for peace’ has to be the most disingenuous headline for an article on the colonizer-colonized relationship, even by the standards of JTA, The Global News Service of the Jewish … Continue reading

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