Category Archives: Beyondoweiss

The trespassing Jew

Posted on January 8, 2012 by Philip Weiss
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Five rustic tales of an upstate N.Y. Jew touch on new social conditions

Posted in American Jewish Community, Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine | Tagged | 39 Comments

Happy New Year

Posted on December 31, 2011 by Philip Weiss and Adam Horowitz

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

Posted on December 26, 2011 by Philip Weiss

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

Posted in American Jewish Community, Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine | 31 Comments

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

Posted on December 17, 2011 by Philip Weiss

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 →

Posted in American Jewish Community, Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine | 79 Comments

Israel isn’t good for the Jews anymore

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Philip Weiss

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

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Philip Weiss

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

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Philip Weiss

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 →

Posted in Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine | 32 Comments

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

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Alex Kane

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 →

Posted in Beyondoweiss, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Neocons | Tagged , , | 29 Comments

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

Posted on September 17, 2011 by Paul Mutter

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 →

Posted in American Jewish Community, Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine, Middle East, Neocons, US Politics | 19 Comments

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

Posted on September 3, 2011 by Eleanor Kilroy

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 →

Posted in BDS, Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine | 15 Comments

Colonel Qaddafi’s Tech Support

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Paul Mutter

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 →

Posted in Beyondoweiss, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 6 Comments

Israel will hear your confession now

Posted on August 28, 2011 by Eleanor Kilroy

‘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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The Refugees of Zone A

Posted on August 27, 2011 by Philip Weiss

From Wikipedia, 2022: “The Refugees of Zone A” refers to a group of about 500,000 refugees who left their homes in New York City during the legendary hurricane of 2011. Their homes were occupied by people fleeing Virginia and North … Continue reading →

Posted in Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine | 25 Comments

The ‘untamed wildernesses’ of Israeli and American colonialism

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Paul Mutter

A June editorial in +972 Magazine examined the (non-)utility of the argument “Who started it in 1948?” One thing that struck me about the points of the argument regarding the disposition of land in the British Mandate of Palestine was … Continue reading →

Posted in American Jewish Community, Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine, Middle East, Nakba, Settlers/Colonists, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 17 Comments

Pamela Geller slanders the Utoya victims (elitist anti-Semites, Hitler youth, oh and race-mixers)

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Paul Mutter

Pamela Geller, founder of Atlas Shrugs, delayed a full response to the shootings in Norway (by her own admission). Her ideological associates, in the meantime, had been issuing statements condemning the violence – as well as the victims’ politics. And … Continue reading →

Posted in American Jewish Community, Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine, Middle East, Neocons, US Politics | 29 Comments

I dreamed of Jerusalem

Posted on July 31, 2011 by Sarah Ali

It starts with a smile. A faint one apparently. But that doesn’t matter. I know as long as I’m smiling, nobody can wake me up. I shall keep the smile on my face. And I shall go on dreaming. I … Continue reading →

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‘Intelligence’ and Islamophobia – PowerPointed and neoconned

Posted on July 29, 2011 by Paul Mutter

A barely legible 2009 FBI PowerPoint on “Islam” has come down the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) line at a very unfortunate time following the right-wing terrorist attacks in Norway. But it is very much part of that tragedy. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Beyondoweiss, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Middle East, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 10 Comments

Israeli Foreign Ministry launches social media hasbara campaign featuring cute yellow puppet called ‘Hans von Puppet’

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Eleanor Kilroy

The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs enlarged its budget for the “Brand Israel” campaign last year to an unprecedented 100 million Shekels (over $26,260,000). In an article entitled “Will we conquer the world?”, translated by PULSE media, Globes found out that the … Continue reading →

Posted in Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine | 26 Comments

The great Renee Fleming, brought to you by the Jewish Agency and its West Bank colonization project

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Ofer Neiman

The famous American soprano Renee Fleming is scheduled to sing at Jerusalem’s Binyanei Hauma hall on Thursday July, 28th. Israeli activists have sent the following letter to her representatives:  Dear Renee Fleming, We are a group of Israeli citizens. We … Continue reading →

Posted in BDS, Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine | 78 Comments

Normalizing Israeli apartheid through international sporting events

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Eleanor Kilroy

The use of sport to unite children divided by street violence and traumatized by war is a compelling idea. ‘Serious Play: The Goal is Peace’ is the title of a 7 July Huffington Post article by Alison Craiglow Hockenberry. It … Continue reading →

Posted in BDS, Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine | 12 Comments

New Feature Announcement: Number of Replies to Comments on Profile

Posted on July 7, 2011 by alec

In commenter profiles, you will be able to see how many replies any given post has generated.

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Europe embraces the silences of Aharon Appelfeld

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Eleanor Kilroy

“Is the genocide of European Jewry being used as part of the negation of what is happening to the Palestinians?” Yitzhak Laor asks, rhetorically, in The Myths of Liberal Zionism (Verso, 2010), his book on the Jewish Israeli literati and … Continue reading →

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Help Mondoweiss stay afloat with a voluntary subscription

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Philip Weiss and Adam Horowitz

Everyone who subscribes will get a sustainer star beside his or her handle on comments. We will continue to enhance site features.

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Israel seeks to ban the Palestinian protest movement from iOS store

Posted on June 22, 2011 by alec

Arab springtime is welcomed in Syria and Libya but not in Israel. Israel’s determination to follow South Africa’s apartheid path seems relentless.

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Pitying ‘Coldplay”s angry commenters

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Eleanor Kilroy

It is easy to gloat at this smallest of victories – UK rock band Coldplay posts on their Facebook fan page a one-line endorsement of the extraordinary single released by their friends, ‘Freedom for Palestine – OneWorld’. Within a few … Continue reading →

Posted in Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine | 31 Comments