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Philip Weiss

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

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• Israeli report on al-Dura case is vengeful and 'surreal,' says Haaretz -- but 'NYT' treats it as gospel
  • Philip Weiss May 21, 2013 at 9:19 am with 1 replies

    Yes I wish I'd understood that and included that insight. Thanks gents

• Abulhawa declines to 'balance out' several Israelis in 'Al Jazeera' forum on Nakba
  • Philip Weiss May 20, 2013 at 11:44 am

    I should have echoed Shmuel's point about Lia Tarachansky and Eitan Bronstein in the post. Lia is a dear friend of mine, and a wonderful journalist.
    (Myself I am more agnostic as to the larger question; in the US context, many fora are unbalanced, and yet I urge friends to accept some of those invitations to participate)

• CNN's Tapper lends himself to claustrophobic discussion of unicorn-- Israel's survival as 'a Jewish democracy'
  • Philip Weiss May 19, 2013 at 1:52 pm with 1 replies

    I think you might be. I've heard that Tapper is disenchanted with the project. I sure hope he gives voice to that.

• Barbara Boxer's visa bill for Israel comes under concerted attack
  • Philip Weiss May 18, 2013 at 12:01 pm with 4 replies

    I completely agree with you Ellen. The great opportunity this bill represents is an effort to grow a political movement around an outrage. I came to these issues as an American angered by pro-Israel factor in Iraq war.... This is analogous

• Islamophobia is as widespread and acceptable as anti-Semitism used to be
  • Philip Weiss May 19, 2013 at 7:57 pm with 1 replies

    let's start with Robert Cohn, Fagin, Twain's essay against the Jews. There's a Jew in War and Peace, I believe, in a rural scene, a caricature-- will dig that out later

• Issue in the L.A. mayor's race? Support Israel!
  • Philip Weiss May 18, 2013 at 12:04 pm

    Thank you for this sharp intervention

• Anthony Bourdain heads to Israel/Palestine
  • Philip Weiss May 18, 2013 at 12:03 pm

    Dug it. Keep ramblin!

• 'NY Times' relays Israeli threat to attack Syria
  • Philip Weiss May 16, 2013 at 8:42 am with 1 replies

    I take your point Chris, but I'd point out that the Times used to have a policy of not using information from an anonymous source unless there were two independent sources making the same assertions. The policy was always a kind of a figleaf, but it spoke to a journalistic concern that people who weren't willing to use their names had an agenda. The Times is nervous about this issue here, which is why Landler stacks up the official's bona fides.
    Yes, and what about all those Israeli anonymous sources who told Jeffrey Goldberg 2 years ago that Israel was going to attack Iran in 6 months? Shouldn't Landler have told us about those manipulative threats?

• 'AP' says Barbara Boxer is favoring Israeli travelers over American ones
  • Philip Weiss May 15, 2013 at 3:02 pm

    Thanks Henry for clarification. I will update Egelko i.d.

• Richard Engel says Syrian rebel journalists are 'noble,' but journalists whose cause is Hamas aren't really journalists
  • Philip Weiss May 16, 2013 at 8:34 am with 2 replies

    He also speaks Arabic and has spent years in Arab countries. That has surely washed out any Zionist indoctrination...
    I ascribe his weakness to careerism. And as the popularity of our site shows, many Jews have gotten off Zionism, many of them long ago.

• Beinart's challenge, Beinart's fear
  • Philip Weiss May 14, 2013 at 2:33 pm with 1 replies

    Thanks David, excellent points. And those threats of civil war have been explicit in Israel

• We cannot fix the national problems of Syria
  • Philip Weiss May 8, 2013 at 11:21 am with 5 replies

    I'll change it, Joshua.
    PS. Thanks much for the argument re Sirhan Sirhan. I have long argued just this point, that Americans have never fully considered the costs of supporting establishing a Jewish state in Palestine, which include the attack on the USS Liberty, 911, the killing of Rachel Corrie, and the rage toward RFK. This of course leaves out the endless wars that the State Dep't also predicted in '47-48

• Shared values?
  • Philip Weiss May 7, 2013 at 11:27 am

    Thanks Geoff. Corrected also by Marc

  • Philip Weiss May 7, 2013 at 11:26 am with 2 replies

    Thanks for correction, Marc. It was an anti-Catholic dating policy at that Protestant University. I misspoke!

• Hagel, Livni and Free Syrian Army commanders reported to gather in D.C. at behest of Israel lobby
  • Philip Weiss May 5, 2013 at 2:58 pm with 3 replies

    And I'd add that Joshua Landis characterizes this as a sectarian conflict. It didn't begin that way, he says; it is now.

• Legal fight continues against NYPD spying on Muslims: an interview with civil rights lawyer Jethro Eisenstein
  • Philip Weiss May 3, 2013 at 11:26 am with 1 replies

    Thanks Leander. Henry Norr also pointed this out. Appreciated.

• What you need to know about Bradley Manning
  • Philip Weiss May 2, 2013 at 4:39 pm

    Thanks David, thanks Chase. Going to correct. Phil

• When will the discourse of the 'two state solution' finally change?
  • Philip Weiss May 1, 2013 at 1:42 pm with 1 replies

    Thanks M, I have once again learned from the Comment section. My neighbor is Welsh and I will now provoke him.

• For backing '5 Broken Cameras,' 'Jewish Press' smears Dustin Hoffman as has-been 'figleaf' with 'Semitic nose'
  • Philip Weiss April 29, 2013 at 2:23 pm with 1 replies

    Thanks MLE, Important data point. This is now The Sore Point, Phil

• Send in the clowns
  • Philip Weiss May 3, 2013 at 11:30 am

    This is completely disingenuous. When I visited Gaza in '09, a woman living in a tent, whose home near Beit Hanoun had been destroyed 6 months before so as to facilitate the land invasion, said to me, "They treat us like animals." Her cry touched my soul, in that new Warsaw Ghetto built by Jews; and later I was moved when Jimmy Carter said, They are treated like animals. Our use of this metaphor bespeaks our belief in the dignity of all human beings, and our respect for Palestinian civilization.

  • Philip Weiss May 1, 2013 at 1:37 pm

    Thanks Piotr, I grew up with the wise men of Chelm. Thanks for that

• Israel supporters use Boston bombing to call for firing of UN Rapporteur
  • Philip Weiss April 27, 2013 at 12:13 pm

    OK; enough of the 911 stuff for this thread. If you want to have the conversation, I think you should go elsewhere. We have bigger halibut to grill here

• Boston's interfaith memorial deflection
  • Philip Weiss April 23, 2013 at 10:01 am with 1 replies

    Thanks for that. Missed that article. I want to find it.

• Chris Matthews suggests that Boston suspects are Arabs
  • Philip Weiss April 19, 2013 at 11:21 am with 2 replies

    Thank you MRW. I heard broadcasters saying that this morning. Do they know? Let's everyone take some deep breaths.

• Stamberg bit her tongue
  • Philip Weiss April 18, 2013 at 9:12 pm

    Donald, my wife agrees with you too: McCambridge's being Catholic was relevant to the anecdote. But I say, avoid the anecdote, if you're not going to go near the religious identification of your main subject, who actually makes a lot of his Jewishness in his book. That's why I see a double standard, in transparency

• Celebrating Israel's birthday, '2 luminary philosophers' to explore whether Zionism and liberalism are 'complementary identities'
  • Philip Weiss April 12, 2013 at 2:36 pm with 2 replies

    I dont see this item as a one-sided display of anti-Zionism, though yes, I'm dubious about the philosophers' ability to square that circle...
    And as for your musings, the Jewish state exists and has a track record. If and when a more fair regime replaces it, please count on me to stand up for equal rights inside it.

• Citing criticism from Zionists, NYRB's Silvers brags on 4 Israeli writers (and not a word about Judt)
  • Philip Weiss April 12, 2013 at 11:19 am

    the great inhibition on ending slavery, among those who knew it was wrong in the 1850s, was the fear of reprisal.

• 'NYT' runs another piece warning people not to intermarry during delusory secular interval of 30s and 40s
  • Philip Weiss April 9, 2013 at 8:59 am with 1 replies

    Thanks Michael! Registered. But I felt the concerns were the focus of the piece

• Rashid Khalidi on the Israel lobby
  • Philip Weiss April 4, 2013 at 9:52 am

    I agree with you about the merits of the book, Ira. It's superb scholarship, and focuses on three incidents in foreign policy and the ways that the peace process served to delude the participants, the Palestinians, in a cruel manner. Khalidi's argument is important and inarguable, and I've touched on it in earlier posts. I will return to its central points soon, but wanted to break out the lobby piece because it often came up in the speech the other night and also because I push the opposite view here so often it only seemed fair.

• 'Do you know any Arabs in London?' Israeli airport authorities grill British photojournalist before kicking him out
  • Philip Weiss April 10, 2013 at 11:52 am

    Of course. But the Altalena came after the founding of the state. Now they had to clean up their act and consolidate their power. Why didn't they do an Altalena when they heard the Irgun was going to ethnically cleanse JAffa or massacre the residents of Deir Yassin? Because they needed them then.

  • Philip Weiss April 7, 2013 at 12:56 pm

    Cliff we censor stuff, and I censored some of this post b/c we dont want the thread taken over with intemperate namecalling between you and Hophmi. Phil There are excellent substantive points but intemperate namecalling is a red line for us

  • Philip Weiss April 7, 2013 at 12:22 pm

    Hophmi, I dont buy this. I read in Koestler Promise and Fulfillment that the Palmach worked closely with the terrorist groups; they knew exactly what they were doing. Hand in glove. The condemnations were lip service. (And I assume there is some of this dynamic now in a population under the imperial heel...)
    Phil

• Obama allowed Zionists to feel cool again
  • Philip Weiss March 29, 2013 at 11:29 am with 1 replies

    Thanks for pointing that out, I agree; it's the opposite of damning with faint praise-- Endorsing with faint condemnation.

• Hat's off to Anthony Lewis, who in '99 understood that Israel wanted a Palestinian Bantustan
  • Philip Weiss March 30, 2013 at 1:22 pm

    RJL so you defend actual denial of rights to a population of millions based on ethnic distinction out of a fear of prospective discrimination by the other side? That's not even two wrongs make a right. It's I can do wrong because you would do worse!

• 'Talk is cheap' -- Jon Stewart weighs in on Obama trip
  • Philip Weiss March 26, 2013 at 3:34 pm with 1 replies

    Thanks Citizen. I'm sure Annie was on it, but sometimes I'm slow to rise, Phil

• NPR can't stop talking about Jews
  • Philip Weiss March 26, 2013 at 9:42 pm with 3 replies

    Folks, I stripped a thread from this post that delved into the causes of the Holocaust, and Jewish presence in the German elites between the wars. We've said over and over again, we find this subject distasteful/grotesque and if you want to discuss it, go somewhere else, we're going to censor it. We feel that we are trying to break new ground in the American discourse on the Palestinian issue, and that's a giant goal. The Jewish presence in the American establishment is part of that discussion, which is why we published Henry's piece, which is based on demonstrable fact; but this is also a sensitive question and tone is everything. This site is about community building, creating a new political space, and I'd urge commenters to be thoughtful about the ways that words can offend. Thanks, Phil

  • Philip Weiss March 26, 2013 at 12:17 pm

    Agreed. And that will transcend religious distinction

• Obama's heckler asked about Rachel Corrie, not Jonathan Pollard
  • Philip Weiss March 23, 2013 at 12:38 pm

    Thanks Citizen; acknowledged.

• Hea culpa: 'New Yorker' editor backed Iraq war because Saddam had WMD and wanted to liberate Jerusalem
  • Philip Weiss March 22, 2013 at 12:46 pm with 4 replies

    Play on Mea culpa. Reporters should be issuing Mea culpas. But he aint, that I'm aware of

• Tough Brooke Gladstone gives media a pass for supporting Iraq war
  • Philip Weiss March 20, 2013 at 4:48 pm with 1 replies

    Thanks for that Kathleen; I forgot that there was such a solid bloc. Unbelievable. I should amend post to reflect these very solid #s, if anyone wanted "cover." Phil

• Obama heads for the occupation-- and why isn't Ben Ehrenreich on NPR?
  • Philip Weiss March 20, 2013 at 12:08 pm with 1 replies

    I dont think it's bull at all. The American Council for Judaism folded up in 1967.

• Hopeful reading: Obama will go over Israeli leaders' heads to youth and say regime must change
  • Philip Weiss March 18, 2013 at 6:20 pm

    Thank you Parity

• US Jews leave 'Gatekeepers' asking why we give money to Israel -- says Oren, outraged
  • Philip Weiss March 17, 2013 at 2:39 pm

    your mom sounds like my mom

• Landmark 'NYT Magazine' cover story ennobles resistance in Nabi Saleh
  • Philip Weiss March 17, 2013 at 12:59 pm

    Missed that. Thank you Donald

• Vivian Gornick stashed book critical of Israel lest she 'commit literary suicide'
  • Philip Weiss March 17, 2013 at 12:01 pm

    But Hophmi what about her statement that to publish a book containing her thoughts would have been suicide? Isn't this damning of our political culture?

• Double standard
  • Philip Weiss March 14, 2013 at 2:52 pm with 8 replies

    Hophmi, There is no necessity for me to research that, a fact I learned from an earlier commenter. I take the piece on its face: If she deems his religion necessary for that reason, she ought to have provided that information. Phil

• Why Fran Korotzer stopped saying 'ethnic cleansing' and started saying 'genocide'
  • Philip Weiss March 13, 2013 at 2:32 pm with 1 replies

    I'm thankful for all commenters on this thread for hearing Fran as I did... She's got a booming voice

• 'NYT' landmark: Jewish philosophy prof says we 'really ought to question' Israel's right to exist
  • Philip Weiss March 10, 2013 at 8:36 pm with 1 replies

    Such a simple and important way of phrasing it; thanks light

• Israel's segregated bus lines-- and how the Jackson, MS, bus station changed Bill Kunstler's life
  • Philip Weiss March 4, 2013 at 12:10 pm

    Thanks Joe

• 'Emergency Committee for Israel' can dish it out, but it can't--
  • Philip Weiss March 1, 2013 at 10:36 pm

    Thank you for this list. Nadia Matar, incredible.

  • Philip Weiss March 1, 2013 at 11:51 am

    The Titanic? I saw the Titanic and I thought it was great!

• 'J Street' leader hints that 2013 is make-or-break for two-state solution
  • Philip Weiss March 1, 2013 at 10:32 pm with 29 replies

    So the woman I fell in love with and married and has been The Rock in my life is my enemy?

  • Philip Weiss February 27, 2013 at 3:47 pm with 4 replies

    Thanks Annie, should have included that language! Phil

• The controversy over the Oscars joke that Jews run Hollywood
  • Philip Weiss March 1, 2013 at 8:18 pm

    Wait it's a stereotype I have of the WASP establishment too. In 71 after considerable complaint Harvard Law School finally got a Jewish dean. Mandarins behave like mandarins

• NPR blames the victim: Emad Burnat brought suffering to Bil'in by filming occupiers
  • Philip Weiss February 21, 2013 at 11:54 am with 15 replies

    I never called myself a liberal Zionist. Have never been one
    and "most"? That's collective punishment

• 'Did Hagel get $25K speaking fee from Friends of Hamas?' -- Daily News seeded suspicion
  • Philip Weiss February 20, 2013 at 11:26 am with 1 replies

    What about Friedman's followup email, Piotr? Do you believe that only a moron would fall for that?

• Brooklyn College Political Science Dep't to sponsor talk by Elliott Abrams
  • Philip Weiss February 16, 2013 at 4:17 pm

    Brilliant, thanks

• Schulman: NY LGBT center labors under 'stereotyped beliefs about punitive rich Jews' who will pull out money if 'anyone criticizes Israel'
  • Philip Weiss February 16, 2013 at 4:20 pm

    Thanks, helpful Piotr. I agree

• Israel’s Identity Crisis: The practical difficulties of a Jewish and democratic state
  • Philip Weiss February 17, 2013 at 5:04 pm

    And if an ideology collapses in the light of certain realities (democratic rights to minorities, decline of anti-semitism in the west, militant sparta dependent on a superpower for legitimacy), that would make it... history

• When loving Israel is a social credential
  • Philip Weiss February 16, 2013 at 11:31 am

    Dan I think it's a mistaek to say that they're my favorite people. Yes I am of the privileged highly educated group in the US, and I live in a white neighborhood; and I chart these attitudes closely, and would be hypocritical if I said I wasn't privileged. It doesnt follow that they're my favorite people. I am proud of having diversity in my friendships

• Fallows calls 'SNL' donkey skit a 'significant' political marker of lobby's exposure
  • Philip Weiss February 16, 2013 at 11:28 am

    Interesting that you asks Jews to undertake that labor. Implicit: we find repugnant those critiques of Islam that come from Christian/Jewish sources. This is a sensitivity that many people respect. I regularly slam the Catholic church for pedophilia scandal. I dont delve into the liturgy to find its justifications there. Above my pay grade

• Cognitive dissonance on NPR
  • Philip Weiss February 12, 2013 at 10:43 am with 2 replies

    my mother's lecture serves:
    2 wrongs dont make a right.
    (particularly applied to your own behavior-- not someone else's; jesus was eloquent on that score)

• Brian Lehrer finds '5 Broken Cameras' 'extremely shocking' and wonders if Palestinians have abandoned two-state solution
  • Philip Weiss February 11, 2013 at 6:26 pm with 3 replies

    Agreed, David, and I think we know where he got those assumptions, inside a liberal Jewish community that he has not challenged. He's a communitarian, I sense.

• The wisdom of the late Akiva Orr
  • Philip Weiss February 11, 2013 at 6:31 pm

    Thanks for sharing that Lysias.

  • Philip Weiss February 11, 2013 at 6:28 pm

    He said he wished he had gone to the US of A

• Why I'm for boycott
  • Philip Weiss February 9, 2013 at 11:49 am

    I had no idea what was going on, any more than any other American. The first country I visited in the middle East was Syria, in 2006. Never called to Israel till I began to understand what Zionism was...

• Official who threatened Brooklyn College funding calls BDS speakers 'anti-Semitic fools'
  • Philip Weiss February 5, 2013 at 8:20 am with 4 replies

    Hostage, I had the impression you were still in favor of Partition resolution of 47. Am I wrong?Have you changed, evolved?

• 'Most moral' army in the world is looking more and more like Bull Connor enforcing Jim Crow
  • Philip Weiss February 2, 2013 at 9:33 pm

    Thanks Mooser. Smart; I'm going to study that list afresh.

  • Philip Weiss February 2, 2013 at 5:32 pm with 9 replies

    Mooser I don't understand the significance of the list of anti-gun organizations. Are you saying that the anti-Israel lobby isn't nearly as widespread in the U.S.?
    Also I take your point re Bull Connor, but I think it helps Americans understand apartheid over there, in American terms,
    Phil

• Hagel offers himself as secretary of Israel's defense
  • Philip Weiss February 2, 2013 at 12:43 pm with 4 replies

    I think you patronize Lindsey Graham who whatever his ideological depravity puts on a brilliant show as a prosecutor. He's a smart guy. Though yes I would like to know why he believes what he believes

• Obama in Tehran
  • Philip Weiss January 28, 2013 at 6:03 pm

    Thanks subconscious,
    My knowledge here is of course borrowed from my friend; and I should have said that my friend believes that Obama is being cast as Yazid and Shemr as Shemr..

• When will liberal Zionists give up on their dream?
  • Philip Weiss January 22, 2013 at 11:54 am with 7 replies

    Yes I agree they should read Shlomo Sand.
    I meant: that even these lib Zionists fear the rise of anti-Semitism in the west and therefore think they need a Jewish state. I think we need to interrogate this belief

• Bennett says Israel takes half its water from West Bank, as argument for annexation
  • Philip Weiss January 19, 2013 at 2:09 pm

    Thanks Piotr, helpful intervention

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