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Why hasn’t the Arab world produced a Koufax?

by Philip Weiss and Adam Horowitz on March 2, 2010 · 7 comments

New front in the hasbara war.

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A fan is born

by Philip Weiss on December 11, 2009 · 11 comments

This morning in the bathtub, my wife related the latest news in the Tiger Woods scandal. She says she was never interested in Tiger Woods before. He seemed perfect and programmed, dreamed up at Stanford, and married to a white-bread woman. He was a corporate/technocratic creation, and she hated that. Now she finds him wildly interesting. The scandal has revealed that he has urges like the rest of us, and a deep problem. It seems to have ended the perfect fake marriage, exposed the realities of the golf world, and, in its Thai-ness, revealed cultural differences too. She doesn’t admire him, but finds him deeply interesting. Count on her to watch golf before long.


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We let Jackie Robinson play ball 62 years ago

by Philip Weiss25 November 2009

Ali Abunimah read aloud this clipping from Ynet before his speech last Saturday at Hampshire. I’m republishing most of it below. Recently I said that Israeli elections are 45 years behind ours because the Democratic Party finally seated Mississippi blacks after 1964, and Israelis still don’t give Palestinian Arab parties power in creating governing coalitions. [...]

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two games, two results

by Philip Weiss12 October 2009

We went to the Army game on Saturday, guests of friends. As we were leaving the house, my wife said to me, "I don’t want you getting in fights with anyone in the stands." That had upset her the last time we went, two years ago.

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OK but we have 84.3% of the neocons

by Philip Weiss1 September 2009

Boston Globe runs a piece of Jewish pride saying that 5.7 percent of baseball all-stars this year are Jewish.

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I watched Yankees fans pull against the Yankees

by Philip Weiss26 August 2009
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What Madoff reveals about the new Jewish status

by Philip Weiss30 June 2009

A couple months back at the 92d Street Y, someone on a panel said that Bernie Madoff could have happened to any community. I mocked the comment at the time because it was willful indifference (on the part of a…

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It’s not a lobby, it’s a philosemitic culture and era; and it’s over

by Philip Weiss21 March 2009

Yesterday I went on Press TV to discuss the Israel lobby with Elazar Barkan and Dan Fleshler, and after the taping, the three of us hung out in a hallway talking. We all disagreed about what the lobby is. I’d…

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Tennis, and Alice Walker. Gaza continues to undermine the world’s opinion of Israel

by Philip Weiss8 March 2009

Last night I talked to a housewife from St. Louis (at a non-Jewish family gathering) who said she was very uncomfortable about the fact that the world is now having to spend billions to rebuild Gaza– makes her wonder why…

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McEnroe once boycotted South Africa, why can’t he wise up?

by Philip Weiss4 March 2009

Susie Kneedler tried to comment on the Shahar Peer story, couldn’t get her comment posted. We’re working out the bugs. Here it is: Sadly, John McEnroe, Billie Jean King, and Mary Carillo all condemned the UAE decision to deny Peer…

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Why should Israeli athletes be invited to international competitions when Palestinian athletes can’t go anywhere?

by Philip Weiss4 March 2009

Last month the United Arab Emirates refused to give a visa to Israeli tennis star Shahar Peer so that she could play in a tournament in Dubai, and the UAE has now been fined by the women’s tennis association for…

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‘Times’ sympathizes with Israeli athlete hurt by international politics, but not the 100s of Palestinian athletes in a similar situation

by Philip Weiss16 February 2009

Felson writes: Harvey Araton used his New York Times sports column today to document the plight of Shahar Peer, an Israeli tennis player who was denied a visa by the United Arab Emirates that would have allowed her to compete…

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Lesson of Super Bowl XLIII: A great game doesn’t have to be violent

by Philip Weiss2 February 2009

I was sickened by the Baltimore-Pittsburgh game two weeks ago, which ended not in athletic theatrics, but a 15-minute vigil on the field for Baltimore’s Willis McGahee, who’d been left crumpled by a helmet-to-helmet hit, a vigil followed in the…

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Gaza rage in Turkey

by Philip Weiss22 January 2009

Never saw this. An Israeli basketball team had to flee the floor in Turkey 2 weeks ago because of the crowd’s Gaza rage.

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