Philip Weiss

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Philip Weiss
Residence Cold Spring, New York[1]
Occupation Journalist, Writer
Known for Creator and co-editor of Mondoweiss with Adam Horowitz
Spouse(s) Cynthia Kling[2]
Website mondoweiss.net

Philip Weiss is an American journalist who co-edits Mondoweiss ("a news website devoted to covering American foreign policy in the Middle East, chiefly from a progressive Jewish perspective"[3]) with journalist Adam Horowitz.[3][4] Weiss describes himself as an anti-Zionist and rejects the label "post-Zionist."[5]

Career

Weiss is the author of the novel Cock-a-Doodle-Doo (1996)[6] and the non-fiction book American Taboo: A Murder In The Peace Corps (2004).[7] He co-edited The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict (2011) with Adam Horowitz and Lizzy Ratner.[8]

Weiss has written for New York magazine,[9] Harper's Magazine,[10] Esquire, and the New York Observer.[11][12]

In 2006 he began writing a daily blog called Mondoweiss on The New York Observer website which began to focus only on "Jewish issues" like "the Iraq disaster and my Jewishness, Zionism, neo-conservatism, Israel, Palestine." In the spring of 2007 he started Mondoweiss as an independent blog.[13][14]

Books

  • 2011: The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict, by Adam Horowitz, Lizzy Ratner, Philip Weiss, Naomi Klein, et al.[15]
  • 2004: American Taboo: A Murder In The Peace Corps[16][17]
  • 1996: Cock-a-Doodle-Doo[1]

References

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  3. 3.0 3.1 About: Mondowiess
  4. Phil Weiss at Mondoweiss.
  5. Philip Weiss, "I'm gonna wave my freak flag high (why I say I'm an 'Anti-Zionist,' not a 'Post-Zionist')", Mondoweiss blog, January 10, 2009.
  6. Philip Weiss, Cock-a-Doodle-Doo, St. Martin's Press, March 1996, ISBN 0312141009 ISBN 978-0312141004
  7. Publisher Harper Collins web page on Philip Weiss, American Taboo: A Murder In The Peace Corps, 2004.
  8. Philip Weiss, Adam Horowitz, Lizzy Ratner, The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict, Nation Books , January 11, 2011, ISBN 1568586418 ISBN 978-1568586410
  9. Philip Weiss at New York Magazine.
  10. Philip Weiss at Harper's Magazine.
  11. Biography from Harper Collins
  12. Philip Weiss at New York Observer.
  13. Philip Weiss, Blogging about Israel and Jewish identity raises Observer hackles, The American Conservative, June 4, 2007.
  14. Publisher's Weekly review
  15. Bob Shacochis, Nonfiction: "American Taboo" by Philip Weiss Review of American Taboo Salon.com, July 20, 2004.
  16. Peter Godwin, "A Cold Case". Review of American Taboo in The New York Times Book Review, June 27, 2004.

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