Philip Weiss


Philip Weiss is an American journalist who co-edits Mondoweiss with journalist Adam Horowitz. Weiss describes himself as an anti-Zionist and rejects the label "post-Zionist."

Career

Weiss is the author of the novel Cock-a-doodle-doo and the non-fiction book American Taboo: A Murder In The Peace Corps. He co-edited The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict with Adam Horowitz and Lizzy Ratner.

Other writing

Weiss has written for Spy, New York, Harper's Magazine, Esquire, and The New York Observer.
In 2006, he began writing a daily blog called Mondoweiss for 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 began Mondoweiss as an unaffiliated blog.

''The Goldstone Report''

Weiss and Horowitz, along with Lizzy Ratner, co-edited the 2011 book The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict. Publishers Weekly's review noted that the abridged version of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict included an introduction by Naomi Klein and an "eloquent" foreword by Bishop Desmond Tutu. The review said the book was "enhanced" by oral testimonies that "inject a harrowing human element to counterbalance the report's dispassionate tone" and called the book an "essential read for those concerned with accurate documentation of historical events and nations' accountability for their treatment of civilians living in war zones". Kirkus Reviews called the book an "eye-opening document and an urgent call for accountability".
In a Democracy Now! interview, Horowitz discussed Richard Goldstone's later correction of one item in his report, his saying "Civilians were not intentionally targeted as a matter of policy." Horowitz said that he viewed this as a minor issue and "uch larger was the issue of intentionally attacking the civilian infrastructure of Gaza, which he doesn't mention, and the idea of just disproportionate and indiscriminate violence, which he doesn't address and which affects civilians disproportionately."

Books

  • 1996: Cock-a-doodle-doo
  • 2004: American Taboo: A Murder In The Peace Corps
  • 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.