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.
Weiss has written for New York magazine, Harper's, Esquire, and The New York Observer. His columns are also published on The Unz Review founded by Ron Unz.
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.
Weiss praised an article by Ron Unz alleging that Jews are overrepresented at Ivy League universities. According to the Anti-Defamation League, Weiss is receives funding from Unz's Foundation. For example, in 2009, 2010, and 2011, Weiss received payments of $60,000 from Unz.

Allegations of antisemitism

Weiss and his website have been accused of antisemitism. According to Elliot Kaufman, writing in The Stanford Review, Mondoweiss "often publishes astonishingly anti-Semitic material, using classic anti-Semitic imagery such as depicting Jews as spiders, cockroaches, or octopuses with tentacles controlling others, and Holocaust inversion. Its hatred of Israel is as deep as it is vicious."
In 2015, David Bernstein, writing for The Washington Post, called the website a "hate site", and featured quotes from Weiss that he asserted were anti-Semitic. This included Weiss's claim that "the Israel lobby... reflected a contract the American establishment had made with Jews to drive the economy in the 1970s", Bernstein likened this to Weiss believing in an "Elders of Zion type group".

Books