{{short description|American news website}} {{pp-protect|small=yes}} {{pp-move-indef|small=yes}} {{use mdy dates|date=February 2024}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = Mondoweiss | image = Mondoweiss-wordmark-tagline-black-outlines.svg | type = News website | format = Online | founded = March 2006 | chief_editor = Philip Weiss<br />Adam Horowitz | publisher = Scott Roth | staff_writers = | language = English | political_position = Anti-Zionism <br> Progressive<ref name="AboutM">{{cite web|url=http://mondoweiss.net/about-mondoweiss|title=About Mondoweiss|date=June 5, 2014|access-date=August 19, 2010|archive-date=September 25, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100925005706/http://mondoweiss.net/about-mondoweiss|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{citation |url=http://www.wbez.org/episode-segments/2011-09-23/two-perspectives-palestinian-bid-statehood-92384 |title=Two perspectives on the Palestinian bid for statehood |publisher=WBEZ |date=September 23, 2011 |access-date=March 23, 2013 |archive-date=December 2, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202222958/http://www.wbez.org/episode-segments/2011-09-23/two-perspectives-palestinian-bid-statehood-92384 |url-status=live}}</ref> | headquarters = United States | oclc = 1413751648 | website = {{url|mondoweiss.net}} }} '''''Mondoweiss''''' is an anti-Zionist<ref>{{cite news |last1=Nathan-Kazis |first1=Josh |title=Jewish National Fund's Iconic Blue Box Sends One-State Israel Message |url=https://forward.com/israel/190178/jewish-national-funds-iconic-blue-box-sends-one-st/ |access-date=9 September 2025 |work=The Forward |date=2 January 2014 |language=en}}</ref> news website based in the United States.<ref name="Atlantic" /><ref>Mark Braverman, [https://books.google.com/books?id=99FJAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT203&lpg=PT203 ''A Wall in Jerusalem: Hope, Healing, and the Struggle for Justice in Israel and Palestine,''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210722103530/https://books.google.com/books?id=99FJAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT203&lpg=PT203 |date=July 22, 2021}} Hachette UK 2013 {{isbn|978-1-455-57419-3}}</ref> Mondoweiss began as a general-interest blog written by Philip Weiss on ''The New York Observer'' website. Adam Horowitz later joined as co-editor.<ref name="Goldberg" >Michelle Goldberg, [https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/mondo-weiss 'Idiosyncratic and influential anti-Zionist blogger Philip Weiss has a complicated relationship with Israel, American Jewry, and himself,'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506100639/https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/mondo-weiss |date=May 6, 2021}} ''Tablet'' January 20, 2011</ref> In 2010, Weiss described the website's purpose as one of covering American foreign policy in the Middle East from a "progressive Jewish perspective".<ref>Jane Adas, [http://www.ameu.org/getattachment/e6febe66-2cc1-4e0a-8d31-3d4e696497e2/The-Olive-Trees-of-Palestine.aspx 'Interview with Jane Adas,'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921092516/http://www.ameu.org/getattachment/e6febe66-2cc1-4e0a-8d31-3d4e696497e2/The-Olive-Trees-of-Palestine.aspx |date=September 21, 2020}} AMEU, Link, vol 43, No. 1 January–March 2010 p. 12</ref> In 2011, it defined its aims as fostering greater fairness for Palestinians in American foreign policy, and as providing American Jews with an alternative identity to that expressed by Zionist ideology, which he regards as antithetical to American liberalism.<ref name="Goldberg" /> Originally supported by The Nation Institute (renamed Type Media Center in 2019), it became a project of part of the Center for Economic Research and Social Change in June 2011.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Weiss |first1=Philip |author-link=Philip Weiss |last2=Horowitz |first2=Adam |date=June 23, 2011 |title=Site news: Introducing Mondoweiss's new home |url=https://mondoweiss.net/2011/06/site-news-introducing-mondoweisss-new-home/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161120060050/https://mondoweiss.net/2011/06/site-news-introducing-mondoweisss-new-home/ |archive-date=November 20, 2016 |access-date=January 13, 2024 |website=Mondoweiss}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://cersc.org/mondoweiss/|title=Mondoweiss |publisher=Center for Economic Research and Social Change |access-date=July 9, 2021|archive-date=July 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210703065012/https://cersc.org/mondoweiss/|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Staff== Philip Weiss has written for ''New York'' magazine,<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://nymag.com/nymag/philip-weiss/ |title=Philip Weiss |first=Philip |last=Weiss |magazine=New York |date=nd |access-date=May 18, 2021 |archive-date=April 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419114746/https://nymag.com/nymag/philip-weiss/ |url-status=live}} This is the archives of ''New York'' magazine articles written by Weiss from 2002 through 2009.</ref> ''Harper's Magazine'',<ref>[http://harpers.org/subjects/PhilipWeiss "Philip Weiss"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120830002859/http://harpers.org/subjects/PhilipWeiss |date=August 30, 2012}} at ''Harper's Magazine''.</ref> ''Esquire'', and ''The New York Observer''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/24529/Philip_Weiss/index.aspx|title=Biography from Harper Collins|access-date=February 22, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130330094804/http://harpercollins.com/authors/24529/Philip_Weiss/index.aspx|archive-date=March 30, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://observer.com/author/philip-weiss/|title=Philip Weiss|website=The Observer|access-date=March 13, 2021|archive-date=April 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413061158/https://observer.com/author/philip-weiss/|url-status=live}}</ref> He is the author of ''Cock-a-Doodle-Doo'' (1996)<ref>Philip Weiss, ''Cock-a-Doodle-Doo'', St. Martin's Press, March 1996, {{ISBN|0312141009}}, {{ISBN|978-0312141004}}.</ref> and ''American Taboo: A Murder in the Peace Corps'' (2004).<ref>[http://www.harpercollins.com/browseinside/index.aspx?isbn13=9780060096878 Publisher Harper Collins web page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130527051555/http://www.harpercollins.com/browseinside/index.aspx?isbn13=9780060096878 |date=May 27, 2013}} on Philip Weiss, ''American Taboo: A Murder in the Peace Corps'', 2004.</ref> Weiss self-identifies on the site as anti-Zionist.<ref name="AboutM"/><ref name="Mondoweiss_Weiss_20090110">{{cite news |last=Weiss |first=Phillip |url=http://mondoweiss.net/2009/01/why-i-say-im-an-antizionist-not-a-postzionist.html |title=I'm gonna wave my freak flag high (why I say I'm an 'Anti-Zionist,' not a 'Post-Zionist |work=Mondoweiss |date=January 10, 2009 |access-date=May 18, 2021 |archive-date=August 25, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140825225532/http://mondoweiss.net/2009/01/why-i-say-im-an-antizionist-not-a-postzionist.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Mondoweiss_Weiss_20120412">{{cite news |last=Weiss |first=Phillip |url=http://mondoweiss.net/2012/12/its-time-for-the-media-to-talk-about-zionism.html |title=It's time for the media to talk about Zionism |work=Mondoweiss |date=January 10, 2009 |access-date=May 18, 2021 |archive-date=August 12, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812060822/http://mondoweiss.net/2012/12/its-time-for-the-media-to-talk-about-zionism.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Weiss |first=Phillip |url=http://mondoweiss.net/2013/01/anti-zionist-chic.html |title=Anti-Zionist chic |work=Mondoweiss |date=January 17, 2013 |access-date=November 18, 2013 |archive-date=December 2, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202230443/http://mondoweiss.net/2013/01/anti-zionist-chic.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
Adam Horowitz received his master's degree in Near Eastern Studies from New York University.<ref name=bio>[http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gpa/globalnotes/2011/03/peacebuilders-delegation-to-is.php Biography in "Peacebuilders delegation to Israel Palestine May & June 2011"], Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, March 3, 2011. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714210756/http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gpa/globalnotes/2011/03/peacebuilders-delegation-to-is.php |date=July 14, 2014}}</ref> He later served as the Director of the Israel/Palestine Program for the American Friends Service Committee<ref name=bio/> where he gained "extensive on-the-ground experience in Israel/Palestine".<ref>[http://thejerusalemfund.org/ht/display/ContentDetails/i/15819 The New Media & the Palestine Question: Blogging Out of Conflict 2010 event, biography of Adam Horowitz], The Jerusalem Fund website. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130127183752/http://thejerusalemfund.org/ht/display/ContentDetails/i/15819 |date=January 27, 2013}}<!-- URL works but goes to different page--></ref>{{fails verification|date=September 2025}} In addition to ''Mondoweiss'', Horowitz has written for ''The Nation'', ''AlterNet'', ''The Huffington Post,'' and ''The Hill.com''.<ref name=bio/><ref>*[http://www.thenation.com/authors/adam-horowitz Adam Horowitz] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130221001049/http://www.thenation.com/authors/adam-horowitz |date=February 21, 2013}} at ''The Nation'' *[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-horowitz Adam Horowitz] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111060905/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-horowitz |date=November 11, 2012}} at ''The Huffington Post'' *[https://thehill.com/?as_q=%22adam+horowitz%22&btnG.x=0&btnG.y=0&btnG=Search&Itemid=315&option=com_gsearch Adam Horowitz] at ''The Hill'' *[http://www.alternet.org/authors/11101/ Adam Horowitz] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110819164605/http://www.alternet.org/authors/11101/ |date=August 19, 2011}} at ''AlterNet''</ref> He has spoken frequently on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict on campuses and to organizations.<ref>Adam Horowitz, [http://mondoweiss.net/2009/03/adam-horowitz-on-the-twostate-solution.html "'Mr. Horowitz, tell us what you think of the two-state solution'"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130115053034/http://mondoweiss.net/2009/03/adam-horowitz-on-the-twostate-solution.html |date=January 15, 2013}}, ''Mondoweiss'', March 15, 2009.</ref><ref>The following events ''all accessed January 19, 2013''. *[http://www.fosna.org/files/fosna/events/2005_chicago_flyer.pdf Chicago Sabeel Conference announcement, 2005], Friends of Sabeel website. *[https://afsc.org/resource/campus-organizing-conference-schedule Campus Organizing Conference: Educate, Motivate, Advocate for a Just Peace in Israel & Palestine, 2011] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130415055305/http://www.afsc.org/resource/campus-organizing-conference-schedule |date=April 15, 2013}}, American Friends Service Committee *[http://afsc.org/event/states-and-violenceviolence-and-state-uicdepaul-university-joint-student-research-conference "UIC/DePaul University joint student research conference States and Violence/Violence and the State", 2011] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111015115332/http://www.afsc.org/event/states-and-violenceviolence-and-state-uicdepaul-university-joint-student-research-conference |date=October 15, 2011}}, American Friends Service Committee website. *[http://www.cjpip.org/09-10_Series.html Jewish Bloggers: Conscience over Complicity, 2010] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100821032533/http://www.cjpip.org/09-10_Series.html |date=August 21, 2010}} at Committee for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine website. *[http://thejerusalemfund.org/ht/display/ContentDetails/i/15819 The New Media & the Palestine Question: Blogging Out of Conflict 2010 event] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130127183752/http://thejerusalemfund.org/ht/display/ContentDetails/i/15819 |date=January 27, 2013}}, The Jerusalem Fund website.</ref>
Alex Kane, an assistant editor for ''Mondoweiss'' based in New York City, also is the World editor for AlterNet.<ref>[http://www.alternet.org/authors/alex-kane Alex Kane Stories listing] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130413054454/http://www.alternet.org/authors/alex-kane |date=April 13, 2013}}, AlterNet, accessed April 18, 2013.</ref> His work also has appeared in ''Salon'', ''The Daily Beast'', ''The Electronic Intifada'', ''Extra!'' and ''Common Dreams''.<ref>Alex Kane, [http://www.salon.com/2010/07/09/israel_gets_away/ "It's official: Israel has gotten away with it — again"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130418135928/http://www.salon.com/2010/07/09/israel_gets_away/ |date=April 18, 2013}}, ''Salon'', July 9, 2010.</ref> Regular contributors include Helena Cobban, Dareen Tatour, Steven Salaita, Alice Rothchild, Haidar Eid, Nada Elia, Yossi Gurvitz, Jonathan Ofir and Shatha Hanaysha.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-05-12 |title=Shatha Hanaysha |url=https://mondoweiss.net/author/shatha-hanaysha/ |access-date=2025-10-05 |website=Mondoweiss |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>[https://mondoweiss.net/2019/06/exciting-changes-mondoweiss/ "Mondoweiss is growing: Join us in welcoming new staff"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190606230111/https://mondoweiss.net/2019/06/exciting-changes-mondoweiss/ |date=June 6, 2019}}. ''Mondoweiss''. June 4, 2019.</ref>
==Development==
In a 2010 interview with ''The Link,'' the magazine published by Americans for Middle East Understanding, Philip Weiss described the evolution of ''Mondoweiss'':
<blockquote>In March 2006 I began writing a daily blog on ''The New York Observer'' website. My editor, Peter Kaplan, encouraged me to write what was on my mind and it was his idea to call it ''Mondoweiss''. Increasingly what was on my mind were "Jewish issues": the Iraq disaster and my Jewishness, Zionism, neo-conservatism, Israel, Palestine. For many reasons that I detail in "Blogging about Israel and Jewish identity raises ''Observer'' hackles" in the spring of 2007 I re-launched my own blog on my own website. It became a collaborative effort a year ago when Adam Horowitz joined ''Mondoweiss''.<ref name=links>Adas, Jane. [http://www.ameu.org/getattachment/e6febe66-2cc1-4e0a-8d31-3d4e696497e2/The-Olive-Trees-of-Palestine.aspx "From The Link's Links"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921092516/http://www.ameu.org/getattachment/e6febe66-2cc1-4e0a-8d31-3d4e696497e2/The-Olive-Trees-of-Palestine.aspx |date=September 21, 2020}}, ''The Link'', Vol. 43, Issue 1, Americans for Middle East Understanding, January–March 2010:12.</ref></blockquote>
In ''The American Conservative'', Weiss detailed his split from ''The New York Observer'' and wrote, "Blogging about such matters sometimes made me feel wicked, as though I was betraying my tribe. Shouldn't some thoughts remain private? But I felt that the form demanded transparency about what I cared about, Jewish identity."<ref>Philip Weiss, [http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/mondoweiss-chapter-one/ "Blogging about Israel and Jewish identity raises ''Observer'' hackles"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120924144140/http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/mondoweiss-chapter-one/ |date=September 24, 2012}}, ''The American Conservative'', June 4, 2007.</ref> On July 16, 2012, ''Mondoweiss'' announced a new partnership with ''Salon''.<ref>[https://www.algemeiner.com/2012/07/23/salon-com-partners-with-purveyor-of-anti-semitic-material-mondoweiss/ "Salon.com Partners With Purveyor of Anti-Semitic Material Mondoweiss"]. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210715164525/https://www.algemeiner.com/2012/07/23/salon-com-partners-with-purveyor-of-anti-semitic-material-mondoweiss/ |date=July 15, 2021}}. ''The Algemeiner''. July 23, 2012.</ref><ref>Philip Weiss, Adam Horowitz. [https://mondoweiss.net/2012/07/announcing-a-new-partnership-between-mondoweiss-and-salon/ "Announcing a new partnership between Mondoweiss and Salon"]. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210715164516/https://mondoweiss.net/2012/07/announcing-a-new-partnership-between-mondoweiss-and-salon/ |date=July 15, 2021}}. ''Mondoweiss''. July 16, 2012.</ref>
==Content== In 2008, after the arrest of Ben-Ami Kadish, who allegedly gave Israel stolen United States secrets on nuclear weapons, fighter jets and missiles in the 1980s, ''The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles'' quoted ''Mondoweiss'' as writing about an old Government Accountability Office report stating that Israel "conducts the most aggressive espionage operation against the United States of any U.S. ally".<ref>Brad A. Greenberg, [http://www.jewishjournal.com/thegodblog/item/bad_news_for_jews_american_accused_of_spying_for_israel_in_80s/ "Bad news for Jews: American accused of spying for Israel in '80s"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160529203755/http://www.jewishjournal.com/thegodblog/item/bad_news_for_jews_american_accused_of_spying_for_israel_in_80s/ |date=May 29, 2016}}, ''The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles'', April 22, 2008.</ref><ref>Philip Weiss, [http://mondoweiss.net/2008/04/this-is-how-tuc.html "I Swear My Mama Doesn't Spy for Israel. Now, My Daddy–"]. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140724070818/http://mondoweiss.net/2008/04/this-is-how-tuc.html |date=July 24, 2014}}. ''Mondoweiss''. April 22, 2008.</ref> In 2010, James Wolcott wrote in ''Vanity Fair'' quoting Weiss in ''Mondoweiss'' regarding an Anti-Defamation League statement regarding the planned Park51 project, an Islamic Center near the World Trade Center site. Wolcott quoted Weiss who had written: "It's happened: the Anti-Defamation League has overplayed its hand (in this case, neoconservative Islamophobia) in such a glaring manner that it is being condemned at every quarter."<ref>James Wolcott, [http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott/2010/07/the-anti-defamation-league-has-done Foxman Agonistes (Updated)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130114092540/http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott/2010/07/the-anti-defamation-league-has-done |date=January 14, 2013}}, ''Vanity Fair'', July 31, 2010, accessed February 20, 2013.</ref><ref>Philip Weiss, [http://mondoweiss.net/2010/07/adl-statement-rationalizing-bigotry-draws-wide-scorn/ "'ADL' statement rationalizing bigotry draws wide scorn"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160411055324/http://mondoweiss.net/2010/07/adl-statement-rationalizing-bigotry-draws-wide-scorn/ |date=April 11, 2016}}, ''Mondoweiss'', July 30, 2010.</ref>
In 2012, ''Tablet'' magazine wrote that the Associated Press had "picked up a story from advocacy blog" ''Mondoweiss'',<ref name="tabmag">{{cite web|last1=Tracy|first1=Marc|title=Ben-Gurion Airport Israeli Security Is Checking Arabs' and Muslims' Emails: Associated Press picks up story from advocacy blog Mondoweiss|url=http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/101611/israeli-airport-security-now-checking-emails|website=Tablet Magazine|access-date=December 30, 2016|date=June 5, 2012|archive-date=May 14, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130514005454/http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/101611/israeli-airport-security-now-checking-emails|url-status=live}}</ref> about Israeli security asking a Palestinian-American to show them her email at Ben-Gurion Airport. ''Tablet'' wrote that "more news stories—and this story is undoubtedly newsworthy—are going to come to the attention of non-niche journalists and thereby gain wider notice".<ref name="tabmag" /><ref>Najwa Doughman and Sasha Al-Sarabi, [http://mondoweiss.net/2012/06/do-you-feel-more-arab-or-more-american-two-arab-american-womens-story-of-being-detained-and-interrogated-at-ben-gurion.html "'Do you feel more Arab or more American?': Two women's story of being detained and interrogated at Ben Gurion"]. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130407035004/http://mondoweiss.net/2012/06/do-you-feel-more-arab-or-more-american-two-arab-american-womens-story-of-being-detained-and-interrogated-at-ben-gurion.html |date=April 7, 2013}}. ''Mondoweiss''. June 2, 2012.</ref> Also in 2012, ''Mondoweiss'' reported that United States Representative Joseph R. Pitts' office had mailed a letter calling on Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestine National Authority Chair Yasser Arafat to work toward peace in the Middle East. It commented that the congressman seemed to entrust peace negotiations in the Middle East to a dead man, Arafat, and another in a vegetative state, Sharon.<ref>Ian Rhodewalt [https://MONDOWEISS.NET/2012/05/CONGRESSMAN-JOE-PITTS-IT-IS-INCUMBENT-ON-ARIEL-SHARON-AND-YASIR-ARAFAT-TO-RESTART-A-PEACE-PROCESS /Congressman Joe Pitts: 'It is incumbent on Ariel Sharon and Yasir Arafat to restart a peace process'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231117044001/https://mondoweiss.net/2012/05/congressman-joe-pitts-it-is-incumbent-on-ariel-sharon-and-yasir-arafat-to-restart-a-peace-process/ |date=November 17, 2023}}. ''Mondoweiss''. May 13, 2012.</ref> The blog pointed out that Sharon had been in a coma since 2006 and Arafat had died in 2004. The representative blamed accidental use of an old form letter.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140714224119/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-31369059.html "On Middle East, Pitts Lives In Past; Bloggers Have Field Day After Legislator's Letter Invokes Yasir Arafat, Who Died In 2004, And Ariel Sharon, In Coma Since 2006"], ''Intelligencer Journal/New Era'', May 12, 2012.</ref><ref>Adam Horowitz, [http://mondoweiss.net/2012/05/rep-pitts-in-damage-control-mode-following-call-for-arafat-sharon-negotiations.html "Rep. Pitts in damage control mode following call for Arafat-Sharon negotiations"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130227224442/http://mondoweiss.net/2012/05/rep-pitts-in-damage-control-mode-following-call-for-arafat-sharon-negotiations.html |date=February 27, 2013}}. ''Mondoweiss''. May 16, 2012.</ref>
==Reception== In March 2007, Gary Kamiya, in an article for the website ''Salon'', wrote that ''Mondoweiss'' offered "informed and passionate discussions" of what Weiss stated were "delicate and controversial matters surrounding American Jewish identity and Israel". Kamiya wrote that Weiss, "routinely skewers attempts by mainstream Jewish organizations and pundits to lay down the law on what is acceptable discourse". As an example he mentioned Weiss' exploration of "off-limits" topics like dual loyalty, as in an incident regarding the American Jewish Committee. Weiss had written that a Committee piece accusing Jewish intellectuals who did not "toe the party line on Israel" of being "self-haters" only revealed the "anti-intellectual, vicious, omerta practices of the Jewish leadership".<ref name=Kamiya>Gary Kamiya, [https://www.salon.com/2007/03/20/aipac_2/ Can American Jews unplug the Israel lobby?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210715164724/https://www.salon.com/2007/03/20/aipac_2/ |date=July 15, 2021}}, ''Salon'' March 20, 2007.</ref>
In 2009, Michael Massing, in an article titled "The News About the Internet" for ''The New York Review of Books'', noted that "Weiss is one of several friends I've seen flourish online after enduring years of frustration writing for magazines. With its unrelenting criticism of Israel, his site [''Mondoweiss''] has angered even some of his fellow doves, but it has given voice to a strain of opinion that in the past had few chances of being heard."<ref name=nyrob>{{cite news|last=Massing|first=Michael|url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2009/aug/13/the-news-about-the-internet/?pagination=false|title=The News About the Internet|work=The New York Review of Books|date=March 13, 2009|access-date=August 19, 2010|archive-date=May 23, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100523190019/http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2009/aug/13/the-news-about-the-internet/?pagination=false|url-status=live}}</ref> In November 2009, former United States Senator James G. Abourezk praised Weiss and Horowitz for their courage in taking on "what most believe is an unassailable, monolithic pro-Israel Lobby".<ref>James G. Abourezk, [http://www.wrmea.org/wrmea-archives/321-washington-report-archives-2006-2010/november-2009/6361-mondoweiss-a-profile-in-courage.html "''Mondoweiss'': A Profile in Courage"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203010841/http://www.wrmea.org/wrmea-archives/321-washington-report-archives-2006-2010/november-2009/6361-mondoweiss-a-profile-in-courage.html |date=December 3, 2013}}, ''Washington Report on Middle East Affairs'', November 2009.</ref> In September 2010, James Wolcott of ''Vanity Fair'' argued that ''Mondoweiss'' "is one of the most invaluable sites in the blogosphere, a blast of sanity and moral suasion against the prevailing demonization of anything and anyone perceived as anti-Israel".<ref>James Wolcott, [http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott/2010/09/mondo-narco.html "Mondo Narco"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100923105710/http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott/2010/09/mondo-narco.html |date=September 23, 2010}}, ''Vanity Fair'', September 22, 2010.</ref>{{dead link|date=November 2025}}
In 2010, ''Mondoweiss'' was criticized by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs for publishing a series of cartoons which they stated expressed "anti-Israelism, a more recent category of anti-Semitism".<ref name="JCPA">Levick, Adam, [http://jcpa.org/article/anti-semitic-cartoons-on-progressive-blogs/ "Anti-Semitic Cartoons on Progressive Blogs"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113143042/http://jcpa.org/article/anti-semitic-cartoons-on-progressive-blogs/ |date=November 13, 2013}}, JCPA, September 2, 2010.</ref> Between 2010 and 2011, ''Tablet'' magazine published three articles in which ''Mondoweiss'' and other blogs, were criticized. The articles described Weiss as a "Jew-baiter" and "intensely anti-Israel", saying his site was "obsessed with Israel and the machinations of the U.S. Israel lobby" and laden with "sweeping and unsubstantiated rhetoric".<ref>Smith, Lee. [http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/40064/mainstreaming-hate "Mainstreaming Hate"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120623041616/http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/40064/mainstreaming-hate |date=June 23, 2012}} ''Tablet'', July 21, 2010.</ref><ref>Smith, Lee. [http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/40762/playing-with-fire "Playing With Fire"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203054604/http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/40762/playing-with-fire |date=December 3, 2013}} ''Tablet'', July 29, 2010.</ref><ref>Goldberg, Michelle. [http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/56447/mondo-weiss "Mondo Weiss"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203044540/http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/56447/mondo-weiss |date=December 3, 2013}} ''Tablet'', January 20, 2011.</ref> Weiss responded to allegations in ''Tablet'', by stating that the magazine had "smeared" him and several other bloggers as Jew-baiters.<ref name="monresp">Philip Weiss, [http://mondoweiss.net/2010/07/tablet-is-mobbed-up-with-neocons.html "'Tablet' is mobbed up with neocons"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100725082213/http://mondoweiss.net/2010/07/tablet-is-mobbed-up-with-neocons.html |date=July 25, 2010}}, July 22, 2010, ''Mondoweiss''.</ref> Walt stated that Smith's article contained "not a scintilla of evidence" that "Weiss or I have written or said anything that is remotely anti-Semitic, much less that involves 'Jew-baiting'. There's an obvious reason for this omission: None of us has ever written or said anything that supports Smith's outrageous charges."<ref name="waltresp">Stephen Walt, [http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/07/21/the_problem_with_judging_a_blog_by_its_commenters "The problem with judging a blog by its commenters (updated)"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203004535/http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/07/21/the_problem_with_judging_a_blog_by_its_commenters |date=December 3, 2013}}, ''Foreign Policy'', July 21, 2010.</ref>
In 2012, the ''Algemeiner Journal'' described ''Mondoweiss'' as "Purveyors of Anti-Semitic Material".<ref name="Algemeiner">[http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/07/23/salon-com-partners-with-purveyor-of-anti-semitic-material-mondoweiss/ "Salon.com Partners With Purveyor of Anti-Semitic Material Mondoweiss"]. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203024331/http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/07/23/salon-com-partners-with-purveyor-of-anti-semitic-material-mondoweiss/ |date=December 3, 2013}}, ''The Algermeiner'' July 23, 2012.</ref> According to Algemeiner and the Anti-Defamation League, ''Mondoweiss'' and Philip Weiss have received grants from Ron Unz's Unz Foundation.<ref name="ADL2014">{{cite web|url=https://www.adl.org/news/article/ron-unz-controversial-writer-and-funder-of-anti-israel-activists|title=Ron Unz: Controversial Writer and Funder of Anti-israel Activists|date=January 20, 2014|publisher=Anti-Defamation League|access-date=June 13, 2018|archive-date=June 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612162734/https://www.adl.org/news/article/ron-unz-controversial-writer-and-funder-of-anti-israel-activists|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="AGM12122013">{{cite news|url=https://www.algemeiner.com/2013/12/12/new-york-times-others-praised-anti-semitic-and-slanderous-article/|title=''New York Times'', Others Praised Anti-Semitic and Slanderous Article|date=December 12, 2013|work=Algemeiner Journal |access-date=April 21, 2019|archive-date=April 21, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190421134906/https://www.algemeiner.com/2013/12/12/new-york-times-others-praised-anti-semitic-and-slanderous-article/|url-status=live}}</ref> Armin Rosen, a Media Fellow with ''The Atlantic'', criticized Peter Beinart's blog, ''Open Zion'' (which appears in ''The Daily Beast'') for publishing an article by Alex Kane because he is ''Mondoweiss''{{'}}s "Staff Reporter". Rosen wrote that "''Mondoweiss'' often gives the appearance of an anti-Semitic enterprise."<ref name="Atlantic">{{cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/07/a-reminder-that-anti-semitism-has-no-place-in-debates-over-israel/259830/l|title=A Reminder That Anti-Semitism Has No Place in Debates Over Israel|work=The Atlantic|date=July 14, 2012|url-status=live|access-date=February 11, 2022|first=Armin|last=Rosen|archive-url=https://archive.today/20220211222021/https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/07/a-reminder-that-anti-semitism-has-no-place-in-debates-over-israel/259830/|archive-date=February 11, 2022|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Robert Wright, a Senior Editor at ''The Atlantic'', responded to Rosen's article, writing "This tarring of Kane by virtue of his association with ''Mondoweiss'' would be lamentable even if Rosen produced a convincing indictment of ''Mondoweiss'', showing that it indeed evinces anti-Semitism". Wright described ''Mondoweiss'' as "an edgy website that is highly critical of both Israel and Zionism" and said that, based on the evidence provided by Rosen, he could not see how Rosen reached his conclusion about ''Mondoweiss''.<ref>Robert Wright, [https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/07/neo-mccarthyism/259849/ "Neo-McCarthyism"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170313202845/https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/07/neo-mccarthyism/259849/ |date=March 13, 2017}}, ''The Atlantic'', July 15, 2012.</ref> James Fallows, a national correspondent for ''The Atlantic'' concurred with Wright's response to Rosen.<ref>[https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/07/in-house-items-mayer-and-yahoo-mondoweiss/259932/ "In-House Items: Mayer and Yahoo"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170313202845/https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/07/in-house-items-mayer-and-yahoo-mondoweiss/259932/ |date=March 13, 2017}}. ''Mondoweiss''.</ref> Alex Kane, Adam Horowitz, and Philip Weiss responded in ''Mondoweiss'' arguing that Rosen's article, "is about nothing more than policing the discourse on Israel".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mondoweiss.net/2012/07/responding-to-the-atlantic-smear-on-mondoweiss/|title=Responding to 'The Atlantic' smear on Mondoweiss|date=July 16, 2012|website=Mondoweiss|access-date=April 26, 2023|archive-date=April 26, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230426125232/https://mondoweiss.net/2012/07/responding-to-the-atlantic-smear-on-mondoweiss/|url-status=live}}</ref>
Later in 2012, the ''Algemeiner Journal'' published another article criticising ''Mondoweiss'' for its associations with Judith Butler because of her comments describing Islamist movements, including those of the militant variety such as Hamas and Hezbollah, as "social movements that are progressive, that are on the Left, that are part of a global Left".<ref>Petra Marquardt-Bigman, [http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/09/07/defending-judith-butler-in-the-ivory-tower/ "Defending Judith Butler in The Ivory Tower"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203025130/http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/09/07/defending-judith-butler-in-the-ivory-tower/ |date=December 3, 2013}}, ''Algemeiner Journal'', September 7, 2012.</ref> In 2013, Peter Beinart, writing for ''The Daily Beast'', accused ''Mondoweiss'' of "ignoring human rights abuse unless it can be linked to America or capitalism or the West", and said that "By admitting that they're more interested in human rights violations when Israel commits them than when Hamas does, Horowitz and Roth are implying that they don't really see human rights as universal".<ref>Peter Beinart, [http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/13/why-not-criticize-hamas-s-rights-violations.html "Why Not Criticize Hamas's Rights Violations?"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202232524/http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/13/why-not-criticize-hamas-s-rights-violations.html |date=December 2, 2013}} ''The Daily Beast'', March 13, 2013.</ref> Later in the year ''Commentary'' magazine accused ''Mondoweiss'' of being complicit in an "effort to delegitimize Jewish rights".<ref>Tobin, Jonathan S. [http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/07/08/anti-semitic-hate-for-kids-and-adults-palestinians/ "Anti-Semitic Hate for Kids ... and Adults"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203122924/http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/07/08/anti-semitic-hate-for-kids-and-adults-palestinians/ |date=December 3, 2013}}, ''Commentary'', July 8, 2013.</ref>
Also in 2013, the Israeli newspaper ''Haaretz'' described ''Mondoweiss'' as "a progressive Jewish website".<ref>{{cite news |title=Mock Funding Drive Launched to Send Bibi to Mandela Service |url=https://www.haaretz.com/2013-12-10/ty-article/.premium/campaign-seeks-to-send-bibi-to-mandela-service/0000017f-e395-d804-ad7f-f3ff88b20000 |work=Haaretz |date=December 10, 2013 |language=en |url-access=subscription |access-date=July 9, 2021 |archive-date=July 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709193244/https://www.haaretz.com/.premium-campaign-seeks-to-send-bibi-to-mandela-service-1.5298483 |url-status=live}}</ref> Journalist Bradley Burston, writing for ''Haaretz'', described ''Mondoweiss'' as "avowedly anti-Israel" in reference to its coverage of the 2014 kidnapping and murder of Israeli teenagers.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.haaretz.com/2014-07-01/ty-article/.premium/kidnap-denial-blaming-the-victim-of-tragedy/0000017f-dbb0-db22-a17f-ffb190820000|title=Kidnap Denial: Blaming the victim of tragedy|last=Burston|first=Bradley|date=July 1, 2014|work=Haaretz|access-date=July 2, 2014|url-access=subscription|archive-date=July 1, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140701222956/http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/a-special-place-in-hell/.premium-1.602431/.premium-1.602431|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2015, David Bernstein, writing for ''The Washington Post'', called the website a "hate site", and listed quotes from Weiss that he said were anti-Semitic. This included Weiss' claim that "the Israel lobby ... reflected a contract the American establishment had made with Jews to drive the economy in the 1970s",<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/05/04/mondoweiss-is-a-hate-site/|title='Mondoweiss' is a hate site (Updated)|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=September 5, 2017|archive-date=December 9, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191209202045/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/05/04/mondoweiss-is-a-hate-site/|url-status=live}}</ref> which Bernstein likened to a belief in an "Elders of Zion type group". It was also described as a hate site in the book ''Anti-Zionism on Campus'' by Andrew Pessin.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pessin |first1=Andrew |last2=Ben-Atar |first2=Doron S. |title=Anti-Zionism on Campus The University, Free Speech, and BDS |date=2018 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=9780253034083 |page=73}}</ref> In 2018, Israeli journalist Amira Hass cited ''Mondoweiss'' as a must-read venue for those wanting to understand Israeli policy regarding Palestinians.<ref>{{cite news |author-link=Amira Hass |first=Amira |last=Hass |url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2018-04-29/ty-article/.premium/these-websites-tell-the-truth-about-israels-palestinian-policy/0000017f-df0d-db22-a17f-ffbd015a0000 |title=The Websites You Must Visit to Understand Israel's Policy Toward Palestinians |newspaper=Haaretz |date=April 29, 2018 |url-access=subscription |access-date=July 9, 2021 |archive-date=July 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709190622/https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-these-websites-tell-the-truth-about-israel-s-palestinian-policy-1.6035337 |url-status=live}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist|30em}}
==Further reading== * Adam Horowitz, Lizzy Ratner, Philip Weiss (eds.), ''The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict'', Nation Books, 2011, {{ISBN|9781568586649}}.
==External links== * {{official|https://mondoweiss.net/}}
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