Philip Weiss | |
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Residence | Cold Spring, New York |
Occupation | Journalist, Writer |
Known for | Creator and co-editor of Mondoweiss with Adam Horowitz |
Spouse(s) | Cynthia Kling |
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") with journalist Adam Horowitz. Weiss describes himself as an anti-Zionist and rejects the label "post-Zionist."
Weiss is the author of the novel Cock-a-Doodle-Doo (1996) and the non-fiction book American Taboo: A Murder In The Peace Corps (2004). He co-edited The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict (2011) with Adam Horowitz and Lizzy Ratner.
Weiss has written for New York magazine,Harper's,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 independent blog.