Philip Weiss
Philip Weiss is Founder and Co-Editor of Mondoweiss.net.
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Views Monday, August 19, 2019 Political Upheaval Over Tlaib and Omar Shows the Power of BDS We are in the middle of a political upheaval on Israel/Palestine in the United States, and Americans who are concerned with Palestinian human rights live for these moments. They are the moments of potential change: When more tarnish is added to Israel’s image, and Americans get a clearer picture of... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, May 07, 2019 As Mainstream Comes Down Hard on Palestinians, Sanders Cites Human Rights Violations in Gaza Not surprisingly, mainstream American politicians were unequivocal in condemning Palestinians for the rocket attacks that went back and forth between Israel and Gaza over the weekend. Below are several statements from Democratic pols and liberal Israel support groups showing that there is no room... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, April 03, 2019 After Gaza Slaughter, Buttigieg Praised Israeli Security Responses as ‘Moving’ and Faulted Democrats for Easy Judgment Last May, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg went to Israel with the American Jewish Committee and two weeks later discussed his trip with that organization. At the time Israel was killing Palestinian protesters at the Gaza fence– 60 on one day within days of Buttigieg’s visit, getting global... Read more |
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Views Sunday, June 10, 2018 New York Times Teams Up With Israel to Smear Slain Medic Razzan al-Najjar as 'Complex,' Not Innocent The New York Times on Thursday printed a long article giving credence to Israeli claims that Razzan al-Najjar, the young medic killed by an Israeli sniper a week ago, was not innocent. The article takes at face value Israel’s desperate efforts to taint the young woman, whom the army has previously... Read more |
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Views Friday, April 20, 2018 Natalie Portman Says, Enough! The Gaza killings have hurt Israel’s image in the world, and tonight the damage got even bigger. In an astonishing move, the Israeli-American film star Natalie Portman, 36, informed an Israeli foundation she would not show up at the awards ceremony for Israel’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize,... Read more |
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Views Monday, March 21, 2016 Trump ‘Has No Business Being President’ Because He Would Be ‘Neutral’ to Israel — Clinton Tells AIPAC If there was any doubt that Hillary Clinton is running to the right of Donald Trump on Israel, she removed it this morning with a fist-pumping hard-right speech to the Israel lobby group AIPAC that mentioned Israeli settlements just once, in passing, and continually derided the idea of American “... Read more |
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Views Sunday, August 24, 2014 Hillary Clinton Just Lost the White House in Gaza Famously, Hillary Clinton lost her bid to be president in 2008 six years before the election, when she cast a vote for the Iraq war. Barack Obama, who’d been against that war as a nobody state senator in Illinois, was able to run to her left in appealing to the Democratic Party base, and win the... Read more |
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Views Friday, January 03, 2014 No ‘Breakthrough’ and No ‘Agreement’ in the Middle East, Indyk says (Anonymously) Read more |
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Views Monday, May 13, 2013 Boston Globe’s Groundbreaking salute to BDS Will Bring ‘Fierce Criticism,’ US Campaign says We're seeing more and more establishment institutions taking pro-Palestinian positions and then getting heat. In recent days the Newseum has folded , and so has the Church of Scotland . Read more |
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Views Thursday, January 03, 2013 Endless ‘Debate over Two-State Solution’ Is Cover for the Real Story, Annexation of West Bank One of the wiser political observations I've read lately was from Joseph Dana in the National : "the debate about the two-state solution has become an important diversion from discussing the true nature of Israeli colonialism." I've noticed the same thing, from rightwingers and even liberal Zionists: Keep talking about the need for the two state solution, so that no one talks about land policies that have made it impossible. Read more |