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In 2012 Armin Rosen, a Media Fellow with ''],'' criticized ]'s blog, ''Open Zion'' (which appears in '']'') 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></ref> Robert Wright, a Senior Editor at ''The Atlantic,'' immediately responded 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."<ref></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></ref> James Fallows, a national correspondent for ''The Atlantic'' concurred with Wright's response to Rosen.<ref></ref> In 2012 Armin Rosen, a Media Fellow with ''],'' criticized ]'s blog, ''Open Zion'' (which appears in '']'') 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></ref> Robert Wright, a Senior Editor at ''The Atlantic,'' immediately responded 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."<ref></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></ref> James Fallows, a national correspondent for ''The Atlantic'' concurred with Wright's response to Rosen.<ref></ref>

In 2012, Israeli historian and writer ] has sharply criticized Mondoweiss and its commenting community, denouncing it as a "vipers' nest of antisemites" whose "goal is to get rid of Israel". He notes that "someday, a century or two from now, when someone sits down to write the history of Jew-hatred in the early 21st century, Mondoweiss will be a fine case study, worthy of a full section.<ref>http://yaacovlozowick.blogspot.co.il/2012/04/mondoweiss-vipers-nest-of-antisemites.html</ref>


==Further reading== ==Further reading==

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Mondoweiss
TypeBlog/News website
FormatOnline
Editor-in-chiefPhilip Weiss
Adam Horowitz (Co-Editors)
Associate editorAllison Deger (Assistant Editor)
Staff writersAlex Kane (Staff Reporter)
Annie Robbins (Writer-At-Large)
Founded2006
Political alignmentprogressive
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters United States
WebsiteOfficial Site

Mondoweiss (2006–Present) is a news website that is co-edited by journalists Philip Weiss and Adam Horowitz. It is a part of The Center for Economic Research and Social Change. According to the editors, Mondoweiss is "a news website devoted to covering American foreign policy in the Middle East, chiefly from a progressive Jewish perspective." They also state that they "maintain this blog because of 9/11, Iraq, Gaza, the Nakba, the struggling people of Israel and Palestine, and our Jewish background."

Staff

See Philip Weiss article

Adam Horowitz received his master's degree in Near Eastern Studies from New York University. He later served as the Director of the Israel/Palestine Program for the American Friends Service Committee where where he gained "extensive on-the-ground experience in Israel/Palestine." In addition to Mondoweiss, Horowitz has written for The Nation, Alternet, The Huffington Post, and The Hill.com. Horowitz wrote the foreword to Rabbi Brant Rosen's book Wrestling in the Daylight: A Rabbi's Path to Palestinian Solidarity. He has spoken frequently on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on campuses and to organizations.

Development

In a 2010 interview with The Link, the magazine published by Americans for Middle East Understanding, Philip Weiss described the evolution of Mondoweiss:

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" (The American Conservative, June 4, 2007), 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.

On July 16, 2012, the online magazine Salon announced that it will be featuring content from Mondoweiss.

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 The Publishers Weekly review noted that the abridged version of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict ("the Goldstone Report"), included an introduction by Naomi Klein and an "eloquent" forward by Bishop Desmond Tutu. The review said the book was "enhanced" by oral testimonies which "inject a harrowing human element to counterbalance the report's dispassionate tone." The review 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 Review 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 explained that was a minor issued and "Much 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."

Reception

In March 2007, Gary Kamiya of Salon.com argued that Mondoweiss offered " informed and passionate discussions" of what Weiss states are "delicate and controversial matters surrounding American Jewish identity and Israel." Kamiya also states that Weiss, "routinely skewers attempts by mainstream Jewish organizations and pundits to lay down the law on what is acceptable discourse." A few years later 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 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." 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."

Criticism

In 2010 journalist Lee Smith suggested in Tablet Magazine that Phil Weiss, Stephen Walt, and others were part of an "anti-Israel blogosphere" and are "obsessed with Israel and the machinations of the U.S. Israel lobby." He also called them "Jew-baiter." Weiss responded by stating that Tablet had "smeared" him and several other bloggers as Jew-baiters. Walt questioned the article's premise by stating 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."

In 2011, Philip Weiss reported that the liberal blog Daily Kos had "acted to ban commenters from linking to Mondoweiss" on grounds of "anti-semitism." Weiss denied the charge and defended "talking about the large Jewish presence in the American establishment and the importance of Jewish money in the political process."

In 2012 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." Robert Wright, a Senior Editor at The Atlantic, immediately responded 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." 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." James Fallows, a national correspondent for The Atlantic concurred with Wright's response to Rosen.

In 2012, Israeli historian and writer Yaacov Lozowick has sharply criticized Mondoweiss and its commenting community, denouncing it as a "vipers' nest of antisemites" whose "goal is to get rid of Israel". He notes that "someday, a century or two from now, when someone sits down to write the history of Jew-hatred in the early 21st century, Mondoweiss will be a fine case study, worthy of a full section.

Further reading

References

  1. ^ About: Mondowiess
  2. ^ Biography in "Peacebuilders delegation to Israel Palestine May & June 2011", Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, March 3, 2011.
  3. The New Media & the Palestine Question: Blogging Out of Conflict 2010 event, biography of Adam Horowitz, The Jerusalem Fund website.
  5. Adam Horowitz (Foreword), Brant Rosen (Author), Wrestling in the Daylight: A Rabbi's Path to Palestinian Solidarity, Just World Books, 2012, AmazonBooks.com link.
  6. Adam Horowitz, ‘Mr. Horowitz, tell us what you think of the two-state solution’, Mondoweiss, March 15, 2009.
  7. The following events all accessed January 19, 2013.
  8. MondoWeiss@The New York Observer
  9. Philip Weiss, Blogging about Israel and Jewish identity raises Observer hackles, The American Conservative, June 4, 2007.
  10. Adas, Jane. "From The Link's Links - http://www.mondoweiss.net," The Link, Vol. 43, Issue 1, Americans for Middle East Understanding, January - March 2010:12.
  11. Salon: Mondoweiss
  12. Announcing a new partnership between Mondoweiss and Salon
  13. Adam Horowitz, Lizzy Ratner and Philip Weiss, The Goldstone Affair, The Nation, April 14, 2011.
  14. Review of The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict, Publisher's Weekly, February 14, 2011.
  15. Review of The Goldstone Report, Kirkus Review, published online October 26, 2010.
  16. Judge Goldstone Retracts Part of His Report on Israeli Assault on Gaza, Leaves Rest Intact, Democracy Now, April 4, 2011.
  17. Lawrence Davidson, Judge Goldstone alters his verdict, Ma'an News Agency, July 4, 20011, updated November 4, 2011.
  18. "Can American Jews unplug the Israel lobby?" Gary Kamiya, March 20, 2007, Salon.
  19. "The News About the Internet." Michael Massing, March 13, 2009, The New York Review of Books.
  20. Mondo Narco
  21. ^ "Mainstreaming Hate; How media companies are using the Internet to make anti-Semitism respectable," Lee Smith, July 21, 2010, Tablet Magazine.
  22. "‘Tablet’ is mobbed up with neocons," Philip Weiss, July 22, 2010, Mondoweiss.
  23. The problem with judging a blog by its commenters (updated)," Stephen Walt, July 21, 2010, Foreign Policy.
  24. My Response To The Daily Kos Smear
  25. A Reminder That Anti-Semitism Has No Place in Debates Over Israel
  26. Neo-McCarthyism
  27. Responding to ‘the Atlantic’ smear on Mondoweiss
  28. In-House Items: Mayer and Yahoo, Mondoweiss
  29. http://yaacovlozowick.blogspot.co.il/2012/04/mondoweiss-vipers-nest-of-antisemites.html
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