Mondoweiss
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Mondoweiss is an anti-Zionist news website based in the United States. Mondoweiss began as a general-interest blog written by Philip Weiss on The New York Observer website. Adam Horowitz later joined as co-editor. In 2010, Weiss described the website's purpose as one of covering American foreign policy in the Middle East from a "progressive Jewish perspective". 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
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Mondoweiss is an anti-Zionist news website based in the United States. Mondoweiss began as a general-interest blog written by Philip Weiss on The New York Observer website. Adam Horowitz later joined as co-editor. In 2010, Weiss described the website's purpose as one of covering American foreign policy in the Middle East from a "progressive Jewish perspective". 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. 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.
==Staff== Philip Weiss has written for New York magazine, ''Harper's Magazine, Esquire, and The New York Observer. He is the author of Cock-a-Doodle-Doo (1996) and American Taboo: A Murder in the Peace Corps'' (2004). Weiss self-identifies on the site as anti-Zionist.
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