MONDOWEISS LAUNCHES ANTI-SEMITIC ATTACK ON NEW EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF ‘THE ATLANTIC’

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....And then there was the anti-Israel hub Mondoweiss, which attacked the appointment because it whitewashed the fact that Goldberg was a Jew.

This remarkable broadside came from no less than the site’s founding editor Phil Weiss, in a post entitled “‘Atlantic’ rebrands new editor, Jeffrey Goldberg, leaving Israel, Jews, and Iraq off his resume.” At first glance, the piece appears to be a critique of Goldberg on policy grounds, which is an entirely legitimate exercise when approaching a journalist’s work, especially one as prolific, influential, and opinionated as Goldberg. But seven paragraphs in, Weiss veers into entirely more disturbing territory.

“The word Jew made no appearance in the Atlantic announcement,” he complains. He then accuses The Atlantic of cleansing Goldberg’s religious background from the announcement of his professional appointment:

Here’s the cleansed resume paragraph from Atlantic media...

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....Apparently, Weiss is under the impression that without a giant neon sign shouting “JEW,” The Atlantic‘s new editor might be confused for one of the many Episcopalian Jeffrey Goldbergs in journalism.

But more seriously, the insistence on publicly labeling individuals with their religious background in order to darkly impugn their motives and delegitimize their standing is textbook bigotry, and the classic recourse of the anti-Semite. It is the same ugly impulse that fuels the far-right fever swamp’s attempt to slur top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin as a Muslim Brotherhood conspirator. It is exactly the sort of anti-Semitism Trump mouthpiece Breitbart News stoked when it attacked a Washington Post columnist by citing her Jewish heritage. Normal people critique their political opponents on policy grounds. Racist people critique their political opponents based on their ethnic or religious backgrounds.

In other words, the reason The Atlantic did not mention that Goldberg is a Jew in its announcement of his appointment is the same reason it would not mention a Muslim writer’s faith in such a context: it is not a racist publication.

http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/216052/mondoweiss-launches-anti-semitic-attack-on-new-editor-in-chief-of-the-atlantic

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1. More from the OP, demonstrating Mondoweiss bigotry...

While Mondoweiss’s anti-Semitism starts from the top, it is by no means limited to its namesake. Editor-at-large Annie Robbins has publicly denied the existence of the Jewish Temples on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, a classic anti-Semitic myth debunked by historians and archaeologists, and disputed even by the Islamic Waqf that controls the site.

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(The entire page featuring Robbins’ claims has been deleted from the site; it is archived here.)

Unsurprisingly given its content and editorial direction, Mondoweiss’s comments section teems with anti-Semites, so much so that the site’s founders felt compelled to announce a crackdown on them in 2012. But given that the overseers are themselves guilty of fomenting such hatred, little has actually changed, as Robbins’s 2013 Temple Mount comments and Weiss’s recent output demonstrate. Infamously, after white supremacist Glenn Miller shot up a Kansas Jewish community center in 2014, Robbins herself stoked a conspiracy in the site’s comments that he was an Israeli agent, before walking it back.

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2. Yes, Mondoweiss is antsemitic and racist.

Very much an updated Protocols of The Elders of Zion.

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4. Jeffrey Goldberg is Jewish (Phil Weiss replies)

Tablet has published an attack on my piece about Jeffrey Goldberg’s ascension to the editorship of the Atlantic, in which I pointed out that the Atlantic announcement cleanses Goldberg’s resume, leaving out his moving to Israel to escape American anti-Semitism and serving in the Israeli army, his publication of a memoir about serving as an Israeli prison guard, his disastrous support for the Iraq war, his failed promotion of an Iran war, and his Jewishness. Tablet says my assertion that the Atlantic is leaving out Goldberg’s Jewishness is a proof of my anti-Semitism; why does it matter whether Goldberg is Jewish or not? Jews shouldn’t have to wear a yellow star. The ADL has now joined in, calling us an anti-Semitic site.

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http://mondoweiss.net/2016/10/jeffrey-goldberg-jewish/