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since Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:04:17.
Hi,
Author and former New York Observer blogger Philip Weiss, who has taken to the pages of The American Conservative to detail how he felt after he was forced out by Observer owner Jared Kushner and his former Harvard friend, Observer editor Peter Kaplan, for writing incorrectly about Israel, has been trying to open up the discussion about the connection between US ME policy and the influence of American Jewish Israel supporters on American politics and culture.
After the signature is a recent exchange between John Podhoretz, son of Norman "Bomb Iran" Podhoretz, who is the editor of Commentary, and Phil. For more info on Phil's departure from the New York Observer, see http://gawker.com/news/the-jews/why-philip-weiss-left-the-observer-266393.php .
Best,
Joachim Martillo
http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2007/07/learning-to-l-2.html
Author and former New York Observer blogger Philip Weiss, who has taken to the pages of The American Conservative to detail how he felt after he was forced out by Observer owner Jared Kushner and his former Harvard friend, Observer editor Peter Kaplan, for writing incorrectly about Israel, has been trying to open up the discussion about the connection between US ME policy and the influence of American Jewish Israel supporters on American politics and culture.
After the signature is a recent exchange between John Podhoretz, son of Norman "Bomb Iran" Podhoretz, who is the editor of Commentary, and Phil. For more info on Phil's departure from the New York Observer, see http://gawker.com/news/the-jews/why-philip-weiss-left-the-observer-266393.php .
Best,
Joachim Martillo
http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2007/07/learning-to-l-2.html
July 26, 2007
Learning to Love the Web (Including Jpod?)
A year ago I freaked out when neocon John Podhoretz, angered by something I wrote about the neocons, sent me an email saying, "We know where you live." I got very upset about it and raised a stink in my blog. In retrospect, I think I was wrong. Though it is famously hard to read emotion in emails (thus emoticons and other literal signals of intention, like LOL), I think Jpod as he is known was actually the more sophisticated player, and there was even something respectful in his attention: the internet is actually truly about a conversation, and I was dropping the ball. All this to say that I got an email from Jpod today headlined, "So much anger" and the body of the email said "...just because you married a shiksa?" Which I admit is pretty funny. I responded, "No because you incinerated the Arab world and called it 'being Jewish.'" Jpod then responded, "Ding. Time to take your Xanax." Oh well, Homer nods.
