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Jeffrey Goldberg | |
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| Born | September 22, 1965 New York City, U.S. |
| Field of study | Journalism |
Jeffrey Mark Goldberg (born September 22, 1965) is a Zionist, warmonger and propagandist who works as an American journalist and writer. He is currently the editor-in-chief of the imperialist magazine, The Atlantic and is the moderator of the PBS program Washington Week.[1] Goldberg's writing primarily focuses on foreign affairs, with a notable emphasis on the Middle East and Africa.
Career[edit | edit source]
Israel Defense Forces service[edit | edit source]
During the First Intifada, Goldberg served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). He served as a camp guard in the Ktzi'ot prison, a facility which detains innocent Palestinians and subjects them to sexual and verbal abuse, sodomizing detainees and beating them.[2][3]
In his 2006 book Prisoners, Goldberg recounts an incident at Ktzi'ot prison where his friend assaulted a Palestinian prisoner with a sharp-edged object, resulting in severe injuries. To conceal the crime, Goldberg handed the injured kidnap victim to another military policeman, falsely claiming that the victim had fallen.[4]
Goldberg also admitted to participating in beatings, justifying his actions by stating that he only hit Palestinians who were already hitting him.[4]
Journalism[edit | edit source]
Goldberg's career in journalism began at The Washington Post, where he was a police reporter. He later became a columnist for The Jerusalem Post, a right-wing Israeli newspaper. Upon returning to the United States, he held positions at The Forward, New York magazine, The New York Times Magazine, and The New Yorker. In 2007, he joined The Atlantic and ascended to the position of editor-in-chief in 2016.[5]
Speaking events[edit | edit source]
Goldberg has been the opening speaker at various Zionist events, such as the American Jewish Committee conference and Zionism 3.0.[6]
Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide[edit | edit source]
Goldberg wrote the book Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide in 2006 about a friendship he developed with a Palestinian prisoner. Elana Lappin writes in a review, that the book, “Prisoners” tells us, eloquently, the complete and complex story of Jeffrey Goldberg’s love for Israel, but very little else."[7]
Views[edit | edit source]
Zionism[edit | edit source]
In 2015, Goldberg wrote that the primary cause of the Palestinian genocide is the denial of the ancient Jewish connection to the land of Israel and the adherence to "a worldview that dismisses the national and religious rights of Jews."[8]
Racism[edit | edit source]
In 2012, Goldberg tried to downplay the seriousness of an attack by Israeli youth on Palestinian teenagers, an attack the New York Times called an "attempted lynching."[9] He tried to whitewash the violence, denouncing a New York Times reporter for implying that the attempted lynching was a sign of systemic racism in Israel and then excused it by pinning the attack on poor, uneducated Arab Jews.[10]
Iraq[edit | edit source]
Goldberg believed that the invasion of Iraq was an "act of profound morality."[11]
Iran[edit | edit source]
In his article "The Point of No Return," Goldberg advocated for Israel bombing Iran and for the United States to take similar action saying, "a nuclear Iran poses the gravest threat since Hitler to the physical survival of the Jewish people."[12]
Controversies[edit | edit source]
Interest in Meir Kahane[edit | edit source]
In his youth, Goldberg got into the anti-Arab, Jewish nationalist Meir Kahane (founder of the Jewish Defence League), saying that, "for a time he held all the answers for me."[4]
Role in the War on Terror[edit | edit source]
In March of 2002, Goldberg authored an article called The Great Terror that alleged there was a link between Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda and that Saddam had nuclear weapons.[13] In October of 2002, he authored another article in Slate that claimed Saddam Hussein had chemical weapons.[11] These claims, though false, were part of a broader media campaign to build public support for invading Iraq. His Slate article was used by Congress as a reason to authorize the invasion of Iraq, a position that closely aligned with Israeli strategic interests at the time.[14] Goldberg's work was cited by both former Vice President Cheney and former president Bush when making the case for war.[15]
It was discovered in 2003 that the key interviewee, Mohammed Mansour Shahab, of the article The Great Terror had lied about being a link between Saddam and Al-Qaeda.[16]
Reference[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Jeffrey Goldberg. The Atlantic. Archived from the original on 2024-10-22.
- ↑ Jeffrey Goldberg (2006). Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide (p. 41). New York: Knopf. 0-375-41234-4 ISBN ISBN 0-375-41234-4
- ↑ Tareq Al Hilou, Abeer Salman and Nadeen Ebrahim (2024-08-24). "‘They told me to strip.’ Former Palestinian detainee says he was sexually abused in an Israeli prison" CNN. Archived from the original on 2024-09-11.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 “And soon enough I came across the writings of Meir Kahane, on a high shelf, and it was Kahane who provided a not un-Panther-like but specifically Semitic model of self-defense. Kahane was the Brooklyn rabbi who founded the Jewish Defense League in 1968 to shake Jews out of their fatalistic and feminized passivity. He argued, infamously, in favor of the bat, the bomb, and the gun. (“Every Jew a .22,” he said, to the shame and horror of the Manhattan Jewish elite and to the secret joy of every beaten-down Jewboy in the tristate area.) . . . But for a time he held all the answers for me. In the locker room, I was a kike, but in the sanctuary of the library, I was a revolutionary kike, one of Kahane’s chayas, a beast, a street-fighting Jew.”
Jeffrey Goldberg (2006). Prisoners: a story of friendship and terror: 'Our Lady of Lourdes' (p. 48). [PDF] New York: Vintage Books. - ↑ The New Yorker Contributors. The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 2006-11-14.
- ↑ Telesur (2016-10-13). "The Atlantic’s New Editor Was An IDF Prison Guard And Champion Of The Iraq War" MintPress News. Archived from the original on 2024-07-13.
- ↑ Elena Lappin (2006-11-12). "My Friend, My Enemy" The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2022-07-12.
- ↑ “The violence of the past two weeks, encouraged by purveyors of rumors who now have both Israeli and Palestinian blood on their hands, is rooted not in Israeli settlement policy, but in a worldview that dismisses the national and religious rights of Jews. There will not be peace between Israelis and Palestinians so long as parties on both sides of the conflict continue to deny the national and religious rights of the other.”
Jeffrey Goldberg (2015-10-15). "The Paranoid, Supremacist Roots of the Stabbing Intifada" The Atlantic. Archived from the original. - ↑ Isabel Kirshner (2012-08-20). "Young Israelis Held in Attack on Arabs" The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2024-07-16.
- ↑ “This sort of thing isn't actually that new. As someone who covered the funeral procession of Meir Kahane, the racist rabbi assassinated in New York more than 20 years ago, I can attest to the fact that Jewish hooligans, mainly from Jerusalem's poorest neighborhoods (and many who are descendants of Jews who fled, or were expelled, from Arab countries), will periodically set themselves upon innocent Arabs. They did it at the funeral, and in subsequent incidents.”
Jeffrey Goldberg (2012-08-20). "A Near-Lynching in Jerusalem" The Atlantic. Archived from the original. - ↑ 11.0 11.1 Jeffrey Goldberg (2002-10-03). "Aflatoxin" Slate. Archived from the original on 2021-09-28.
- ↑ Jeffrey Goldberg (2010-09). "The Point of No Return" The Atlantic. Archived from the original on 2024-12-26.
- ↑ Jeffrey Goldberg (2002-03-17). "The Great Terror" The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 2022-02-17.
- ↑ Congressional Record (2002-10-10). "Authorization of the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq" Congress.gov. Archived from the original on 2025-01-06.
- ↑ Ken Silverstein (2008-05-01). "Journalism Ethics Lessons from the Iraqi War’s Chief Salesman" Harper's Magazine. Archived from the original on 2024-11-10.
- ↑ Jason Burke (2003-02-09). "The missing link?" The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2013-09-02.