Philip Weiss sees himself as a kind of Theodor Herzl in reverse. Both men were working feature writers until a single comment led them to focus their attention on Israel, to the exclusion of everything else.
For Herzl, the father of political Zionism, it was when he heard chants of “Death to the Jews” on the streets of Paris. For Weiss, the founder of the anti-Zionist Web site Mondoweiss, it was when his brother mused aloud that the otherwise catastrophic Iraq War could be good for the Jews.
