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Jeffrey Goldberg - Jeffrey Goldberg is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and a recipient of the National Magazine Award for Reporting. Author of the book Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror, Goldberg also writes the magazine's advice column.
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Before joining The Atlantic in 2007, Goldberg was a Middle East correspondent, and the Washington correspondent, for The New Yorker. Previously, he served as a correspondent for The New York Times Magazine and New York magazine. He has also written for the Jewish Daily Forward, and was a columnist for The Jerusalem Post.

His book Prisoners was hailed as one of the best books of 2006 by the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, The Progressive, Washingtonian magazine, and Playboy. Goldberg rthe recipient of the 2003 National Magazine Award for Reporting for his coverage of Islamic terrorism. He is also the winner of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists prize for best international investigative journalist; the Overseas Press Club award for best human-rights reporting; and the Abraham Cahan Prize in Journalism. He is also the recipient of 2005's Anti-Defamation League Daniel Pearl Prize.

In 2001, Goldberg was appointed the Syrkin Fellow in Letters of the Jerusalem Foundation, and in 2002 he became a public-policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.
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Jesse Jackson Hates Obama, and Not Just His Nuts

By Jeffrey Goldberg

Oct 15 2008, 9:20 AM ET Comment

If the New York Post account is accurate, and I'm trying to dig into it a bit, then Jesse Jackson has just disinvited himself from my Hannukah party, as well as, oh, the White House for the next four years. According to Amir Taheri, Jackson said, in France (!),  that though he believes that  "Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades" will remain strong, they'll lose clout in an Obama administration. "Obama is about change," Jackson reportedly said. Note the Ahmadinejad-style deployment of the word "Zionists," by the way.  

Jackson once called Zionism a "poisonous weed" choking Judaism. He obviously hopes to play the role of poisonous weed in the Obama campaign, in which he has no role. For those readers who believe that this outburst suggests something true about the Obama campaign, please read this.


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