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.
The Abuse of the Palestinians
By Jeffrey Goldberg
Sep 18 2009, 2:33 PM ET
Has there ever been a better example of the cynical manipulation by repressive Muslim governments of the Palestinian cause than what we are witnessing today in Iran? The regime was hoping for a day of good old-fashioned Jew-bashing on behalf of the Palestinians, a group of Sunni Muslims the average Iranian cares about not one whit. Instead, the pro-Palestinian demonstrations have turned into anti-regime protests, some of which have brought about a violent response. The people of Iran seem not to care about Sheikh Nasrallah, or Hamas, or whether Auschwitz actually existed (I'm fairly sure that most Iranians, unlike their deranged president, actually acknowledge the Holocaust as an historical fact). They care that they're government beats them and tortures them and denies them their basic rights, and no amount of anti-Semitism will change their minds.
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