🧨 Editor in Chief of Large Israeli Newspaper Says: Bari Weiss and CBS are Doing More for Israel "Than Most of Us in Israel"

This isn’t a conspiracy theory anymore. It’s a confession — and it should alarm every American

Family,

Something just happened that should stop you in your tracks.

The editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post, in Israel, praised CBS News’ editor-in-chief Bari Weiss by saying she is “doing more for Israel than most of us.” Not “more for journalism.” Not “more for truth.”

More for Israel.

And the part that makes my stomach turn is how normal they want this to sound.

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Now let’s talk about what this really is.

This is an admission.
A public one.
A proud one.

And when someone tells you who they are, believe them.

“Doing more for Israel than most of us”

Zvika Klein — the editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post — wrote an op-ed praising Bari Weiss as “one of the bravest journalists out there,” celebrating her “willingness to blow up conventions,” and then called her

“An American Zionist who’s doing more for Israel than most of us.”

Read that again.

This isn’t a critic accusing her of bias.

This isn’t a political opponent speculating.

This is a major Israeli newspaper editor celebrating what he views as Israeli benefit from her leadership inside CBS News — one of the most powerful media institutions in the United States.

And then Klein went even further.

He praised Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison for putting Weiss in charge and wrote the part that should set off alarms in every newsroom and every living room in America: that “media owners shape the prism through which you will be consuming your news.” He continued, describing how owners influence “culture,” “hiring,” “risk tolerance,” which stories get pursued, and which ones get “killed,” adding: “Everyone knows this. Nobody likes admitting it because it punctures the myth of editorial independence.”

Family, do you realize what’s being said here?

He’s not denying influence.

He’s not embarrassed by it.

He’s saying, out loud, that the “myth” is editorial independence — and he’s framing the ability to kill stories as a power move to be studied and replicated.

That’s not journalism. That’s information warfare dressed as journalism.

“Pretty sure if anyone in the U.S. said this…”

Mehdi Hasan reacted by noting that if anyone in the U.S. said this, they’d be accused of antisemitism — but here it is in an Israeli paper.

That’s an important point, and it needs to be handled carefully, because I’m not here to feed anyone’s hatred. I don’t do bigotry. I don’t do scapegoating. I do receipts.

Here’s the receipt: a prominent Israeli editor is publicly praising the installation of a U.S. news executive as a strategic win for Israel.

That’s not a rumor. That’s not “coded language.” That’s a sentence.

And it forces a question American media consumers deserve to ask without being bullied:

If a news executive is being celebrated for advancing the interests of a foreign state, how can the public trust that the same executive is prioritizing the interests of the American public?

That’s not hatred. That’s accountability.

This is why Gaza “disappears” on major platforms

Now zoom out.

For more than two years, Gaza has been drenched in mass death, starvation, displacement, and destruction.

And yet the dominant media culture in the United States has repeatedly treated Gaza like a controversy, not a catastrophe. Like a debate, not a crime scene. Like a storyline, not a human emergency.

And when people challenge that framing, they’re often punished — fired, smeared, sidelined, shadow-banned, deplatformed, branded.

So when the Jerusalem Post editor talks about risk tolerance and which stories get “killed,” he’s not speaking in abstractions.

He’s describing the machinery that makes it possible for entire institutions to look at Gaza and decide: not today.

He’s describing the machinery that makes it possible to elevate certain voices and bury others.

He’s describing what so many Americans have felt but couldn’t prove: that the “neutral,” “objective” news ecosystem is often built on decisions about what must not be said.

And here, the celebration is not subtle: the power to shape American coverage is being framed as a strategic win.

What “Zionist” means here — and why it matters

The word “Zionist” means different things to different people, and that’s part of the confusion. Some use it to mean simply supporting a Jewish homeland. Others use it to describe a political project that justifies Israeli supremacy and permanent Palestinian dispossession.

But in this context, the Jerusalem Post editor is not talking about theology or identity.

He’s talking about power.

He is talking about a U.S. media leader being helpful to Israel — to the point of saying she’s doing “more for Israel than most of us.”

That is a political claim. A strategic claim. A media power claim.

And it matters because CBS News is not a blog. It is a national amplifier that can shape what millions of Americans think is real.

If you shape what Americans think is real, you shape what Americans will tolerate.

And what Americans tolerate becomes policy.

That’s how this works.

This isn’t about Jewish people. It’s about power.

I need to say this clearly.

This is not an argument about Jewish people. Jewish people are not a monolith. Many Jews have been brave voices against genocide and apartheid. I honor that.

This is about a specific political project, specific institutions, and specific individuals — and about the reality that powerful networks, owners, and governments fight to shape what Americans see.

That is a truth we have to be mature enough to face without sliding into bigotry.

Because here’s the moral line: no group gets to buy silence. No government gets to “own” American news. No corporate structure gets to decide that human suffering is inconvenient.

The only answer is independence funded by people

This is why membership matters.

Not as a “nice to have.” As a necessity.

Because when the big platforms get captured — by advertisers, by mergers, by lawsuits, by political pressure — the only journalism that survives is journalism funded by people who refuse to be bought.

That’s what we’re building.

And I’m asking you to help me build it bigger.

Please click here to become a member and please click here to join as a monthly, annual, or founding member.

When you join, you’re not just funding posts.

You’re funding the ability to say Gaza exists when the powerful want it erased.

You’re funding receipts when the news wants vibes.

You’re funding moral clarity when institutions want “balance” between the oppressed and the oppressor.

And you’re funding the kind of journalism that refuses to accept any government — American or foreign — claiming the right to shape what you’re allowed to know.

Love and appreciate each of you.
Your friend and brother,
Shaun

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