“Those who call themselves anti-Zionists usually insist they are not anti-Semites. But I struggle to see what else to call an ideology that seeks to eradicate only one state in the world - the one that happens to be the Jewish one - while empathetically insisting on the rights of self-determination for every other minority.”

American journalist and political commentator, born 1984

Bari Weiss is an American journalist and political commentator. Born in 1984, she has been editor-in-chief of CBS News since October 2025. She is also known for founding The Free Press and for her work at major American newspapers. Weiss served as an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal from 2013 to 2017, then as an op-ed staff editor and writer on culture and politics at The New York Times from 2017 to 2020. Her resignation from the Times drew wide attention after she criticized the paper’s internal culture in a public letter. In 2021, she launched The Free Press and the podcast Honestly.