(JEWISH GROUP) Jeffrey Goldberg: A profile in Jewish courage
I did not think it was possible for me to admire Jeffrey Goldberg any more than I already did.
Jeffrey Goldberg is the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, a magazine that has included me as a reader and subscriber for many years. He started his career in journalism as the editor-in-chief of the Daily Pennsylvanian at the University of Pennsylvania (where he also worked in the kitchen at Hillel). He moved to Israel; served in the IDF; served as a prison guard, where a friendship with Rafiq Hijazi, a PLO leader from Gaza, resulted in Goldberg’s book “Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror.” He worked as a columnist at The Washington Post, and at The Jerusalem Post, and then ultimately became the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic.
Last week, Jeffrey Goldberg found himself with an unlikely invitation to a group chat on Signal with, among others, Pete Hegseth, JD Vance and Michael Waltz. On the chat, these high-profile political leaders were discussing plans for an attack on the Houthis in Yemen. This amounted to the biggest security breach in recent history.
Jeffrey Goldberg basically took on the entire Trump administration, which went into instant vilification mode. Here is Bill Kristol:
The White House and Hegseth forced Goldberg’s hand. On Monday and Tuesday, they accused him of lying about the contents of the chat — and, crucially, insisted that nothing in the chat had been classified. In other words, they both created a major additional incentive for Goldberg to release the full transcripts and removed the scruple that had convinced him to hold them back in the first place.
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