Author: fairleft

Let them in the parade and let people along the parade route judge for themselves. I’ve booed and shouted opinions at a few organizations in gay pride parades. Do we have to act as if everyone with a sign in a gay pride...

Well known U.S. Representative Barney Frank equates Israel’s brutal embargo against the Gaza Strip with the 1980s U.S. sanctions against the South Africa apartheid regime. Can a member of Congress get any more down on his...

Haneen Zuabi (right), who represents the Arab nationalist party Balad in the Israeli Knesset, is heckled by Anastassia Michaeli, of the ultra-nationalistic Yisrael Beteinu party (centre). Photograph: David Vaaknin/AP Read the...

Does Human Rights Watch take orders directly from the U.S. Department of State, or is it that the two bodies’ shared excess of empathy for Israel makes them just seem to be in lock step? Specifically, why does HRW not call...

Desert of trapped corpses testifies to Israel’s failure Robert Fisk Tuesday, 15 August 2006 They made a desert and called it peace. Srifa – or what was once the village of Srifa – is a place of pancaked homes,...