There's no question that public opinion is changing, and if you're a person of the left, your goal is presumably to try to mobilize public opinion to affect elite policy; and I think now there are unusual, unprecedented opportunities to do so.

I'm politically on the left, no question about it. I oppose sweatshops, I oppose exploitation of labour in the third world.

My parents often wondered why I would grow so indignant at the falsification and exploitation of the Nazi genocide. The most obvious answer is that it has been used to justify criminal policies of the Israeli state and US support for these policies.

Every victory of Hezbollah, I celebrate.

Each of the various tactics that have been tried to get Israel to budge.. nonviolent resistance, legal accountability, BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions).. has had some measure of success.

State terrorism - and yet the Israeli invasion Goldstone investigated is still commonly referred to as the Gaza War.

They used to say Palestinians fight like heroes, now they say heroes fight like Palestinians