Forget Lord of Rings. Try Lord of the Idiots. The Toronto Film Festival opened on Thursday with an outcry against the fest’s City to City program, which spotlights Tel Aviv this year. Some prominent names in the industry — including Harry Belafonte, Jane Fonda, Julie Christie and Viggo Mortensen — are protesting the inclusion in [...]
Senior HRW analyst Marc Garlasco responds to the bollocking he has been receiving for his Nazi memorabilia fetish. I’m used to taking heat for my job as a military analyst for Human Rights Watch, because our findings that this government or that armed group has violated the laws of war frequently provoke accusations that we’re [...]
A Palestinian girl is carried by an Israeli policeman to safety following a stampede as Palestinian women crowd the Qalandiya checkpoint near the West Bank city of Ramallah September 11, 2009. Thousands of Palestinians lined up as they tried to reach the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem on the third Friday of the Muslim holy month [...]
