Human Rights Campaign *Actively* Working Against Efforts to Repeal DADT?
Michelangelo Signorile reports today that he has a named source, Aaron Belkin of the University of California, Santa Barbara's Palm Center, claiming that "national gay rights organizations" have not...
View ArticleThe Obama Apologists Need To Grow Up
I campaigned for and donated to President Obama. I believed in the "audacity of hope." I even defended his decision to use Professor Kmiec, at the time a staunch advocate of Proposition 8, as part of...
View ArticlePeace in our time? West Bank Economic Growth
The goal is to find common ground with the Americans said Netanyahu spokesman Mark Regev. "Israel is willing to be creative and flexible."
View ArticleAlbania Set to Debate, Legalize Marriage Equality for Gay Couples
Pretty astonishing news from Albania today: the predominantly Muslim country is set to legalize marriage equality for same-sex couples. More below the fold.
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Africa Begins in Rome: The Lessons of 9/11
For people my age, 9/11 is a unique, world altering and life changing event. How does one explain to those who weren’t here when it happened precisely what happened? Or what the significance of...
View ArticleI/P Open Thread
Volley appears to be away tonight. Thought I would fill in, before I have to write a real diary. A spattering of reports follows below:
View ArticleThe Advocate: House Democrats Butcher LGBT Employment Discrimination...
Just when you thought that the Democrats could not further betray the LGBT community, the Advocate is reporting that they have indeed found a way: House Democrats are busy working on killing not one,...
View ArticleHouse Democrats Gut LGBT Employment Discrimination Legislation: TAKE ACTION!
Yesterday, the Advocate reported that House Democrats, not content with the already watered-down provisions of ENDA, were gutting several provisions of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, apparently...
View ArticleA Gag Rule for Gays: Should Congress Defund HIV assistance for countries that...
Last week, approximately forty people demonstrated in front of Uganda's UN mission in New York to protest a proposed draft law that would threaten gay men and lesbians with death: About 40 people...
View ArticlePolicing the Left: The Beltway Takes on the Blogosphere
According to the Pew Research Center, a substantial majority of Americans believe that a health insurance reform package will pass before the midterm elections. Here's the problem: Another survey...
View ArticleVita Ultra Velum
Seven CIA employees were killed and six others injured in a terrorist attack on a base in eastern Afghanistan as the agency steps up its presence in the country alongside thousands more U.S. military...
View ArticleMichigan Coalition for Human Rights Presents: An Evening With Jeff Halper,...
This Monday, the Michigan Coalition for Human Rights, a diverse coalition of human rights activists, will present "An Evening With Jeff Halper." Jeff Halper cofounded the Israeli Committee against...
View ArticleIrresistible Forces & Immovable Objects: Peace or Apartheid in Israel? An...
Last night I attended an event sponsored by the Michigan Coalition for Human Rights. Jeff Halper, an American-Israeli peace activist, anthropologist and founder of the Israeli Committee Against House...
View ArticlePeace With Enemies: FTOs and the Peace Process
The United States of America, Israel’s principal patron, has long been opposed to the Israeli colonization of the West Bank, including settlement building in East Jerusalem. How should the Obama...
View ArticleHafrada/Separation: The New Segregation, the New Apartheid
Yesterday marked the Sixty-Second Anniversary of the Nakba, translated into English as "the Catastrophe." For Palestinians, the event marks a tragedy; namely, their expulsion from their homeland and...
View ArticleEmergency Protest of Israeli Memorial Day Massacre: Dearborn, Michigan
This will be a short diary. The Palestine Cultural Office has sent me an email notifying me of an emergency protest tomorrow against the flotilla massacre and the continuing siege of Gaza:Congress of...
View ArticleMichigan Protests Against Israeli Murder of Peace Activists Continue
Yesterday I put up a diary that the Congress of Arab American Organizations and the Palestine Cultural Office were jointly sponsoring an emergency protest of the Memorial Day Massacre. Today the CAAO...
View ArticleThe Status Quo Is Unsustainable
Conservative commentators have a habit of bemoaning our "culture of entitlement." The reasons for this critique vary; some feel that this "culture of entitlement" results in dependence on the...
View ArticleRenewed Calls to Recognize Armenian Genocide
The recent flotilla massacre committed in international waters has called attention to larger issues that impact the relations between Israel and Turkey. One of these issues is the Armenian genocide....
View ArticleThe Political Uses and Abuses of History: Genocide Denial, Here and There
Two days ago, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, or ICTR, sent a Note Verbale to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of the Government of Rwanda, objecting to the incarceration...
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