`  == Porath, Meretz, etc. ==  ``Prominent`` seems hardly controversial - Porath is surely a prominent historian of the Palestinians.  As to whether having once been a member of Meretz (and when he wrote the review, in 1986, he was obviously not yet a member of Meretz, since it didn't exist until 1992) makes one a ``leftist,`` that seems dubious to me.  Meretz isn't really all that left wing in the traditional sense of the word.  It is perhaps a pro-Palestinian party, but I don't understand why ``pro-Palestinian`` should translate to ``left-wing.``  In terms of domestic politics, Meretz seems to be a fairly standard issue center-left party.  And Porath, of course, is not any longer left wing at all (as I think you know from the fact that you stated on my talk page that he was ``a leftist back then.``  To take a rather more extreme case, would he ever refer to Mussolini as ``Leftist journalist Benito Mussolini``?).  Calling him a ``leftist historian`` implies that he's a figure like Norman Finkelstein or Noam Chomsky.  He is obviously not, and we shouldn't be trying to mislead readers into thinking that he is.  But if you want to take out ``prominent``, I won't revert you, so long as you don't add ``leftist``.  `