Tikva Honig-Parnass  was raised in the Jewish community of pre-state Palestine, fought in the 1948 war, and served as the secretary of the then Radical Left Zionist Party of Mapam (The Unified Workers Party) in the Knesset (1951–1954). In 1960 she definitively broke with Zionism and joined the ranks of the Israeli Socialist Organization, known as “Matzpen.” She is author of False Prophets of Peace and co-edited Between the Lines with Toufic Haddad, both published by Haymarket Books.