Common Grounds

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• Jewels More Precious Than Stone

  
  December 10, 2020 12:08

  By: Abraham A. van Kempen, Editor

   

  https://abrahamavankempen.com/2020/12/jewels-more-precious-than-stone/

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• Calling on International Civil Society to Join Them: Palestinians, Israelis Call for a Single Democratic State

  
  November 27, 2020 12:14

  Source: Palestine Chronicle

  https://www.palestinechronicle.com/calling-on-international-civil-society-to-join-them-palestinians-israelis-call-for-a-single-democratic-state/

   

  By One Democratic State Campaign

  Published November 24, 2020

   

  Editor’s Note: The following statement was issued by the One Democratic State Campaign (ODSC) on November 15, 2020. The ODSC is one the largest initiatives of Palestinians and Israelis championing a one-state solution as an alternative to the Israeli military occupation and apartheid in Palestine. 

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• Opinion | Antisemitism? Better Call It Judeophobia

  
  November 25, 2020 13:37

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-antisemitism-better-call-it-judeophobia-1.9326080

   

  By Shlomo Sand

  Published 25.11.2020

   

  There is no such thing as a Semitic race. There are only Semitic languages. I am a Semite because I speak and write Hebrew. My parents were not Semites because they spoke Yiddish

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• “God does not exist, and he promised us this land.”

  
  April 09, 2020 12:43

  Source: Medium

  https://medium.com/@sbahour/god-does-not-exist-and-he-promised-us-this-land-f9b76bcbc20d

   

  By Sam Bahour

  Published April 8, 2020

   

  Book review of What is Modern Israel? By Yakov M. Rabkin

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• Zionism as a master-race ideology

  
  July 07, 2017 12:57

  Source: JEWS FOR JUSTICE FOR PALESTINIANS

  http://jfjfp.com/?p=93439

   

  Zionist Invention of Iran Threat – An Interview with Prof. Yakov Rabkin

  July 26, 2015

   

  Good evening from the Editorial Team of ProMosaik e.V.

   

  We have already talked about Iran in the last days, after the historical Iran Deal in Vienna, achieved after 12 years’ of work this 14th of July 2015. The only State opposing to this deal is Israel which talks about how dangerous Iran is for the Zionist State.

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• Trump or No Trump, Religious Authoritarianism Is Here to Stay

  
  November 17, 2020 13:08

  Source: The New York Times

  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/opinion/trump-religion-authoritarianism.html

   

  By Katherine Stewart

  Published 16 November, 2020

   

  Their unlikely ally may have lost the White House, but Christian nationalists still plan to win the war.

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• A Palestinian perspective on the U.S. election

  
  November 20, 2020 14:13

  Source: Mondoweiss

  https://mondoweiss.net/2020/11/a-palestinian-perspective-on-the-u-s-election/

   

  By Haidar Eid

  Published November 16, 2020

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• The Gift of Faith …

  
  November 22, 2020 20:54

  Living Words from John Paul II

  Edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

   

  Published Sunday, November 22, 2020

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• UN Votes Overwhelmingly in Support of Palestinian Self-determination

  
  November 20, 2020 14:22

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/.premium-un-votes-overwhelmingly-in-support-of-palestinian-self-determination-1.9319979

   

  By Noa Landau

  Published November 20, 2020

   

  While Pompeo makes unprecedented visit to a West Bank settlement, a General Assembly committee redoubled its commitment to a two-state solution with 163 states voting in favor

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• What would the Maccabees think of us?

  
  December 11, 2020 13:47

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/what-would-the-maccabees-think-of-us/?utm_source=The+Blogs+Weekly+Highlights&utm_campaign=blogs-weekly-highlights-2020-12-10&utm_medium=email

   

  By Daniel Gordis

  Published December 10, 2020

   

  If the true Jewish revolt is a countercultural rebellion of ideas, here are some of the ideas we should be challenging today

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