Common Grounds

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• The quiet rebellion of US Jews turning against Israel is good for Palestinians

  
  November 16, 2021 15:23

  Source: Middle East Monitor

  https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210817-the-quiet-rebellion-of-us-jews-turning-against-israel-is-good-for-palestinians/

   

  By Ramzy Baroud

  Published August 17, 2021

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• Racial Justice Vs. The Israel Lobby: When Being Pro-Palestine Becomes the New Normal

  
  November 16, 2021 15:08

  Source: Ramzy Baroud, Politics for People

  http://www.ramzybaroud.net/racial-justice-vs-the-israel-lobby-when-being-pro-palestine-becomes-the-new-normal/?utm_content=bufferd65f8&utm_medium=social&utm_source=

  facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

   

  By Ramzy Baroud

  Published October 6, 2021

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• Palestine: International community must support and protect Palestinian civil society

  
  November 12, 2021 11:08

  Source: International Service for Human Rights

  https://ishr.ch/latest-updates/palestine-the-international-community-must-support-and-protect-palestinian-civil-society/

   

  Published November 2, 2021

   

  Following the designation of six Palestinian CSO as terrorist organisations, the international community must support and protect and ensure a safe and enabling environment for Palestinian civil society and HRDs.

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• Tell Trudeau’s Cabinet: Protect Human Rights Defenders in Palestine!

  
  November 12, 2021 11:34

  Source: Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East 

  https://www.cjpme.org/

   

  Published November 2021

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• Time to reimagine, recreate, restore

  
  November 12, 2021 12:19

  Source: Human Rights on behalf of Mazin Qumsiyeh

  https://www.palestinenature.org/

   

  By Mazin Qumsiyeh

  Published November 2021

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• Secret Israeli dossier provides no proof for declaring Palestinian NGOs ‘terrorists’

  
  November 12, 2021 14:25

  Source: +972 Magazine

  https://www.972mag.com/shin-bet-dossier-palestinian-ngos/

   

  By By Yuval Abraham, Oren Ziv and Meron Rapoport 

  Published November 4, 2021

   

  Israel hoped a classified Shin Bet document would convince European governments to stop funding Palestinian rights groups. +972 and Local Call got hold of the dossier's testimonies — and found no real evidence to justify Israel's claims.

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• Who is the outlier, Trump or Biden? The answer means much to the world

  
  November 25, 2021 10:57

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/who-is-the-outlier-trump-or-biden-the-answer-means-much-to-the-world/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2021-11-23&utm_medium=email

   

  By Aron Heller

  Published November 22, 2021

   

  With the world trending authoritarian, will Trump turn out to be the first of his kind while the moderate Biden turns out to be the last of his?

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• A series of unfortunate Thanksgiving events – and their upside for Jews

  
  November 25, 2021 12:09

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-series-of-unfortunate-thanksgiving-events-and-their-upside-for-jews/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2021-11-23&utm_medium=email

   

  By Rabbi Yael Buechler

  Published November 23, 2021

   

  Early on, exclusionary discourse on the holiday led to dustups, clarifications and even an epic apology that helped Jews carve out a piece of the American story

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• 'I Showed Palestinians the Footage That Israel Looted. They Started to Cry'

  
  December 06, 2021 11:21

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT.MAGAZINE-i-showed-palestinians-the-footage-that-israel-looted-they-started-to-cry-1.10438349?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=daily-brief&utm_content=8a994565d9

   

  By Nirit Anderman

  Published December 4, 2021

   

  In the 1982 Lebanon War, the Israeli army raided the PLO archive in Beirut, confiscating numerous reels of film depicting Palestinian life. A new film by Karnit Mandel reveals her quest to find the mysterious footage

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• Opinion | Who Will Stop Israel's Craziest Settlement Plan Ever?

  
  December 07, 2021 14:11

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-who-will-stop-israel-s-craziest-settlement-plan-ever-1.10440698?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=daily-brief&utm_content=8a994565d9

   

  By Hagit Ofran

  Published December 5, 2021

   

  A new mega-settlement would be the death sentence for a viable future Palestinian state. But with the shameful silence of the 'pro-peace,' two state supporters in Israel's coalition government, the only hope for halting the plan rests with Biden and Blinken

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