Common Grounds

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• CMEP Supports Biden Administration's Opposition to the Israeli Government’s Approval of New Settlement Construction

  
  October 29, 2021 12:54

  Source: Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP) 

  Published October 28, 2021

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• 13 European states call on Israel to halt plans for 3,000 settlement homes

  
  October 29, 2021 13:08

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://www.timesofisrael.com/13-european-states-call-on-israel-to-halt-plans-for-3000-settlement-homes/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2021-10-28&utm_medium=email

   

  By TOI STAFF and AFP

  Published October 28, 2021

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• Israel Not Expected to Join ‘Bizarre’ U.S. Boycott of Winter Olympics in China

  
  December 09, 2021 11:51

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-not-expected-to-join-bizarre-u-s-boycott-of-winter-olympics-in-china-1.10448868?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=daily-brief&utm_content=51ea886301

   

  By Jonathan Lis

  Published December 9, 2021

   

  The comment by a senior Israeli official follows an announcement by the Biden administration that it will refrain from sending a political delegation to the games in Beijing in protest at China’s human rights record

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• Opinion | The Settler-philosopher Everyone Loves to Love

  
  December 07, 2021 14:33

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-the-settler-philosopher-everyone-loves-to-love-1.10440019?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=daily-brief&utm_content=8a994565d9

   

  By Gideon Levy

  Published December 4, 2021

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• ‘The Nation’ lifts up Jewish fears over Palestinian realities in a Zionist tract

  
  January 18, 2022 15:25

  Source: Mondoweiss

  https://mondoweiss.net/2022/01/the-nation-lifts-up-jewish-fears-over-palestinian-realities-in-a-zionist-tract/

   

  BY PHILIP WEISS  

  Published January 14, 2022

   

  The Nation runs a righwing religious endorsement of Zionism that opposes BDS and leaves out the forced expulsion of Palestinians from their land.

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• ‘In our teens, we dreamed of making peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Then my friend was shot’

  
  January 18, 2022 15:48

  Source: The Guardian

  https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jan/13/peace-middle-east-friend-summer-camp-israel

   

  By Roy Cohen

  Published January 13, 2022

   

  At a summer camp for kids from conflict zones, I met my brave, funny friend Aseel. He was Palestinian. I was Israeli. When he was killed by police, my hope for our future died with him

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• Opinion | The Israeli Bill to Preserve Demographic Jewish Supremacy

  
  January 19, 2022 13:07

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-israel-s-bill-to-preserve-jewish-demographic-supremacy-1.10540934

   

  By Carolina Landsmann

  Published January 16, 2022

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• This Filmmaker Dares to Question the Figure of 6 Million Jewish Victims in WWII

  
  January 20, 2022 11:44

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT.MAGAZINE-this-filmmaker-dares-to-question-the-figure-of-6-million-jewish-victims-in-wwii-1.10542149?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=c15387912d&lts=1642359808019

   

  By Nirit Anderman

  Published January 16, 2022

   

  How did the devastating, albeit too round number of 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust become so profoundly embedded in our minds? In his new documentary Israeli filmmaker David Fisher dares to try and recount

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• 'The Chameleon': U.S. Experts Shaken Over What This Iranian Scholar Just Said

  
  January 13, 2022 13:55

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-the-chameleon-u-s-experts-shaken-over-what-this-iranian-scholar-just-said-1.10532688?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=ea7875ed8b

   

  By Yossi Melman

  Published January 12, 2022

   

  Seyed Hossein Mousavian, a visiting scholar at Princeton and an influential figure in the corridors of power in his country, recently spoke with a smirk of satisfaction about the threats directed against former American official Brian Hook

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• The Alchemy of Angst

  
  January 13, 2022 13:42

  Source: Project Syndicate

  https://www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/alchemy-of-angst-by-elif-shafak-2021-12?utm_source=Project%20Syndicate%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=f6105226b3-op_newsletter_01_07_2022&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_73bad5b7d8-f6105226b3-93791313&mc_cid=f6105226b3&mc_eid=284f1f0e24&barrier=accesspay

   

  By ELIF SHAFAK

  Published December 4, 2021

   

  In a world smothered by information but lacking wisdom, anger, born of pain, has become the defining emotion. The false promise of twenty-first-century digital technologies has been laid bare, leaving people desperate for meaningful human connection and a sense of political agency.

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