Common Grounds

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• 2021 in Palestine: A new generation has finally risen

  
  January 04, 2022 15:20

  Source: Middle East Monitor

  https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20220101-2021-in-palestine-a-new-generation-has-finally-risen/

  
  By Dr Ramzy Baroud

  Published January 1, 2022

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• Haifa’s lost Palestinian bourgeoisie

  
  January 11, 2022 14:38

  Source: +972 Magazine

  https://www.972mag.com/palestinian-bourgeoisie-boutagy-haifa/

   

  By Himmat Zoubi 

  Published January 6, 2022

   

  The story of the Boutagy family exemplifies how urban, middle-class Palestinians struggled to maintain their status in Israel after the Nakba.

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• What my son is learning about being Palestinian in the Jewish state

  
  January 04, 2022 15:28

  Source: +972 Magazine

  https://www.972mag.com/palestinian-jewish-state/

   

  By Ayat Abou Shmeiss 

  Published January 3, 2022

   

  At three Mahmoud realized that Jewish children are given preference, at 13 he understood Arabic was inferior, at 17 he knew he could not live in security. Now he's 18, and my heart trembles whenever he leaves the house.

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• 1,000-strong multifaith crowd rallies around Jewish community at post-standoff vigil

  
  January 24, 2022 12:15

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://www.timesofisrael.com/1000-strong-multifaith-crowd-rallies-around-jewish-community-at-post-standoff-vigil/?utm_source=The+Weekend+Edition&utm_campaign=weekend-edition-2022-01-23&utm_medium=email

   

  By JACOB MAGIDJACOB MAGID 

  Published January 18, 2022

   

  Congregation Beth Israel in Texas begins to heal with support from Christian and Muslim neighbors, along with 24,000 watching online, overwhelming synagogue rabbi with emotion

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• There's a Mass Palestinian Grave at a Popular Israeli Beach, Veterans Confess

  
  January 25, 2022 11:42

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT.MAGAZINE-there-s-a-mass-palestinian-grave-at-a-popular-israeli-beach-veterans-confess-1.10553968

   

  By Adam Raz

  Published January 20, 2022

   

  The Israeli veterans of the 1948 battle at Tantura village finally come clean about the mass killing of Arabs that took place after the village's surrender

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• Analysis | Israel’s Hysterical Response to Amnesty’s ‘Apartheid’ Report

  
  February 03, 2022 15:28

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-hysterical-response-to-amnesty-s-apartheid-report-is-a-typical-hasbara-fail-1.10581770

   

  By Anshel Pfeffer

  Published February 1, 2022

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• U.S. State Department Rejects Amnesty's Apartheid Claim Against Israel

  
  February 03, 2022 11:36

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/u-s-state-department-rejects-amnesty-s-apartheid-claims-against-israel-1.10583830

   

  By Reuters and Ben Samuels

  Published February 1, 2022

   

  'The Jewish people must not be denied their right to self-determination, and we must ensure there isn't a double standard being applied,' says U.S. State Department spokesman following Amnesty International report

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• A Jewish Congregation Considers Affirming Anti-Zionism as a Core Value

  
  February 01, 2022 15:42

  Source: Shalom Rav, A Blog by Rabbi Brant Rosen

  https://rabbibrant.com/

   

  Published January 25, 2022

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• Opinion | Tucker Carlson’s anti-Soros Crusade Is a Clear Danger for American Jews

  
  February 07, 2022 10:55

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-tucker-carlson-s-anti-soros-crusade-is-a-clear-danger-for-american-jews-1.10576543?lts=1644149939899

   

  By Joshua Shanes

  Published January 30, 2022

   

  Fox News marked Holocaust Remembrance Day with a Tucker Carlson 'Special' glorifying Hungary’s white Christian nationalism and accusing Holocaust survivor George Soros of waging a 'secret war' on Western civilization. There should have been far more outrage

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• Opinion | Josh Mandel Has Joined the Trumpist Christians-First Far Right. Will He Drag GOP Jews With Him?

  
  February 07, 2022 10:57

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-josh-mandel-joins-the-trumpist-christians-first-far-right-will-gop-jews-follow-1.10390411

   

  By Jonathan S. Tobin

  Published November 17, 2021

   

  By embracing Trumpist extremists like Mike Flynn and Marjorie Taylor-Greene pushing an exclusively Christian America, Josh Mandel isn’t forging a coalition with the far right, he's joining it. What does that mean for U.S. Jews?

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