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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• 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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• Opinion: Israel must choose: Withdraw from the occupied territories or grant Palestinians under its control full rights

  
  January 11, 2022 14:50

  Source: The Washington Post

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/06/israel-palestinians-occupation-full-rights-west-bank/

   

  By Mairav Zonszein
  Published January 6, 2022 

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• UN Passes Israeli Resolution Combating Holocaust Denial on Social Media

  
  January 21, 2022 10:45

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-un-passes-israeli-resolution-combatting-holocaust-denial-on-social-media-1.10553416?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=97e7ef60d5

   

  By Jonathan Lis

  Published January 20, 2022

   

  The resolution, which the U.S. and Germany have also lobbied for, also recognizes the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's definition of antisemitism

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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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• ‘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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• ‘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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• 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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