Common Grounds

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• The person I should have been in unoccupied Palestine

  
  February 08, 2022 15:17

  Source: Mondoweiss

  https://mondoweiss.net/2022/02/the-person-i-should-have-been-in-unoccupied-palestine/

   

  By REEM A. HAMAD

  Published February 3, 2022

   

  Reem Hamadaqa is 22 years old and has never left the Gaza Strip. Photos in an old family album are her only window to a Palestine she has never seen.

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• ‘Tantura’ Documentary Maintains Israel’s Defense of its Ethnic Cleansing

  
  February 22, 2022 15:18

  Source: Inside Arabia

  https://insidearabia.com/tantura-documentary-maintains-israels-defense-of-its-ethnic-cleansing/

   

  By Ramona Wadi

  Published February 14, 2022

   

  Israeli narratives of Tantura’s ethnic cleansing do not hold Israel accountable for its ongoing Nakba. Despite the information hitting Israeli society, the accounts themselves invalidate the Palestinian experience by defending the Zionist colonial project – this is also true of the latest documentary on the subject titled “Tantura”.

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• Doing Business with Apartheid: Why Africa Must Reject Israeli Colonialism

  
  February 22, 2022 15:29

  Source: Ramzy Baroud, Politics for the people

  http://www.ramzybaroud.net/doing-business-with-apartheid-why-africa-must-reject-israeli-colonialism/

   

  Published February 16, 2022

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• Opinion | In the Ukrainian Crisis, Israel Looks At its Interests First

  
  March 11, 2022 11:40

  Source: NRC. NL

  https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2022/03/06/in-de-oekraiense-crisis-kijkt-israel-eerst-naar-zijn-belangen-a4097038

   

  Published March 6, 2022

  By Carolien Roelant

   

  Israel is being extremely cautious about the Russian raid on Ukraine. Israel doesn't want to rock the boat with Putin.

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• Navigating our Humanity: Ilan Pappé on the Four Lessons from Ukraine

  
  March 08, 2022 16:54

  Source: Palestine Chronicle

  https://www.palestinechronicle.com/navigating-our-humanity-ilan-pappe-on-the-four-lessons-from-ukraine/

   

  By Ilan Pappe

  Published March 4, 2022

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• What I Didn’t See as a Jewish Israeli

  
  March 08, 2022 15:34

  Source: Yes Magazine

  https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2022/03/07/israel-palestine-identity-sheikh-jarrah

   

  By Tzvia THIER

  Published March 7, 2022

   

  After 59 years in Israel, visiting the Palestinian neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah shook my identity.

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• The Evangelical Pope | Build a World Without Violence

  
  March 14, 2022 11:56

  Living Words from John Paul II

  Edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

   

  Published Sunday, March 13, 2022

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• Hypocrisy all round

  
  March 15, 2022 16:08

  Source: Weekly Worker

  https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1386/hypocrisy-all-round/

   

  By Moshe Machover

  Published March 10, 2022

   

  Moshé Machover highlights the selective condemnations of oppression and explains why Israel’s prime minister can pose as the peacemaker

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• Opinion | Israel Owes the Ukrainians Nothing

  
  March 15, 2022 18:07

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-israel-owes-the-ukrainians-nothing-1.10661944

   

  By Zvi Bar'el

  Published March 8, 2022

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• International silence fuels Israeli persecution

  
  March 15, 2022 16:23

  Source: Electronic Intifada

  https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/international-silence-fuels-israeli-persecution

   

  By Maureen Clare Murphy

  Published March 4, 2022

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