Common Grounds

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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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• Opinion | How Jews Become Christian Nationalists: The Case of Josh Mandel

  
  February 07, 2022 10:55

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-how-jews-become-christian-nationalists-the-case-of-josh-mandel-1.10396679

   

  By Avraham Bronstein

  Published November 18, 2021

   

  If Donald Trump can be a Christian nationalist, so can Josh Mandel, the longtime nativist leading Ohio's GOP Senate primaries

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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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• Secular democracy and the future of Palestine

  
  February 08, 2022 15:00

  Source: Mondoweiss

  https://mondoweiss.net/2022/01/secular-democracy-and-the-future-of-palestine/

   

  BY HAIDAR EID

  Published January 28, 2022

   

  It is an established fact that Israel is an apartheid state. The questions then are - how to dismantle it and what comes next?

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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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• 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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• Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: a cruel system of domination and a crime against humanity

  
  February 01, 2022 13:40

  Source: Amnesty International

  https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/02/israels-apartheid-against-palestinians-a-cruel-system-of-domination-and-a-crime-against-humanity/

   

  Published February 1, 2022

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• Israel’s ‘war of attrition’ against Palestinian children

  
  January 25, 2022 14:20

  Source: Aljazeera

  https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2022/1/21/israels-war-of-attrition-against-palestinian-children

   

  By Marwa Koçak Marwa Koçak and Amy Addison-Dunne

  Published January 21, 2022

   

  As the battle between the Palestinian Bedouin and Israel continues, children are being indiscriminately arrested.

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• Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP) calls for prayer for Nassar Family and Tent of Nations

  
  January 31, 2022 10:33

  Source: Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP) 

  Published January 29, 2022

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• Opinion | What's With Israel's Obsession With Counting Jews?

  
  January 27, 2022 15:34

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-what-s-with-israel-s-obsession-with-counting-jews-1.10568637?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=email&utm_content=author-alert&utm_campaign=Gideon%20Levy&utm_term=20220126-23%eWMWmN4Lu0u1pcuCzmFLOjbAtj2DoegAY

   

  By Gideon Levy

  Published January 26, 2022

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