Common Grounds

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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 | 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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• 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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• 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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• Editorial | Did Somebody Say ‘Oil,’ ‘Petro-Dictator,’ ‘America’s Addiction to Oil?’

  
  April 01, 2022 14:43

  By Abraham A. van Kempen

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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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• Could Russia Move First to Halt Oil Exports to Europe?

  
  June 09, 2022 14:53

  Source: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

  https://carnegieendowment.org/eurasiainsight/87209?utm_source=ctw&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Lvuue9amzp_pMZoRDusSoUVp48zzcsei-YC8gCdSUdB7odTjQ

   

  By Alexandra Prokopenko

  Published May 30, 2022

   

  Ultimately, Russia has more to gain politically than Europe does from an embargo.

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• Who Needs a Hegemon: Lessening the Impact of US-Induced Chaos

  
  June 07, 2022 15:05

  Source: Palestine Chronicle

  https://www.palestinechronicle.com/who-needs-a-hegemon-lessening-the-impact-of-us-induced-chaos/

   

  By Ron Forthofer

  Published June 7, 2022

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• 60 Percent of Israeli Jews Favor Segregation From Arabs, Survey Finds

  
  June 07, 2022 14:41

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2022-06-06/ty-article/60-percent-of-israeli-jews-favor-segregation-from-arabs-survey-finds/00000181-351b-dee8-aba7-3d9fdfdf0000

   

  By Or Kashti

  Published June 6, 2022

   

  The support rose from 45 percent last year, before riots broke out in a number of mixed Jewish-Arab cities during the last round of fighting in Gaza

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