Common Grounds

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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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• 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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• 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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• Dialogue, Displacement and Despair: Why Palestine is Burning Like Never Before

  
  January 25, 2022 13:50

  Source: Mintpressnews

  https://www.mintpressnews.com/dialogue-displacement-despair-palestine-burning-like-never-before/279494/

   

  By Miko Peled

  Published January 20, 2022

   

  The dialogue phenomenon tries to cover up the fact that millions of Palestinians are displaced and that despair is all that life has to offer them. But it provides no hope, no solution, only a guarantee that things will continue to get worse for Palestinians.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 'Holy Land Confederation': Oslo Accords Architect Presents New Peace Plan

  
  February 10, 2022 11:36

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-holy-land-confederation-oslo-accords-architect-presents-new-peace-plan-1.10601495?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=15ea3dbd92

   

  By Allison Kaplan Sommer

  Published February 9, 2022

   

  Veteran Israeli peace negotiator Yossi Beilin and Palestinian attorney Hiba Husseini suggest the creation of a confederation, with people swaps involving settlers and refugees, as a way to revive the two state solution

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• Ukraine crisis highlights West’s hypocrisy over Israeli land theft

  
  February 24, 2022 17:25

  Source: The Electronic Intifada

  https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/ukraine-crisis-highlights-wests-hypocrisy-over-israeli-land-theft

   

  By Ali Abunimah

  Published February 22, 2022

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