Common Grounds

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• On Hypocrisy and Genocide – How Gaza Has Exposed the West Like Never Before

  
  March 05, 2024 15:15

  Source: Palestine Chronicle

  https://www.palestinechronicle.com/on-hypocrisy-and-genocide-how-gaza-has-exposed-the-west-like-never-before/

   

  By Ramzy Baroud

  Published March 1, 2024

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• War on Gaza: Jewish opposition to Israel is as old as Zionism itself

  
  March 05, 2024 15:15

  Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians 

  https://jfjfp.com/war-on-gaza-jewish-opposition-to-israel-is-as-old-as-zionism-itself/

   

  Joseph Massad writes in Middle East Eye on 29 February 2024

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• How the ‘fight against antisemitism’ became a shield for Israel's genocide

  
  March 12, 2024 15:11

  Source: Middle East Eye

  https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-gaza-fight-against-antisemitism-shield-israel-genocide

   

  By Jonathan Cook

  Published March 7, 2024

   

  Western capitals no longer treat Israel like a state, a political actor capable of slaughtering children, but rather as a sacred cause. So any opposition has to be a blasphemy

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• Remembering the beauty of Ramadan in Gaza

  
  March 12, 2024 15:11

  Source: Al-Jazeera

  https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/3/11/remembering-the-beauty-of-ramadan-in-gaza

   

  By Eman Alhaj Ali

  Published March 11, 2024

   

  Israel’s genocidal war has destroyed the joy of the holy month. Now only our happy memories remain.

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• Dr. Mads Gilbert on Israel’s “systematic strategy” to destroy Palestinians

  
  March 12, 2024 15:11

  Source: Peace and Planet News

  https://peaceandplanetnews.org/dr-mads-gilbert-on-israels-systematic-strategy-to-destroy-palestinians/

   

  Video by TRT World Digital

   

  Editor’s Note |

   

  A Life-giving and Life-changing Video Worth Watching.

   

   

  Norwegian physician and professor emeritus Mads Gilbert opens up about his decades-long experience working in the occupied Palestinian territories and how the current situation is — in terms of Israeli brutality against Palestinians — unlike any other he’s witnessed in an exclusive interview with TRT World Digital. He also reflects on his activist side, inviting viewers to consider our shared humanity and what is required on the part of the international community, however challenging, to end Israel’s genocidal assault against Gaza.

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• War on Gaza: How Israel's leftists quickly lost their compassion for Palestinians

  
  March 19, 2024 14:57

  Source: Middle East Eye

  https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-gaza-israel-leftist-lost-compassion-palestinians

   

  By Orly Noy

  Published March 16, 2024

   

  Liberal Israeli sympathy for Palestinians was based on the colonial mindset that the subjugated are inferior and should be grateful for their support

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• Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox ‘Problem’ – A Threat to the Zionist Project?

  
  March 19, 2024 14:57

  Source: Palestine Chronicle

  https://www.palestinechronicle.com/israels-ultra-orthodox-problem-a-threat-to-the-zionist-project/

   

  By Robert Inlakesh

  Published March 18, 2024

   

  The Haredim, or Ultra-Orthodox Jews, are crucial to the Israeli state model in a number of ways, yet, in others, are antithetical to the Zionist mission.

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• Israel Has Severed the West Bank From Gaza. During War, It Becomes a Death Sentence

  
  March 19, 2024 14:57

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/2024-03-13/ty-article-magazine/.premium/israel-has-been-separating-the-west-bank-from-gaza-during-war-it-becomes-a-death-sentence/0000018e-3874-d2fd-a1fe-3df58c940000

   

  By Amira Hass

  Published March 13, 2024

   

  Since the '90s, Israel has been working to separate the two parts of the Palestinian territories. The fact that a temporary displacement of Gazans to the West Bank isn't being considered shows how embedded the split created by Israel is

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• When children are present in a genocide

  
  March 26, 2024 14:38

  Source: Mondoweiss

  https://mondoweiss.net/2024/03/when-children-are-present-in-a-genocide/

   

  By SABREEN AKHTER

  Published March 21, 2024

   

  When children are present in a time of genocide, they will always be the most vulnerable, the most affected, and the most in need of our protection. They will need pediatricians, such as myself, to act en masse and say unequivocally: ceasefire now. 

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• OPINION ...Young US evangelicals are refusing to be ‘useful idiots’ for Israel

  
  March 26, 2024 14:39

  Source: Middle East Monitor

  https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240320-young-us-evangelicals-are-refusing-to-be-useful-idiots-for-israel/

   

  By Omar Ahmed

  Published March 20, 2024

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