Common Grounds

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• Older Jews are officially terrified of young Jews’ views of Israel

  
  March 29, 2018 13:42

  Source: Mondoweiss

  http://mondoweiss.net/2018/03/officially-terrified-israel/

   

  By Philip Weiss

  Published March 27, 2018

   

  “Big stories don’t break, they ooze,” the legendary editor Gene Roberts used to say, and a story has oozed in the last month or so that has not gotten much attention. Older Jews are now officially terrified of young Jews. Why? Because those young Jews are not persuaded of the value of the great Jewish project of the last century, Israel.

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• Palestinians are the majority. Is it apartheid yet?

  
  March 29, 2018 13:58

  Source: +972 Magazine

  https://972mag.com/palestinians-are-the-majority-is-it-apartheid-yet/134125/

   

  By Amjad Iraqi
  Published March 28, 2018

   

  Israel has always valued Jewish supremacy over democracy. But new demographics could bolster the Palestinians’ efforts to challenge this system.

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• Palestine Land Day: A day to resist and remember

  
  March 30, 2018 12:57

  Source: Al Jazeera

  https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/palestine-land-day-day-resist-remember-180330054113738.html

   

  By Yara Hawari

   

  On Land Day, Palestinians demand once and for all that the international community pick the right side of history.

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• Where is Palestine's Gandhi? Marching in Gaza

  
  April 02, 2018 15:16

  Source: +972 Magaziine

  https://972mag.com/where-is-palestines-gandhi-marching-in-gaza/134274/

   

  By Neve Gordon

  Published April 1, 2018

   

  Rather than ask when the Palestinians will produce a Gandhi, we must ask when Israel will produce a leader that does not subjugate an occupied population through lethal violence.

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• Geraldo Rivera regrets not backing Palestinians in Second Intifada

  
  April 04, 2018 13:21

  Source: Mondoweiss

  http://mondoweiss.net/2018/04/geraldo-palestinians-intifada/

   

  By Philip Weiss

  Published April 3, 2018

   

  Another datapoint in the discourse’s march to the left. On Fox News, Geraldo Rivera says that the Israel Palestine conflict is the “original sin” of the United States, from which “a lot of our problems stem”. And his big regret is that he did not back the oppressed Palestinians during the Second Intifada.

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• Israel faces historic decision as new population figures emerge

  
  April 04, 2018 13:34

  Source: Al-Monitor

  https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2018/04/israel-palestinians-demography-jordan-river-apartheid.html

   

  By Yossi Beilin 

  Published April 3, 2018

   

  The Israeli political right was caught off guard by the surprising official figures presented on March 26 at the Knesset by a representative of the Civil Administration, the army unit coordinating the Israeli government’s activities in the occupied territories. The representative indicated that the number of Jews and Arabs living under Israeli control in the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean had reached parity at 6.5 million for each side.

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• If our Jersey sisterhood of Jews, Muslims can bond, so can the world | Opinion

  
  April 04, 2018 13:52

  Source: NJ.com 

  http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2018/03/if_our_sisterhood_of_jewish_muslim_women_can_bond.html

   

  By Heba Macksoud

  Published March 8 2018

   

  When I first heard about the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom, it sounded strange to me: A few older Jewish women wanted to get together with a bunch of Muslim women in New Jersey to "get to know them."

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• A week of unbearable heartbreak in Israel-Palestine

  
  April 04, 2018 14:06

  Source: +972 Magazine

  https://972mag.com/a-week-of-unbearable-heartbreak-in-israel-palestine/134338/

   

  By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
  Published April 3, 2018

   

  From unarmed protesters gunned down in Gaza to hope snatched away from refugees, the human suffering this past week has been overwhelming.

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• Christian evangelicals from the US flock to Holy Land in Israeli tourism boom

  
  April 11, 2018 12:59

  Source: Independent

  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/us-christian-evangelicals-israel-tourism-holy-land-jerusalem-a8290521.html

   

  By Staff Reporter

  Published 6 April 2018

   

  Record-breaking numbers of tourists paid visits to Israel in 2017, and a growing proportion come from Donald Trump’s evangelical voter base

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• From Land Day to the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, Palestinians have plenty to protest

  
  April 12, 2018 12:07

  Source: openDemocracy

  https://www.opendemocracy.net/north-africa-west-asia/isabella-bellezza-smull/from-land-day-to-70th-anniversary-of-nakba-palestinia#comments

  
  By ISABELLA BELLEZZA-SMULL 

  Published 12 April 2018

   

  The murderously disproportionate violence meted out against demonstrating Palestinians is only the latest in a long series of deadly responses to popular protests. 

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