Common Grounds

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• Opinion // Should Palestinians 'Return' to Judaism?

  
  June 12, 2018 13:53

   

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/.premium-should-palestinians-return-to-judaism-1.6159270

   

  By Seraj Assi
  Published Jun 10, 2018

   

  'They belong to our people': Why Israel's founders believed Palestinians were originally Jews, and how this discredited theory could offer hope for reconciliation today

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• In Israel, top Indonesian cleric calls for ‘compassion’ between Muslims and Jews

  
  June 17, 2018 21:41

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-israel-top-indonesian-cleric-calls-for-compassion-between-muslims-and-jews/

   

  By Raphael Ahren

  Published 12 June 2018

   

  Yahya Staquf, who heads world’s largest Muslim organization, says he wants to promote ties with Jerusalem, but stresses he came to affirm 'Palestine's sovereignty'

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• 'You never told me': Confronting American Jewish myths about Israel

  
  June 21, 2018 15:58

  Source: +972 Magazine

  https://972mag.com/you-never-told-me-confronting-american-jewish-myths-about-israel/136298/

   

  By Emma Goldberg

  Published June 19, 2018

   

  A group of young American Jews are challenging the the institutionalized myths they were taught about the Jewish state in classrooms, youth group trips, and summer camps. 

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• When racism in Israel becomes the 'legitimate right' of its Jewish citizens

  
  June 21, 2018 16:08

  Source: +972 Magazine

  https://972mag.com/when-racism-in-israel-becomes-the-legitimate-right-of-its-jewish-citizens/136332/

   

  By Suhad Bishara

  Published June 21, 2018

   

  Protests against Arab families moving into a Jewish city are a reminder that until everyone is free to choose where they want to live, the Israeli regime will remain segregationist and racist at its core.

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• U.S. close to releasing Mideast peace proposal that Palestinian leadership may immediately reject

  
  June 21, 2018 16:15

  Source: The Washington Post

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-close-to-releasing-mideast-peace-proposal-that-palestinian-leadership-may-immediately-reject/2018/06/20/32ffa498-73f1-11e8-805c-4b67019fcfe4_story.html?utm_term=.3e4e36cb9bfa

   

  By Anne Gearan, Karen DeYoung and Loveday Morris

  Published June 21, 2018

   

  The Trump administration is close to releasing a long-awaited Middle East peace proposal that officials said would present U.S. goals for a settlement between Israel and the Palestinians, despite the Palestinian position that President Trump cannot be an honest broker.

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• Corbyn Says Labour Government Would Recognize State Of Palestine

  
  June 25, 2018 14:11

  Source: Forward

  https://forward.com/fast-forward/403929/corbyn-says-labour-government-would-recognize-state-of-palestine/

   

  By JTA

  Published June 24, 2018

   

  (JTA) — British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, under fire for having anti-Israel views born out of anti-Semitism, said in a tweet that a Labour-led government would recognize Palestine as a state.

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• Ending colonialism in Palestine

  
  June 25, 2018 14:24

  Source: The Electronic Intifada

  https://electronicintifada.net/content/ending-colonialism-palestine/24756

   

  By Rod Such 

  Published 24 June 2018

   

  Why Palestine Matters: The Struggle to End Colonialism edited by Noushin Darya Framke and Susan Landau, Israel/Palestine Mission Network of the Presbyterian Church (USA) (2018)

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• The More Plausible And Reasonable History Of Palestine And Israel – OpEd

  
  June 25, 2018 14:36

  Source: Eurasia Review 

  http://www.eurasiareview.com/22062018-the-more-plausible-and-reasonable-history-of-palestine-and-israel-oped/

   

  By Rima Najja

  Published June 22, 2018

   

  The history behind Palestine and Israel is a history of Jewish European settler-colonialism — i.e., Zionism. And since racism is a symptom and a tool of settler-colonialism, Zionism is also viewed as anti-Semitism, and as ethno-supremacy or Jewish supremacy, Arabophobia and Islamophobia.

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• WATCH // Trump on Jerusalem Embassy Move: 'Evangelicals Appreciate It More Than the Jews'

  
  June 25, 2018 14:46

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/trump-says-evangelicals-appreciate-jerusalem-embassy-more-than-jews-1.6201541

   

  By Haaretz staff

  Published Jun 24, 2018

   

  U.S. President Donald Trump told former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee in an interview released over the weekend that evangelical Christians are more grateful than Jews for his moving of the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Trump said that the reaction surpised him. 

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• Donald Trump policies are hurting Palestinians and Middle East peace prospects

  
  June 28, 2018 11:42

  Source: USA Today

  https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/06/27/donald-trump-hurts-palestinians-middle-east-peace-prospects-column/729413002/

   

  By Dianne Feinstein

  Published June 27, 2018

   

  Palestinian leaders didn't meet with Jared Kushner because of Donald Trump's heartless policies. The U.S. can't broker peace unless he repairs the damage.

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