Common Grounds
Donald Trump policies are hurting Palestinians and Middle East peace prospects
Source: USA Today
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.
Read MoreYoung Evangelicals Feel the Complexity of Conflict After Traveling to Israel
Source: Haaretz
The Forward and Ben Fractenberg
Published Jul 12, 2018
5,000 young Christians who have visited Israel over the past three years on a trip called “Passages”, the Evangelical version of Birthright Israel
Read MoreHow Israel enshrines apartheid into law
Source: Middle East Eye
http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/how-israel-enshrines-apartheid-law-818001636
By Ben White
Published 17 July 2018
‘Jewish nation state’ bill is only the latest attempt to legislate discrimination against Palestinians
Read MoreShort Cuts
Source: London Review of Books
By Amjad Iraqi
Published 19 July 2018
Late last month, the US House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee approved the latest version of the Israel Anti-Boycott Act, which is now one step closer to becoming law. The bill was introduced to Congress in March 2017, with the aim of prohibiting American companies from assisting international governmental organisations with boycotts against Israel.
Read MoreOh Israel, Israel, what have you done?
Source: Christian Today
https://www.christiantoday.com/article/oh-israel-israel-what-have-you-done/130051.htm
By David Baker
Published 23 Jul 2018
Israel has passed 'a defining moment in the annals of Zionism and the history of the State of Israel' – according to its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
He was speaking after the Knesset, Israel's parliament, narrowly passed a contentious new 'Nation State Law' which declares that Jews alone have 'the right of self-determination' in the country. International reaction has been negative, with some even labelling it 'apartheid'.
Read MoreOpinion // Still waiting for a Palestinian Gandhi? S/he's already here
Source: Haaretz
http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/1.804133
By Zaha Hassan
Published Jul 30, 2017
Every little West Bank girl crossing a checkpoint to get to school is a Rosa Parks. Every prisoner on hunger strike is a Mandela, and every Gazan, surviving despite the dehumanizing conditions, is a Palestinian Gandhi
Read MoreThe Jewish Nation State Law: If Israel Practiced Democracy, It’d Be Called Palestine
Source: Foreign Policy Journal
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By Jeremy R. Hammond
Published Jul 25, 2018
Israel’s Jewish Nation State Law can’t be a departure from democratic principles for the simple reason that it owes its existence to rejecting democracy.
Read MorePALESTINIAN ACTIVIST AHED TAMIMI RELEASED, BUT EXPERTS SAY ISRAEL HAS BIGGER PROBLEM
Source: Newsweek
By TOM O'CONNOR
Published 7/29/18
Teenage Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi and her mother have been released from prison eight months after being incarcerated for a now-famous act of protest against Israeli security forces.
Read MoreOpinion // The Sentence That Rewrote the History of the Jewish People
Source: Haaretz
By Ofri Ilany
Published Aug 02, 2018
You only have to look in the Bible to discover that the nation-state law’s claim that the Land of Israel is the historical homeland of the Jewish people is simplistic and dubious
Read MorePalestinians Can’t Keep Living Like This
Source: Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-08-17/palestinians-can-t-keep-living-under-israeli-apartheid
By Hussein Ibish
Published August 17, 2018
In a tiny West Bank village not long ago, a teenage girl slapped a heavily armed soldier outside her home. The prevailing sense among 7 million Jews was that she was a violent renegade, a kind of apprentice terrorist. But almost 7 million Palestinians saw her act as effectively, or at least relatively, nonviolent. They viewed her as fully justified and, indeed, heroic.
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