Common Grounds

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• The Evangelical Pope | One World Religion? MANY!

  
  June 21, 2021 13:04

  Living Words from John Paul II

  Edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

   

  Published Sunday, June 20, 2021

   

                 "… Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. (1 John 4: 16)

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• It’s time for a new approach – The International Centre of Justice for Palestinians

  
  June 22, 2021 19:07

  Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians

  https://jfjfp.com/israel-palestine-offering-concern-solves-nothing-its-time-for-a-new-approach/

   

  Crispin Blunt writes in Middle East Eye

  Published June 21, 2021

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• Not the Palestine we dreamed of, nor were promised - opinion

  
  July 06, 2021 15:41

  Source: The Jerusalem Post

  https://www.jpost.com/opinion/not-the-palestine-we-dreamed-of-nor-were-promised-opinion-672916

   

  By DALAL IRIQAT

  Published July 5, 2021

   

  Freedom of expression is one of the most sacred rights in the international arena — And the Palestinian people deserve this right and freedom too.

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• Between the Holocaust and the Nakba, Two Histories – and Maybe a Shared Future

  
  June 22, 2021 19:27

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT.MAGAZINE-between-the-holocaust-and-the-nakba-two-histories-and-maybe-a-shared-future-1.9915571

   

  By David B. Green

  Published June 18, 2021

   

  Israeli professors Bashir Bashir and Amos Goldberg propose an original way of relating to these historical events that just might offer a new path toward ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

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• Take Action to Stop Ethnic Cleansing in Jerusalem #SaveSheikhJarrah

  
  June 24, 2021 14:00

  Source: Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME)

  https://www.cjpme.org/?utm_campaign=em_2021_26_23_ethnic_cleansing&utm_ medium=email&utm_source=cjpme

   

  June 23, 2021

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• Why does everyone want Jerusalem? CNN investigates in a new docuseries

  
  July 15, 2021 11:16

  Source: The Forward

  https://forward.com/culture/472875/jerusalem-city-of-faith-and-fury-cnn-docuseries-mcgregor-palestinian/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_2522576

   

  By PJ Grisar

  Published July 13, 2021 

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• Top evangelical leader warns: Israel could lose our support if Netanyahu ousted

  
  June 09, 2021 12:31

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://www.timesofisrael.com/top-evangelical-leader-warns-israel-could-lose-our-support-if-netanyahu-ousted/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2021-06-08&utm_medium=email

   

  By TOI STAFF

  Published June 8, 2021

   

  Mike Evans says his 77 million followers will ‘go into the opposition’ with Netanyahu; decries coalition that seeks to replace PM as anti-Zionists who’ll surrender to radical Islam

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• An American Kingdom

  
  July 14, 2021 13:26

  Source: The Washington Post

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/07/11/mercy-culture-church/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https://s2.washingtonpost.com/car-ln-tr/3420f98/60ec673c9d2fda8060034242/597682b5ae7e8a6816d78e2c/9/70/60ec673c9d2fda8060034242

   

  By Stephanie McCrummen

  Published July 11, 2021

   

  A new and rapidly growing Christian movement is openly political, wants a nation under God’s authority, and is central to Donald Trump’s GOP

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• Opinion | Should Jews Fear Fanatically pro-Israel, Philosemitic U.S. Evangelicals?

  
  July 16, 2021 10:42

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-should-jews-fear-fanatically-pro-israel-philosemitic-u-s-evangelicals-1.9911159

   

  By Judah Isseroff

  Published June 16, 2021

   

  For Jews, what is more offensive – and more threatening? Today’s philosemitic Evangelicals, some with their venomous takes on Israel's new government, or yesteryear’s Christian theological antisemitism?

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• Genocide, apartheid? A poll Israel cannot allow itself to ignore

  
  July 16, 2021 10:47

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://www.timesofisrael.com/genocide-apartheid-a-poll-israel-cannot-allow-itself-to-ignore/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2021-07-15&utm_medium=email

   

  By DAVID HOROVITZ

  Published July 15, 2021

   

  Nobody who knows the reality in Israel could possibly believe it is committing genocide against the Palestinians. Yet 22% of US Jews apparently do. Alarm bells should be ringing

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