Common Grounds

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• Apartheid in Palestine and a Christ who stands on the other side of the wall

  
  May 19, 2021 13:58

  Source: Baptist News Global

  https://baptistnews.com/article/apartheid-in-palestine-and-a-christ-who-stands-on-the-other-side-of-the-wall/#.YKTeOagzZPY

   

  By Chris Conley

  Published May 13, 2021

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• Palestine: International community must support and protect Palestinian civil society

  
  November 12, 2021 11:08

  Source: International Service for Human Rights

  https://ishr.ch/latest-updates/palestine-the-international-community-must-support-and-protect-palestinian-civil-society/

   

  Published November 2, 2021

   

  Following the designation of six Palestinian CSO as terrorist organisations, the international community must support and protect and ensure a safe and enabling environment for Palestinian civil society and HRDs.

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• Opinion | First Saudi Arabia, Now Sudan: Why Israel's Normalization Strategy Is Imploding

  
  November 05, 2021 11:12

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/saudi-arabia-to-sudan-why-israel-s-normalization-strategy-is-imploding-1.10353622?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=b025df3c19

   

  By Yonatan Touval

  Published November 5, 2021

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• Analysis | What Trump Accidentally Got Right on Israel and Congress

  
  November 04, 2021 15:20

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-what-trump-accidentally-got-right-on-israel-and-congress-1.10347033?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=878cbe2595&lts=1635906252668

   

  By Alon Pinkas

  Published November 2, 2021

   

  When the former U.S. president said Israel is no longer a consensus issue in Congress, he attributed it to AOC and Ilhan Omar. But the real reasons for the change lie much closer to Trump Tower

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• Egypt’s President Promotes Religious Choice During Human Rights Rollout

  
  November 04, 2021 15:00

  Source: Christianity Today

  https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2021/october/egypt-human-rights-strategy-sisi-religion-coptic-christians.html

   

  By JAYSON CASPER

  Published October 18,2021

   

  Some Copts cheer Sisi’s stance and new five-year reform strategy, while others focus on absence of attention to problematic ID cards and reconciliation committees.

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• The Evangelical Pope | Brandenburg – The Gate of Freedom

  
  November 08, 2021 11:03

  Living Words from John Paul II

  Edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

   

  Published Sunday, November 7, 2021

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• Zionism’s Original Sin: Ignoring the Fact That Palestine Was Fully Populated

  
  November 09, 2021 15:55

  Source: Washinton Report on Middle East Affairs

  https://www.wrmea.org/israel-palestine/zionisms-original-sin-ignoring-the-fact-that-palestine-was-fully-populated.html

   

  By ALLAN C. BROWNFELD

  Published November 4, 2021

   

  Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, November/December 2021, pp. 12-13, 21

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• If we must talk about Rabin – let us talk about the right of return

  
  November 09, 2021 16:19

  Source: Mondoweiss

  https://mondoweiss.net/2021/11/if-we-must-talk-about-rabin-let-us-talk-about-the-right-of-return/

   

  By YAARA BENGER ALALUF 

  Published November 1, 2021

   

  Although remembered as a peacemaker, Yitzhak Rabin was one of the key perpetrators of Israel's ethnic cleansing policy.

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• Opinion | The World May Have Given Up on Two States, but It Still Cares About the Occupation

  
  November 09, 2021 16:09

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-the-world-may-have-given-up-on-two-states-but-it-still-cares-about-the-occupation-1.10347756

   

  By Mickey Gitzin

  Published November 2, 2021

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• Racial justice vs. the Israel Lobby: when being pro-Palestine becomes the new normal

  
  October 05, 2021 17:48

  Source: Middle East Monitor

  https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20211005-racial-justice-vs-the-israel-lobby-when-being-pro-palestine-becomes-the-new-normal/

   

  
  By Dr Ramzy Baroud

  Published October 5, 2021

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