Common Grounds

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• Top UK publishing company withdraws new school books after study finds that the revised materials are ‘emphatically pro-Israel’.

  
  July 27, 2021 14:50

  Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians

  https://jfjfp.com/how-british-pro-israel-groups-are-rewriting-middle-east-history-textbooks/

   

  Aron Keller reports in +972

  Published July 26, 2021

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• It is necessary to be an anti-Zionist in order to reject anti-Semitism

  
  April 28, 2021 11:33

  Source: Middle East Monitor

  https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210401-it-is-necessary-to-be-an-anti-zionist-in-order-to-reject-anti-semitism/

   

  By Asa Winstanley

  Published April 1, 2021

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• ‘A wandering people-race’ — Shlomo Sand’s new book on Judéophobia

  
  August 09, 2021 10:59

  Source: Mondoweiss

  https://mondoweiss.net/2021/08/a-wandering-people-race-shlomo-sands-new-book-on-judeophobia/

   

  By YAKOV RABKIN

  Published August 4, 2021

   

  UNE RACE IMAGINAIRE (AN IMAGINARY RACE)
  Courte Histoire de la Judéophobie (A Short History of Judéophobia)
  by Shlomo Sand
  176 pp. Paris, Seuil. 2020.

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• Palestinian dispossession is nothing new, but the world wasn’t always watching

  
  August 10, 2021 11:48

  Source: Open Democracy

  https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/north-africa-west-asia/palestinian-dispossession-is-nothing-new-but-the-world-wasnt-always-watching/

   

  By Himmat Zoubi

  Published August 5, 2021

   

  Recent protests by Palestinians in Israel highlight an ongoing reality of dispossession and discrimination for the country’s Arab citizens

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• Whether it's Afghanistan or Palestine occupations don't last forever

  
  August 24, 2021 14:02

  Source: Middle East Monitor

  https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210817-whether-its-afghanistan-or-palestine-occupations-dont-last-forever/

   

  By Dr Daud Abdullah

  Published August 17, 2021

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• Opinion: We lost the war in Afghanistan long ago

  
  August 20, 2021 11:21

  Source: The Washington Post

  washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/16/we-lost-war-afghanistan-long-ago/?utm_campaign=wp_for_you&utm_medium=email&utm_

   

  By Fareed Zakaria

  Published August 16, 2021 

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• Anti-Semitism: Mantagu Memo on the Anti-Semitism of the British Government

  
  August 24, 2021 14:10

  Source: Jewish Virtual Library

  https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/montagu-memo-on-british-government-s-anti-semitism

   

  Memorandum of Edwin Montagu on the Anti-Semitism of the Present (British) Government - Submitted to the British Cabinet, August 1917

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• Can Zionists Support a Binational State? This Israeli Writer Says Yes

  
  August 24, 2021 14:22

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/life/books/.premium.REVIEW-can-zionists-support-a-binational-state-this-israeli-writer-says-yes-1.10132612

   

  By Abe Silberstein

  Published August 19, 2021

   

  In his thought-provoking new book ‘Haifa Republic,’ philosopher Omri Boehm reminds us that the binational state was a concept promoted by parts of the Israeli right as recently as the late 1970s

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• Bennett says no Palestinian state under his watch

  
  August 31, 2021 13:52

  Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians

  https://jfjfp.com/bennett-says-no-palestinian-state-under-his-watch/

   

  The Palestine Chronicle reports

  Published August 26, 2021

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• Will an ICC probe into Israeli war crimes finally bring justice to Palestinians?

  
  August 27, 2021 10:29

  Source: The New Arab

  https://english.alaraby.co.uk/analysis/will-palestinians-ever-get-justice-icc

   

  By Emad Moussa

  Published August 24, 2021

   

  Analysis: While legal proceedings may be long and political obstacles remain, an ICC probe could nonetheless represent a step towards justice for Palestinians.

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