Common Grounds

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• Oppression And Land Theft Bring Shame To Israel – OpEd

  
  March 19, 2021 13:44

  Source: Eurasia Review

  https://www.eurasiareview.com/19032021-oppression-and-land-theft-bring-shame-to-israel-oped/

   

  By Ray HananiaRay Hanania

  Published March 19,2021

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• US Church leaders write to President with key Middle East policy recommendations

  
  March 16, 2021 19:14

  Source: Independent Catholic News

  https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/41742

   

  Published March 12, 2021

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• Pope Francis and Part Two of the Abraham Accords

  
  March 11, 2021 17:51

  Source: Jews News Syndicate

  https://www.jns.org/opinion/pope-francis-and-part-two-of-the-abraham-accords/

   

  By Fiamma Nirenstein

  Published March 9, 2021

   

  Coming on the heels of Israel’s treaties with several Muslim countries, the meeting between the head of the Vatican and the spiritual leader of Iraq’s Shiites is particularly significant.

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• Who is a Jew? Israel’s High Court of Justice’s Answer Reveals Larger Societal Tensions

  
  March 16, 2021 20:07

  Source: The McGill Journal of Political Studies (MJPS)

  https://mjps.ssmu.ca/2021/03/15/who-is-a-jew-israels-high-court-of-justices-answer-reveals-larger-societal-tensions/

   

  Published By : Melanie Rose

  March 15, 2021 

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• The Wasting of the Evangelical Mind

  
  March 16, 2021 20:40

  Source: The New Yorker

  https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-wasting-of-the-evangelical-mind

   

  By Michael Luo
  Published March 4, 2021

   

  The peculiarities of how American Christianity took shape help explain believers’ vulnerability to conspiratorial thinking and misinformation.

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• Palestinian Elections: How Real, and with What Results

  
  March 19, 2021 13:27

  Source: Fikra Forum / Washington Institute

  https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/palestinian-elections-how-real-and-what-results

   

  By Michael Milstein

  Published March 5, 2021

   

  Members of the political class and the general public are increasingly anticipating and expecting that Palestinian elections will take place due to an unusual convergence of interests between PA president Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) and Hamas.

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• A mother’s voice

  
  March 18, 2021 21:56

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-mothers-voice/?utm_source=The+Blogs+Weekly+Highlights&utm_campaign=blogs-weekly-highlights-2021-03-18&utm_medium=email

   

  By Dr. Nasreen Haddad Haj-Yahya 

  Published March 17, 2021

   

  Anarchy now reigns in Arab locales, and I know that my loved ones could be harmed; I therefore turn to you, my Jewish friends, to support our demand for peace and security

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• Balfour Project newsletter: new definition of Antisemitism

  
  March 31, 2021 11:56

  Source: Balfour Project

  https://balfourproject.org/category/current/news/

   

  Published March 30, 2021

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• How Israeli rights groups prevent Palestinians from framing their own reality

  
  April 01, 2021 15:43

  Source: Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians (JFJFP)

  https://jfjfp.com/how-israeli-rights-groups-prevent-palestinians-from-framing-their-own-reality/

   

  Haneen Maikey and Lana Tatour write in Middle East Eye:

  Published April 1, 2021

   

  Imbued in the settler-colonial system, Israeli human rights organisations appear to view Palestinians as little more than a raw data source, while Jewish staff set the agenda

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• The US media is touting Israel’s Covid recovery. But occupied Palestinians are left out

  
  April 13, 2021 14:44

  Source: Jewish Voice for Peace

  https://jfjfp.com/the-us-media-is-touting-israels-covid-recovery-but-occupied-palestinians-are-left-out/

   

  Published April 12, 2021

  Yara M Asi reports in The Guardian Fri 9 Apr 2021

   

  Instead of vaccinating Palestinians, Benjamin Netanyahu tried to send thousands of doses around the world as rewards to countries that moved their embassies to Jerusalem

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