Common Grounds

---

• 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.

  Read More

• Our Washington Watch | Is What's Good for America, Good for Israel?

  
  October 22, 2021 11:45

  Source: NRC.NL/AMERIKA
  NRC.NL/AMERIKA

   

  By Bas Blokker

  Published Tuesday, October 19, 2021

   

  Amsterdam | Biden gets cornered, and Trump comes to a boil. They compete for the attention of the Americans as if we were three months before a presidential election instead of three years.

  Read More

• Israel relations in Congress aren't what they used to be - opinion

  
  October 22, 2021 11:15

  Source: The Jerusalem Post

  https://www.jpost.com/opinion/israel-relations-in-congress-arent-what-they-used-to-be-opinion-682396

   

  By ZALMAN SHOVAL   

  Published October 18, 2021

   

  The 'squad''s attempt to block Iron Dome funding is a sign that things are changing for Israel among a group of far-left politicians in the US.

  Read More

• Opinion | Israel Is Approaching the Next Nakba

  
  October 19, 2021 14:55

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-israel-is-approaching-the-next-nakba-1.10305139

   

  By Sheren Falah Saab and Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal

  Published October 19, 2021

  Read More

• Opinion | For 17 Years, Stone-throwing Settlers Have Terrorized Palestinian Children. I Was One of Them

  
  October 28, 2021 15:45

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-for-17-years-settlers-have-terrorized-palestinian-children-i-was-one-of-them-1.10292655

   

  By Ali Awad

  Published October 17, 2021

   

  For the children of Tuba, a Palestinian village in South Hebron Hills, attending school means walking more than ten kilometers with an armed IDF escort, to bypass an illegal settlement whose residents regularly threaten and attack them. I was one of those kids

  Read More

• Israel moves to ban six Palestinian rights groups it accuses of terrorism, prompting international outrage

  
  October 26, 2021 14:16

  Source: The Washington Post

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/10/23/israel-palestine-terrorist-human-rights/

   

  By Amy Cheng

  Published October 23, 2021 

  Read More

• Opinion | The Harsh Truth Biden Needs to Tell Israelis Now About Their Future

  
  October 22, 2021 11:28

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-the-harsh-truth-biden-needs-to-tell-israelis-now-about-their-future-1.10310370

   

  By Daniel Sokatch

  Published October 20, 2021

   

  'You’re heading for a cliff': As the Bennett government insists on equating Israel with the settlements, even calling critics antisemitic, Biden must warn Israelis about its real repercussions

  Read More

• 7 FACTS ABOUT PALESTINIAN CHILDREN

  
  October 28, 2021 15:24

  Source: The Borgen Project

  https://borgenproject.org/7-facts-about-palestinian-children/

   

  By Sarah Uddin

  Published August 21, 2020

  Read More

• A day in the life of a Palestine refugee student in the West Bank

  
  October 28, 2021 15:14

  Source: OCHA Services, Reliefweb

  https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/day-life-palestine-refugee-student-west-bank-0

   

  Published October 28, 2021

  Read More

• ANTI-ZIONISM IS NOT ANTISEMITISM - Over 500 Scholars Launch Fightback Against Israel Lobby’s Antisemitism Smear of UK Academics

  
  October 26, 2021 15:43

  Source: MintPress News

  https://www.mintpressnews.com/over-500-scholars-launch-fightback-against-israel-lobbys-antisemitism-smear-of-uk-academics/278772/

   

  by Jonathan Cook

  Published October 25, 2021

   

  The question, raised by the petition and letter of complaint, is whether universities like Glasgow will continue to submit to such attacks on academic life under the cover of false or evidence-free claims of anti-Semitism.

  Read More