Common Grounds

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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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• To a Leading Critic, Both American-Jewish and Israeli Literature Express Deep Ambivalences

  
  April 01, 2021 13:25

  Source: Mosaic

  https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/arts-culture/2021/03/to-a-leading-critic-both-american-jewish-and-israeli-literature-express-deep-ambivalences/

   

  Published March 31, 2021

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• Lucky for Fox Trump No Longer President

  
  March 26, 2021 12:01

  Source: NRC Amerika

  nrc.nl/amerika

   

  By Bas Blokker

  Published March 23, 2021

   

  Translated and edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

   

  Good afternoon,

   

  Fascinating to see how the roles have simply turned. A Democratic government keeps the press away from sheltering migrant children, and a Republican governor worried about a corona outbreak in the shelter.

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• A Book Review on the Topic of Christian Nationalism

  
  March 25, 2021 13:50

  Source: Gospel in Life

  https://quarterly.gospelinlife.com/book-review-on-the-topic-of-christian-nationalism/

   

  By Timothy Keller

   

  Tim Keller reviews Samuel L. Perry and Andrew Whitehead's book Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States (Oxford, 2020)

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• Trump Complains About American Jews No Longer Loving Israel in Anti-Semitic Rant

  
  December 21, 2021 14:52

  Source: Rolling Stone

  https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-jews-america-anti-semitic-rant-1273189/

   

  By William Vaillancourt

  Published December 17, 2021

   

  “Jewish people in the United States, either don’t like Israel or don’t care about Israel,” the former president told journalist Barak Ravid

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• Sunshine Breaking Through Dark Clouds

  
  March 26, 2021 14:26

  By: Abraham A. van Kempen, Editor

   

  The anguish in my wife's eyes voiced volumes: "What are 'we' going to do with them … thousands, alone? Kids! Where are their parents?"

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• The Evangelical Pope – Children the Center of Christianity

  
  March 29, 2021 11:18

  Living Words from John Paul II

  Edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

   

  Published Sunday, March 28, 2021

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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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• The ICC probe into Palestine: where is the EU?

  
  March 30, 2021 12:35

  Source: EUobserver

  https://euobserver.com/opinion/151359

   

  By RASMUS ALENIUS BOSERUP

  Published March 30, 2021

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• Talking about Palestine/Israel – what words to use?

  
  March 30, 2021 12:09

  Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians (JFJFP)

  https://jfjfp.com/talking-about-palestine-israel-what-words-to-use/

   

  Eve Spangler writes in Mondoweiss

  Publsihed March 25, 2021

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