Common Grounds

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• How not to fight antisemitism

  
  January 03, 2023 13:13

  Source: Mondoweiss

  https://mondoweiss.net/2022/12/how-not-to-fight-antisemitism/

   

  By JONATHAN KUTTAB

  Published December 28, 2022

   

  The proper response to antisemitism is to increase solidarity with other oppressed groups, not demand support for Zionism.

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• Israel: the end of all illusions

  
  December 20, 2022 15:14

  Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians

  https://jfjfp.com/israel-the-end-of-all-illusions/

   

  Chris Hedges writes in JVL

  Published December 13, 2022

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• 'Israel' and Ukraine; two sides with one ideology?

  
  December 20, 2022 14:53

  Source: Al Mayadeen

  https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/israel-and-ukraine-two-sides-with-one-ideology

   

  By Fra Hughes 

  Published December 18, 2022

   

  It was the Russians who defeated Nazism in WWII, losing over 25 million of its people in the process. Without Russia, Europe would be today under the jackboot of the Third Reich.

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• Iran’s Conservative Tightrope

  
  December 14, 2022 16:08

  Source: Project Syndicate

  https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/iran-protests-morality-police-abolished-by-djavad-salehi-isfahani-2022-12?utm_source=Project%20Syndicate%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=804505bc83-sunday_newsletter_12_11_2022&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_73bad5b7d8-804505bc83-93791313&mc_cid=804505bc83&mc_eid=284f1f0e24&barrier=accesspaylog

   

  By DJAVAD SALEHI-ISFAHANI

  Published December 6, 2022

   

  The Islamic Republic has been unable to quell the civil unrest that erupted three months ago, after Mahsa Amini died after being detained for violating hijab rules. While the regime has now abolished the morality police, the protesters have broadened their demands.

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• Where to find hope

  
  December 20, 2022 15:27

  Source: Mondoweiss

  https://mondoweiss.net/2022/12/where-to-find-hope/

   

  By MITCHELL PLITNICK 

  Published December 17, 2022

   

  It will take a long time for the Palestinian struggle to reach a tipping point. Not much will happen before it does, but the U.S. isn't the key to liberation. The Palestinian people are.

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• Six major developments that shaped 2022 for Palestinians

  
  December 27, 2022 13:45

  Source: Al Jazeera

  https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/12/26/six-major-developments-that-shaped-2022-for-palestinians

   

  By Zena Al Tahhan and Maram Humaid

  Published December 26, 2022

   

  The UN called 2022 the deadliest year for Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in 16 years. Here are some of the year’s most important events.

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• Opinion | As Crimes of Apartheid Worsen, the West’s Exceptionalism Toward Israel Must End

  
  December 27, 2022 14:02

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2022-12-21/ty-article-opinion/.premium/as-crimes-of-apartheid-worsen-the-wests-exceptionalism-towards-israel-must-end/00000185-353f-de19-a3fd-b5bffce40000

   

  By Michael Sfard

  Published December 21, 2022

   

  Israel's new administration will be one that does not conceal its intention to preserve and further entrench the apartheid tyranny over the Palestinians, while fully cultivating Jewish supremacy as a political and legal credo

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• What is the Narrative: Decoupling Palestine from Zionism

  
  December 27, 2022 13:53

  Source: Palestine Chronicle

  https://www.palestinechronicle.com/what-is-the-narrative-decoupling-palestine-from-zionism/

   

  By Blake Alcott

  Published December 24, 2022

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• Is this Western war on Russia simply stupidity?

  
  January 27, 2023 11:40

  Source: Al Mayadeen

  https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/is-this-western-war-on-russia-simply-stupidity

   

  By Alastair Crooke

  Published January 22, 2023

   

  Not only is there no threat from Russia that is independent of American policy, but it is also the expansion of NATO to ‘meet the threat from Russia’ that creates the very threat that expansion was supposed to meet.

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• The myth of the ‘cycle of violence’

  
  January 31, 2023 14:48

  Source: +972 Magazine

  https://www.972mag.com/cycle-violence-jenin-jerusalem/

   

  By Amjad Iraqi
  Published January 31, 2023

   

  Palestinians spotlight Israeli brutality to demand an end to their oppression;

  Israelis spotlight Palestinian violence to justify that oppression.

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