Common Grounds

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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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• 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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• Jewish groups that aid Israel’s war crimes can’t deny all responsibility for those crimes

  
  May 25, 2021 15:53

  Source: Mondoweiss

  https://mondoweiss.net/2021/05/jewish-groups-that-aid-israels-war-crimes-cant-deny-all-responsibility-for-those-crimes/

   

  By JONATHAN COOK 

  Published MAay 24, 2021

   

  Israel’s apologists – whether Jewish or not – cannot deny all responsibility for Israel’s war crimes when they actively aid and abet those crimes.

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• Rabbi Alissa Wise’s love letter to anti-Zionist Jews, as she leaves ten years’ work with Jewish Voice for Peace

  
  April 06, 2021 13:46

  Source: Jewish Voice for Peace

  https://jewish-voice-for-peace.medium.com/rabbi-alissa-wises-love-letter-to-anti-zionist-jews-as-she-leaves-ten-years-work-with-jvp-d04776df54ff

   

  Published March 24, 2021

   

  We are not one thing, but we are — you are — everything

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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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• Accountability? Yes! Justice? A Work in Progress!

  
  April 26, 2021 13:31

  Source: NRC Amerika

  nrc.nl/amerika

   

  By Bas Blokker

  Published April 21, 2021

   

  Translated by Abraham A. van Kempen

   

  Cheers after Floyd's case ruling, but "it shouldn't end with Derek Chauvin."

   

  Police brutality! After the jury's verdict in the case against Derek Chauvin is heard in Minneapolis. President Joe Biden said that "there is still a long way to go."

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• Why Biden Must Watch This Palestinian Movie

  
  April 28, 2021 10:28

  Source: The New York Times

  https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/27/opinion/biden-palestine-israel-the-present.html

   

  By John Brennan

  Published April 27, 2021

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• The Three-State Solution

  
  April 13, 2021 15:32

  Source: Tablet

  https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/three-state-solution-benjamin-kerstein-peace-israel-palestine

   

  By BENJAMIN KERSTEIN

  Published March 23, 2021

   

  The two-state solution has been dead for decades. A one-state solution frightens Israelis and Palestinians alike. Is three the magic number for peace?

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• Israel and the Triangular Crisis of Ukraine, Iran, and Palestine

  
  April 05, 2022 15:07

  Source: The New Yorker

  https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/israel-and-the-triangular-crisis-of-ukraine-iran-and-palestine

   

  By Bernard Avishai

  Published April 1, 2022

   

  A summit in Israel, at a decisive moment, highlighted the tensions that have rendered the nation an outlier among democratic states.

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• Is Europe Really More Civilized? Ukraine Conflict a Platform for Racism and Rewriting History

  
  April 05, 2022 14:29

  Source: Palestine Chronicle

  https://www.palestinechronicle.com/is-europe-really-more-civilized-ukraine-conflict-a-platform-for-racism-and-rewriting-history/

   

  By Ramzy Baroud

  Published April 4, 2022

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