Common Grounds

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• Expanding the Occupation of Palestinians in the Name of Jesus

  
  August 30, 2022 13:56

  Source: Informed Comment

  https://www.juancole.com/2022/08/expanding-occupation-palestinians.html

   

  By H. SCOTT PROSTERMAN

  Published August 30, 2022

   

  Most people agree that imperialism has been a very bad thing for the world. American Indian leader Dennis Means addressed a capacity crowd at the Rackham Auditorium at the University of Michigan in 1981. When I asked him to compare the plight of American Indians with the Palestinians, Mr. Means said, “Palestinians are the Indians of the Middle East and we are the Palestinians of America.”

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• Opinion | How Israelis Are Taught to Erase the Palestinians

  
  August 30, 2022 13:24

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2022-08-28/ty-article-opinion/.highlight/how-israel-expels-the-palestinians-from-its-schools/00000182-e32c-d9c0-a3d3-fb3e25e30000?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=Content&utm_campaign=daily-brief&utm_content=0286afba6b&fbclid=IwAR0JYaJlpdc2rBugrV6E0chOHT0 Nechin

   

  By Eitan Nechin

  Published August 28, 2022

   

  When Israel's education ministry ordered the removal of maps showing the 1967 borders from classrooms, it was just the most recent blatant, dangerous, absurd attempt to erase the occupation – and the Palestinians

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• The siege is only a symptom

  
  August 30, 2022 14:25

  Source: +972 Magazine

  https://www.972mag.com/siege-symptom-gaza-zionism/

   

  By Ben Reiff
  Published August 11, 2022

   

  To confront Israel’s violence against Palestinians, progressive Jews in Israel and around the world must reckon with the ideology that lies at its root.

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• The Palestinian march for freedom is relentless

  
  September 06, 2022 15:44

  Source: Arab News

  https://www.arabnews.com/node/2156691

   

  By Ramzy Baroud

  Published September 5, 2022

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• Mental Health Epidemic: Palestinian Children's Exposure to War

  
  September 06, 2022 20:37

  Source: Al Mayadeen English

  https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/analysis/mental-health-epidemic:-palestinian-childrens-exposure-to-wa

   

  By Ruqiya Anwar 

  Published September 4, 2022

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• Opinion | Who’s Afraid of the Green Line?

  
  September 06, 2022 16:25

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2022-09-06/ty-article/.premium/whos-afraid-of-the-green-line/00000183-0f66-dce7-a79f-ef76f7b70000

   

  By Michael Sfard and Oren Yiftachel

  Published September 6, 2022

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• Our Friday Edition | What is the Side of the Story that is Not Yet Decisive?

  
  April 21, 2022 21:37

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/what-is-the-side-of-the-story-that-is-not-yet-decisive/

   

  By Abraham A. van Kempen

   

  Who's Wise?

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• Abbas faces outcry in Germany, Israel after Berlin remarks on Holocaust

  
  August 18, 2022 19:41

  Source: Arab Weekly

  https://thearabweekly.com/abbas-faces-outcry-germany-israel-after-berlin-remarks-holocaust

   

  Published August 17, 2022

   

  "For us Germans in particular, any relativisation of the singularity of the Holocaust is intolerable and unacceptable. I condemn any attempt to deny the crimes of the Holocaust, ”  said German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

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• ‘The Nation’ lifts up Jewish fears over Palestinian realities in a Zionist tract

  
  January 18, 2022 15:25

  Source: Mondoweiss

  https://mondoweiss.net/2022/01/the-nation-lifts-up-jewish-fears-over-palestinian-realities-in-a-zionist-tract/

   

  BY PHILIP WEISS  

  Published January 14, 2022

   

  The Nation runs a righwing religious endorsement of Zionism that opposes BDS and leaves out the forced expulsion of Palestinians from their land.

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• 'The Chameleon': U.S. Experts Shaken Over What This Iranian Scholar Just Said

  
  January 13, 2022 13:55

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-the-chameleon-u-s-experts-shaken-over-what-this-iranian-scholar-just-said-1.10532688?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=ea7875ed8b

   

  By Yossi Melman

  Published January 12, 2022

   

  Seyed Hossein Mousavian, a visiting scholar at Princeton and an influential figure in the corridors of power in his country, recently spoke with a smirk of satisfaction about the threats directed against former American official Brian Hook

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