Common Grounds

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• Defacing the Image of God

  
  March 01, 2022 13:59

  Source: Friends of Sabeel North America

  https://www.fosna.org/the-fosna-blog/defacing-the-image-of-god?fbclid=IwAR1XUQUUT-_F06J6qJ95mo4eAskr93scNbx0HwJ4RpoWinkPH41J19pGYiE

   

  By Jesse Steven Wheeler

  Published February, 2022

   

  But when Jesus saw this, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the little children come to me; do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs. —Mark 10:14 (NRSV)

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• When an American Christian Zionist Can’t Even Say the Words “Occupation” or “Justice”

  
  March 01, 2022 14:49

  Source: Washington Report

  https://www.wrmea.org/israel-palestine/when-an-american-christian-zionist-cant-even-say-the-words-occupation-or-justice.html

   

  By Daoud Kuttab

  Published February 24, 2022

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• Opinion | It Isn’t Apartheid – It’s Worse

  
  March 01, 2022 15:06

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-it-isn-t-apartheid-it-s-worse-1.10630937

   

  By Lev Grinberg

  Published February 24, 2022

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• The person I should have been in unoccupied Palestine

  
  February 08, 2022 15:17

  Source: Mondoweiss

  https://mondoweiss.net/2022/02/the-person-i-should-have-been-in-unoccupied-palestine/

   

  By REEM A. HAMAD

  Published February 3, 2022

   

  Reem Hamadaqa is 22 years old and has never left the Gaza Strip. Photos in an old family album are her only window to a Palestine she has never seen.

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• Doing Business with Apartheid: Why Africa Must Reject Israeli Colonialism

  
  February 22, 2022 15:29

  Source: Ramzy Baroud, Politics for the people

  http://www.ramzybaroud.net/doing-business-with-apartheid-why-africa-must-reject-israeli-colonialism/

   

  Published February 16, 2022

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• This Filmmaker Dares to Question the Figure of 6 Million Jewish Victims in WWII

  
  January 20, 2022 11:44

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT.MAGAZINE-this-filmmaker-dares-to-question-the-figure-of-6-million-jewish-victims-in-wwii-1.10542149?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=c15387912d&lts=1642359808019

   

  By Nirit Anderman

  Published January 16, 2022

   

  How did the devastating, albeit too round number of 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust become so profoundly embedded in our minds? In his new documentary Israeli filmmaker David Fisher dares to try and recount

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• Opinion | The Israeli Bill to Preserve Demographic Jewish Supremacy

  
  January 19, 2022 13:07

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-israel-s-bill-to-preserve-jewish-demographic-supremacy-1.10540934

   

  By Carolina Landsmann

  Published January 16, 2022

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• UN Passes Israeli Resolution Combating Holocaust Denial on Social Media

  
  January 21, 2022 10:45

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-un-passes-israeli-resolution-combatting-holocaust-denial-on-social-media-1.10553416?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=97e7ef60d5

   

  By Jonathan Lis

  Published January 20, 2022

   

  The resolution, which the U.S. and Germany have also lobbied for, also recognizes the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's definition of antisemitism

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• 1,000-strong multifaith crowd rallies around Jewish community at post-standoff vigil

  
  January 24, 2022 12:15

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://www.timesofisrael.com/1000-strong-multifaith-crowd-rallies-around-jewish-community-at-post-standoff-vigil/?utm_source=The+Weekend+Edition&utm_campaign=weekend-edition-2022-01-23&utm_medium=email

   

  By JACOB MAGIDJACOB MAGID 

  Published January 18, 2022

   

  Congregation Beth Israel in Texas begins to heal with support from Christian and Muslim neighbors, along with 24,000 watching online, overwhelming synagogue rabbi with emotion

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• There's a Mass Palestinian Grave at a Popular Israeli Beach, Veterans Confess

  
  January 25, 2022 11:42

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT.MAGAZINE-there-s-a-mass-palestinian-grave-at-a-popular-israeli-beach-veterans-confess-1.10553968

   

  By Adam Raz

  Published January 20, 2022

   

  The Israeli veterans of the 1948 battle at Tantura village finally come clean about the mass killing of Arabs that took place after the village's surrender

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