Common Grounds

On Hypocrisy and Genocide – How Gaza Has Exposed the West Like Never Before

March 05, 2024 15:15
Source: Palestine Chronicle

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/on-hypocrisy-and-genocide-how-gaza-has-exposed-the-west-like-never-before/

By Ramzy Baroud

Published March 1, 2024
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War on Gaza: Jewish opposition to Israel is as old as Zionism itself

March 05, 2024 15:15
Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians

https://jfjfp.com/war-on-gaza-jewish-opposition-to-israel-is-as-old-as-zionism-itself/

Joseph Massad writes in Middle East Eye on 29 February 2024
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How the ‘fight against antisemitism’ became a shield for Israel's genocide

March 12, 2024 15:11
Source: Middle East Eye

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-gaza-fight-against-antisemitism-shield-israel-genocide

By Jonathan Cook

Published March 7, 2024

Western capitals no longer treat Israel like a state, a political actor capable of slaughtering children, but rather as a sacred cause. So any opposition has to be a blasphemy
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Remembering the beauty of Ramadan in Gaza

March 12, 2024 15:11
Source: Al-Jazeera

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/3/11/remembering-the-beauty-of-ramadan-in-gaza

By Eman Alhaj Ali

Published March 11, 2024

Israel’s genocidal war has destroyed the joy of the holy month. Now only our happy memories remain.
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Dr. Mads Gilbert on Israel’s “systematic strategy” to destroy Palestinians

March 12, 2024 15:11
Source: Peace and Planet News

https://peaceandplanetnews.org/dr-mads-gilbert-on-israels-systematic-strategy-to-destroy-palestinians/

Video by TRT World Digital

Editor’s Note |

A Life-giving and Life-changing Video Worth Watching.

Norwegian physician and professor emeritus Mads Gilbert opens up about his decades-long experience working in the occupied Palestinian territories and how the current situation is — in terms of Israeli brutality against Palestinians — unlike any other he’s witnessed in an exclusive interview with TRT World Digital. He also reflects on his activist side, inviting viewers to consider our shared humanity and what is required on the part of the international community, however challenging, to end Israel’s genocidal assault against Gaza.
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War on Gaza: How Israel's leftists quickly lost their compassion for Palestinians

March 19, 2024 14:57
Source: Middle East Eye

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-gaza-israel-leftist-lost-compassion-palestinians

By Orly Noy

Published March 16, 2024

Liberal Israeli sympathy for Palestinians was based on the colonial mindset that the subjugated are inferior and should be grateful for their support
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Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox ‘Problem’ – A Threat to the Zionist Project?

March 19, 2024 14:57
Source: Palestine Chronicle

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/israels-ultra-orthodox-problem-a-threat-to-the-zionist-project/

By Robert Inlakesh

Published March 18, 2024

The Haredim, or Ultra-Orthodox Jews, are crucial to the Israeli state model in a number of ways, yet, in others, are antithetical to the Zionist mission.
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Israel Has Severed the West Bank From Gaza. During War, It Becomes a Death Sentence

March 19, 2024 14:57
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/2024-03-13/ty-article-magazine/.premium/israel-has-been-separating-the-west-bank-from-gaza-during-war-it-becomes-a-death-sentence/0000018e-3874-d2fd-a1fe-3df58c940000

By Amira Hass

Published March 13, 2024

Since the '90s, Israel has been working to separate the two parts of the Palestinian territories. The fact that a temporary displacement of Gazans to the West Bank isn't being considered shows how embedded the split created by Israel is
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When children are present in a genocide

March 26, 2024 14:38
Source: Mondoweiss

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/03/when-children-are-present-in-a-genocide/

By SABREEN AKHTER

Published March 21, 2024

When children are present in a time of genocide, they will always be the most vulnerable, the most affected, and the most in need of our protection. They will need pediatricians, such as myself, to act en masse and say unequivocally: ceasefire now.
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OPINION ...Young US evangelicals are refusing to be ‘useful idiots’ for Israel

March 26, 2024 14:39
Source: Middle East Monitor

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240320-young-us-evangelicals-are-refusing-to-be-useful-idiots-for-israel/

By Omar Ahmed

Published March 20, 2024
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