Common Grounds

Older Jews are officially terrified of young Jews’ views of Israel

March 29, 2018 13:42
Source: Mondoweiss

http://mondoweiss.net/2018/03/officially-terrified-israel/

By Philip Weiss

Published March 27, 2018

“Big stories don’t break, they ooze,” the legendary editor Gene Roberts used to say, and a story has oozed in the last month or so that has not gotten much attention. Older Jews are now officially terrified of young Jews. Why? Because those young Jews are not persuaded of the value of the great Jewish project of the last century, Israel.
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Palestinians are the majority. Is it apartheid yet?

March 29, 2018 13:58
Source: +972 Magazine

https://972mag.com/palestinians-are-the-majority-is-it-apartheid-yet/134125/

By Amjad Iraqi
Published March 28, 2018

Israel has always valued Jewish supremacy over democracy. But new demographics could bolster the Palestinians’ efforts to challenge this system.
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Palestine Land Day: A day to resist and remember

March 30, 2018 12:57
Source: Al Jazeera

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/palestine-land-day-day-resist-remember-180330054113738.html

By Yara Hawari

On Land Day, Palestinians demand once and for all that the international community pick the right side of history.
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Where is Palestine's Gandhi? Marching in Gaza

April 02, 2018 15:16
Source: +972 Magaziine

https://972mag.com/where-is-palestines-gandhi-marching-in-gaza/134274/

By Neve Gordon

Published April 1, 2018

Rather than ask when the Palestinians will produce a Gandhi, we must ask when Israel will produce a leader that does not subjugate an occupied population through lethal violence.
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Geraldo Rivera regrets not backing Palestinians in Second Intifada

April 04, 2018 13:21
Source: Mondoweiss

http://mondoweiss.net/2018/04/geraldo-palestinians-intifada/

By Philip Weiss

Published April 3, 2018

Another datapoint in the discourse’s march to the left. On Fox News, Geraldo Rivera says that the Israel Palestine conflict is the “original sin” of the United States, from which “a lot of our problems stem”. And his big regret is that he did not back the oppressed Palestinians during the Second Intifada.
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Israel faces historic decision as new population figures emerge

April 04, 2018 13:34
Source: Al-Monitor

https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2018/04/israel-palestinians-demography-jordan-river-apartheid.html

By Yossi Beilin

Published April 3, 2018

The Israeli political right was caught off guard by the surprising official figures presented on March 26 at the Knesset by a representative of the Civil Administration, the army unit coordinating the Israeli government’s activities in the occupied territories. The representative indicated that the number of Jews and Arabs living under Israeli control in the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean had reached parity at 6.5 million for each side.
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If our Jersey sisterhood of Jews, Muslims can bond, so can the world | Opinion

April 04, 2018 13:52
Source: NJ.com

http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2018/03/if_our_sisterhood_of_jewish_muslim_women_can_bond.html

By Heba Macksoud

Published March 8 2018

When I first heard about the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom, it sounded strange to me: A few older Jewish women wanted to get together with a bunch of Muslim women in New Jersey to "get to know them."
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A week of unbearable heartbreak in Israel-Palestine

April 04, 2018 14:06
Source: +972 Magazine

https://972mag.com/a-week-of-unbearable-heartbreak-in-israel-palestine/134338/

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
Published April 3, 2018

From unarmed protesters gunned down in Gaza to hope snatched away from refugees, the human suffering this past week has been overwhelming.
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Christian evangelicals from the US flock to Holy Land in Israeli tourism boom

April 11, 2018 12:59
Source: Independent

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/us-christian-evangelicals-israel-tourism-holy-land-jerusalem-a8290521.html

By Staff Reporter

Published 6 April 2018

Record-breaking numbers of tourists paid visits to Israel in 2017, and a growing proportion come from Donald Trump’s evangelical voter base
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From Land Day to the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, Palestinians have plenty to protest

April 12, 2018 12:07
Source: openDemocracy

https://www.opendemocracy.net/north-africa-west-asia/isabella-bellezza-smull/from-land-day-to-70th-anniversary-of-nakba-palestinia#comments

By ISABELLA BELLEZZA-SMULL

Published 12 April 2018

The murderously disproportionate violence meted out against demonstrating Palestinians is only the latest in a long series of deadly responses to popular protests.
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