Common Grounds

Anti-Semitism vs. anti-colonialism

August 27, 2018 12:10
Source: The Electronic Intifada

https://electronicintifada.net/content/anti-semitism-vs-anti-colonialism/25346

By Joseph Massad

Published 24 August 2018

Much of the ongoing acrimonious and toxic debate in Britain about allegations of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party centers on expressions of opposition to Israeli laws, policies, ideologies, actions and declarations.
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Opinion // Why Corbynism Is a Threat to Jews Throughout the Western World

August 29, 2018 12:56
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/.premium-why-corbynism-is-a-threat-to-jews-throughout-the-western-world-1.6339863

By Anshel Pfeffer

Published Aug 03, 2018

Even his close advisors are astonished by the Labour leader’s refusal to act on the party’s crisis with British Jews. This is why Corbyn can’t and won’t face up to anti-Semitism on the left – and why it will have international consequences
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The Manure You Can’t Stick Back into the Horse …

August 13, 2018 11:28
By Abraham A. van Kempen

‘Christian Zionism … Enraptured Around a Golden Calf’

By Abraham A. van Kempen

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Trump’s Middle East Peace Plan Makes Palestinians Disappear

September 06, 2018 11:31
Source: Bloomberg

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-09-06/palestinians-vanish-in-trump-s-israel-friendly-mideast-peace-plan

By Hussein Ibish

Published September 6, 2018

Pretending that Palestinians hardly matter won’t make them go away.
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Analysis // Trump's Revived Jordan-Palestinian Confederation Plan May Be Dead on Arrival

September 07, 2018 15:09
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/.premium-trump-s-jordan-palestinian-confederation-plan-may-be-doa-1.6436489

By Zvi Bar'el

Published Sep 03, 2018

The Palestinians refuse to give up their aspirations for independence, Israel is waging a war on the idea of an independent Palestinian state, and Jordan fears losing its national identity
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These millennials still believe in a two-state solution. Are they too late?

September 07, 2018 14:58
Source: The Times of Israel

https://www.timesofisrael.com/these-millennials-still-believe-in-a-two-state-solution-are-they-too-late/

By CHARLES DUNST

Published 1 September 2018

Seeking to fill a centrist vacuum in the Jewish communal landscape, IPF Atid builds networks in four cities, holding events for young professionals in New York, DC, Chicago and LA
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Two-state hypocrisy

September 12, 2018 12:41
Source: The Electronic Intifada

https://electronicintifada.net/content/two-state-hypocrisy/25446

By Mohamed Mohamed

Published 7 September 2018

Imagine the following scenario: In response to the peaceful African-American civil rights movement in the United States, led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the 1960s, a large segment of white Americans figured that the best solution to the issue would be to form a new country on a small part of US territory in the north, where African-Americans would be segregated and live on their own.
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A 'gentleman's agreement': How Oslo worked out as planned for Israel

September 13, 2018 13:47
Source: Middle East Eye

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gentlemen-agreement-how-oslo-didnt-fail-israel-1444351752

By Jonathan Cook

Published 13 September 2018

Twenty-five years on, analysts say Oslo didn't fail: it offered Israel a formula to block the emergence of a Palestinian state
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Opinion Are the Bedouin of Palestine a Lost Tribe of Israel?

September 18, 2018 12:48
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/.premium-are-the-bedouin-of-palestine-a-lost-tribe-of-israel-1.6467143

By Seraj Assi

Published Sep 12, 2018

Israel's highest court okaying the erasure of yet another West Bank Bedouin village is a striking departure from early Zionists who saw the Bedouin as blood brothers, 'hidden Jews,' and an aspirational model for the modern Hebrew nation
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From Peace to Armageddon / The Israel-Palestine nightmare

September 18, 2018 13:16
Source: Wae is Boring

https://warisboring.com/from-peace-to-armageddon/

By Sandy Tolan

Published September 18, 2018

When I first traveled to Israel-Palestine in 1994, during the heady early days of the Oslo peace process, I was expecting to see more of the joyful celebrations I’d watched on television at home. The emotional welcoming of Palestinian Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat back to Palestine.
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