Common Grounds

Why does everyone want Jerusalem? CNN investigates in a new docuseries

July 15, 2021 11:16
Source: The Forward

https://forward.com/culture/472875/jerusalem-city-of-faith-and-fury-cnn-docuseries-mcgregor-palestinian/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_2522576

By PJ Grisar

Published July 13, 2021
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An American Kingdom

July 14, 2021 13:26
Source: The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/07/11/mercy-culture-church/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https://s2.washingtonpost.com/car-ln-tr/3420f98/60ec673c9d2fda8060034242/597682b5ae7e8a6816d78e2c/9/70/60ec673c9d2fda8060034242

By Stephanie McCrummen

Published July 11, 2021

A new and rapidly growing Christian movement is openly political, wants a nation under God’s authority, and is central to Donald Trump’s GOP
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Opinion | The Stolen Childhood of Palestinian Kids

July 13, 2021 15:10
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-the-stolen-childhood-of-palestinian-kids-1.9961420

By Galia Oz

Published July 5, 2021
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Opinion | Should Jews Fear Fanatically pro-Israel, Philosemitic U.S. Evangelicals?

July 16, 2021 10:42
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-should-jews-fear-fanatically-pro-israel-philosemitic-u-s-evangelicals-1.9911159

By Judah Isseroff

Published June 16, 2021

For Jews, what is more offensive – and more threatening? Today’s philosemitic Evangelicals, some with their venomous takes on Israel's new government, or yesteryear’s Christian theological antisemitism?
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Genocide, apartheid? A poll Israel cannot allow itself to ignore

July 16, 2021 10:47
Source: The Times of Israel

https://www.timesofisrael.com/genocide-apartheid-a-poll-israel-cannot-allow-itself-to-ignore/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2021-07-15&utm_medium=email

By DAVID HOROVITZ

Published July 15, 2021

Nobody who knows the reality in Israel could possibly believe it is committing genocide against the Palestinians. Yet 22% of US Jews apparently do. Alarm bells should be ringing
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Opinion | Damn Them All

July 18, 2021 20:42
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-israel-should-have-treated-khalida-jarrar-with-humanity-1.10000031?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=389d7b7b0f&lts=1626374148433

By Gideon Levy

Published July 15, 2021
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Top UK publishing company withdraws new school books after study finds that the revised materials are ‘emphatically pro-Israel’.

July 27, 2021 14:50
Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians

https://jfjfp.com/how-british-pro-israel-groups-are-rewriting-middle-east-history-textbooks/

Aron Keller reports in +972

Published July 26, 2021
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The America that Israel and Palestine Need

July 20, 2021 11:38
Source: Project Syndicate

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/israel-palestine-conflict-needs-more-balanced-us-approach-by-mohamed-elbaradei-2021-07

By MOHAMED ELBARADEI

Published July 16, 2021

Joe Biden promised to make democracy and human rights central to US foreign policy. But that means not insisting on Israel’s right to defend itself without mentioning its expansion of settlements in occupied Palestinian territory, its policy of discrimination, and its denial of the Palestinians’ right to an independent state.
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Beyond Business as Usual in Israel-Palestine

August 17, 2021 13:30
Source: The International Crisis Group

https://www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-north-africa/east-mediterranean-mena/israelpalestine/225-beyond-business-usual-israel-palestine

Published August 10, 2021

The latest escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict brought important shifts in the status quo, underscoring the necessity of a political settlement. A peace based on equal respect for both peoples’ rights will take time, however. Steps to lower the temperature are urgent in the interim.
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Doubts & Loves: Israel/Palestine, Perspectives, & Peace

August 12, 2021 14:55
Source: Patheos

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/carlgregg/2021/08/doubts-loves-israel-palestine-perspectives-peace/

By Carl Gregg

Published August 11, 2021
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