Common Grounds

Opinion | Israel’s Fraudulent Notion of ‘Jewish Democracy’ Has Been Exposed. What’s Next?

February 07, 2023 15:11
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2023-02-03/ty-article-opinion/.highlight/israels-fraudulent-notion-of-jewish-democracy-has-been-exposed-whats-next/00000186-15d2-d840-a78e-7fdaec3b0000

By Eva Illouz

Published February 3, 2023

We are in an era of disillusionment, which makes us see reality unvarnished. Zionist nationalism is no longer a unifying goal
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An open letter to Israel’s friends in North America

February 07, 2023 14:36
Source: The Times of Israel

https://www.timesofisrael.com/an-open-letter-to-israels-friends-in-north-america/?utm_source=The+Blogs+Weekly+Highlights&utm_campaign=blogs-weekly-highlights-2023-02-02&utm_medium=email

By MATTI FRIEDMAN, YOSSI KLEIN HALEVI and DANIEL GORDIS

Published February 2, 2023

Diaspora Jews have both the right and the responsibility to speak out against a government that is undermining our society’s cohesion and its democratic ethos
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The US is right to show concern for the situation in Palestine-Israel but who's listening?

February 07, 2023 14:17
Source: The National

https://www.thenationalnews.com/opinion/comment/2023/02/01/the-us-is-right-to-show-concern-for-the-situation-in-palestine-israel-but-whos-listening/

By Hussein Ibish

Published February 1, 2023

Many Jewish and other Americans are increasingly unable to ignore the reality of growing schisms
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Opinion | It’s Always the Time to Talk About the Occupation

January 31, 2023 15:13
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2023-01-30/ty-article-opinion/.premium/its-always-the-time-to-talk-about-the-occupation/00000185-ff07-d9f5-a18d-ffcf3aaa0000

By Hanin Majadli

Published January 30, 2023
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When Zionism splits: Israel and the warning from colonial history

January 31, 2023 15:04
Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians

https://jfjfp.com/when-zionism-splits-israel-and-the-warning-from-colonial-history/

David Hearst writes in Middle East Eye

Published January 26, 2023

The divide between the shock troops of the Zionist project to create a Jewish state and the Zionist mainstream has been swept under the carpet so many times. Today it's breaking out into the open
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The myth of the ‘cycle of violence’

January 31, 2023 14:48
Source: +972 Magazine

https://www.972mag.com/cycle-violence-jenin-jerusalem/

By Amjad Iraqi
Published January 31, 2023

Palestinians spotlight Israeli brutality to demand an end to their oppression;

Israelis spotlight Palestinian violence to justify that oppression.
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Is this Western war on Russia simply stupidity?

January 27, 2023 11:40
Source: Al Mayadeen

https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/is-this-western-war-on-russia-simply-stupidity

By Alastair Crooke

Published January 22, 2023

Not only is there no threat from Russia that is independent of American policy, but it is also the expansion of NATO to ‘meet the threat from Russia’ that creates the very threat that expansion was supposed to meet.
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Why does Israeli democracy matter, but Palestinian democracy doesn't?

January 24, 2023 14:56
Source: Middle East Monitor

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20230116-why-does-israeli-democracy-matter-but-palestinian-democracy-doesnt/

By Motasem A Dalloul

January 16, 2023
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It Has Always Been a ‘Religious War’: On Ben Gvir and the Adaptability of Zionism

January 24, 2023 14:33
Source: Palestine Chronicle

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/it-has-always-been-a-religious-war-on-ben-gvir-and-the-adaptability-of-zionism/?utm_content=buffer3b69d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

By Ramzy Baroud

Published January 18, 2023
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Opinion | Zionist Protesters in Tel Aviv Forgot Their Palestinian Neighbors

January 24, 2023 13:57
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2023-01-22/ty-article-opinion/.premium/a-zionist-protest-forgetting-their-palestinian-neighbors/00000185-d614-da66-a1bf-ff9e27520000

By Gideon Levy

Published January 22, 2023
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