Common Grounds

Egypt’s President Promotes Religious Choice During Human Rights Rollout

November 04, 2021 15:00
Source: Christianity Today

https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2021/october/egypt-human-rights-strategy-sisi-religion-coptic-christians.html

By JAYSON CASPER

Published October 18,2021

Some Copts cheer Sisi’s stance and new five-year reform strategy, while others focus on absence of attention to problematic ID cards and reconciliation committees.
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Sisi’s Brand of Islam

November 04, 2021 14:42
Source: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

https://carnegieendowment.org/sada/85621?utm_source=rssemail&utm_medium=email&mkt_tok=MDk1LVBQVi04MTMAAAGAQpPnWuh0wEw4-C0vcd5lO05oLJkdTorAD8bUDJUOW0rntytvOxmhxChzreJ5MbFyqT0sKbpcnzff-PubNf6AdCOqGEX-7HJ0D6xXS5_NDUI

By MAGED MANDOUR

Published October 21, 2021

Sisi’s call for religious renewal falls within the regime’s attempt to centralize power in its hands by creating a top-down version of state sponsored Islam anchored in conservative social values.
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Opinion | First Saudi Arabia, Now Sudan: Why Israel's Normalization Strategy Is Imploding

November 05, 2021 11:12
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/saudi-arabia-to-sudan-why-israel-s-normalization-strategy-is-imploding-1.10353622?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=b025df3c19

By Yonatan Touval

Published November 5, 2021
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The Evangelical Pope | Brandenburg – The Gate of Freedom

November 08, 2021 11:03
Living Words from John Paul II

Edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

Published Sunday, November 7, 2021
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If we must talk about Rabin – let us talk about the right of return

November 09, 2021 16:19
Source: Mondoweiss

https://mondoweiss.net/2021/11/if-we-must-talk-about-rabin-let-us-talk-about-the-right-of-return/

By YAARA BENGER ALALUF

Published November 1, 2021

Although remembered as a peacemaker, Yitzhak Rabin was one of the key perpetrators of Israel's ethnic cleansing policy.
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Opinion | The World May Have Given Up on Two States, but It Still Cares About the Occupation

November 09, 2021 16:09
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-the-world-may-have-given-up-on-two-states-but-it-still-cares-about-the-occupation-1.10347756

By Mickey Gitzin

Published November 2, 2021
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Zionism’s Original Sin: Ignoring the Fact That Palestine Was Fully Populated

November 09, 2021 15:55
Source: Washinton Report on Middle East Affairs

https://www.wrmea.org/israel-palestine/zionisms-original-sin-ignoring-the-fact-that-palestine-was-fully-populated.html

By ALLAN C. BROWNFELD

Published November 4, 2021

Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, November/December 2021, pp. 12-13, 21
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Love letters to Palestine: In search of decolonial justice

September 28, 2021 12:46
Source: Middle East Eye

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/palestine-love-letters-search-decolonial-justice

By Devin G. Atallah, Lana Andoni, Hana R. Masud

Published September 25, 2021

Three Palestinian mental health workers and psychologists solicited letters of mass love for Palestine in the face of Israel's colonial conquest
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Essay – For the People, Of the People, By the People

April 02, 2021 12:25
By: Abraham A. van Kempen, Editor

Biden’s Vision for America!

Isn’t it ‘America First’ all over again? Maybe!
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‘We’re taking responsibility’: Sixty teens announce refusal to serve in Israeli army

February 08, 2021 14:10
Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians (JFJFP)

https://jfjfp.com/were-taking-responsibility-sixty-teens-announce-refusal-to-serve-in-israeli-army/

Oren Ziv writes in +972

Published January 6, 2021

Dozens of Israeli teens sign public letter objecting to military service over Israel's policies of apartheid, neoliberalism, and denial of the Nakba.
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