Common Grounds

Are Modern Prophets NEVER Wrong?

February 15, 2021 12:23
By: Abraham A. van Kempen, Editor
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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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Against economic absolutism

April 02, 2021 11:17
Source: Fortune

https://fortune.com/2021/03/31/against-economic-absolutism-socialism-vs-capitalism-ceo-daily/

By DAVID MEYER

Published March 31, 2021
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Biden Details $2 Trillion Plan to Rebuild Infrastructure and Reshape the Economy

April 02, 2021 10:47
Source: The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/31/business/economy/biden-infrastructure-plan.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20210401&instance_id=28723&nl=the-morning&regi_id=69909790&segment_id=54658&te=1&user_id=

f9c06872cc476fdf04233a4c100d7930

By Jim Tankersley

Published March 31, 2021

The president began selling his proposal on Wednesday, saying it would fix 20,000 miles of roads and 10,000 bridges, while also addressing climate change and racial inequities and raising corporate taxes.
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Lecture by Angela Davis Canceled after Pressure from Pro-Israel Students

April 05, 2021 14:06
Source: Palestine Chronicle

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/lecture-by-angela-davis-canceled-after-pressure-from-pro-israel-students/

Published April 1, 2021
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Rabbi Alissa Wise’s love letter to anti-Zionist Jews, as she leaves ten years’ work with Jewish Voice for Peace

April 06, 2021 13:46
Source: Jewish Voice for Peace

https://jewish-voice-for-peace.medium.com/rabbi-alissa-wises-love-letter-to-anti-zionist-jews-as-she-leaves-ten-years-work-with-jvp-d04776df54ff

Published March 24, 2021

We are not one thing, but we are — you are — everything
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Blinken tells Israel: Palestinians should enjoy same rights, freedoms as you do

April 06, 2021 14:57
Source: The Times of Israel

https://www.timesofisrael.com/blinken-tells-israel-palestinians-should-enjoy-same-rights-freedoms-as-you-do/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2021-04-03&utm_medium=email

By AFP and TOI STAFF

Published April 3, 2021

US secretary of state to Foreign Minister Ashkenazi: ‘Israelis and Palestinians should enjoy equal measures of freedom, security, prosperity and democracy’
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Israel is losing the fight to obscure its apartheid character

April 06, 2021 14:35
Source: Middle East Eye

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-losing-fight-obscure-its-apartheid-character

By Jonathan Cook

Published January 14, 2021

New report by rights group B'Tselem will make it harder to smear Israel's critics as antisemites for arguing that Israel is a racist state
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How Israeli rights groups prevent Palestinians from framing their own reality

April 01, 2021 15:43
Source: Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians (JFJFP)

https://jfjfp.com/how-israeli-rights-groups-prevent-palestinians-from-framing-their-own-reality/

Haneen Maikey and Lana Tatour write in Middle East Eye:

Published April 1, 2021

Imbued in the settler-colonial system, Israeli human rights organisations appear to view Palestinians as little more than a raw data source, while Jewish staff set the agenda
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To a Leading Critic, Both American-Jewish and Israeli Literature Express Deep Ambivalences

April 01, 2021 13:25
Source: Mosaic

https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/arts-culture/2021/03/to-a-leading-critic-both-american-jewish-and-israeli-literature-express-deep-ambivalences/

Published March 31, 2021
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