Common Grounds

Balfour Project newsletter: new definition of Antisemitism

March 31, 2021 11:56
Source: Balfour Project

https://balfourproject.org/category/current/news/

Published March 30, 2021
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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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Exultant Crowds Gather for Pope's Erbil Mass, Despite Coronavirus Concerns

March 08, 2021 22:05
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/iraq/exultant-crowds-gather-for-pope-s-erbil-mass-despite-coronavirus-concerns-1.9598261?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=4b140a06ac

Reuters

Published March 7, 2021

The Mass in the autonomous Kurdish region is the pope's first engagement in his visit to Iraq, and local Christians have been eagerly awaiting it: 'We hope that he brings peace to Iraq and social harmony and an end to wars'
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Opinion | ‘Dead Goyim Leg’: NBC's 'Antisemitic' TV Clip Is More Accurate Than We’d Like to Admit

March 08, 2021 21:57
Source Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-dead-goyim-leg-antisemitic-tv-clip-more-accurate-than-we-d-like-to-admit-1.9597514?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=4b140a06ac

By Robby Berman

Published March 3, 2012

The outrage over the portrayal of an ultra-Orthodox family refusing a transplant from a non-Jew is hollow when so many Orthodox Jews hold racist attitudes towards gentiles and refuse to donate organs to them
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Are Modern Prophets NEVER Wrong?

February 15, 2021 12:23
By: Abraham A. van Kempen, Editor
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Opinion / Want Israeli-Palestinian Peace? Try Confederation

February 13, 2021 18:07
Source: The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/12/opinion/israel-palestinian-confederation.html

By Bernard Avishai and Sam Bahour

Published February 12, 2021

Politicians and experts should not doubt a two-state solution. But they should finally consider a plausible version of it.
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Reviewing US policy on Palestine, with Professor Rashid Khalidi

February 16, 2021 15:38
Source: Middle East Monitor

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210210-memo-in-conversation-with-professor-rashid-khalidi-2/

By Nasim Ahmed

Published February 10,2021

Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University and the director of the Middle East Institute of Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs.
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America Is (Sort of) Back

February 18, 2021 12:16
Source: Project Syndicate

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/biden-foreign-policy-challenges-credibility-by-shlomo-ben-ami-2021-02

By SHLOMO BEN-AMI

Published February 17, 2021

From its botched pandemic response to the storming of the US Capitol on January 6, America’s political dysfunction has lately been on stark display. And that is only one obstacle President Joe Biden's administration faces in pursuing a robust foreign policy.
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The Seven Secrets of 2020

February 18, 2021 13:07
Source: Project Syndicate

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/seven-secrets-revealed-by-2020-by-yanis-varoufakis-2020-12?barrier=accesspaylog

By YANIS VAROUFAKIS

Published December 28, 2020

This year has resembled a rapidly receding tide, forcing us to confront submerged truths. One lesson we learned in 2020 is that national governments had been choosing not to exercise their enormous powers so that those whom globalization had enriched could exercise their own.
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Biden and the Fed Leave 1970s Inflation Fears Behind

February 18, 2021 12:49
Source: The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/15/business/economy/biden-fed-inflation-covid.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20210215&instance_id=27155&nl=the-morning&regi_id=146080032&segment_id=51724&te=1&user_id=e

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By Jim Tankersley and Jeanna Smialek

Published February 15, 2021

Administration and Fed officials argue that workers not getting enough stimulus help is a larger concern than potential spikes in consumer prices.
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