Common Grounds

Opinion | How media coverage whitewashes Israeli state violence against Palestinians

May 03, 2022 15:38
Source: The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/28/jerusalem-al-aqsa-media-coverage-israeli-violence-palestinians/

By Laura Albast and Cat Knarr

Published April 28, 2022
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Anti-Zionism and antisemitism: How right and left conflate issues to deny Palestinian rights

May 03, 2022 15:15
Source: Middle East Eye

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-broad-coalition-conflates-anti-zionism-antisemitism

By Amos Goldberg

Published April 28, 2022

From the far right to progressives, groups that will not tolerate criticism of Israel have varied motivations. But they all delegitimise the validity of a Palestinian liberation movement
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The EU Goes After Russian Oil Sales to Europe—With an Eye on a Larger Target

May 06, 2022 12:18
Source: Carnegie Endowment For International Peace

https://carnegieendowment.org/2022/05/05/eu-goes-after-russian-oil-sales-to-europe-with-eye-on-larger-target-pub-87080?utm_source=ctw&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=buttonlink&mkt_tok=

By Noah Gordon

Published May 5, 2022
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Soft Power After Ukraine

May 08, 2022 22:15
Source: Project Syndicate

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/soft-power-after-russia-war-in-ukraine-by-joseph-s-nye-2022-05

By JOSEPH S. NYE, JR.

Published May 3, 2022

While hard military power will decide the outcome of Russia's war in Ukraine, the power of values, persuasion, and attraction are hardly irrelevant. Though soft power tends to operate more subtly and over a longer time horizon, it has nonetheless emerged as a key feature of Ukraine's defense.
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Why anti-Russia boycotts should revive the Palestinian BDS movement

May 10, 2022 15:31
Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians

https://jfjfp.com/why-anti-russia-boycotts-should-revive-the-palestinian-bds-movement/

Nada Elia writes in Middle East Eye

Published May 9, 2022
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Opinion | What's God Got to Do With It? How Religion Fuels the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

May 10, 2022 14:42
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-what-s-god-got-to-do-with-it-how-religion-fuels-the-israel-palestinian-conflict-1.10787533

By Dahlia Scheindlin

Published May 9, 2022

Surveys of Israelis and Palestinians are definitive: There's a stark, unyielding connection between religious devotion and political extremism. Religious Jews and Muslims stoke incitement and violence. But could they also resolve the conflict?
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Palestine, Corbyn and the Labour left

May 24, 2022 14:43
Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians

https://jfjfp.com/palestine-corbyn-and-the-labour-left/

Phil Bevin writes in SKWAWKBOX

Published May 17, 2022
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Israel Used to Be Beautiful. Then Came Zionism

May 24, 2022 14:51
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-used-to-be-beautiful-then-came-zionism-1.10796712

By Ofri Ilany

Published May 12, 2022

If the world's flora and fauna will need millions of years to rebound from the damage humanity has wrought on the planet, recovering from the ecological and aesthetic ravages of Zionism will take twice as long
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Palestinians 'are bound to win': Why Israelis are prophesying the end of their state

June 14, 2022 13:01
Source: Middle East Monitor

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20220613-palestinians-are-bound-to-win-why-israelis-are-prophesying-the-end-of-their-state/

By Dr Ramzy Baroud

Published June 13, 2022
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Messianic colonialism

June 14, 2022 12:46
Source: Weekly Worker

https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1398/messianic-colonialism/#fnref1

By Moshe Machover

Published June 9, 2022

Religious ideology and nationalist ideology have a unique interrelationship; after all, even secular Zionists have to justify their ongoing colonial project with reference to a god they do not believe in. However, as Moshé Machover shows, it is the religious Zionists of the far right who are increasingly setting the agenda, not least by staging all manner of highly dangerous provocations
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