Common Grounds

Analysis | Israel’s Hysterical Response to Amnesty’s ‘Apartheid’ Report

February 03, 2022 15:28
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-hysterical-response-to-amnesty-s-apartheid-report-is-a-typical-hasbara-fail-1.10581770

By Anshel Pfeffer

Published February 1, 2022
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U.S. State Department Rejects Amnesty's Apartheid Claim Against Israel

February 03, 2022 11:36
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/u-s-state-department-rejects-amnesty-s-apartheid-claims-against-israel-1.10583830

By Reuters and Ben Samuels

Published February 1, 2022

'The Jewish people must not be denied their right to self-determination, and we must ensure there isn't a double standard being applied,' says U.S. State Department spokesman following Amnesty International report
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Opinion | Josh Mandel Has Joined the Trumpist Christians-First Far Right. Will He Drag GOP Jews With Him?

February 07, 2022 10:57
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-josh-mandel-joins-the-trumpist-christians-first-far-right-will-gop-jews-follow-1.10390411

By Jonathan S. Tobin

Published November 17, 2021

By embracing Trumpist extremists like Mike Flynn and Marjorie Taylor-Greene pushing an exclusively Christian America, Josh Mandel isn’t forging a coalition with the far right, he's joining it. What does that mean for U.S. Jews?
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Opinion | How Jews Become Christian Nationalists: The Case of Josh Mandel

February 07, 2022 10:55
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-how-jews-become-christian-nationalists-the-case-of-josh-mandel-1.10396679

By Avraham Bronstein

Published November 18, 2021

If Donald Trump can be a Christian nationalist, so can Josh Mandel, the longtime nativist leading Ohio's GOP Senate primaries
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Opinion | Tucker Carlson’s anti-Soros Crusade Is a Clear Danger for American Jews

February 07, 2022 10:55
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-tucker-carlson-s-anti-soros-crusade-is-a-clear-danger-for-american-jews-1.10576543?lts=1644149939899

By Joshua Shanes

Published January 30, 2022

Fox News marked Holocaust Remembrance Day with a Tucker Carlson 'Special' glorifying Hungary’s white Christian nationalism and accusing Holocaust survivor George Soros of waging a 'secret war' on Western civilization. There should have been far more outrage
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Secular democracy and the future of Palestine

February 08, 2022 15:00
Source: Mondoweiss

https://mondoweiss.net/2022/01/secular-democracy-and-the-future-of-palestine/

BY HAIDAR EID

Published January 28, 2022

It is an established fact that Israel is an apartheid state. The questions then are - how to dismantle it and what comes next?
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Opinion | The Culture of the Occupation Is a Hothouse for Inhumanity

February 08, 2022 15:07
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-the-culture-of-the-occupation-is-a-hothouse-for-inhumanity-1.10583688

By Zvi Bar'el

Published February 2, 2022
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The person I should have been in unoccupied Palestine

February 08, 2022 15:17
Source: Mondoweiss

https://mondoweiss.net/2022/02/the-person-i-should-have-been-in-unoccupied-palestine/

By REEM A. HAMAD

Published February 3, 2022

Reem Hamadaqa is 22 years old and has never left the Gaza Strip. Photos in an old family album are her only window to a Palestine she has never seen.
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Opinion | We've Obsessed Over Our Past With No Clear Future in Sight

February 10, 2022 14:45
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-we-ve-obsessed-over-our-past-with-no-clear-future-in-sight-1.10593703

By Carolina Landsmann

Published February 6, 2022
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Blinken Calls Abbas to Talk U.S.-Palestinian Relations, Also Speaks With Israel's Lapid

February 10, 2022 13:15
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/.premium-blinken-holds-rare-phone-call-with-abbas-about-u-s-palestinian-relations-1.10581012

By Ben Samuels and Jonathan Lis

Published February 1, 2022

The rare phone call to the Palestinian president comes after recent increased direct contacts between Israeli and Palestinian leaders
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