Common Grounds

Talking about Palestine/Israel – what words to use?

March 30, 2021 12:09
Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians (JFJFP)

https://jfjfp.com/talking-about-palestine-israel-what-words-to-use/

Eve Spangler writes in Mondoweiss

Publsihed March 25, 2021
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Sunshine Breaking Through Dark Clouds

March 26, 2021 14:26
By: Abraham A. van Kempen, Editor

The anguish in my wife's eyes voiced volumes: "What are 'we' going to do with them … thousands, alone? Kids! Where are their parents?"
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Jewish groups that aid Israel’s war crimes can’t deny all responsibility for those crimes

May 25, 2021 15:53
Source: Mondoweiss

https://mondoweiss.net/2021/05/jewish-groups-that-aid-israels-war-crimes-cant-deny-all-responsibility-for-those-crimes/

By JONATHAN COOK

Published MAay 24, 2021

Israel’s apologists – whether Jewish or not – cannot deny all responsibility for Israel’s war crimes when they actively aid and abet those crimes.
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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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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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Accountability? Yes! Justice? A Work in Progress!

April 26, 2021 13:31
Source: NRC Amerika

nrc.nl/amerika

By Bas Blokker

Published April 21, 2021

Translated by Abraham A. van Kempen

Cheers after Floyd's case ruling, but "it shouldn't end with Derek Chauvin."

Police brutality! After the jury's verdict in the case against Derek Chauvin is heard in Minneapolis. President Joe Biden said that "there is still a long way to go."
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Why Biden Must Watch This Palestinian Movie

April 28, 2021 10:28
Source: The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/27/opinion/biden-palestine-israel-the-present.html

By John Brennan

Published April 27, 2021
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The Three-State Solution

April 13, 2021 15:32
Source: Tablet

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/three-state-solution-benjamin-kerstein-peace-israel-palestine

By BENJAMIN KERSTEIN

Published March 23, 2021

The two-state solution has been dead for decades. A one-state solution frightens Israelis and Palestinians alike. Is three the magic number for peace?
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Israel and the Triangular Crisis of Ukraine, Iran, and Palestine

April 05, 2022 15:07
Source: The New Yorker

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/israel-and-the-triangular-crisis-of-ukraine-iran-and-palestine

By Bernard Avishai

Published April 1, 2022

A summit in Israel, at a decisive moment, highlighted the tensions that have rendered the nation an outlier among democratic states.
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Is Europe Really More Civilized? Ukraine Conflict a Platform for Racism and Rewriting History

April 05, 2022 14:29
Source: Palestine Chronicle

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/is-europe-really-more-civilized-ukraine-conflict-a-platform-for-racism-and-rewriting-history/

By Ramzy Baroud

Published April 4, 2022
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