Nora Berman is the former deputy opinion editor for the Forward. She is based in Atlanta.
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By Nora Berman
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Opinion ‘The most moral army in the world’ is posing with Palestinian women’s underwear in Gaza
How should we understand a proliferation of photos of IDF soldiers mocking Palestinian women’s lingerie?
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Books An elite literary journal imploded over an essay about the war — because it dared to humanize Israelis as well as Palestinians
Guernica staff resigned en masse after a co-publisher declared a piece by a Hebrew and Arabic translator 'an apologia for Zionism'
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Opinion After more than 100 Gazans died trying to access food, will the world finally address their starvation?
At least half a million Gazans are currently believed to be at direct risk of starvation
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Opinion Exclusive: Natan Sharansky on his letters with Alexei Navalny
The Jewish Russian refusenik described Navalny as 'a kindred spirit'
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Opinion ‘An impact on the world’: Brown University hunger strikers, one Jewish and one Palestinian, on their war protest
Ariela Rosenzweig and Nour Abaherah are among 19 Brown students engaged in a hunger strike to demand the university take a stronger line on Israel
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Opinion BDS has shown its true face in boycotting Standing Together
Alienating a group with record levels of joint Arab-Israeli engagement proves BDS doesn't actually care about ending the occupation
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Culture ‘We’re sick and tired of the West telling us what to do’: Palestinian Israeli peace activists speak out on a new podcast
Unapologetic: The Third Narrative is an incisive and vulnerable war-time podcast from two Palestinian citizens of Israel
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Opinion Tearing down posters of Israeli hostages isn’t resistance — it just shows you can’t handle complex grief
The Israel-Hamas war is making clear that many people cannot hold space for the suffering of two peoples
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