Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the Arab people, an ethnic group native to the Middle East and North Africa.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the Arab people, an ethnic group native to the Middle East and North Africa.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the Arab people, an ethnic group native to the Middle East and North Africa.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the Arab people, an ethnic group native to the Middle East and North Africa.
Israel Police said they have enough evidence to launch an investigation for incitement against Arab-Israeli lawmaker Hanin Zoabi. Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein reportedly is expected to accept the recommendation confirmed Monday by the police about opening a probe of the Balad party lawmaker, who said last week that the kidnappers of three Israeli teens are…
An Arab-Israeli Knesset member said in an interview that the kidnappers of three Israeli teens are not terrorists. “They are people that cannot see any way to change their reality, and they are forced to use these means until Israeli society wises up a bit and sees and feels the suffering of the other,” Hanin…
(Haaretz) — Nathan Weinstock hadn’t planned to write a book about the Jews of Arab lands. But when he looked for information about the modern history of Moroccan or Iraqi Jewry, he was surprised to discover that there was no book in French that told the story of the elimination of the Jewish communities in…
Israeli Jewish youths fix a menorah in Jerusalem’s Muslim quarter / Getty Images There’s a received wisdom that in Israel, everyone is polarizing, and that with a right-wing government and stalled peace process, Arab citizens are feeling increasingly antagonistic towards the state. But a new survey suggests that this isn’t the case. There has been…
Ariel Greenbaum insists he’s a settler. But he lives many miles from the West Bank. “Settling the land also applies here,” he said in the Galilee synagogue where he spends his days studying Talmud. This synagogue tells the story better than most places of the “settlement” activity Greenbaum and other young Jews are bringing to…
Still from a video produced by anti-miscegenation group Yad L’Achim Imagine this: You’re a young guy in Israel. Scrolling through Facebook, you see the profile of an attractive Jewish girl. She seems interested in finding a date, so you send her a message. She writes back! The two of you make plans to meet up…
A Jewish leader in Germany has called for public condemnation of an anti-Semitic attack that occurred in Berlin. Deidre Berger, head of the American Jewish Committee office in Berlin, said in a statement Monday that it is unacceptable that no politicians have publicly responded to the incident which occurred on April 25, in which a…
Israel said on Tuesday it was stepping up efforts to encourage military enlistment by Christian Arab citizens, a community long closer to the larger Muslim minority in identifying with the Palestinians. Israel’s Christian Arabs number about 160,000, some two percent of the Jewish state’s eight million people, and the expected number of conscripts – now…
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