This is the Forward’s coverage of the Israel-Hamas war, which began on Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas militants crossed into southern Israel and massacred civilians, prompting Israel to invade the Gaza Strip.
Israel-Hamas War
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Culture Eden Golan’s impossible mission — conquer Eurovision and redefine Israel’s image
The 20-year-old Israeli singer is trying to make a statement, while saying as little as possible
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News Students retake encampment at MIT, where protests take on a mathematical spin
At one the world’s greatest centers for science, protesters draw on math theory and a pro-Israel engineering student invokes her Muslim father
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Fast Forward Ahead of hearing on DC’s response to campus protests, questions arise about GOP chair’s role in enabling antisemitism
Rep. James Comer disparaged Jewish committee members with insults that overlap with antisemitic tropes
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Fast Forward ‘You are not alone’: Biden in Holocaust remembrance speech vows to fight Oct. 7 denialism
Biden drew a direct line between Holocaust denial and the tendency by some to downplay or even deny the atrocities of Oct. 7
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Fast Forward Should ‘From the river to the sea’ be allowed on Facebook and Instagram? Meta’s Oversight Board is considering the question.
The review comes after the House of Representatives issued a resolution calling the pro-Palestinian phrase antisemitic
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Fast Forward At March of the Living on Yom HaShoah, Holocaust survivors and relatives of Oct. 7 victims stress urgency of remembrance
“This is supposed to be never again, but this is again,” said the father of a child who was taken hostage by Hamas and released during a ceasefire
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Fast Forward ’50 Completely True Things,’ a Palestinian-American’s call for compromise, strikes a chord on social media
Mo Husseini says his Medium post is meant to puncture ‘delusions’ on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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Fast Forward Israel announces Rafah invasion and Hamas accepts truce outline in key day of diplomacy and warfare
Israeli officials said the proposal Hamas accepted was different from the one Israel had agreed to
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