Welcome to 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 Gal Gadot’s newest movie screening — featuring Hamas atrocities — is drawing criticism
The Israeli movie star is being harshly criticized for ignoring the Palestinian experience.
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Fast Forward Israel releases horrific eyewitness account of rape carried out by Hamas
Testimony from massacre survivor describes gang rape and murder of a young woman at the music festival
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Fast Forward Some Jewish musicians are asking Jewish critics of Israel to stop singing their songs at protests
"I cannot condone that organization using my song officially," Shoshana Jedwab said about IfNotNow
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Fast Forward Since Oct. 7, antisemitism has exploded online in China. Here’s why.
Anti-Jewish sentiment is closely related to anti-Western sentiment in China
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Fast Forward ‘From the river to the sea’: The slogan that led to Rashida Tlaib’s censure, explained
It’s a phrase that Jewish watchdogs call antisemitic, that has caused at least one pro-Palestinian commentator to lose a job — and that Tlaib has walked back in the past
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Opinion Rep. Tlaib’s Israel-Hamas statements were offensive. Censuring her was even worse
The House censure was an abuse of power, a denigration of the Congress and a successful political trap set by Republicans
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Fast Forward Jewish media publish open letter against rise in antisemitism since Oct. 7 attacks
A ‘second, global front’ is emerging, statement says, ‘targeting Jews on campus, at work, on streets and at home’
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Opinion Israel’s war is the biggest threat to Jewish peoplehood
A time of crisis is a time to remember the compassion and justice at the heart of Jewish teachings
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Culture Why saying ‘L’shana Tova’ on Rosh Hashanah may not be the correct phrase
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Culture A Jewish prophet of the 1980s would be horrified to see that we didn’t heed his warnings
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Opinion With killing of Hezbollah’s chief, Israel occupies the inarguable moral high ground
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Opinion This is the most disorienting Rosh Hashanah in memory
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Film & TV How Leonard Cohen — and a Yom Kippur prayer — inspired a coming-of-age epic
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Opinion A year after Oct. 7, Israel has the chance to remake its future — for better or worse
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Opinion Campus protests defined the year since Oct. 7. Could they actually change U.S. policy?
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Special Report At the kibbutz hit hardest on Oct. 7, a wrenching debate over how to rebuild
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