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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Looking Forward The Forward hires Pulitzer winner to report from Israel
'Maybe all that any of us can do is ask better questions of more people and listen more carefully to the answers.'
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Opinion Calls to depopulate Gaza are a dangerous pipe dream
Population transfer is as morally and strategically indefensible as many of the Israeli right’s other fantasies.
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News Jewish teens in South Africa, where crime and Israel criticism are sky-high, see little future at home
Antisemitism and a lack of opportunity are pushing young people to study abroad or move to Israel
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News Will MIT’s Sally Kornbluth survive the campus antisemitism reckoning?
Some alumni says she owes an apology for her testimony before a Congressional committee
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Fast Forward Dozens of Penn professors spent the week in Israel, following their university president’s antisemitism resignation
“I was truly surprised to see how much our visit meant to our Israeli colleagues,” a cinema and media studies professor said
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Fast Forward Police say fire at Toronto Jewish deli was likely a hate crime. A local rabbi is not surprised
Someone had scrawled ‘Free Palestine’ across the Toronto deli’s rear entrance
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News Israel faces charges of genocide at the International Court of Justice. Here’s why, and how Israel will respond.
For the first time in decades, Israeli government lawyers will grapple with an allegation of genocide — as defendants and not as prosecutors
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News Analysis: Caught by surprise on Oct. 7, Netanyahu looks to preserve his power post-war
Israel’s prime minister is determined to lead the country during the war and after it ends
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Culture Inside the ancient Christian theology driving modern antisemitism
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Opinion The moral degradation of Israel’s far right is even worse than you think
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Fast Forward CA Gov. Newsom says he regrets apartheid comment, ‘reveres’ Israel in new interview
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News Mamdani voices concerns about synagogue buffer zone bill poised to pass NYC Council
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Fast Forward Israeli-American soldier Moshe Katz, killed in Lebanon rocket strike, laid to rest on Mt. Herzl
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Fast Forward A second poll of US Jews finds the same result: Most oppose the war in Iran
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News Their sons survived the battlefield but not their wounds. Now these Israeli mothers mourn together.
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