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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Fast Forward Israeli soldier Amichai Oster, son of Jewish journalist, is killed in Gaza
The 24-year-old reservist rushed back to Israel from the United States after Oct. 7
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Fast Forward Is Alan Dershowitz going to represent Israel at the International Court of Justice?
Israel will appear to contest South Africa's recent claim that it is commiting genocide in Gaza
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Opinion How culture warriors weaponized Jewish grief and forced Harvard’s president to resign
Claudine Gay’s enemies are not our friends
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Fast Forward Why a reported attack on a synagogue in India is not considered antisemitic
Community members are appealing to Israeli officials to speed up their immigration process, which has been notoriously slow for decades
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Fast Forward Top Hamas official assassinated in Beirut, reportedly by Israel
Saleh Al-Arouri, the deputy chair of Hamas’ political bureau, was released from Israeli prison in 2010 and took up a role leading the group from abroad
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Fast Forward Israel’s Supreme Court strikes down Netanyahu’s plan to overhaul the judiciary
The decision could catapult Israel into a constitutional and political crisis during a time of war
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Opinion ‘Proving’ rape is hard. Denialism makes it impossible
An obsessive focus on the particulars of how victims were violated on Oct. 7 misses the larger point
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Culture ‘Israeled,’ a new Urban Dictionary word, becomes proxy battleground in Middle East conflict
Users have contributed several entries for a new verb — ‘Israeled’ — since Oct. 7
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Holy Ground A Jewish farmer broke ground on a synagogue in an Illinois cornfield. His neighbors showed up to help.
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Culture An Israeli genocide scholar looks to Israel’s history to understand ‘what went wrong’
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Opinion I discovered anti-Zionism at the University of Michigan. I’m glad it lives on there
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News Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s selection as JTS commencement speaker roils graduating class
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