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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Fast Forward Death toll in Israel attack soars past 1,200 as catalog of Hamas horrors is revealed
“It’s not a war or a battlefield; it’s a massacre,” one Israeli commander said about what he saw at Kibbutz Kfar Aza
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Fast Forward In wake of attack on Israel, Biden will join WH roundtable with Jewish leaders to discuss Israel
The president decided to participate after Saturday's Hamas attacks on Israel
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Opinion The truth of Hamas is in its charter
A founding document extolls the killing of every Jew
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Fast Forward ‘Your fight is my fight’: Thousands rally alongside NY leadership to grieve and back Israel after Hamas invasion
The rally, coming days after dueling pro- and anti-Israel protests clashed in midtown, was surrounded by heavy security and police barricades
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News How Democrats are parsing their language to talk about Israel and Gaza
A close look at their words shows the increasing complexity of views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict within the party that a large majority of American Jews identify with
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Fast Forward Where US Jews can donate to support Israel’s hospitals, troops, survivors and more
The news from Israel has inspired many American Jews to give
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Opinion Hamas is guilty of inhuman violence. What about the Palestinians who cheered them on?
Palestinian society, and leadership, must speak out now
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Fast Forward Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez condemns Pro-Palestine rally in Times Square
The rally was promoted by the Democratic Socialists of America, whose New York chapter once called AOC their 'foremost socialist superstar'
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Culture Why saying ‘L’shana Tova’ on Rosh Hashanah may not be the correct phrase
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Fast Forward Was the viral Ta-Nehisi Coates interview a hit piece or fair play? A journalism ethics expert weighs in.
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Culture How my odious cousin Roy Cohn was responsible for creating Donald Trump — and me
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Culture New conspiracy theory just dropped — Jews are causing the hurricanes
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Culture When Robert Moses laid waste to the Jewish Bronx, was he trying to obliterate his Jewish heritage?
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Culture Will Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally resemble a fascist one from 1939?
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Fast Forward ‘Serve the nation, kill a Jew’ graffiti written on prominent Buenos Aires monument
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Film & TV Happiness and autonomy prove elusive in a Palestinian director’s moving family drama
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