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.
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Fast Forward In Washington, calls for a ceasefire are loud, but not pervasive or, to Biden, persuasive
Calls for a ceasefire from some progressives have been loud and insistent, but ineffective in the face of a Biden administration steadfast in its support for Israel
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Fast Forward Leading law conference drops UN Israel investigator after Hamas attack
Navi Pillay, a former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, was slated to receive an award and speak at last week’s International Law Weekend
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Fast Forward Pro-Palestinian students project anti-Israel slogans on George Washington University library
Slogans like ‘Divest from Zionist genocide now’ appeared for two hours on building named for Jewish donors
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Opinion The roots of Hamas’ terror attack can be found in Gaza’s schools
A generation of children have been taught to hate from antisemitic textbooks
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Fast Forward Turkish president calls Hamas a ‘liberation group’ that is ‘waging a battle to protect its lands’
Recep Tayyip Erdogan also said he was canceling a planned visit to Israel
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Fast Forward With Israel visit, Macron seeks to balance solidarity with Israel and calls for peace
“Democracies respect the rules of war and ensure humanitarian access,” the French president said in Jerusalem
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Fast Forward Antisemitic incidents have spiked in New York since Hamas attack on Israel, NYPD says
There were 33 antisemitic hate crimes in the first three weeks of October, already surpassing the monthly average of 18 so far this year, according to the NYPD
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Fast Forward At Brandeis U, founded as a nonsectarian Jewish university, resolution to condemn Hamas fails student senate
“It’s absolutely infuriating,” said a Jewish sophomore who resigned from the student government over the vote
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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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Opinion I discovered anti-Zionism at the University of Michigan. I’m glad it lives on there
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Opinion An alarming new battleground in campus fights over Israel
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Culture An Israeli genocide scholar looks to Israel’s history to understand ‘what went wrong’
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Fast Forward Elected PA Jewish judge leaves Democratic party, citing ‘disturbingly common’ antisemitism
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Fast Forward At Abraham Foxman’s funeral, an elegy for the last generation with direct ties to the Holocaust
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Fast Forward Israeli report on ‘systematic’ Oct. 7 sexual violence seeks to shift debate from denial to accountability
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News Mamdani supersizes NYC hate crimes office, as tensions simmer over synagogue protests