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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News Israeli teachers who criticize the war have been yanked from the classroom — and thrown in jail
‘There’s good people and there’s bad people,’ said a right-wing activist who has targeted dissidents on social media
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Opinion Israel made a terrible tactical blunder in targeting the AP — one it’s made many times before
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Opinion There’s a real outrage involving the International Criminal Court, Israel and Hamas. It isn’t what you think
Politicians focused on whether the ICC is treating Israel and Hamas as equivalent are asking the wrong questions
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Fast Forward Video of Israelis trashing Gaza aid leads to clashes between rival activists
Tzav 9, the main group organizing to block aid shipments, disavowed the riot and said that it would pause operations for a week
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Fast Forward Israeli government briefly confiscates Associated Press equipment under new press law
he Biden Administration expressed concern at the confiscation of the AP equipment
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News Angry at MIT’s Jewish president, a Jewish alumni group has a plot to oust her
Sally Kornbluth is Jewish, but undermining Jewish students, say the MIT alums
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Fast Forward Meta asks for content moderation help with posts that say ‘all Israelis are criminals’
Sometimes, when users call a group of people criminals, they are referring to the government officials
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Fast Forward Biden: Israel will get ‘everything it needs’ to fight Hamas; Gaza war is ‘not genocide’
A pledge to back Israel comes after weeks of tension between the governments over Biden’s pause on the delivery of large bombs
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Fast Forward Trump says Jews would deserve much of the blame if he loses
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Opinion This GOP candidate has always been antisemitic — so why are Republicans only panicking about him now?
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Culture Hitler is trending on TikTok again — and they’re trying to make him seem like a nice guy
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Opinion A daring attack on Hezbollah may reveal Israel’s strengths — and its most terrifying weakness
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Fast Forward Republican senator refuses to condemn Trump’s remark that election loss would be Jews’ fault
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Opinion Israel’s next war front: Why Lebanon is different than Gaza
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Fast Forward Civilian effort to equip Israeli soldiers for war with Hezbollah ratchets up alongside hostilities
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Oct. 7: One Year Later How 10/7 — like 9/11 before it — irrevocably changed the meaning of a pair of numbers
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