This is the Forward’s coverage of the Palestinian people, an Arab ethnic group native to the Middle East. They are a party to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Opinion Does Gleaming Palestinian City on Hill Offer Hope Amid Violence?
A gleaming bus stop greets visitors on the main road to the new Palestinian city of Rawabi in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Construction equipment is busy carving blocks out of the hillsides. A sign directs traffic to the police station in one direction and to the showroom filled with scale models in another. A giant…
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Fast Forward UN Disciplines Palestinian Staffers for Anti-Semitic Facebook Posts
Several employees of the U.N. agency handling Palestinian refugees were punished for disseminating content that promoted violence or anti-Semitism, a United Nations official said. The punishments, which included suspension and loss of pay “in a number of cases so far,” were made public on Oct. 20 on the website of the office of the spokesperson…
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Opinion 4 Times Israelis and Palestinians Stuck Up for One Another
As the latest round of violence unfolds, Israelis and Palestinians seem to mostly be interacting in bloody, enraged spasms of appalling brutality. Quickly uploaded to social media feeds, horrific videos provide graphic proof of just how awful humans can be to one another. And yet, those aren’t the only stories. Amid the violence and hatred…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Uprising Puts Mahmoud Abbas in a Corner
A three-week-old uprising by knife-wielding, Internet-generation teenagers against Israelis has left 80-year-old Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas looking like yesterday’s man, unable either to oppose the violence or openly endorse it. Having promised the Palestinian people when he came to power a decade ago that he could bring about an independent state through peaceful means, he…
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Fast Forward West Bank Settler Killed in Accident After Car Pelted With Rocks
A Jewish-Israeli man who exited his car near Hebron after Palestinians throwing rocks damaged the vehicle was hit by a truck and killed. The man, who was reported to be in his 50s and a resident of the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba, was driving past the Palestinian village of Al Fawar, near Hebron,…
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News Are Palestinian UN Workers Glorifying Violence Against Israelis on Social Media?
As violence escalates in Israel and the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories, advocates for the Jewish state are opening up a new front in their battle to highlight incitement as a prime cause behind Palestinian attacks. U.N. Watch, a Geneva-based organization devoted to monitoring the performance of the United Nations, has cited the U.N. agency caring for…
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Opinion When Israelis Kill Innocents for the Crime of Looking Arab
“If I would have known he is not the terrorist, believe me, I would have looked after him like I look after myself. In moments of fear people do things they are not aware of. I didn’t sleep all night… I feel disgusted with what happened.” These words — , one of the Israeli Jews…
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Opinion Watch This Arab-Israeli News Anchor Slam Palestinian Leaders
JTA — Arab-Israeli news anchor Lucy Aharish isn’t afraid to take on both sides of her fraught identity. She has spoken out against the racism that Palestinians face in Israeli society as well as against Palestinian violence. Aharish, 34, was interviewed on Tuesday on Israel’s Channel 2 about the wave of Palestinian terrorism that has Israel…
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