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.
Palestinian
The Latest
-
Fast Forward 4 Palestinians Killed in Suspected Stabbing Incidents
Israeli authorities said four Palestinians had been shot dead and a fifth seriously injured in thwarted knife attacks on Saturday in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank as tensions ran high after more than two weeks of unrest. Forty-one Palestinians and seven Israelis have died in the recent street violence, which was in part triggered…
-
Fast Forward Palestinian Fake Journalist Killed After Stabbing Israeli Soldier
A Palestinian posing as a journalist wounded an Israeli soldier with a knife before being shot dead, the Israeli military said. The attack took place near Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied territory. Reuters television footage showed the Palestinian surrounded by Israeli troops after the attack, rolling on the ground in a florescent…
-
Fast Forward Palestinians Torch Joseph’s Tomb in West Bank ‘Day of Rage’
Palestinians set fire to a Jewish shrine in the West Bank on Friday as the Islamist group Hamas called for a day of rage against Israel, with tensions still running high after two weeks of violence. Israel’s military said about 100 people converged on the tomb of the biblical patriarch Joseph, which is located in…
-
Opinion Who Is To Blame for the Bloodshed and Despair in Israel? Everyone.
Just when the Israeli-Palestinian political situation seems like it can’t get any worse, it gets worse. And everyone is to blame. First blame lies with the Palestinian murderers who are stabbing innocent people on the streets of Israel. While these actions are the predictable results of Israeli policies, they are also inexcusable, ghastly and horrible….
-
Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Accuses Mahmoud Abbas of ‘Big Lies’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was willing to meet with Mahmoud Abbas while blaming the Palestinian Authority president of fanning the flames of the current wave of Palestinian violence against Israelis. On Thursday, at a news conference for the English-speaking media, Netanyahu accused Abbas of “incitement and lies.” “I have called on Abbas…
-
News Why America Stays Silent as Israel Violence Spirals Toward ‘Intifada’
When tensions between Israelis and Palestinians flared up in Jerusalem last November, Secretary of State John Kerry invited Israeli and Palestinian leaders to an emergency summit in Jordan to clear the air and restore calm. This month, when demonstrations erupted again around the Temple Mount and evolved into an outburst of violence across Israel and…
-
Opinion 4 Things the Jewish Community Needs To Be Called Out On
Last June, a group of Israeli journalists from left to right, from Haaretz to Israel Hayom, asked me, the president of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs: “How long can you hold off BDS?” I told them that only Israel could hold off BDS. We would do what we could here in America, but unless…
-
Opinion It’s Not Quite a Third Intifada — Yet
The violence that’s erupted in Jerusalem and the West Bank in the past few weeks hasn’t reached the level of a new intifada, Israeli officials are saying. And they’re right. There are indeed reasons why, with luck, it might not get that bad. But these days, good luck is in short supply in that part…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Opinion The Iran war ended terribly for the US, and even worse for Israel
- 2
Film & TV In ‘Disclosure Day,’ Steven Spielberg finds himself at odds with Jewish thought about aliens
- 3
Sports This year’s biggest World Cup upset came from its most Jew-ish team
- 4
News Who is Gadi Eisenkot, the Israeli politician who could dethrone Netanyahu?
In Case You Missed It
-
Fast Forward Years after a boycott fight, Ben & Jerry’s Israel debuts a flavor celebrating Israeli resilience
-
Fast Forward Mamdani calls AIPAC ‘monsters’ in rally ahead of NY primaries
-
Fast Forward Jewish groups push back against Trump’s Iran deal — but more quietly so far than in 2015
-
News Who is Gadi Eisenkot, the Israeli politician who could dethrone Netanyahu?