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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Fast Forward Rachel Fraenkel, Mother of Kidnapped Teen, Denounces Revenge Killing
Rachel Fraenkel denounced the revenge killing of a Palestinian teen and offered condolences to the family. Fraenkel made a public statement Monday outside her home in Nof Ayalon at the end of the shiva period for her son Naftali, one of three Israeli teenagers kidnapped and killed last month. “Even in the abyss of mourning…
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News Israel Will Escalate Gaza Strikes as Rocket Attacks Increase
The Israeli government is planning to escalate its attacks on Hamas and other terrorist groups slamming southern Israel with rocket fire from the Gaza Strip. The security Cabinet decided at a three-hour meeting on Monday to steadily increase Israel’s military retaliation, according to reports. The Israel Defense Forces said it was calling up some 1,500…
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Fast Forward 3 Jewish Suspects Confess in Revenge Killing
Three of the six suspects arrested in the July 2 kidnapping and murder of 16-year-old Mohammad Khdeir of eastern Jerusalem to avenge the slaying of three Israeli teens have confessed to the crime and reenacted burning and dumping the body in the Jerusalem forest, Israeli media reported Monday. The suspects, reportedly from Jerusalem and the…
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Opinion Why Jewish Revenge Murder Should Shake Us Up
Relatives of Mohammed Abu Khdeir carry his body during his funeral / Getty Images Already, the details emerging about the gruesome death of Mohammed Abu Khdeir, the Palestinian teen burned alive in a revenge attack, are causing soul-searching among Israelis who would not or could not acknowledge that this unforgivable act was perpetrated by some…
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Opinion The Pinkwashing of Mohammed Abu Khdeir
An undated family handout picture of Mohammed Abu Khdeir. Now that Israeli police have arrested six Jewish suspects for the kidnap-murder of 16-year-old Palestinian Mohammed Abu Khdeir, it’s safe to say that the teen was not killed by his own family for being gay. Of course, Mohammed’s family has been saying that all along. They’ve…
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Israel News Families of Slain Israeli and Palestinian Teens Turn to Each Other for Comfort
The families of murdered Israeli teen Naftali Fraenkel and murdered Palestinian teen Mohammed Abu Khdeir are drawing comfort from an unexpected source: each other. Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat took to Facebook on Sunday to write about an “emotional and special telephone conversation between two families that have lost their sons.” He said that during his…
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Fast Forward VIDEO: American Cousin of ‘Revenge’ Victim Speaks Out After Beating
“They hit me — and they kept hitting me,” said 15-year-old Palestinian American Tariq Abu Khdeir of Israeli police, who beat him during a protest at the home of his slain cousin Mohammed Abu Khdeir. Tariq Abu Khdeir spoke about his experience in a video published by Addameer after he was released from Israeli custody on…
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Opinion Bulldoze Homes of Jewish Terrorists, Too
Israel regularly destroys homes of Palestinian terror suspects, calling it a deterrent. But it never uses the same tactic against Jewish extremists. / Getty Images (Haaretz) — There is only one sane and truly halakhic way to tackle our current situation: Take the well-known members of the Orthodox Price Tag gang and lock ‘em up, for…
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