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 Israeli Defense Forces Kill Two Palestinians Planning ‘Terrorist Attack’
Israeli security forces killed two Palestinians that the Israeli military said were planning a terrorist attack. The Palestinians who were killed Tuesday in the Palestinian village of Yatta near Hebron were carrying explosive devices and guns, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement. The IDF said their terror plan was to be executed in…
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Opinion Seeing Palestinian Resistance for Ourselves
Who will are the change agents of our world? Is it our elected officials and politicians or the ones who march in the streets in order to hold them accountable? These questions were clarified for me in profound ways during my recent trip to the West Bank as part of a delegation of Chicago-area Jews…
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Fast Forward New Brandeis Textbook Offers Even-Handed Look at Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
A textbook on the Arab-Israeli conflict co-authored by a Palestinian, an Israeli and an Egyptian has been published. The project was a seven-year undertaking by the founding scholars of the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University. “Arabs and Israelis: Conflict and Peacemaking in the Middle East” is a collaboration of Shai Feldman,…
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Fast Forward Brandeis President Vows To Keep Talking to Palestinian Sister College
Brandeis University President Frederick Lawrence said he would reach out to the president of Al-Quds University in the wake of the U.S. school suspending relations between the two institutions over an Islamic Jihad rally. In a statement posted Friday on the Brandeis website, Lawrence said the decision to suspend relations with Al-Quds University “was taken…
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Fast Forward Mahmoud Abbas: I’ll Speak to Knesset — and Say What I Like
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said he would be willing to speak to the Knesset, but only if he is permitted to discuss the issues he chooses. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a public statement last week called on Abbas to address the Knesset and said he would travel to Ramallah to speak to…
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Fast Forward San Francisco College Chief Slams Anti-Israel ‘Killer’ Signs
San Francisco State University’s president condemned placards at a Palestinian campus event that said, “My heroes have always killed colonizers.” Stencils allowing attendees to paint the slogan on placards were available at a Nov. 7 event celebrating the sixth anniversary of the creation of a campus mural honoring the late Palestinian-American academic Edward Said. According…
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Israel News Utopian Thinkers Plan for Future One-State Israel Solution — If It Comes
With reports that peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority are faltering, figures from the fringes are jockeying to fill the vacuum they believe will result. As a two-state solution fades, thinkers and activists currently viewed as marginal on both the left and the right, are preparing to wheel out projects that others might…
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Culture It’s Not Easy Being a Jewish Artist in a Muslim Land
Venturing into global conflict zones, some of which are Muslim, can be challenging to Jewish theater artists. Consider this: Two artists were willing to speak with the Forward about their experiences, while eight others who had traveled — or were about to travel —into Muslim hotspots did not want to participate in this story or…
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