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 To uphold its founding promise, Israel must treat its Arab citizens as truly equal
The current cycle of violence between Israel and the Palestinians dispels two major illusions. The first regards the impact of the Abraham Accords of September 2020, which normalized relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. In announcing the Accords, President Donald Trump boldly declared that “(a)fter decades of division and conflict, we…
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Fast Forward After honoring Kahane, high school tests Montclair parents’ patience with Palestinian poet
A week after its inexplicable highlighting of Meir Kahane, a convicted terrorist, for Jewish American Heritage Month, Montclair High School has once again angered some parents — this time, by honoring a Palestinian poet for Asian American and Pacific Islander month. The Jewish-American pick included in Wednesday’s daily announcement e-blast was the late Supreme Court…
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Opinion What can we do to help the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Stay out of it
On Sunday night a new front opened up in the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict: John Oliver’s mouth. The comedian, whose commentary segments on his “Last Week Tonight” HBO series often out-report reporters, this time slammed Israel in its week-long battle against Hamas, the Islamic militant group that controls Gaza. “Multiple children have been killed this week…
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Fast Forward Pro-Palestinian group attacks Jews outside Los Angeles restaurant
(Ed. Note: This story is being updated throughout the day.) A group of men wearing all black attacked young Jewish men outside of Sushi Fumi restaurant in Los Angeles Tuesday night. Video of the incident, which took place just outside the Japanese restaurant on 300 North La Cienega Blvd., shows a group of men wearing…
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Culture When a family is separated by 200 meters — and the occupation
This is the nightly ritual that lies at the heart of “200 Meters.” Mustafa, the film’s fatherly protagonist, steps onto his balcony and flicks the light switch on and off. From their bedroom in a nearby apartment building, his three young children can see the lights flashing, and they eagerly reply in kind. These two…
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Opinion The U.S. must fight for fair Palestinian elections — and Israel should, too
After years of hibernation due to internal conflict, Palestinians were expecting to head to the polls on May 22 to choose local representatives to the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) — until those elections were (again) postponed indefinitely by President Mahmoud Abbas last week. Those who preach to Palestinians about democracy, including Americans and others in…
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Opinion They’re Palestinians facing eviction in east Jerusalem. They may have helped save my family.
I heard the story countless times. My great-grandfather Raphael, an Arab Jew who was born in Jerusalem, died when my grandfather was 13. Raphael had two business partners. One partner, who was a European Jew, took advantage of the bereft widow, and stole our family’s livelihood. The other partner, an Arab and fellow Jerusalemite, saved…
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Opinion Even ‘apartheid’ doesn’t capture fullness of our Palestinian suffering. But it helps.
In a recent meeting with a representative of the United Nations, I was asked to suggest concepts that would capture the suffering my family and loved ones in Gaza endure. I froze for a moment, not only because of the surprise of a legal scholar unsuccessfully looking for a concept that would precisely capture Gaza’s…
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