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 What Is Tzipi Livni Thinking?
Given that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is hardly famed for his enthusiasm on the peace process, it’s interesting that his first signing for his new coalition is the party that ran the campaign with the strongest make-peace-with-the-Palestinians emphasis Today, Netanyahu recruited the six-seat Tzipi Livni Party, and announced that the party’s leader Tzipi Livni,…
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Fast Forward Anger Grows Over Israeli Soldier’s Photo of Palestinian in Crosshairs on Instagram
An Israeli soldier has provoked an outcry by publishing a photograph that appeared to show the back of a Palestinian boy’s head seen through the crosshairs of a rifle. Israel’s army said on Tuesday it would hold an investigation into the conduct of the soldier, who posted the picture on the online photo-sharing website Instagram….
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Fast Forward Israeli Soldier Posts Photo on Instagram of Palestinian Boy in Gun’s Crosshairs
An Israel Defense Forces soldier has posted an Instagram photo of what appears to be a Palestinian boy in the crosshairs of a sniper’s rifle, prompting angry criticism after it was picked up by The Electronic Intifada and other news sites around the world over the weekend. “This is what occupation looks like,” representatives of…
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Israel News Israelis Win Asylum in U.S. — But Mostly Not for Politics
They are a strange and quirky mix: a handful of Israeli citizens and residents, and Palestinians living under Israeli occupation, who each year are granted political asylum from the United States. One, an Arab citizen of Israel, is a gay man who convinced authorities he would face violence from his own family and tribe if…
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Israel News Haneen Zoabi, Israeli Lawmaker, Is Reviled by Jews — and Adored by Arabs
At the Knesset in West Jerusalem, she has been threatened, denounced as a terrorist and stripped of her parliamentary privileges. Israel’s new kingmaker, Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid, has cited her as the reason he would never join a coalition that depended on support from Israeli-Arab political parties. But at the Ambassador Hotel in…
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Fast Forward NY Gay Center Will Allow Israel-Related Events
A New York gay community center announced February 15 that it had lifted a moratorium on events relating to Israel days after coming under heavy criticism for barring a prominent gay scholar from speaking about her new book on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The decision, announced at 4:50 PM on a Friday leading into a three-day…
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Fast Forward Several Reported Wounded in Riots in Support of Jailed Palestinians
Several people were injured in West Bank protests staged in solidarity with hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners. An Israel Defense Forces soldier was lightly wounded on Feb. 15 near Baytuniya checkpoint north of Jerusalem. Several hundred protesters pelted the checkpoint with stones and other objects, the news site Ynet reported. Several of the demonstrators were also wounded…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn College To Probe Claims Jews Were Kicked Out of Boycott Israel Panel
Brooklyn College launched a probe into allegations that Jewish students were wrongly ejected from an event hosted by the school in support of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. Karen Gould, the college’s president, on Wednesday ordered officials to conduct a “thorough independent review” of allegations that four members of the Jewish student group…
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