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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Community Stop Trying To ‘Win’ The Campus Battle Over Israel
The 2016 Presidential election shook and widened the partisan gaps in American politics. Nowhere is this most reflected than college campuses throughout the United States. With each passing year, the number of student advocates and political bodies on campuses continue to steadily grow. The involvement of these students extends beyond tabling events to community outreach…
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Opinion The Trump Administration Has Just Deprived 5 Million Palestinians Of Food
During the summer of 2005, while the Israeli army was preparing to evacuate 7,500 Jewish settlers and end its 38-year military presence in Gaza, I spent quite a bit of time wandering around the coastal territory, talking to soon-to-be-displaced Israelis and to Palestinian residents. I moved between the destitute Palestinian refugee camps, crowded and slumlike,…
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Opinion I Am Living Under Apartheid In Hebron
I am a Palestinian living in Hebron. I live stateless with no rights. I have no rights to general assembly, no rights to free speech, to due process or to freedom of movement. I get 10% of the water illegal settlers living next to me get. I am not allowed to walk down the streets…
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Community Ten Commandments For Thinking About Modern Anti-Semitism
In an op-ed for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on January 2, editor-in-chief Andrew Silow-Carroll suggests that defining anti-Semitism is a key question of the moment, but that it’s complicated given the polarization of left and right. Like so much else in politics today, the debate about contemporary anti-Semitism is a dialogue of the deaf waged…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Woman Keeps 67 Years Worth Of Her Own Hair
Ezzeya Daraghmeh opens up a pillowcase and pulls out large clumps of her multi-colored hair that she has kept for nearly seven decades. “I like my hair and I hate to throw it away. Even when I comb my hair or wash it I keep the hair that falls off,” the 82-year-old Palestinian woman said…
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Fast Forward Dozens Wounded As Thousands Of Palestinians Protest Donald Trump
Over 50 people were injured in clashes with Israeli military during a “day of rage” protest in Gaza against President Donald Trump, Reuters reported. Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets in Gaza and the West Bank to protest Trump’s decision this month to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Protesters in Gaza chanted,…
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Fast Forward Israeli Minister Forced NBA To Scrub ‘Occupied’ From Palestine Listing
Israel’s minister for sports and culture recently pressured the National Basketball Association to delete the word “occupied” from a listing for the “Palestinian Territories,” the Guardian reported. The designation was on a part of the NBA’s site listing countries in a pop-up menu for a poll of favorite players. Representatives for the NBA say the…
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Opinion Thank You, Lorde, For Standing Up For Palestinian Human Rights
When I heard that the internationally acclaimed singer, songwriter and record producer Lorde was reconsidering a decision to play in Israel I had a gut feeling that she would cancel the show. This weekend, she did just that. “[I]’ve received an overwhelming number of messages and letters and have had a lot of discussions with…
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Opinion Outrage over Nicholas Kristof’s op-ed on sexual assault of Palestinians is missing the point
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