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 Democrats and Young Americans More Sympathetic to Palestinians: Survey
NEW YORK (JTA) – Democrats are more than four times as likely as Republicans to say they sympathize more with the Palestinians than with Israel, according to a new survey, and sympathy for the Palestinians among Americans overall is growing. While self-identified Democrats are more likely to favor Israel over the Palestinians (43 percent for…
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Fast Forward Why Won’t Israel Release Video of Killing of Pregnant Palestinian and Her Brother?
Israel Police have declined to release a video showing an attempted stabbing attack at a Jerusalem-area checkpoint, in the wake of an investigation that shows civilian security guards and not Border Police officers there shot and killed the alleged sibling attackers. Maram Salih Hassan Abu Ismail, 23, and her brother Ibrahim Saleh Taha, 16, were…
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Opinion New Comedy ‘Activist’ Tackles Israel Divestment on Campus — But Is It Funny?
Campus activists who work on Israel-Palestine — particularly Jewish ones — are both busy and tense. On one hand, Israel’s deepening occupation and the Israeli government’s current obsession with combatting BDS are natural fuel for the activist fire. On the other, the attempts by the Jewish community to marginalize those who don’t toe the party…
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Fast Forward Israel Gives Cold Shoulder to France’s Planned Mideast Peace Push
Israel formally expressed its opposition on Thursday to a French-proposed peace initiative, reaffirming its position that only direct talks with the Palestinians can resolve the decades-old conflict. A week ago, France said it would hold an international conference in Paris on May 30 in a bid to relaunch talks between Palestinians and Israelis by the…
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Opinion Why Did Bernie Sanders Pick ‘Palestine’ as Poverty Benchmark?
(JTA) — Bernie Sanders, campaigning this weekend in Baltimore ahead of Tuesday’s primary in Maryland, sounded familiar and poignant notes about American poverty, arguing that the United States, the world’s mightiest power, lags behind developing countries on a number of scales. One marker, though, was odd: Two neighborhoods in Baltimore, he said, have worse infant…
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Fast Forward Mahmoud Abbas Comes Under Fire for Shelving Anti-Israel UN Resolution
Senior Palestinian officials, including some from Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party, are criticizing the Palestinian Authority president’s decision to postpone consideration of a UN Security Council resolution condemning settlement construction. For the past several weeks, the Palestinians have been telling both Western diplomats and the media that they intend to demand a vote on the resolution,…
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Opinion Want To Keep Students from Turning to BDS? Try Mock Peace Negotiations With a Twist
As the two of us headed to the University of California, Santa Barbara to give a talk about Palestinian-Israeli peace back in 2009, we didn’t think much about it. We’re both veterans of this conflict, accustomed to the regular interactions between Palestinians and Israelis in the Middle East, and to the civil, collegial and interactive…
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Opinion Why Simone Zimmerman and Bernie Sanders Are Still on Same Side on Israel — Suspension or No
Just weeks after thousands of Israel advocates applauded Donald Trump at AIPAC, some of the same voices attempted a coordinated campaign to force Bernie Sanders to back off from his progressive positions on Israel before a Brooklyn debate. Sanders refused to back down in the debate. In order to solve the Mideast conflict, he argued,…
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