This is the Forward’s coverage of the West Bank, a Palestinian territory occupied by Israel and a focus of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Fast Forward U.N. Report Cites Apartheid in Palestinian Territories
Israel’s policies in the West Bank and Gaza Strip appear to amount to apartheid due to its systematic oppression of the Palestinian people and de facto expropriation of their land, a United Nations investigator said in a report. Richard Falk, U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, said that Palestinian rights are…
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Opinion Why Are We Ignoring Palestinian Nonviolence?
Palestinian and Israeli activists at a joint protest in the occupied West Bank in 2014 / Getty Images The Jewish and Israeli press is quick to report any and all Palestinian violence against any Jew, anywhere. Which makes sense, of course. Israelis and Palestinians are at war, Jews everywhere have a dog in the fight,…
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News The Jewish Settlers Who Would Stay in West Bank Under Palestinian Rule
Eliaz Cohen is a second-generation Jewish settler in the occupied West Bank — and that’s where he’s determined to remain. Sitting in his kitchen in Kfar Etzion, between Jerusalem and Hebron, the yarmulke-wearing settler says that he wants to see a two-state solution and to see his home become part of the Palestinian state, with…
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Opinion What To Call Occupation After 47 Years?
(Haaretz) — Open Haaretz on any given day. Half or three quarters of its news items will invariably revolve around the same two topics: people struggling to protect the good name of Israel, and people struggling against its violence and injustices. An almost random example: On December 17, 2013, one could read, on a single…
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Opinion Hacking SodaStream Debate
In addition to the Scarlett Johansson Super Bowl ad, part of the reason that SodaStream has gotten so much attention — as opposed to many other products on the boycott Israel list — is because it presents an ethical conundrum for its lefty customers. SodaStream has become a symbol for health and environmentalism, but also…
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Israel News Settlement Business Owners Unfazed by Boycott Surge After SodaStream Feud
(JTA) — Of the 200,000 wine bottles Yakov Burg produced last year, 16,000 went to Europe. The possibility of a boycott and repeated rumblings that Europe is planning to label goods produced in the settlements could decrease that number, but Burg isn’t worried. The CEO of Psagot Winery, which is located in a settlement of the…
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Fast Forward Denmark Bank Dumps Israel’s Bank Hapoalim Over Occupation Backing
A Danish bank has added Israel’s Bank Hapoalim to its list of companies it won’t invest in, over its dealings in the West Bank. Israel’s Bank Hapoalim was added to the Danske Bank’s list of excluded companies on January 14, according to the bank’s website, which cited the Israeli bank’s involvement in “construction activities in…
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News Palestinian Workers Cheer SodaStream and Scarlett Johansson — Occupation or No
“I can bring a million people who want to work here,” boasted Ahmed Nasser, taking a break from his job as a SodaStream assembly line worker. Nasser spoke to the Forward from SodaStream’s main production plant, which is located in the Mishor Adumim industrial park within the settlement of Ma’ale Adumim in the occupied West…
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