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Palestinians working in Israel receive a COVID-19 vaccine, south of Tulkarm in the West Bank on March 8, 2021. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Why is The Forward afraid of criticizing Israel’s discriminatory vaccine policy?

American Jews must recognize that Israel’s refusal to vaccinate all Palestinians under its rule is part of a supremacist policy that goes beyond the occupation.

By Sari Bashi April 1, 2021

Batya Ungar-Sargon speaking at a conference on racism and anti-Semitism at Bard College.

Reckless charges of anti-Semitism endanger Palestinians

The baseless claims made by The Forward’s Batya Ungar-Sargon at Bard College last week feed the dysfunction of the American debate on Israel-Palestine, making it more difficult for Palestinians and their allies to advocate for their rights. In a strange public controversy last week, Batya Ungar-Sargon, the Opinion Editor at The Forward, published a column claiming that…

By Amjad Iraqi October 16, 2019

Deputy Assistant to the President Sebastian Gorka seen wearing a medal from the Vitzei Rend, a Hungarian group listed by the State Department as having collaborated with the Nazis during World War II. (Fox News screenshot)

Ousted Trump adviser: Liberal Jews are betraying U.S.-Israel relations

The former White House aide with ties to an anti-Semitic organization says ‘liberal elements of the American Jewish population have basically become anti-Israeli.’ By Eli Clifton Recently-departed White House aide Sebastian Gorka never seemed to hold his tongue during his tenure as an adviser to President Donald Trump. He called criticism of the White House’s omission of Jewish…

By +972 Magazine August 30, 2017

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attend the Washington Peace Conference, September 2, 2010. (photo: Moshe Milner/GPO)

Hey Hillary Clinton, Palestinian lives matter too

You claim to support peace, but your words imply that Palestinian lives are less valuable to you than Israeli lives. I implore you: please do better. By Leanne Gale Dear Secretary Clinton, I have faith that you want to stand with the Jewish people as we work toward peace with the Palestinians. But your recent article…

By +972 Magazine November 15, 2015

Israeli artist sets Emily Dickinson poetry to music

While Israeli musicians composing original songs in English can fall into the trap of sounding unnatural, Ben Zur, a native of Nahariya, manages to incorporate Dickinson’s Victorian American poetry into her own distinctive indie-folk-pop sound. This article was originally published in The Forward. Listening to the new album “Robin” by acclaimed actress and singer-songwriter Efrat Ben…

By Mairav Zonszein June 2, 2012

Israeli paper runs controversial NY Times ‘pinkwashing’ piece

A couple of months ago, the New York Times run an op-ed titled “Israel and ‘Pinkwashing,’” which accused Israel of using the issue of gay rights to whitewash its deteriorating human rights record. Quote: In Israel, gay soldiers and the relative openness of Tel Aviv are incomplete indicators of human rights — just as in…

By Noam Sheizaf January 14, 2012

Knesset committee hearing on J Street (Photo: Mairav Zonszein)

Israeli parliamentary committee deems J Street “pro-Palestinian”

In a hearing called by the committee for Immigration Absorption and Diaspora Affairs on Wednesday to discuss the “breaking of norms regarding the relation of Diaspora Jewish communities to Israeli governments,” the 3-year old progressive American Jewish lobby J Street was probed and vilified as an anti-Zionist organization whose love for Israel is conditional and…

By Mairav Zonszein March 25, 2011

Israeli musician argues with Roger Waters over BDS

With no other argument against boycott, Kobi Oz reverts to old “no Palestinian partner” line Unfortunately, the Middle East isn’t the most stable place, so Israelis know we have to be very careful as we pursue peace. We could sign an agreement with a moderate regime and suddenly find ourselves confronted with a fundamentalist enemy.…

By Mairav Zonszein March 20, 2011