“Conversations around Israel/Palestine are changing in Jewish communities across the globe,” said rabbi and author Abby Stein. “It’s about time.”

Human rights advocates and journalists applaudedthe Israeli newspaper_Haaretz_for its “unprecedented” cover story Thursdayone featuring the photos and stories of 67 Palestinian children killed in the latest bombardment campaign by the Israel Defense Forces.

“This is the price of war,” the headline read.

The article came a day after the_New York Times_published its own extensive account of the youngest victims of Israel’s most recent 11-day offensive, in which the IDF frequently targeted residential areas of Gaza, known as the world’s largest open-air prison.

Haaretz‘sfocus on the children killed in Gaza was especially noteworthy, said author and Brooklyn College professor Louis Fishman, considering the newspaper’s “readers also send their children to fight in Israel’s wars.”

“This is unprecedented,” Fishmantweeted.

While_Haaretz_leans to the center-left editorially, Israeli’s mainstream media has traditionally not covered the Palestinian casualties of the IDF’s military campaigns and the Israeli government’s violent policies, said journalist Khaled Diab.

As Diab tweeted, previous attempts by organizations in Israel to publicize the human cost of the IDF’s assaults have been repressed.

Haaretz‘sfront page represented “a bold move,"tweetedjournalist Saima Mohsin, adding, “Will it make a difference?”

Others on social media took note of the unprecedented cover story.

“Conversations around Israel/Palestine are changing in Jewishcommunities across the globe,"tweetedrabbi and author Abby Stein. “It’s abouttime.”

As_Jewish Currents_editor-in-chief Arielle Angellwrotelast week in_The Guardian_, since Israel’s 2014 50-day assault on Gaza, which killed more than 2,100 Palestinians, rights advocates have “seen the growth of a small but committed Jewish anti-occupation movement [and] the last week and a half have brought an even larger circle of the community to a place of reckoning.”

We’ve seen Jewishpoliticians,celebrities,rabbinical studentsand others speak up loudly for Palestine. We’ve seen a powerful display of solidarity fromJewish Google employees, asking their company to sever ties with the IDF. At_Jewish Currents,_the leftwing magazine where I am now editor-in-chief, we asked forquestions from readersstruggling to understand the recent violence. We’ve been deluged. These questions taken in aggregate paint a striking portrait of a community at a turning point.

In Israel the_Haaretz_front page appeared to touch a nerve, garnering at least oneoutraged responsefrom Oded Revivi, head of the Efrat Regional Council in an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, who said_Haaretz_’s article was evidence that “people pity the wrong mothers.”

On social media, Mairav Zonszein of the International Crisis Group said rather than the “price of war,” the_Haaretz_front page specificallyshowsthe price of “Israel’s “continued military rule, dispossession, discrimination, andviolence.”

by Julia Conley, staff writer

This article has been republished by Common Dreams under a Creative Commons Licence.