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Nov 15, 2023, 8:16 PM

A letter to a ‘pro-Palestinian protester’

Credit: Shmulik Almany

Dear 'pro-Palestinian protester,' How we rallied for Israel in DC says everything you need to know about who is on the side of justice, freedom, and human rights…and who is not. Our gathering for Israel in DC was one of unity,...

Aug 7, 2022, 8:25 PM

‘Us’ versus ‘them’

Hundreds of rockets fired by Gaza-based terror group Palestinian Islamic Jihad are currently raining down on Israeli civilian communities, leaving many Israelis with no choice but to huddle in bomb shelters for days on end. Sirens, red alerts, big...

Mar 14, 2022, 2:53 PM

A letter to Jewish college students in the States

Jewish college students in the States: even in your silencing, your erasure, I see you, I hear you, I feel you. You, who are constantly being slapped in the face with Israel’s narrative flipped on its head through accusations of...

Sep 5, 2018, 12:03 AM

I Love Peace and Freedom. That Is Why I Am Joining the Israeli Defense Forces.

Often, when I tell people in the United States that I am going to join the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) as a lone soldier, they are stunned and speechless. Through years of experience, I have become familiar with the...

Feb 15, 2018, 8:27 PM

Visiting Ramallah

Illustrative: Young Palestinians smoke hookahs and play cards at the Sultan coffee shop in the West Bank city of Ramallah, September 11, 2011. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

I saw a vibrant city, one like any other except for the misplaced, unjustified hatred lining its foundations

Jan 24, 2017, 9:39 PM

A Gap in Intersectionality at the Women’s March

I went to the Boston Women’s March. I went to the Boston Women’s March on a gorgeous, sun-drenched day that smelled of Spring. Hundreds of thousands of women and men poured to the Boston Common from every corner of Massachusetts....

Jul 21, 2016, 8:23 PM

Here’s a L’chaim

Here's a l'chaim to sandy toes and salty hair; to watching the scenery outside a bus window change from lush greenery to barren wasteland; here's to barely sleeping in a bunk bed in an overcrowded hostel, to stumbling through...

Nov 11, 2015, 10:29 AM

SJP’s Black-White Prism

Common sense tells us that the world is not black and white. However, those who preach anti-Israel sentiment see this planet, quite literally, through a black-white prism. To these self-proclaimed human rights activists, all of the world’s troubles are...

Oct 27, 2015, 3:04 AM

This Planet Has Become A Paradox

This planet has become a paradox, in which right is wrong, good is evil, and silence is a course of action. The past few weeks have proven to be horrifically violent for the tiny Jewish state. Palestinian-Arab terrorists have made a...

Aug 5, 2015, 7:06 PM

Reclaiming Zionism

Heading back to college soon to face the unbearable anti-Israel climate and watch Jewish friends hide their identity

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About Me

Lilia Gaufberg is an artist and a Digital Research Analyst at the international and non-partisan Israel education organization StandWithUs. She grew up in Boston, MA, and made Aliyah in 2018. She served in the Israel Defense Forces' COGAT unit as a lone soldier. She recently moved back to the United States, and currently resides in New York.

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