Eetta Prince-Gibson is the Israel editor for Moment magazine, the former Editor-in-Chief of the Jerusalem Report, and a regular contributor to Haaretz, +61J, The Forward, Foreign Policy, and other international publications. She lives in Jerusalem.
Eetta Prince-Gibson
By Eetta Prince-Gibson
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Opinion How the Left’s ‘Yes, But’ Mourning for Slain Israelis Actually Hurts Palestinians
The horrifying murder of Dafna Meir, an Israeli who was stabbed to death on January 17 while fighting off a Palestinian assailant in her West Bank home, posed a moral and political test to both the right and the left in Israel. Judging from my social media feeds and email inbox, it was a test…
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Opinion Haim Gouri’s Rejection of Zionist Art Prize Restored My Faith in Zionism
Haim Gouri has won just about every literary prize that Israel has to offer. Yet, in my eyes, he made his strongest, most Zionist statement on January 5, when news broke that he had refused to accept a prize for “Zionist Works of Art,” awarded by the Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sport. The award…
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Opinion What Benjamin Netanyahu Could Have Said After Tel Aviv Terror
The shattered glass windows had not yet been replaced. The scars of the bullet holes were still visible. Just a day earlier, on Friday afternoon, at that very spot, at the Simta Bar in central Tel Aviv, an Arab citizen of Israel had sprayed his automatic rifle into a crowded pub, killing two innocent young…
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Israel News Israel’s Russians Show Pride by Openly Celebrating ‘Novy God’ on New Year’s Eve
Tonight, Tanya Shmulevitch will openly celebrate the Russian New Year’s Eve for the first time since immigrating to Israel as a child nearly two decades ago. The 28-year-old Shmulevitch is joining a growing group of Russian speakers who are defying a taboo against marking the Novy God holiday, which many Israeli incorrectly believe is a…
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Opinion How Can I Fight the Fear That’s Eroding My Values?
The fear is getting to me, gnawing away at who I am and who I want to be. I think of myself as a person with multiple identities and roles. I am a wife, a daughter, a sister, a friend, a professional, an academic, an activist. I try to hold to a clear set of…
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Opinion 4 Times Israelis and Palestinians Stuck Up for One Another
As the latest round of violence unfolds, Israelis and Palestinians seem to mostly be interacting in bloody, enraged spasms of appalling brutality. Quickly uploaded to social media feeds, horrific videos provide graphic proof of just how awful humans can be to one another. And yet, those aren’t the only stories. Amid the violence and hatred…
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Opinion How Israel Can — and Should — Help Refugees
The kerchief-covered mother, a refugee desperately holding her children, reminds me of my aunt as she desperately held her child, wandering over the ruins of Europe. The refugees begging frantically to board the trains remind me of the relatives I never knew, who boarded trains to their death. For us as Jews, the Holocaust always…
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Israel News African Asylum Seeker Stays Positive in Israeli Detention Facility
(Haaretz) — Hassan Shakur has made a deliberate decision not to be negative or bitter. He will be optimistic, he says, despite the horrific “times of misery,” as he refers to them, in his homeland, Darfur. Despite a gruesome experience in Cairo and then the escape to Israel. And despite the racism he has encountered in…
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