More and more American Jews are dissenting when it comes to Israel support, and some are getting excommunicated for doing so (and one even lost an eye for it, without any support from her government). And an important group in that slender constellation of dissent, Jews Say No, is circulating a prayer for the first night of Chanukah, which begins on Wednesday night, December 1:
Dear Friends and Family,
As we usher in the holiday of Chanukah,
we ask each of us to light a candle during the first night and recite:
“WE ARE LIGHTING
THIS CANDLE
ON THE FIRST NIGHT
OF CHANUKAH
TO RE-DEDICATE OURSELVES
TO THE STRUGGLE
FOR PEACE, JUSTICE,
AND DIGNITY
FOR THE PALESTINIAN
PEOPLE.”
(Note too that JSN has a petition to support the Goldstone Report on the Gaza onslaught, which we will memorialize next month…)
