Emergency Seder in the Streets to Stop Arming Israel
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Emergency Seder in the Streets to Stop Arming Israel
An invitation/call from Jewish Voice for Peace, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, and IfNotNow:
This year is different from all other years.
This Passover, after six months of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, funded and armed by the US, we call on all Jewish people of conscience to take escalated action.
Please invite everyone you know to an Emergency Seder in the Streets for Gaza on Tuesday, April 23 at 5:30pm with JVP, JFREJ and IfNotNow. We will bring thousands together in NYC, demanding the US stop arming Israel.
The Israeli government has killed over 33,000 Palestinians, including 14,000 children, decimated Gaza’s healthcare system, and rendered almost 2 million Palestinians homeless and starving. But this is not Israel’s war alone. The US is still sending more money and weapons to the Israeli military. The US is still defunding UNRWA, the largest single provider of humanitarian aid to Gaza.
All throughout history, Jews have adapted the Passover seder to meet the conditions in which they are happening, such as with the Freedom Seder of 1969, when, on the anniversary of the assisination of Dr. King, Arthur Waskow honored the holiday through transforming it into a collective commitment to upend white supremacy. An active genocide being carried out in our names as Jews demands that we adapt our sacred tradition yet again, take to the streets, and do everything we can to prevent more death.
We are in a profoundly narrow place. This year’s holiday of liberation urges every one of us to step up our commitment to the liberation of the Palestinian people. It urges us to reclaim the thousands-year old Jewish tradition from a 76-year old apartheid state, and to return to the understanding that all people are created b’tselem Elohim, in the image of God. None of us are free until all of us are free.
Notes: Please RSVP at jvp.org/nycsederinthestreets and the location will be sent. Out of respect for those being starved in Gaza, there will be no Shulchan Orech or festive meal. We will be sitting on the ground for much of the action; there will be limited seating for those needing chairs. Please wear your ceasefire shirt if you have one and wear black if you don’t. ALL ARE WELCOME.
