Honor the Martyrs — Free Palestine

Honor the Martyrs — Free Palestine — Berkeley — July 17, 2024

It was deeply moving being with perhaps 100 or more fellow Caring People in Berkeley, California last evening! The Vigil — before it got dark was a spiritual — unifying experience, challenging each of us individually and collectively to Unite among both our similarities and differences.

The Genocide is accelerating! It has been accelerating more and more in the many months since October 7th! We who were there listened, cried, pondered, and stretched in our Community of this Moment with Deep Sadness, Anger, and Hope!

Our Facilitator spoke and then introduced his three daughters, each Unique and Powerful in their Youth! This Family — losing their Own Family in Gaza and perhaps Beyond, while helping us Move Ahead in our Long Effort for Justice — and a Lasting, Just Peace!

Mama Ganuush spoke in Their own Powerful Way — struggling at times as they were Triggered — in part through seeing the Pictures of the Few There — Few of Many who have Needlessly Died over 76 Years — and More — the Recent Martyrs — the latest of an Ongoing Story — a Horrific Story that I, as a Jew, couldn’t and…