Sukkah Desecration on Campuses Reflect the Much Greater Desecration in Gaza

JVL Introduction

In the autumn harvest festival of Sukkot Jews build Sukkahs, temporary dwellings hung with fruit and other produce. In 2024 Jewish students on many US campuses built solidarity Sukkahs to contrast the voluntary abundant temporary dwellings of the festival with the forced miserable tents marked by hunger and disease that are being endured by so many Gazans forced from their homes. Tents that provide no shelter from bombs and shells and too often go up in flames consuming their inhabitants.

On many campuses the university managers had solidarity Sukkahs torn down to appease a pro-Israel chorus. It seems perverse to attempt to combat antisemitism by desecrating Jewish symbols.

As Rabbi Rosen concludes, these attacks “must strengthen our resolve to do everything we can to create a real and lasting shelter – by finally bringing this heinous genocide to an end.”

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This article was originally published by Shalom Rav on Mon 21 Oct 2024. Read the original here.