An open letter to those who seek to globalize the intifada:

For years now, you’ve tried to distort who we are and victimize us. Too often, your vicious chants have made us narrow ourselves and shrink to fit the size of your hate. Jewish adults wonder if they are welcome in their offices and neighborhoods. Jewish students wonder if they are worthy of love if on campuses around the world, people their age imply they are not worthy of life. Jewish children live in fear that their schools and houses of worship could be attacked on any day, even on a holiday. 

But, of course, this is your goal. But not your end-goal. Your end goal is ultimately to end all of Jewish life. Hate like this is not bounded. We have been here before. We recognize the signs. Subtle and incremental at first, the stereotypes soon morph into an unstoppable torrent of violence.

Know this. While you globalize hate, we will globalize light. We will light our Hanukkah candles more proudly than ever. Isaiah the prophet told us long ago to be a covenant people, to bring light, to go to the darkest places and “open eyes deprived of........

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