To celebrate the holiday of Passover, San Francisco State University’s chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace hosted their first-ever “Liberation Seder” dinner in the Quad on Monday. Held on the grass beside Malcolm X Plaza, the event, which had a turnout of 12 attendees, was meant to serve as something of a traditional seder dinner — a ritual meal where the story of Passover, the Hebrews’ exodus from Egypt, is told and celebrated — but also as a place where participants focused on the connections they saw between the story of Passover and the current situation in Gaza.
“Passover is about the exodus of Jewish people from the land of Egypt,” said Abby Schwartz, JVP chapter president. “I was just kind of reflecting and realizing that a lot of the occupation in Palestine right now is kind of like using the exile of Jewish people to justify the exodus of another group of people. And so I think the meaning of the story of Passover can still be significant. And I think we can change the meanin...
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