As you offer a bit of water during the annual water ceremony in-gathering service, we invite you to also place an empty paper cup next to the congregational vessel in solidarity with Palestinians. UUs across America are taking this prayerful action in recognition of and solidarity with the 2 million Palestinians in Gaza who are denied potable water by Israel, a war crime that is enabled by the United States. Palestinian civilians are dying en masse of starvation, thirst, preventable disease, and weapons of war. This summer, the General Assembly of the UUA passed the “Solidarity with Palestinians” Action of Immediate Witness, calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza. This is a ritual of prayer offered by UUJME (Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East).
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