We had the honor of taking part in the alternative torch-lighting protest ceremony for justice and equality of the “Yesh Gvul” movement. Omri Evron and Solafa Makhoul, co-coordinators of the Peace Partnership, lit torches at the ceremony that has become a cornerstone for the principled left in Israel.

Recently it seems like we’ve been enveloped in darkness, after two years of wars, genocide, and the entrenchment of apartheid under a fascist government. It is precisely in the face of this darkness that we insist on lighting a flame of hope and struggle for justice.

The Peace Partnership does not merely aim to restore the peace camp that existed before; rather, in the face of the darkness of genocide, fascism, and despair, it has helped illuminate and rebuild the camp anew: on the basis of genuine Arab-Jewish partnership in the struggle for mutual liberation. A partnership that recognizes the structural inequality within an occupying society. And a partnership in struggle—because only through a struggle that is not afraid to illuminate the truth can we build a just society.