For centuries Hanukkah has traditionally celebrated the victory of the Maccabees over the Alexandrine Empire, although the real battle was between the orthodox Maccabees and the secular Jews favoring the social liberalism of the Greeks. The latter were the losers and the former rededicated the Temple by lighting the eternal flame. Miraculously the oil burned eight days, instead of the expected one day, and menorah candles are a lasting reminder of that victory for the the forces of conservatism
This rite born out of conflict remains a contentious holiday.
After eight years of Obama the far right galvanized the religious fundamentalists to accept Donald Trump as the Orange Jesus. They ignored his affairs, piss perversity, financial corruption , and bald-faced treason, and so many sins, since he backed the Zionist State of Israel to the hilt with the blessing of the Hassidim. The goy celebrated Hanukkah, serving tref from McDonalds. And no one cared, since Trump pledged his support to our influential ally in the Mideast.
Go Zionist death squads.
Get revenge on the Palestinians, even though no one of them or their brethren had operated the ovens at Dachau, unlike the Sonder Commando burning their kindred souls.
Kill all the Palestinians on Hanukkah to bring back the Messiah.
What a Hanukkah Cabal.