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From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free
Why do right wingers say this chant is antisemitic?
I did look at a map. Gaza is by the sea, and west bank is by the river. Gaza and west bank will be free, doesn't make a great slogan. Frome the river to the sea, Palestine will be free, makes a great slogan
How is that antisemitic?
I don't know why you are getting so defensive and upset. Also not sure why you think I'm trying to achieve something. Is anyone who defends Palestine some sort of shadowy sinister bearded brown Hamas supporter?
Christ, go touch some grass.
The slogan is used by many pro palestinian supporters, and I'm trying understand why so offensive or is this yet another case of culture bullying by pro Israeli zealots.
And your German example makes no sense. Are you comparing people who want an end to the genocide of an entire people to far right German nazis?
Do go out and touch some grass...
Because they want a reason to be mad.
Because they want to equate zionism and Judaism.
Because they're attracted to children.
It's not "from the river to the sea, murder all Jews", though, now is it?
Seems a bit of a leap, what you're saying there?
I never said I used it or made any assumptions. This is how some see its inference, which answers the posters question.
You said "it is". And it's still a huge leap to infer that the call for freedom of Palestine would require the mass murder of anyone.
The chant doesn't say anything about harming anyone, and it doesn't say that Palestine is/shall be the only territory between the river and the sea.
This whole furore about the chant is devoid of logic.
Pretty pathetic pedantism. You need more things to entertain yourself with my friend.
It's not Lebensraum though. Palestinians are literally being oppressed.
Why are you likening the Palestinian struggle for freedom from oppression to the genocidal machinations of the third Reich?
Israel is the settler here, so it's more like the resistance against Nazi occupation.
OK, well, "all lives matter" doesn't mean "black lives don't matter" BUT we all know what they actually mean. It's called a dogwhistle. "from the river to the season" is also a dogwhistle, because the term comes from Palestinian organizations and people that want to wipe Israel off the map. You COULD just say "one-state" but that doesn't have the fun wink-wink that a dogwhistle has.
that isn't what the linked article says lol.