Green MP Chlöe Swarbrick defends 'river to the sea' chant used at pro-Palestine rally
3 years ago by Ilovethebomb to c/politics
Really, chloe?
Sorry, but you're wrong there. The translation tames things a bit, but the original slogan, along with the Hamas charter it's drawn from, call for the outright extermination of Israel.
And Hamas are miserable anti-Semitic goons that are an armed minority and do not represent the interests of most Palestinians.
Interestingly the phrase was originally used by Likud in 1977 in an election charter: “between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty”. If this phrase is a call to genocide the knife cuts both ways.
Saying that the country of Israel should not exist is not antisemitic.
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The slogan isn’t calling for a genocide, it’s calling for freedom for Palestinians. That isn’t anti-Semitic. It’s just bad faith to conflate Palestinian human rights with a genocide against Israelis. Human rights aren’t a zero-sum game, everyone can have them.
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