" Participants at the walkout, many of whom wore face masks to conceal their identities, chanted phrases such as “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” “There is only one solution, intifada revolution” – a term historically referring to uprisings in Palestinian territories – and “Resistance is justified when people are occupied.”
Another organizer, a member of SJP at UCLA who was also granted anonymity for safety reasons, said the chants at the walkout were not intended to be antisemitic, adding that a Jewish organization that supports Palestinian liberation was involved in planning the walkout.
“Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism. All our chants are never rooted in the direct harm of any race group or people,” they said. “It’s about the liberation and self-determination, self-realization of Palestinian people, and the misinterpretation of such is just a misunderstanding of the Palestinian cause.”
“From the river to the sea” is a direct call for ethnic cleansing of 9 million people. It’s the dumbest thing to catch on for bored students. Anti zionism in that form is antisemitism. Anti israel government isn’t.
I get why the Zionist project would want people to think so, because they require that Palestinians be on some sort of Antisemitic jihad to justify keeping them in the biggest concentration camp in the world, but it is most certainly not what you said. Sorry!
He does but I suspect the whole point of the slogan is that a lot of Americans and in particular college students aren’t going to realize the implications of it.
Totally agree. Its as stupid as racist Americans insisting that their Confederacy imagery is “heritage, not hate”. Its a willful ignorance of the clear intent.
i honestly have never heard anything out of bakes that wasn’t a twitter slogan so i doubt he can find Palestine or Israel on a map, let alone know where the river or the sea are.
But it’s good. Otherwise there would be no one to balance the awful Israelis who want to “flatten gaza”
Al Jazeera are reporting that cease fire for hostages are “rapidly progressing”. I hope there’s some truth to it. I think Qatar have a lot at stake here being Hamas financier and hopefully they want to make the optics look better which would be beneficial for everyone
