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Green MP Chlöe Swarbrick defends 'river to the sea' chant used at pro-Palestine rally (www.rnz.co.nz)

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Really, chloe?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn't make it right for anyone to say though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Personally, I don't use it, because I've heard from some Jewish people I know that they find it offensive or alienating. But for me I'm not bothered with pro-Palestinian activists using it either.