At demonstrations across the world in support of the Palestinians and in opposition to Israel's ongoing assault on Gaza, one refrain can regularly be heard: "From the river to the sea, Palestine ...

A demonstrator holds a placard with "From the River to the sea [Palestine] will be free" written on it during a protest on October 22, 2023 in Brussels, Belgium.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib is facing condemnation for endorsing the phrase "from the river to the sea." The phrase's anti-Israel origins and ongoing use by Israel's enemies make it offensive to many Jews.

In the days since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack and Israel's military response, some Palestinian rights advocates have returned to a common refrain: "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free ...

"Free Palestine from the river to the sea" is a call for the elimination of Israel in its entirety. Israel is home to nearly half of the world's Jewish population.

When pro-Palestinian protesters chant "Palestine from the river to the sea," they are really calling for the "extermination of the Jewish state," one former counterterrorism coordinator warned ...

Phrases like “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” and “Am Yisrael Chai” – Hebrew for “the people of Israel live” – are often heard echoing at rallies and protests on ...

Look at the map below. The Jordan River is on the east (i.e., the right, for those of you who took Woke Geography). The Mediterranean Sea is on the west (i.e., on the left). In between is a land ...

Sinwar envisioned a Palestine as Jew-free, from the river to the sea Let’s take a look at what the architect of Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre meant with the slogan. October 23, 2024 ...

In any case, even if one concludes that Palestine should extend from the river to the sea, it isn’t going to happen. Israel is too militarily strong and willing to use its might.

When we say from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free, we imagine a world free of Islamophobia, antisemitism, anti-Blackness, militarism, occupation and apartheid.