"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 ...

A 1902 map of Palestine. The Print Collector/Getty Images. ... None of this is to say that the phrase “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” doesn’t have multiple interpretations.

The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a resolution Tuesday condemning the motto “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” as antisemitic.. The symbolic measure passed ...

A demonstrator holds a sign reading "From the river to the sea" at a Freedom for Palestine protest in Berlin on Nov. 4. Sean Gallup/Getty Images hide caption ...

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 ...

With the start of the Israel-Hamas war, chants like “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” and “Am Yisrael Chai” are often heard at pro-Palestine and pro-Israel rallies, as ...

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 ...

That helps explains why the call for a free Palestine “from the river to the sea” became popular in the protest chants of the First Intifada, or Palestinian uprising, from 1987 to 1992. Notably, Hamas ...

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 ...