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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Just because that’s what Hamas wants doesn’t mean it’s what all Palestinians want, and just because they’ve co-opted “from the river to the sea” to mean the eradication of Israel and the Jewish people, does not mean that anyone calling for it wants the same as they do. It’s a call for Palestinian freedom, first and foremost, something a two-state solution would offer.
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I generally respect your posts and viewpoint even though we’re on opposite ends, but I have to call this part out, and I hope you see where I’m coming from and re-think what you said.
I find it absolutely asinine that Jewish people are just supposed to look past anyone yelling “from the river to sea”, as some sort of call for Palestinian freedom, when the slogan in and of itself calls for the eradication of Israel and slaughter of Jewish people. Hamas themselves have blatantly said they want to kill all the Jews and have no interest in peace.
Why the hell should that statement not be taken at face value? And how is that statement being repeated out in the open not considered hateful?
Most of the people yelling that slogan at these rallies can’t even tell you which river or which sea, but have no problem yelling it. Their knowledge of this conflict is what they learned on TikTok earlier that day, and they’re just going around chanting destructive slogans.
This is similar to the disastrous congressional hearings with the Ivy League heads from Harvard and Penn. They couldn’t even acknowledge that anyone yelling genocide against Jews is hate speech, and it “depends on the context”. Imagine if that same question was asked about black people or the LGBT2Q+. I can bet my savings her answer would not have been the same.
Accepting this kind of stuff is what has bred anti-semitism.
While I have no issue with Palestinians or others championing their cause, I find it insane that we should just accept people yelling “from the river to the sea” as some sort of righteous chant, when this is the same rhetoric and ideology being spewed by terrorist organizations.
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