This is happening to Rep. Rashida Tlaib right now and it’s honestly just really fucked up and gross and disheartening. People want to detract from Palestinians being slaughtered because they don’t like the phrase “from the river, to the sea.”
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The original 1977 platform of the Likud party proclaimed “between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty,” and I suspect that most Zionists figure the “river to the sea” phrasing is the same sentiment from the other side.
This might also be the origin of the Zionist notion that the Palestinians want to “drive the Jews into the sea,” since Likud does (or at least did) want to drive the Palestinians across the river into Jordan.
Someone I know and respected has accused me of using a Hamas slogan to call on the destruction of Israel which is so bad faith and so disappointing. Literally millions of people around the world are calling for freedom but they draw the line at a chant, not what’s being protested. That’s fucked.
I’m sorry, but I honestly think that anyone who thinks the chant is a violent threat is simply Islamophobic and / or white supremacist. There just isn’t another option.
Absolutely. They see the existence of Palestinians as an affront to Israel — an admission that they see no vision for Palestinians on the land and disgustingly dehumanizing
Rashida is most principled member of so called squad, I'm not closely following everything she does but considering attacks she is always facing it's no doubt she is doing right thing, I saw video of her being at one of Trump's rallies calling them all crazy while being pushed outside
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It's BLM and however many others all over again.