• crapwittyname@feddit.uk
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    1 day ago

    I’m failing to see how the phrase “from the river to the sea”, alone, can be considered a call to destroy Israel, let alone unequivocally genocidal. It seems like there’s a lot of top-down reasoning required to arrive at that conclusion. I don’t think there is genocidal intent on the deployment of those words on that woman’s top. I think you assume too much. Israeli leaders, on the other hand, use unmistakably genocidal language. And then they also commit genocide. You don’t get to both sides this issue with a very tenuous argument that this popular slogan is a call to genocide.

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      1 day ago

      This is like saying “I don’t see how the phrase “white power” alone can be considered a call to kill black people?” 🤣

      It is a call to destroy/eliminate Israel. Don’t try to pretend it’s not.

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        21 hours ago

        No, it isn’t like that. Because “white power” is used exclusively by extremists, whereby “from the river to the sea” is not. Do you see the difference there?