It is often maintained that the slogan ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’ expresses a genocidal and antisemitic intention. But this is generally not the case. On the contrary, the slogan has historically been used to articulate a wide variety of political strategies for Palestinian liberation.
Amos Goldberg
Professor of Holocaust History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His book on Holocaust remembrance will be published in Israel by Resling very soon (in Hebrew).