The UK’s politico-media class loves a bit of pearl-clutching over the phrase “from the river to the sea”. It’s treated as ‘hate’ and a ‘call for the destruction of Israel’. Except when it comes from the Israeli regime, of course. Then it’s fine and dandy. ‘Nothing to see here, move along’…

So with Benjamin Netanyahu’s latest, it’s far from the first time he and other colonisers have used it, but as shameless as could be.

I’m guessing this version of “from the river to the sea” will get zero media attention. https://t.co/It7Iz95eNt

— Assal Rad (@AssalRad) June 29, 2026

Israel’s chants not regarded as hateful

When Palestinians and their supporters chant, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”, it’s a call of hope for liberation from oppression, land theft and genocidal colonisation, with equal rights for all who live there.

When Israel and its supporters say, “From the river to the sea”, they mean: “We’re going to keep stealing land until there’s nothing left to steal and if you get in our way we’ll kill you, you sub-human POS”.

But only the former is ‘hate’, or even worth mentioning, in the morally-diseased and collaborator-infested hellscape that used to be Britain.

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