“From the River to the Sea” Is a Call for Democracy and Equality
“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is not a hateful slogan or a call for violence — it’s a call for democracy and equal rights for all.
A pro-Palestine activist holds up a sign reading “From the river to the sea Palestine will be free” during a protest inside Charing Cross railway station to call for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza on November 4, 2023 in London, United Kingdom. (Mark Kerrison / In Pictures via Getty Images)
The House of Representatives just passed a resolution censuring Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, a Michigan Democrat. The resolution is full of outrageous lies: it accuses her of justifying Hamas’s atrocities on October 7 but, tellingly, doesn’t quote a single complete sentence from her statement on those attacks — which in fact condemned both Hamas and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) for targeting civilians.
The resolution also condemns Tlaib for blaming the October 17 hospital bombing on Israel, when the United States and Israel instead claimed the hospital was hit by a failed rocket launched by Palestinian Islamic Jihad — never mind that the facts are still very much in dispute. (It’s also undeniable that the IDF has bombed hospitals and ambulances since then.)
The most interesting part of the resolution, though, is the condemnation of her defense of the slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”:
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