Comment by hotdogscout
2 years ago
>"From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" isn't a genocidal slogan.
It is. Austria and Germany criminalize it because it is genocidal.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_river_to_the_sea
>If you ask anyone who chants it, none of them would say its about genocide, that's ridiculous
This isn't how you find out if someone is supporting genocide. Far right Israelis also claim "From river to sea" is not about genocide. Both the far right Israelis and Palestine supporters chanting "From river to sea" are supporting genocide.
We can argue about nonsense like this for hours but in the end a real genocide is taking place in Gaza.
No amount of trying to criminalize pro-Palestine slogans and banning protests is going to end the Palestinian cause for a free Palestine.
Hard to keep up when you change subjects whenever you can't defend your claims, but ok, let's talk about the genocide claim.
What's happening in Gaza is not a genocide under ICRC definitions. The death toll in Gaza is significantly lower than other conflicts in the middle east, eg. Syria.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_genocide_accusat...
What a specious argument; “genocide” doesn’t have a threshold on the number of deaths required. And Syria was a completely different situation (though an unspeakable crime at atrocious proportions).
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