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.
Alon Confino
Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. His latest book is The Coast of Tantura: The Destruction of a Palestinian Village, 1948, published by Pardes Press in Israel in 2023.