WorldNetDaily By Bob Unruh
Advisory board claims ‘from the river to the sea’ used by various groups and has multiple meanings.
A board assembled by Meta, Facebook’s parent company, has adopted the anti-Israel position that the slogan that long has threatened the very existence of the Middle East democracy, “from the river to the sea,” actually is not “hate speech.”
That means the call for the destruction of Israel is welcomed on the corporation’s software platforms, including Facebook.
The Meta board confirmed that the slogan expresses “solidary with Palestinians” but doesn’t necessarily call for violence “or exclusion,” even though that’s has been the express intent of the slogan for decades.
Meta said its advisory board found, “In upholding Meta’s decisions to keep up the content, the majority of the board notes the phrase has multiple meanings and is used by people in various ways and with different intentions.”
The report from Meta did admit that a “minority” on the board was concerned “that because the phrase appears in the 2017 Hamas charter and given the October 7 attacks, its use in a post should be presumed to constitute glorification of a designated entity, unless there are clear signals to the contrary.”
It has been the Anti-Defamation league that has confirmed the phrase “inherently” calls for the elimination of Israel.
“It is fundamentally a call for a Palestinian state extending from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, territory that includes the state of Israel, which would mean the dismantling of the Jewish state. It is an antisemitic charge denying the Jewish right to self-determination, including through the removal of Jews from their ancestral homeland,” the organization has confirmed.
The anti-Israel activists at the Council on American-Islamic Relations praised the decision, and in the course of its statement redefined it.
The organization said it “welcomed a decision by Meta’s (Facebook’s parent company) oversight board that the use of the phrase ‘from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,’ which some activists say they use to call for Israelis and Palestinians to live together in one state with equal rights, does not inherently constitute hate speech.”
Actually, for Israelis and Palestinians “to live together in one state with equal rights,” already is the status quo in Israel, which does not deprive residents of rights because of their beliefs…
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