From the Rivers to the Seas
The Palestinian cause is uniting the world.
We often see defenders of Israel and the US mock young pro-Palestinian protesters. “They chant ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be Free,’ but they don’t even know what river and what sea they are talking about. They just want to feel good about themselves.”
The genocide deniers might have a point; Americans are notoriously ignorant of geography. But you know what? It doesn’t make any difference which river or which sea, because Palestine is now everywhere. It’s from all the rivers to all the seas, wherever people are oppressed by the empire centered in the US and spearheaded by Israel. That is why the world is rising in support of Palestine. The slogan they are chanting means the world is Palestine and will be free.
Another chant heard at pro-Palestine protests goes, “In our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinians.” Palestine’s resistance is inspiring people to fight for a better world, which is why the Empire is so desperate to demonize pro-Palestinians, including Jewish protestors, as terrorists, Jew-haters and dupes of Iran, Russia, China or Hamas.
The Palestinian flag has become the standard of people struggling for liberation in Latin America, in Africa, Haiti, and increasingly in Europe and North America. We see that…
