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Source: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17908/hamas-british-universities-jews
"From the River to the Sea": Hamas Explains What British Students Want
(Gatestone Institute) Col. Richard Kemp - When I arrived at the University of Essex in the UK to give a talk last week, I was met by protesters chanting: "Free, free Palestine - from the river to the sea." What river? What sea? I doubt many of them knew. But they were demanding an end to the Jewish national homeland - tearing down the State of Israel and replacing it with an Islamic state. As Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar explained at a recent conference in Gaza: "The full liberation of Palestine from the sea to the river" is "the heart of Hamas' strategic vision." He meant from the River Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea, in other words, the entire territory of the State of Israel. Those arguing that the Palestinian Authority has a different agenda from Hamas are wrong. The PA shares the same "river to the sea" doctrine for the destruction of Israel that British university students find so attractive. This is a constant theme in official PA media, publications and school textbooks. In an era where opposition to racism and discrimination against all other peoples is rightly at the top of university authorities' and students' priorities, why does this not apply to Jews? Calls for the violent erasure of the one and only Jewish state are not only tolerated but are actively encouraged by some professors, faculty bodies and students union leaders. The writer, a former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, was chairman of the UK's national crisis management committee, COBRA. (Gatestone Institute)