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Maj posted with citation on the previous page.
http://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2023/11/2/from-the-river-to-the-sea-what-does-the-palestinian-slogan-really-mean
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/31/from-the-river-to-the-sea-where-does-the-slogan-come-from-and-what-does-it-mean-israel-palestine
The first two results when I Google the phrase also show many don't think it's racist, many do, it's ambiguous. It doesn't contain anything that is racist without context, there are no slurs, no outright calls anything other than freedom and a place. I do listen to the people who say it's antisemitic, I wouldn't be chanting it anywhere, McDonald as a public figure should've been more aware and said something else. You're still wrong too compare it to "no black in the union jack" as the next line chanted includes both a racial slur and a direct call for sending them back, no-one claims that isn't racist, there's no ambiguity, words taken alone without context are racist within it. Using the analogy of changing a word within it (not even the slur, which you completely gloss over) and chanting it at a BLM rally is a strawman arguement, even the situation is different.