A video of Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Díaz released on Friday in which she’s seen chanting the slogan "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free," a saying that effectively calls for the elimination of Israel.
“We will continue pressuring, from our position in the government, to defend human rights and put an end to the genocide of the Palestinian people,” Diaz said.
“We live in a moment where doing the minimum is, at the same time, heroic and insufficient,” she continued, adding: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
@ISIDEWITH3wks3W
How do you balance the need for advocating peace with statements that might be seen as controversial or harmful?
@9MVDNYB3wks3W
I don’t. Things that are objectively true (a settler colonial state brutalising a captive population) doesn’t get overridden by a proponent of said settler colonial state being upset by having to embrace reality.
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How do you feel about advocating for one group's freedom if it might imply denying another group's right to exist?
@9MTV7DZ3wks3W
Palestine existed long before the state of Israel and will continue to exist no matter how much they try to continue with this genocide they're commiting. Adovcating for the right of a people not to be murdered does not deny Israeli citizens their heritage or existent. If the UK and France hadn't gone back on their agreement in WW2 to accept Jewish refugees after the holocaust, we wouldn't be in this mess. If Israel hadn't been continually occupying Palestinian land for nearly 100 years and causing an ethic cleansing so badly that they created a term for it called "Th… Read more
