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Line 106: Some politicians and advocacy groups such as the [[Anti-Defamation League]]<ref name="Hernandez 2023 v887" /> and [[American Jewish Committee]]<ref name="Hernandez 2023 v887"/> consider the phrase to be [[Antisemitism|antisemitic]], [[hate speech]] and incitement to genocide,<ref name="Hernandez 2023 v887" /><ref name="Malik-2021" /><ref>{{cite web |last1=Mitnick |first1=Joshua |title=A revised Hamas charter will moderate its stance toward Israel — slightly |work=[[The Los Angeles Times]] |url=https://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-hamas-charter-20170501-story.html |access-date=29 October 2023 |date=1 May 2017 |quote=While that may be a tacit acknowledgment of Israel's existence, the revision stops well short of recognizing Israel and reasserts calls for armed resistance toward a 'complete liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea.'... "Hamas is attempting to fool the world, but it will not succeed," said a statement from the Israeli prime minister's office. "Daily, Hamas leaders call for genocide of all Jews and the destruction of Israel."}}</ref> suggesting that it denies the right of Jews for self-determination in their [[ancestral home]]land,<ref name="Hernandez 2023 v887" /> or advocates for their removal or extermination.<ref name="Eichner-2023" /><ref name="Reuters-2023">{{Cite news |date=11 October 2023 |title='From the river to the sea' prompts Vienna to ban pro-Palestinian protest |language=en |work=[[Reuters]] |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/from-river-sea-prompts-vienna-ban-pro-palestinian-protest-2023-10-11/ |access-date=28 October 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Angelos |first1=James |title=Israel-Hamas war cuts deep into Germany's soul |url=https://www.politico.eu/article/israel-hamas-war-germany-germany-berlin/ |date=21 October 2023 |work=[[Politico Europe]] |quote="Hamas' ideology of extermination against everything Jewish is also having an effect in Germany," said the Central Council of Jews in Germany, the country's largest umbrella Jewish organization."}}</ref> Such critics of the slogan claim that it has been explicitly used to call for the land to be placed entirely under Arab rule at the cost of the [[State of Israel]] and its Jewish citizens.<ref name="ij1" /><ref name="Patterson2010">{{cite book |first=David |last=Patterson |title=A Genealogy of Evil: Anti-Semitism from Nazism to Islamic Jihad |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lMLmK-fmf8kC&pg=PA249 |date=18 October 2010 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |location=Cambridge, England |isbn=978-1-139-49243-0 |page=249 |quote=... except the boundary indicated in their slogan 'From the river to the sea', which stipulated the obliteration of the Jewish state.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Muslih |first=Muhammad |date=1990-07-01 |title=Towards Coexistence: An Analysis of the Resolutions of the Palestine National Council |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.2307/2537386 |journal=[[Journal of Palestine Studies]] |publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]] |location=New York City |language=en |volume=19 |issue=4 |pages=3–29 |doi=10.2307/2537386 |jstor=2537386 |issn=0377-919X |quote=PLO and its leaders remained at bottom committed to Israel's destruction}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Trigano |first=Shmuel |date=2019 |title=Deconstructing the Three Stages of the Nakba Myth |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26801117 |journal=Jewish Political Studies Review |volume=30 |issue=3/4 |pages=45–54 |jstor=26801117 |issn=0792-335X |quote=Meanwhile the endeavor to exterminate the Jews and destroy the state}}</ref>. ADL regional director Jonah Steinberg stated that from the time of the [[1948 Arab–Israeli War]] and thereafter “there was a catchphrase of ‘pushing the Jews into the sea’ and the phrase, ‘from the river to the sea’ echoes that trope in a menacing way.”<ref>{{Cite news |last=Scales |first=Maggie |date=November 10, 2023 |title='From the river to the sea': What does the common pro-Palestinian chant mean? |work=The Boston Globe |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/11/10/world/from-the-river-to-the-sea-meaning/}}</ref> On 9 November 2023, [[Harvard University]] president ===Response to criticism=== | |||