The LAPD began infiltrating a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA on Thursday. At Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, police said they arrested 90 protesters.
Protesters at UCLA could be heard chanting, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” as police officers stood around them early Thursday. The decades-old rallying cry for Palestinian nationalist aspirations has been heard at demonstrations around the world and used on social media by those condemning Israel’s war in Gaza.
The slogan, which started gaining traction in the 1960s among Palestinian activists and intellectuals who were made refugees by the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, refers to the territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea — which includes the state of Israel. Some people have interpreted the phrase as a call to eradicate Israel. Critics, including some Jewish American organizations, say it constitutes antisemitic speech.
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