In the days since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack and Israel's military response, some Palestinian rights advocates have returned to a common refrain: "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free ...

When the Israeli ...

Look at the map below. The Jordan River is on the east (i.e., the right, for those of you who took Woke Geography). The Mediterranean Sea is on the west (i.e., on the left). In between is a land ...

Been stuck in Jordan for days trying to cross back to #Palestine. Israel is said to have limited the number of #Palestinians who cross back into the West Bank to 4000 a day! Thousands have tried ...

That slogan is, of course, “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” It has reverberated across college campuses and urban centers, cited endlessly in newspapers and news broadcasts.

The slogan refers to the territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea — which includes the state of Israel — and is often followed by a second clause: “Palestine will be free.” ...

Recently, a guest column accused student protestors of hate speech for their use of the phrase “from the river to the sea.” To clarify, that phrase is much older than Hamas and has historically been ...

The Jordan River winds for 200-plus miles to the east of Israel and the occupied West Bank, while the Mediterranean glitters to the west. But a phrase about the space in between — “from the ...

The historical Jordan River today is little better than a sluggish polluted stream. Due to the necessity of controlling the water levels of the sea of the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee) and also due to ...

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As with all watersheds, the river we see on the surface is only one part of a wider basin that, in the case of the Jordan River, is about the size of Turkey (almost 19,000 square kilometers). This ...