LETTER: Slogan is a call for ethnic cleansing

Mia Swart claims that the phrase, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is not inherently hateful (“Few university administrators truly honour academic freedom”, May 15).

However, in the original Arabic form, the phrase translates directly as, “From the water to the water, Palestine will be Arab”. That sounds like a clarion call for ethnic cleansing to me.

Clive Sindelman
Sandton

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