Reuven Roslyn argued on Quora that “the vast majority of those chanting ‘free Palestine’ are good natured individuals who do not wish extermination”, but that “the people who created the slogans do”. This was my answer.
His “answer” is filled with “If it were to come to its logical extreme.”, “When taken to its logical extreme.”. He takes the slogan “free Palestine” and imagines the most genocidal extreme version of it and then treats as the meaning. And he even admits it doesn’t describe real people.
Any and all slogans die under this “logical extreme” reasoning. A good example would be “Black lives matter”. Taken to its “logical extreme” it’s anti-white violence. You can do this to any three-word phrase on earth. It proves nothing about the phrase.
“Free Palestine” has an obvious plain reading: end the occupation, free Palestinians from military rule, statehood.
“Jews were expelled from Arab countries after 1948” True, but what does this have to do with Palestine and Palestinians? “Jews wouldn’t be welcomed back to Iraq/Iran/Yemen today” True. but what does this have to do with Palestine and Palestinians?
First published in my Quora debunk archive.