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Except that it's a literal citation from the 2017 Hamas charta, Section 20:

"Hamas rejects any alternative to the full and complete liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea."[0]

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20170510123932/http://hamas.ps/e...

Also, there is no free speech in Germany. There is freedom of opinion and expression thereof. I'm not an advocate of that, but it's also not arbitrary.

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The saying predates Hamas by decades.

And I am glad we agree there is no free speech. "freedom of opinion and expression" without the freedom to speak may as well be a joke. And I wouldn't be surprised if they arrested people for doing interpretive dance in support of Palestinians.

You do know "freedom of speech" doesn't apply exclusively to the act of speaking, and "freedom of opinion, not freedom of speech" still includes the act of speaking your mind?

Also, the swastika predates the NSDAP by millennia. It's still not allowed to use it in a context where it means "death to all Jews". Same is true for the slogan "from the river to the sea".

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