The picture shows a map of Israel, resembling a watermelon, without any West Bank or Gaza partition. In the top right-hand corner is the Palestinian flag.
The left side of the map contains the phrase ‘From the River to the Sea’ and the right side contains the phrase, ‘Will be Free.’ It is an obvious nod to the phrase, ‘From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will be Free.’
Supporters of Palestinians maintain that the phrase is merely a slogan to represent the Palestinian struggle against the State of Israel, which they see as an occupying force. Israelis, meanwhile, regard the phrase as an explicit call to genocide, a call for Israel to be wiped off the map completely.
The phrase has gained a resurgence since Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel, in which nearly 1,200 Israelis were killed and hundreds more were taken hostage...
The UN’s Global Peace Flag exhibit contains no explicit call for the hostages to be released. Nor do any messages condemn Hamas, or the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah, which has been firing rockets into Northern Israel in solidarity with Hamas for over a year.
‘This appalling display is front and center at the UN, and included art that unambiguously calls for the destruction of the Jewish people and the State of Israel,’ Jonathan Harounoff, the international spokesperson for Israel’s Mission to the UN, said in a statement.
Danny Danon, Israel’s permanent representative to the UN, called the display a ‘disgrace’ and ‘shameful’ and demanded that the UN remove it..."
A painting at the exhibit (Photo courtesy Fox News Digital)
