Quote Originally Posted by Magpies1959 View Post
Terribly sorry for having a differing and obviously wrong view to yours BFP, you are the font of all knowledge and I must learn to bow down to you.
It is a wee bit sad though, that so many of these 'peaceful' Palestinian protestors, do not know what 'From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free', actually means.
Well... I agree that I'd rather they didn't sing that, it's ambiguous... it's open to misinterpretation, and that it doesn't help their cause and is a gift to people who want to smear and misrepresent their actual views.

But I don't believe that a lot of people singing that mean it literally in the sense of wanting to see the destruction of Israel. The thing about chants and songs (as we as football fans know perfectly well), is that they're not always meant to be taken literally, that they sometimes take on a life of their own, and other people don't get to decide what they mean. There's also nothing in that song that indicates support for Hamas.

Think it's poor reasoning (at best) and a disingenuous smear (at worst) to take one song or chant and then decide that it means something other than what those singing it mean by it.