CEO of X, formerly Twitter, Elon Musk threatened to suspend users from his social media platform for using the pro-Palestine phrase “from the river to the sea” and the word “decolonization” in relation to the Israeli war on Gaza. Musk said that these two phrases and “similar euphemisms” imply genocide, and will result in the suspension from the X platform, in a post on 18 November. In response, some social media users criticized Musk’s focus on Palestinian calls for freedom. Journalist Dan Cohen stated that the 1977 Likud Party charter explicitly states that “between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty.” “Yet when Palestinians call for their freedom using the same formulation, you denounce it as genocidal and censor. Way to bow to the Israel lobby,” he wrote in response to Musk. “At risk of stating the obvious, anyone advocating the genocide of *any* group will be suspended from this platform,” the X CEO later posted. Critics of the phrase “from the river to the sea” claim it implies the erasure of Jews and destruction of the Israeli state, while others have contended that it calls…
Elon Musk: “From the River to the Sea” Implies Genocide, Threatens to Suspend X Users
November 18, 2023
