On April 3, the CBC radio program Reclaimed, which bills itself as a “weekly series on CBC Music that explores the many worlds of contemporary Indigenous music,” hosted by Jarrett Martineau, featured the host introducing a song by telling listeners that “this one (song), in sonic solidarity with the people of Palestine, this is ‘River 2 the Sea,’ on Reclaimed.”
The song in question, by Hussein Elnamer (who goes by the stage name Handsome Tiger), is a reference of the commonly-used anti-Israel chant “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” referring to the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea, an unmistakable message that calls for Israel’s dissolution or destruction in its entirety.
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