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U.C. Berkley professor Ron Hassner points out that in a survey that he commissioned of students, 87% supported the chant “From the river to the sea” but only 47% could name the river and/or the sea, some even thinking that it was the Nile and the Caribbean. 10% thought former terrorist and PLO leader Yassar Arafat was the first prime minister of Israel; and most did not realize that the slogan meant a one-state solution with both groups living side by side, an idea that has been rejected by both sides and that it would mean the relocation or annihilation of 7 million Jews. In other words, as usual, those protesting the loudest often know the least. Kinda like with calls to “Defund the Police.”