Keir Starmer Slaps Down Sadiq Khan Over 'From The River To The Sea' Chant

<div><img src="https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/685ac0f419000040b5248129.jpg?ops=scalefit_630_noupscale" alt="Keir Starmer and Sadiq Khan at the Labour conference in Liverpool last year." data-caption="Keir Starmer and Sadiq Khan at the Labour conference in Liverpool last year." data-credit-link-back="" data-credit="Leon Neal via Getty Images" />Keir Starmer and Sadiq Khan at the Labour conference in Liverpool last year.</div><div class="content-list-component text"><p><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/keir-starmer/">Keir Starmer </a>has slapped down Sadiq Khan by insisting the chant “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is anti-semitic.</p><p>The prime minister’s comments came just days after the London mayor insisted it was not.</p><p>The chant is regularly sung at pro-Palestine marches and is widely interpreted as a demand for Israel to no longer exist.</p><p><strong></strong>During mayor’s question time last week, London Assembly member Susan Hall asked Khan directly if the chant was anti-semitic.</p><p>He said: “I don’t think it’s anti-semitic. I think it’s all about context.”</p><p>But asked by the Jewish Chronicle on Thursday whether it was anti-semitic, Starmer replied: “Yes.”</p><p>When it was pointed out to him that Khan took a different view, the PM said: “I take a strong on this and we’ve dealt with cases in my own party where people have used that expression and we’ve taken action against them.</p><p>“I’m not just saying it to you today, that is the history, that is the record, that I have as leader of my party.”</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p></div><!-- start relEntries --><div class="related-entries related-entries--thumbs re