Death to Israel
anti-Israeli slogan
"Death to Israel", also translated into English as "Down with Israel", is a political slogan against Israel, which is most often used in Iran. Every year, Iranian pilgrims sing the slogan of "death to Israel" during the Hajj rituals and the ceremony of disavowal of polytheists. This slogan is especially chanted against Israel by demonstrators on Quds Day and is often accompanied by the burning of the Israeli flag. The slogan has also been used in the Islamic Consultative Assembly of Iran.
The slogan has been similarly contextualized to "death to America"; as a reaction to the Israeli government's policies towards Islamic countries and merely an expression of outrage at those policies, not a wish for literal death for Israeli people themselves. Two years after becoming supreme leader, Iran's Ali Khamenei interpreted the slogan as "in destroying the Israeli regime", and in a 2015 speech to university students, the previously mentioned one as "death to the policies of […] arrogant powers".
Other uses
Houthi movement
The slogan of the Houthis, the Shia militant group in Yemen, which Iran also supports, is "God is greater, death to America, death to Israel, curse to the Jews, victory to Islam". This slogan is also one of the slogans used by Hezbollah in Lebanon. Tariq Alhomayed believes that the slogan of death to Israel in the Arab world has lost its function and holding reconciliation agreements between the Arab countries of the region with Israel is proof of this claim. This slogan, as one of the symbols of hatred against Israel, has been noticed by the rulers of the Middle East region.
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