Human rights activist, Yasemin Acar: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”

Human rights activist Yasemin Acar was acquitted in a Berlin court after facing charges for chanting “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”

Acar said, “Germany has found a way to criminalize and discredit a legitimate struggle for justice by claiming that the chant “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” calls for the erasure of Jewish life. But it is fully aware that this call represents a demand for liberation from Zionism, occupation, and settler colonialism - freedom for Palestine, from the river to the sea.”

The court accepted her detailed defense, which highlighted Germany’s political and military role in Palestinian suffering and the genocide in Gaza. Acar added, “True justice will not come from laws that selectively decide who deserves rights and who does not. Nor will it come from courts that define justice based on what serves power.”