Quiet part out loud: Anti-Israel mobs want one state called 'Palestine,' erasing Israel

WASHINGTON, D.C. — This weekend, millions of anti-Israel activists marched through the streets of cities in coordinated actions from America's capital to London, Paris, Madrid and Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia, chanting the familiar refrains of "Free, free Palestine" and "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free."

But for the first time, communicated frankly in exclusive interviews with Fox News Digital, three anti-Israel leaders acknowledged the goal: one state called "Palestine" encompassing modern-day Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, with a Palestinian "right of return" to the new country and equal political, voting and citizenship rights for Palestinians alongside Jews currently living in Israel.

Most significantly, in the political vision they described, Israel would legally cease to exist as a separate Jewish nation-state and Jews would be quickly overwhelmed demographically.

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The current population of Israel is about 10 million, including about 7.8 million Jews, 2 million Palestinian Arabs (including Palestinians and most of them Muslim), and 200,000 people from other communities. There are another estimated 10.2 million Jews worldwide.

There are about 5.5 million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza and about 8 million Palestinians in the diaspora, totaling about 13.5 million.

The candor of the anti-Israel leaders lays bare the political conclusion of an argument that activists have spent years advancing on the streets, through sympathetic media outlets and in legal forums: that Israel is a "settler colonial" state practicing "apartheid" and "genocide," and therefore should not continue to exist in its current form as a Jewish state. Israeli leaders have fiercely rejected those allegations, disputing accusations of "genocide" and "apartheid" and maintaining that Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people with equal civil and political rights for citizens that include Jews, Christians and Muslims.

Advocates for Israel note that the nation's critics rarely apply the same historical lens of human-rights analysis to Arab and Muslim-majority states, many of which emerged from the collapse of empires, wars and population upheavals that displaced millions, including Jews expelled from their countries, today often restricting political, religious and minority rights.

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In Chicago, Hatem Abudayyeh, the Palestinian-American founder of the U.S. Palestinian Community Network and a Muslim, said the new nation would be "one democratic secular state of Palestine." Jewish Israeli-born community leader Miko Peled, founder of the Palestine House in Washington, D.C., said "the proper name would be Palestine." And Maryland congressional candidate Sam Husseini, a Palestinian-American Christian, floated another name for the vision of the one state: "1948," marking the year Israel declared independence and Palestinians commemorate as the "Nakba," or catastrophe, but he said even Israeli Jews would one day accept another name: "Palestine."

Their answers provide a striking interpretation from inside a movement where activists have traditionally danced around their demands with euphemisms about "liberation" and media outlets have obscured their answers even when they have been transparent.

On Washington, D.C.'s First Avenue SE, Fox News Digital asked