Some protestors at a pro-Palestine march have been filmed chanting a slogan which many see as anti-Semitic and calling for the destruction of the state of Israel.

A short five-second video, filmed on Saturday and sent to the Adver, shows a group of protestors outside the office of Sir Robert Buckland in Wood Street chanting “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”.

It came during a march through Old Town attended by dozens of protestors.

There is much debate about the meaning of the slogan. Whilst some Palestinian activists say it is a call for peace and equality, some Jewish people see it as a call for the destruction of the state of Israel.

It has been adopted by the terrorist group Hamas in its 2017 charter.

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The current war in Gaza, which has seen close to 20,000 Palestinians, the majority women and children, killed was sparked by atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7, where 1,139 people were killed and hundreds kidnapped.

Swindon Borough Council cabinet member Councillor Marina Strinkovsky, who grew up in Jerusalem and is a dual British and Israeli citizen, was in town on Saturday, and said she did not see the protests other than people heading to its start point and did not hear chanting.

She said: “In my view there are two people who might chant ‘from the river to the sea.’

“Some chant it because they are at a protest, from the best of intentions, and it is chanted and they join in, and they don’t actually know which river, or which sea they are chanting about.

“So they are poorly informed, which may be regrettable, but not morally repugnant.

“The other group, which is very much still in the minority in this country, I’m glad to say, know exactly what they are saying.

“They might be thinking that regime change, which was wrong to try in Iraq, can be done in Israel non-violently, but they’re mistaken.

“Others will actually be violent anti-Semites.”

Before she was sacked by the Prime Minister last month, former Home Secretary Suella Braverman said that the 'river to the sea' phrase had become "a staple of antisemitic discourse".

Last month, Rishi Sunak had come under increasing pressure to sack Ms Braverman after she was accused of stoking tensions by branding pro-Palestinian demonstrators as "hate marchers" and accusing the police of bias for letting the rally go ahead.