New Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar praised a decision by a court in Berlin this week that convicted an Iranian national of incitement for writing “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” on her Instagram, Al Jazeera reports.

Sa’ar wrote he welcomed the ruling to outlaw the phrase and “to enforce punishment against those who say it”.

“The new anti-Semitism that is based on the denial of the Jewish state’s right to exist must be uprooted,” he added.

Palestinian supporters say the phrase expresses the desire for freedom from oppression across the historical land of Palestine.

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