‘Can't read simple English’: Education Minister blasted over comments on pro-Palestine chants

Education Minister Jason Clare has come under fire over claims he made on the weekend that pro-Palestine chants such as ‘from the river to the sea’ could mean different things to different people. The Daily Telegraph’s Tim Blair slammed the Education Minister after he implied that the anti-Israel slogan could be seen as supportive of Israel by some people. “Jason Claire the Education Minister who apparently can’t read simple English or understand simple phrases such as ‘from the river to the sea’,” Mr Blair told Sky News host Chris Kenny. “On Sunday, he claimed it could mean any number of things depending on how you’re looking at it, it could mean annihilation of Israel, it could be he suggested supportive of Israel ‘from the river to the sea’. “Anyone with kind of primary geographical knowledge of the Middle East will understand the problems that Clare fed himself in.”