“From the river to the sea” - 2026 ACF Nationals

Packet 7: Tossup 9

Miguel Díaz-Canel led a march of medical students using this phrase and linked its cause to Cuba, where its subject is also a term for migrants from Oriente Province. This phrase names a festival held in La Rioja, Argentina, to fundraise for Colectivo Sumud. This phrase is invoked to describe the ambition to “transform the entire country” via the “politicide” of writers like the author of Men in the Sun in a 2020 book titled for a “Hundred Years’ War.” Police banned this phrase (-5[1])for violating (-5[1])Paragraph (-5[1])130 (10[1]-5[1])in Berlin, (10[1])where it (10[1])is often recited (10[1])by the (10[1])Barbakh (10[1])family. Like a call to “globalize,” (10[1])this (10[2])phrase (-5[2])is (10[1])outlawed in Queensland. (-5[1])House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries stated that this slogan (10[1])calls for a state’s “complete destruction” (10[1]-5[1])in censuring (10[1])its use by Rashida Tlaib. For 10 points, the lands west of the Jordan are invoked by what slogan (10[1])chanted before “Palestine will be free”? (10[3])■END■ (10[4])

ANSWER: “From the river to the sea” [or “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”, “Min il-ṃayye la-l-ṃayye, Falasṭīn ‘arabiyye”, “Min an-nahr ’ilā l-baḥr, Filasṭīn sa-tataḥarrar”, “Palästina wird frei sein, vom Fluss bis zum Meer”, “Desde el río hasta al mar, Palestina vencerá”, or “Desde el río hasta al mar, Palestina será libre”; prompt on “Palestine will be free”, “Filasṭīn sa-tataḥarrar”, “Falasṭīn ‘arabiyye”, “Palästina wird frei sein”, “Palestina vencerá”, or “Palestina será libre” by asking “what is the rest of the phrase?”] (Internal migrants in Cuba are nicknamed “Palestinos.” Ghassan Kanafani wrote Men in the Sun. Rashid Khalidi wrote The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine. The other slogan is “globalize the intifada.”)

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Player	Team	Opponent	Buzzpoint	Value
Joel Miles	Minnesota	Virginia Tech	83	-5
Evan Gniadek	Purdue	Maryland B	85	-5
Jakob Myers	Indiana	NYU B	86	-5
Robert Wang	Columbia A	Cambridge	87	10
Mattias Ehatamm	Maryland A	Columbia B	87	-5
Simon Zimmerman	Ohio State	Swarthmore	89	10
June Yin	WashU	Harvard	91	10
Claire Jones	Chicago A	Texas	94	10
Ryan Rosenberg	NYU A	Northwestern B	96	10
Andrew Zeng	Stanford A	Toronto B	97	10
Aditya Shivaswamy	Johns Hopkins	Stanford B	103	10
Matthew Sumanen	Georgia Tech C	Northwestern A	104	10
Anuttam Ramji	UC Berkeley B	Vanderbilt	104	10
Joshua Koch	Michigan	Chicago B	105	-5
Zac Stapler	Pittsburgh	Waterloo	105	-5
Joseph Chambers	Virginia	North Carolina	106	10
Sky Li	Toronto A	Penn State	109	-5
Matthew Wang	British Columbia	UCF	118	10
Jonathan Huang	MIT	Cornell	124	10
Abhinav Rachakonda	UCLA	Georgia Tech B	124	-5
Sam Konkel	Chicago B	Michigan	126	10
Andrew Wang	Illinois A	Brown	145	10
Olin Bose	Columbia B	Maryland A	151	10
Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt	NYU B	Indiana	151	10
Michael Du	Waterloo	Pittsburgh	151	10
Orion Keller	Virginia Tech	Minnesota	152	10
Ani Perumalla	Penn State	Toronto A	152	10
August Vanskike	Maryland B	Purdue	152	10
Kevin Wang	Georgia Tech B	UCLA	152	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	Conv. %	Neg %	Avg. Buzz
Main Site	2026-04-17	✓	21	100%	38%	121.19