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.INSIDE THE PROTEST PLAYBOOK TO VILIFY ISRAEL ON 'GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION'Protestors march at an anti-Israel protest in Washington, D.C., on Oct.
10, 2026.(Brooke Curto/Fox News Digital)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 nat...