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'The scream / The collective outcry') is the political slogan of the Houthi movement, a Zaydi-Shia revivalist political and military organization in Yemen, that reads "God is the Greatest, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse be upon the Jews, Victory to Islam" on a vertical banner of Arabic text.

The slogan was first chanted at the Imam al-Hadi school in Razih, Saada in January 2002, although it is claimed that the then-leader of the movement, Hussein al-Houthi, used it after seeing footage of the killing of young Palestinian Muhammad al-Durrah during the Second Intifada in 2000.

At the time, the President intended to make a speech during the Friday prayers, but was drowned out by locals who chanted the slogan to protest against his policies.

Ali al-Bukhayti, the spokesperson and official media face of the Houthis, rejected the literal interpretation of the slogan by stating in an interview: "We do not really want death to anyone.

[16] In April 2016, during UN-brokered peace talks in Kuwait, Houthi representatives gave the United States a "sincere apology" for the "Death to America" slogan claiming that the slogan was used for "domestic consumption as a means to attract support in the streets and create a common cause between their supporters to keep them united.

[18][19][20] A new Houthi slogan appeared after the group's re-designation as a terrorist organisation: "America is the mother of terrorism" set on a red background.

A building in Dhamar, Yemen , bearing the Houthi slogan banner
Protests in Sana'a, Yemen following the 2024 missile strikes