CNN Fires Marc Lamont Hill Following Israel Comments

[leftynyc]

CNN severed ties with contributor Marc Lamont Hill on Thursday, following comments the university professor made in a speech at the United Nations.

“Marc Lamont Hill is no longer under contract with CNN,” a CNN spokesperson told Mediaite.

Hill urged countries to boycott Israel in a speech on Wednesday, calling for a “free Palestine from the river to the sea.” His comments sparked an immediate backlash, with many noting “from the river to the sea” is a phrase used by anti-Israel terror groups like Hamas that implies the elimination of the Israeli state.


https://www.mediaite.com/tv/exclusive-cnn-fires-marc-lamont-hill-following-israel-comments/


Saying from river to sea says it all. He wants Israel to disappear. Good for CNN.

[leftynyc]

1. Hmmmmm

Seems nobody here is going to miss this guy at all. Good call on CNN to fire someone nobody seems to give a crap about.

[JI7]

2. no surprise. he is a supporter of the troll jill stein

[octoberlib]

3. Never cared for him. Good for CNN.

[maxsolomon]

4. Gaza is on the sea. The West Bank is on the River.

So the only issue is the Freedom?

[grossproffit]

6. That's not what it means. "from the (Jordan) river to the (Mediterranean) sea."

From the river to the sea is a call for the genocide of the Jewish people.

[maxsolomon]

7. Yeah, yeah, I got it.

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Its a call for the elimination of Israel.

You're saying it means exterminate all Jews? Just in Israel, or globally? That's a tough proposition to carry out at this point.

That phrase is rote hyperbole and the firing is an overreaction.

[Charlotte Little]

9. Corporations have fired employees

for using far less "rote hyperbole." It's their prerogative.

[DavidDvorkin]

10. Oh, well, if it only means the extermination of all Jews in Israel, that's okay

Right?

[maxsolomon]

11. Yeah, that's what I said.

Binary hyperbole is the defining feature of any discussion of I/P on DU.

[DavidDvorkin]

12. That is indeed what you said.

[grossproffit]

5. Good.

[Mosby]

8. His statements really show what kind of morally challenged idiot he is.