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CNN Fires Analyst Marc Lamont Hill After UN Speech on Israel

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Marc Lamont Hill said:

Contrary to western mythology, black resistance to American apartheid did not come purely from Gandhi and nonviolence.

Rather, slave revolts and self-defense and tactics otherwise divergent from Dr. King or Gandhi were equally important to preserving safety and attaining freedom. If we are in true solidarity, we must allow them the same range of opportunity and political possibility.
We must recognize the right of an occupied people to defend themselves.

We must prioritize peace, but we must not romanticize or fetishize it. We must promote non violence at every opportunity, but cannot endorse narrow politics that shames Palestinians for resisting, for refusing to do nothing in the face of state violence and ethnic cleansing...

To commit to political action, grass-roots action, local action, and international action that will give us what justice requires and that is a free Palestine from the river to the sea.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/v...free_palestine_from_the_river_to_the_sea.html


Treating that as an endorsement of genocide is ridiculous.

CNN overreacted.
 
He was supporting killing all Jews in Israel and wiping out the state. It's interesting you are here actively supporting his position.

Desperate is as desperate does.
 
You are blindly partisan. Palestinians have always denied Israel's right to exist. And, it is Palestinians who do terror attacks on Israel.

You’re right! The Palestinians have it easy on the Gaza Strip, the place is paradise and they can come and go as they please. They even have the artist Banksey paint on their walls.
 
Hill's comment is anti-semitic. CNN doesn't want to get tagged with that. Especially after Lemon's rant a few weeks ago. Just imagine if someone killed some Jews in the near future. Hill's comments would definitely come back to bite everyone at CNN.

Be almost as bad as saying that far right neo Nazis are good people.
 
You are blindly partisan. Palestinians have always denied Israel's right to exist. And, it is Palestinians who do terror attacks on Israel.

Agreed and the Palestinians do it with the support of outside foreign support. If anyone really gave a damn about the Palestinians, they'd be offering to build them condos and factories, not just supply them with rockets and AK-47s.
 
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