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He was not fired for criticizing Israel. He was fired for advocating a "free Palestine from river to sea" which is a line from Hamas and is seen as a call for the destruction of Israel. He has often criticized Israel on CNN and elsewhere.
As noted in the informed comment post, from river to sea could also just be from the West Bank to Gaza.
Would CNN fire someone who would suggest that Israel annex more Palestinian land?
 

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As noted in the informed comment post, from river to sea could also just be from the West Bank to Gaza.
Would CNN fire someone who would suggest that Israel annex more Palestinian land?
Wouldn't the West Bank to Gaza cut right through Israel? Perhaps look at a map.
 

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Wouldn't the West Bank to Gaza cut right through Israel? Perhaps look at a map.
This issue will never get resolved, they both feel it's their homeland. Most of the world sides with Israel, I understand Palestine's point of view and Israel's, good luck on finding a solution, as for Hill, if he called for some of Israel's land to be taken away, that doesn't go with CNN's view.
 

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As noted in the informed comment post, from river to sea could also just be from the West Bank to Gaza....
But it's not. Just because you and Hamas advocate the elimination of Israel and the removal of Jews from the area doesn't mean that western countries should accept it.
 

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But it’s CNN! The most honest unbiased reporting in the history of journalism! What happened?
They stood by their principles and fired him.
 

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It sounds like he knew perfectly well what the implications were of what he was saying. No reputable network can have one of their journalists calling for the destruction of the State of Israel.

If a CNN journalist was advocating for the genocide of the Palestinians I suspect they would be fired too.
 

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So you are saying that there will never be a continguous Palestinian state, only the existing apartheid one state solution?
hypocrite you support Lebanon's denial of rights to refugees and their descendants
 

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CNN fires Marc Lamont Hill as contributor after he called for a free Palestine at UN

CNN fires Marc Lamont Hill as contributor after he called for a “free Palestine” at the UN“

There’s another story going on here . . . a punishment of black radical thinkers in the United States”

RACHEL LEAH

DECEMBER 1, 2018 7:56PM (UTC)

Author and professor Marc Lamont Hill was fired from CNN on Thursday, where he worked as a political commentator, after he criticized Israel at the U.N. In his speech delivered on Wednesday, Hill called on the U.N. to extend an active solidarity to Palestinians in their struggle for equal rights and self-determination, in line with both nonviolence and international law.

"Marc Lamont Hill is no longer under contract with CNN," the network said in a terse statement. The company did not go into more detail, but the move comes after the Anti-Defamation League and other groups raised objections to Hill's speech.

Hill spoke at the U.N.'s Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People one day before the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.

"While the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says that all people are 'born free and equal in dignity and rights,' the Israeli nation-state continues to restrict freedom and undermine equality for Palestinian citizens of Israel, as well as those in the West Bank and Gaza," he said. "At the current moment, there are more than 60 Israeli laws that deny Palestinians access to full citizenship rights simply because they are not Jewish. From housing, to education to family reunification, it is clear that any freedoms naturally endowed to all human beings are actively being stripped away from Palestinians through Israeli statecraft."

The most controversial moment came at the speech's end, when Hill declared that "we have an opportunity to not just offer solidarity in words but to commit to political action, grassroots 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."

The Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) senior vice president for international affairs, Sharon Nazarian, told the Jewish Journal through email that "those calling for 'from the river to the sea' are calling for an end to the State of Israel." And, on some pockets of social media, people clung to that phrase, echoing the ADL and claiming the slogan was code for the destruction of Israel.

Actually, @MarcLamontHill, your statement at the @UN that “justice requires a free Palestine from the river to the sea” is not an allusion to *one state*, but rather an allusion to the Hamas rallying cry calling for the *destruction of Israel* & the *genocide of the Jews there*. https://t.co/LiFTDtXjat

— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) November 28, 2018

Hill went on to clarify his comments on Twitter. "I support Palestinian freedom. I support Palestinian self-determination. I am deeply critical of Israeli policy and practice," he wrote. "I do not support anti-Semitism, killing Jewish people, or any of the other things attributed to my speech. I have spent my life fighting these things."

I support Palestinian freedom. I support Palestinian self-determination. I am deeply critical of Israeli policy and practice.

I do not support anti-Semitism, killing Jewish people, or any of the other things attributed to my speech. I have spent my life fighting these things.

— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) November 29, 2018

My reference to “river to the sea” was not a call to destroy anything or anyone. It was a call for justice, both in Israel and in the West Bank/Gaza. The speech very clearly and specifically said those things. No amount of debate will change what I actually said or what I meant.

— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) November 29, 2018

However, CNN's swift termination of Hill and continued employment of former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum spparked wide backlash on Twitter. (Santorum once said that "all the people that live in the West Bank are Israelis. They are not Palestinians. There is no Palestinian. This is Israeli land.") Many users questioned how any discussion could take place on the question of Palestine if every critique of Israel or any advocacy on behalf of Palestinians is instantly labeled as anti-Semitic.

Calling out the oppressive policies in Israel, advocating for Palestinians to be respected, and for Israelis and Palestinians alike to have peace and freedom is not antisemitic. @CNN, we all have a right to speak up about injustice any and everywhere. @marclamonthillhttps://t.co/YT49WCxVbo

— Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) November 30, 2018

.@CNN should be ashamed of firing @marclamonthill for merely expressing support to the idea of one-state solution where Jews, Muslims, and Christians would live as equal citizens in a democratic country. News outlets should practice what they preach on pluralism and free speech.https://t.co/D032VgylR8

— Jamil Dakwar (@jdakwar) November 30, 2018

Hi, I'm Jewish. All solidarity with @marclamonthill. Criticizing Israel is not anti-Semitism. Real anti-Semitism is the assumption that all Jews are of one mind and abide - or even endorse - the horrific mistreatment of Palestinians. Shame on @CNN

— Dave Zirin (@EdgeofSports) November 29, 2018

Criticizing the actions of Israel is not anti-semitism. Since when is advocating for human rights a fireable offense? Join us in standing in solidarity with Dr. @MarcLamontHill:https://t.co/5Sd3b1qdBK

— Mark Ruffalo (@MarkRuffalo) November 30, 2018

"I think CNN is so hypocritical in their stance," Robin Kelley, professor and chair of U.S. history at UCLA told Salon. "On the one hand, they will claim to be for free press and for truth and sue the White House to get Jim Acosta’s press pass back. But then, when Marc Lamont Hill, who’s not even an actual journalist but is a pundit — he’s someone who comments on his own, independently — gives a speech that is not only legitimate but recognized around the world as a standard position with regard to Israel’s illegal occupation, then he’s fired."

Noura Erakat, human rights lawyer and assistant professor at George Mason University, told Salon that CNN's actions demonstrate "a blatant double standard."

"But there’s another story going on here," she added, "There is, more broadly, a punishment of black radical thinkers in the United States who define themselves as internationalists. Here, this is not just limited to the question of Palestine, but this is the case of what happened to Muhammad Ali in his opposition to the Vietnam War. It’s what happened in the sidelining of Martin Luther King Jr. in his opposition to the Vietnam War. It’s what happened to Paul Robeson in his declaration that the U.S. practiced a treatment of black people that is tantamount to genocide."

Thus, CNN's termination of Hill makes him part of a larger legacy, Erakat continued, of silencing and repudiating black activists in the U.S. for asserting that "they are part of a global struggle against racism and colonialism." "When it comes to Palestine, that punishment becomes more cruel," she added.

Kelley said that it was telling that the most vocal critics of Hill, who called on CNN to fire him immediately and charged his words as anti-Semitic, did not offer "a sharp critique of his position." Rather, they "dismissed his words as anti-Semitic," he continued, "by saying, 'Hamas says this. Therefore, you like Hamas. Therefore, you’re anti-Semitic.'"

"All that Marc was saying was that we need to be committed in the space of the United Nations to full justice for Palestinians, whether they’re in exile, whether they’re under occupation or whether they live in the state of Israel itself," Kelley said. He added that the specific "from the river to the sea" phrase, which refers to the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, that drew so much ire has been a standard slogan used in demonstrations for Palestinian rights and self-determination "for a century."

"Nothing in that slogan indicates a calling for the destruction of Israel. It’s certainly calling for an end to occupation," Kelley said, noting that such a belief is shared by people all over the world, including by some living in Israel.

"What [Hill] said was a vision of inclusion for everybody," Erakat said, "and all of all things. He’s at the U.N., and when he said it, he gets thunderous applause. So the other thing to consider is that the majority of the world is in agreement with him."

https://www.salon.com/2018/12/01/cnn-fires-marc-lamont-hill-as-contributor-after-he-called-for-a-free-palestine-at-the-un/
 

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This issue will never get resolved, they both feel it's their homeland. Most of the world sides with Israel, I understand Palestine's point of view and Israel's, good luck on finding a solution, as for Hill, if he called for some of Israel's land to be taken away, that doesn't go with CNN's view.
To be clear, "most of the world sides with Israel" for the same reason I do. The Jews control a *lot* of people's livelihoods. I could not describe to you in any detail the conflict, but I know that from a business perspective I had better visibly support Israel.

KK
 

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To be clear, "most of the world sides with Israel" for the same reason I do. The Jews control a *lot* of people's livelihoods. I could not describe to you in any detail the conflict, but I know that from a business perspective I had better visibly support Israel.

KK
So you admit people side with ZIONISTS even if they are wrong? Plenty of Jews are not Zionists.
 

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CNN fires Marc Lamont Hill as contributor after he called for a “free Palestine” at the UN“...
He didn't just call for a Free Palestine, he called for the elimination of Israel with words straight out of the Hamas Charter.
 

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To be clear, "most of the world sides with Israel" for the same reason I do. The Jews control a *lot* of people's livelihoods. I could not describe to you in any detail the conflict, but I know that from a business perspective I had better visibly support Israel.

KK
Sounds like you should be adding another K to your signature.
 
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