CNN reportedly fired contributor Marc Lamont Hill over remarks he made that rationalized terrorism against Israelis and the destruction of Israel.
"Marc Lamont Hill is no longer under contract with CNN," a CNN spokesperson told Mediaite.
In a speech at the United Nations on Wednesday, Mr. Hill Hill urged nations to boycott Israel and called for a "free Palestine from the river to the sea" — a term widely used by terrorist groups in calling for Israel to be replaced by an Arab-majority state stretching from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.
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"We have an opportunity to not just offer solidarity in words but 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," Hill said at the U.N. on Wednesday afternoon.
"From the river to the sea" is a phrase used by anti-Israel terror groups, including Hamas, that have stated it wants to replace Israel with a Palestinian state that would extend from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.
n a series of tweets, Hill staunchly defended the remarks, calling the criticism "silly and inaccurate."
"This is silly. And inaccurate. 'River to the sea' is a phrase that precedes Hamas by more than 50 years. It also has a variety of meanings. In my remarks, which you clearly didn't hear, I was talking about full citizenship rights IN Israel and a redrawing of the pre-1967 borders," he wrote.
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Yikes
