On February 6, the Democratic Socialists of America hosted an online panel discussion titled “DSA, BDS, and Palestine Solidarity.” One of the panelists was Marc Lamont Hill, a professor of media studies and urban education at Temple University and outspoken Black Lives Matter activist, who admitted that one of the explicit goals of the Black Lives Matter movement was to “embrace BDS” and “dismantle” the Jewish State of Israel.
“This generation of activists say ‘No, let’s defund. No, no, let’s abolish. Let’s imagine new possibilities,’ and one of the new possibilities that they’ve imagined, um, is a world where, that is anti-imperialist,” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZzGiZdZAZQ">stated</a> Hill.
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Temple U professor and BLM activist Marc Lamont Hill says the goal of Black Lives Matter is to &quot;dismantle the Zionist project&quot; and is &quot;very explicitly embracing BDS&quot; <a href="https://t.co/V9hKAm5jby">pic.twitter.com/V9hKAm5jby</a>
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“They don’t want to just nation build, but they want to world make,” he continued. “And so Black Lives Matter very explicitly is talking about the dismantling of, um, of the Zionist project, dismantling of a settler-colonial project and very explicitly embracing BDS on those grounds.”
The deliberate mischaracterization of Israel as a colonialist “settler” state is part of an anti-Semitic smear used to delegitimize Israel’s right to exist. According to the “<a href="https://www.holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definitions-charters/working-definition-antisemitism">working definition of anti-Semitism</a>” provided by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) — a definition adopted and endorsed by the United States State Department under the Biden administration — this form of rhetoric is “denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination,” an example of anti-Semitism. In addition, the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanction (BDS) movement has been criticized by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), who have <a href="https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/bds-the-global-campaign-to-delegitimize-israel">stated</a> that “BDS advocates employ antisemitic rhetoric and narratives to isolate and demonize Israel.”
Earlier in the panel discussion, Hill also said that “our fates are bound up with one another,” that “at the analytical level we understand that we can’t dismantle white supremacy or imperialism ‘section by section,’ that these systems don’t have passports or visas, they don’t stop at borders, that these are international transnational movements,” and that there was “no way to stop a settler colonial movement in Palestine and not be mindful of its relationship to a settler colonial project in New Zealand or Australia or the United States.”
Hill then continued to imply a connection between systemic police racism and Israel.
“We’re literally engaged in intersectional struggles. One of the things that came up in the last few years with the movement for black lives was this question around police exchanges, just as one example. That U.S. police are being trained, some police departments are being trained in Israel, and some Israeli police are being trained in the United States,” said Hill.
After clarifying that this wasn’t to say that Israel taught America “how to be repressive or violent or kill black people,” Hill continued.
“There is something to be said about the rising authoritarianism, the expansion of a security state, the use of particular types of weaponry that we see both in Israel and the United States that speaks to a global system that we have to dismantle.”
Hill’s language closely aligns with common anti-Israel rhetoric which “falsely posits that counterterrorism trips and conferences organized by American Jewish organizations &#8230; facilitate a ‘deadly exchange’ of worst practices between U.S. and Israeli forces.” In a <a href="https://forward.com/opinion/449171/i-am-the-architect-of-us-israel-police-exchange-programs-dont-believe-the/">piece</a> titled “I am the architect of the U.S.-Israel police exchange. Don’t believe the lies,” Steven Pomerantz rejects this argument, which is often promoted by “extremist organizations that oppose Israel’s right to exist, and amplified by institutionally anti-Semitic regimes like Iran’s.”
In 2018, Hill was <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/marc-lamont-hill-fired-cnn-after-his-speech-israel-draws-n942151">fired</a> by CNN as a contributor after footage was uncovered in which he called for Palestine to be “free from the river to the sea,” a pro-Palestinian slogan which seeks to achieve a “one-state solution” to the Israel-Palestinian conflict by replacing all of Israel with a Palestinian state.

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Marc Lamont Hill Says That Black Lives Matter ‘Explicitly’ Looking To ‘Dismantle’ Israel and ‘Embrace’ BDS Movement

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Former &#8220;Empire&#8221; star Jussie Smollett insists, in <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/jussie-smollett-maintains-innocence">a new Instagram interview with CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill</a>, that he was the victim of a &#8220;set up” and that he has two new witnesses to prove that he did not stage a racist and homophobic attack on himself in January of last year. He claims that he was, in fact, accosted by two white men wearing &#8220;Make America Great Again&#8221; caps.
Smollett told Hill, in one of the first interviews he&#8217;s given since a special prosecutor re-charged Smollett with several counts of lying to Chicago police in the hours following the alleged attack, that he is the &#8220;only human being&#8221; involved in the incident &#8220;who has not changed his story one time&#8221; and says he believes a &#8220;narrative&#8221; was created to sideline his claims of discrimination and harassment.
“It was set up to make it seem like I was lying about something or everything,&#8221; Smollett says.
Smollett famously claims to have been the victim of a racist and homophobic attack that took place in the early hours of January 29, 2019, as the city was in the midst of a &#8220;polar vortex&#8221; that drove temperatures well below zero. Smollett maintains that two white men jumped him outside of his downtown Chicago apartment, screamed slurs at him, beat him, threw a noose around his neck, doused him with an unidentified liquid he believed to be bleach, and then took off, yelling that &#8220;This is MAGA Country,&#8221; apparently referring to the city of Chicago.
After a two-week investigation, Chicago police said they suspected Smollett of orchestrating the attack with the help of twin brothers whom he met when they served as extras on his hit show, &#8220;Empire.&#8221; CPD claimed Smollett had planned the attack with the two men, who then secured all of the necessary items for the incident and carried out the assault with Smollett&#8217;s direction.
Smollett was charged with 16 counts of lying to police, charges that were later dropped in a suspicious, sweetheart plea deal made with the Cook County State&#8217;s Attorney&#8217;s office, allowing Smollett to escape trial in return for several hours of community service and $10,000. After an extensive investigation, a special prosecutor, who was assigned to review prosecutors&#8217; decision to release Smollett, found that the Cook County State&#8217;s Attorney had, indeed, inked a special deal with the actor and revived six counts of the original indictment.
<a href="https://www.tmz.com/2020/09/10/jussie-smollett-doubles-down-on-innocence-claims-video-doctored-2-witnesses/">According to TMZ</a>, Smollett, who says he did not play a part in his own alleged attack, has his own theory of how he eventually became the center of the police investigation into the matter.
&#8220;Smollett blasts police for focusing on winning the case instead of trying to solve it based on truth, and hints there may be a conspiracy against him because of that,&#8221; the outlet says. &#8220;As he puts it &#8212; law enforcement is willing to throw people under the bus, get people to lie, and switch the narrative based on their agenda.&#8221; Smollett does not specify what the Chicago Police Department&#8217;s &#8220;agenda&#8221; was, however, in accusing him of orchestrating a hoax attack. He does allude to a potential financial incentive.
&#8220;As for the lack of video evidence of Jussie being attacked &#8230; he claims it&#8217;s out there,&#8221; TMZ adds. &#8220;He also says there are 2 witnesses who can corroborate his story of seeing 2 white men &#8212; one of them carrying a rope &#8212; before he was attacked.&#8221;
“These are the things that people don’t necessarily know because the lies and the things that were not true were yelled from the rooftop,” Smollett told Hill. “There is a tape. There is something, but of course, it cuts off right before it happens.”
Smollett also claims that the twin brothers whom police believe helped him carry out the assault changed their story under pressure from CPD.
“There would be no reason for me to do something like this,” Smollet said. “There would be no reason for me to do something foolish and I do think that if you look at all of the things that were happening for me, and then for all of the opportunities and all of the money&#8230;Whatever, that I have lost at this point, if in fact what they said was true, the smart thing to do would be to admit that. At least there would be a place to work back from. This is bulls**t. It’s bulls**t.”
Smollett, of course, could produce those two new witnesses and demonstrate potential evidence tampering in his new trial, set to take place this summer but postponed because of coronavirus-related restrictions. He did tell Hill that he believes he will have to face his day in court.
“They won’t let this go,” Smollett said. “There is an example being made, and the sad part is that there is an example being made of someone that did not do what they’re being accused of.”
Hill, of course, is a controversial figure in his own right. He was let go from CNN after making anti-Semitic comments in a speech to the United Nations, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/cnn-drops-marc-lamont-hill-anti-israel-remarks">according to Fox News</a>.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/abuses-of-discretion-operational-failures-special-counsel-releases-report-blasting-chicago-prosecutor-for-jussie-smollett-deal">RELATED: ‘Abuses Of Discretion,’ ‘Operational Failures’: Special Counsel Releases Report Blasting Chicago Prosecutor For Jussie Smollett Deal</a>

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Jussie Smollett Insists He Was ‘Set Up,’ Says He Has Two New Witnesses To Refute Hoax Claims

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According to <a href="v">Jewish Insider</a>, former CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill, who has protested for some time that he is not anti-Semitic, accused major networks such as NBC and ABC of being “Zionist organizations” that produced “Zionist content” as he spoke at the progressive Netroots Nation summit.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">Former CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill claimed that news outlets like NBC and ABC were “Zionist organizations” that produced “Zionist content,” during a panel at the annual Netroots Nation summit. <a href="https://twitter.com/Bencjacobs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Bencjacobs</a> reports <a href="https://t.co/K2xEGmbg1l">https://t.co/K2xEGmbg1l</a>
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Democratic presidential hopefuls Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Governor Jay Inslee of Washington and former HUD Secretary Julian Castro all appeared at the summit this year.
Speaking with a<a href="https://www.facebook.com/NetrootsNation/videos/2525230577496476/"> panel</a> on “embedding Palestinian rights in the 2020 agenda,” Hill reportedly responded to a question from a member of the audience and fulminated about the supposed difficulty young journalists faced in reporting about Palestinian Arabs, snapping:
<blockquote>They’re like, I want to work for Fox, or I want to work for ABC or NBC or whoever. I want to tell these stories. You have to make choices about where you want to work. And if you work for a Zionist organization, you’re going to get Zionist content. And no matter how vigorous you are in the newsroom, there are going to be two, three, four, 17, or maybe one powerful person — not going to suggest a conspiracy — all news outlets have a point of a view. And if your point of view competes with the point of view of the institution, you’re going to have challenges.</blockquote>
The panel also reportedly made statements that Israel was working on a “white supremacist” project. Jewish Insider reported that one panelist, Noura Erekat, a professor at George Mason University, stated that “the whole land is occupied,” and stated there was an “explicit project” led by Ashkenazi Jews in Israel to avoid “sully[ing] the blood line with becoming dark and oriental” by intermarrying with dark-skinned Jews hailing from other lands.
Jewish Insider noted, “At the summit, t-shirts were sold grouping Zionism with racism, sexism, homophobia and antisemitism as maladies to be ‘resisted.’”
Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, ripped the summit, telling Jewish Insider, “Zionism is nothing like white supremacy. Anyone who offensively claims Zionism is a white supremacist project is ignorant of the tremendous diversity of modern Israel and seeks to negate the millennia-old connection of Jews to the Land of Israel.”
Lamont Hill has a history of anti-Semitism; in May 2018, Hill implied Israelis were murderers in the <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-hill-palestine-israel-myths_us_5afc8e8fe4b0a59b4e001d8e">Huffington Post</a>, writing of the Palestinians, “This is about the 70-year struggle of a people who have been expelled, murdered, robbed, imprisoned and <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/how-israel-privatized-its-occupation-of-palestine/">occupied</a>.” He defended Palestinians’ right to use violence against Israel but claimed Palestinians truly wanted peace, adding, “Occupied people have a legal and moral right to defend themselves. To ask them not to resist is to ask them to die quietly. Palestinians want peace.”
Hill continued by slamming Israel’s very right to exist: “By naturalizing the idea that nation-states have a ‘<a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/04/saudi-crown-prince-israel-has-a-right-to-exist.html">right to exist</a>,’ we undermine our ability to offer a moral critique of Israel’s (or any settler-colony’s) origin story.” He continued with an outright lie, ignoring the fact that the Jewish state existed 3,000 years ago, writing: “… the idea of nations and nationalism is relatively new.”
In 2014, Hill <a href="https://twitter.com/marclamonthill/status/499638522362748928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E499638522362748928&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2F38834%2Fcnn-commentator-marc-lamont-hills-long-history-hank-berrien">tweeted</a> that he opposed the “occupation” of Gaza although Israel left Gaza nine years before.
In 2008, when Fox News host Sean Hannity <a href="https://www.thewrap.com/louis-farrakhan-marc-lamont-hill-promotes-music-collection-photo-cnn-contributor/">confronted Hill</a> with the remarks of anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan, including calling Judaism a “gutter religion,” and asked Hill if he thought Farrakhan was an anti-Semite, Hill defended Farrakhan, saying, “I do not know whether he is an anti-Semite … those quotes are severely out of context.”

Report: Former CNN Commentator Accuses Major Networks Of Being ‘Zionist Organizations’

Imagine there&#8217;s someone who really dislikes the Toyota Motor Corporation. But when castigating Toyota, they don&#8217;t actually criticize the automobile manufacturer&#8217;s products or practices. They don&#8217;t specify which exact models they perceive to lack value, reek of unreliability, or whatever other foibles they&#8217;ve encountered. They don&#8217;t criticize Toyota for what Toyota actually does. In an effort to delegitimize and destroy the company, they instead concoct wild allegations that Toyota&#8217;s vehicles are wantonly killing people, and that the company is run by unhinged racists.
This is ultimately the ploy of anti-Israel activists.
Nearly every time hardline anti-Israel proponents are challenged on their own arguments &#8211; no matter how malevolent &#8211; they default to the same defense: &#8220;I&#8217;m just criticizing Israel&#8217;s government! Criticism of Israel&#8217;s government and policies is not anti-Semitism!&#8221; 
Such was the case of Marc Lamont Hill, a Temple University professor and former CNN pundit. Hill was fired from his position at CNN last month after a speech he delivered at the United Nations advocating for the replacement of Israel with a Palestine state, went viral, sparking a bevy of backlash. 
&#8220;CNN Fires Marc Lamont Hill for Criticizing Israel &amp; Redacted Tonight (VIDEO)&#8221; &#8211; <a href="https://twitter.com/RT_America/status/1068682342800261120">RT America</a> 
&#8220;CNN fires Marc Lamont Hill in wake of remarks criticizing Israel and calling for a &#8216;free Palestine&#8217;&#8221; &#8211; <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1068271664377544704">The Washington Post</a> 
&#8220;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:&#8221; &#8211; <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkRuffalo/status/1068519092112388097">Mark Ruffalo</a>, actor 
Hill began his speech hailing a torrent of accusations on Israel, &#8220;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, it is clear that any freedoms naturally endowed to all human beings are actively being stripped away from Palestinians through Israeli statecraft.&#8221; 
I don&#8217;t know what these sixty-plus laws that Hill invokes are, as he doesn&#8217;t list any of them. But if he&#8217;s suggesting only Jews can become Israeli citizens, that is largely incorrect. 
First, Palestinian Arabs born in Israel are citizens by birth. Immigration, however, is a more nuanced issue. Israel, in contrast to countries like Canada, is not an immigration country. It&#8217;s a Jewish state. More accurately, the Jewish state: When in 1948, Israel&#8217;s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, read Israel&#8217;s Declaration of Independence, he declared &#8220;the establishment of a Jewish state in the land of Israel, to be known as the state of Israel.&#8221; So, for a gentile living in the United States, or some other country, immigrating to Israel on a lark isn&#8217;t the most straightforward task. But it&#8217;s not impossible. It would require first applying for a foreign work visa and having the skills to boot. Or marrying an Israeli citizen. As per the Israeli Nationality Law of 1952, &#8220;Adults may acquire Israeli citizenship through naturalization. To be eligible for naturalization a person must have resided in Israel for three years.&#8221; 
Hill&#8217;s latter claims that Israeli statehood strips Palestinian Arabs from their rights to housing and education is an elusive one. 
If Hill&#8217;s proposition is that Israel is at fault because its laws don&#8217;t apply to Palestinians living in the disputed territories, there is a very simple explanation here. Palestinian Arabs who live in the disputed territories don&#8217;t have to follow Israeli laws. They&#8217;re not Israeli citizens. They have to follow laws set by the Palestinian Authority. One such law is, that selling land to Jews is strictly illegal and punishable by death &#8212; are these discriminatory laws considered wrong? 
Hill continued his speech by accusing Israel of holding Palestinian Arabs captive &#8220;under the threat of random violence.&#8221; He added &#8220;Contrary to western mythology, black resistance to American apartheid did not come purely through non-violence. Rather, slave revolts, and self-defense, and tactics otherwise divergent from Dr. King or Gandhi were equally important to preserving safety and obtaining freedom. We must allow the Palestinian people the same range of opportunity and political possibility.&#8221; 
Despite claiming that non-violence ought to be encouraged, Hill excused terrorism against Israelis, stating &#8220;We cannot endorse a narrow politics of respectability that shames Palestinians of resisting, for refusing to do nothing in the face of state violence and ethnic cleansing.&#8221; 
The United States embassy opening its doors in Israel&#8217;s capital, Jerusalem, last May was followed by a rabble of Palestinian Arabs storming the country&#8217;s 40-mile border with the Gaza strip. Amid the reams of protesters, were scads of terrorists hurling firebombs and other explosives at border guards. Israeli forces returned fire, killing 60. <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/palestinians-prepare-major-move-gaza-israel-fence-n873706">Hamas themselves admitted</a> that nearly all the casualties were their own militant terrorists. 
If Israel&#8217;s military operations in the West Bank and Gaza are &#8220;random violence,&#8221; as Hill suggests, then Israel is undoubtedly history&#8217;s finest force in exclusively eliminating terrorists amidst a sea of civilians by random. If, as Hill also professes, Israel practices a state policy of &#8220;ethnic cleansing&#8221; against the Palestinian Arabs, there Israel excels only in ineptitude. The Palestinian Arab population has seen nothing but rapid growth since Israel&#8217;s inception in 1948. And a 2016 UN report projected the population in the Palestinian territories to <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/un-warns-palestinian-population-will-double-to-9-5-million-by-2050/">double by 2050</a>. But regardless, Hill uses these fictitious premises to excuse and justify terrorism against Israelis.
In his closing remarks, Hill issued a call to action, demanding justice for the Palestinian Arabs, manifested as &#8220;A free Palestine from the river to the sea.&#8221; 
Geographically, Israel is situated between two bodies of water: the Mediterranean Sea on the west, and the Jordan River on the east. A free Palestine &#8220;from the river to the sea&#8221; consequently eliminates Israel entirely to liberate the land it resides on in favor of the Palestinian State. Hill wasn&#8217;t criticizing Israel&#8217;s government. He was criticizing Israel&#8217;s existence. 
The playbook exploited by Marc Lamont Hill and countless other anti-Israel activists ranging from Linda Sarsour to Jimmy Carter, to former Pink Floyd front man, Roger Waters, is the following: 
Step 1: Fabricate a non-existent Israeli law or policy, that, if real, would constitute a colossal human rights violation. Don&#8217;t be afraid to be dramatic. Ethnic cleansing has a real ring to it. And always remember to be as vague as possible. Use broad terms and generalizations, making your claims harder to challenge on specific grounds. 
Step 2: Next, feign outrage about the existence of this newly concocted law, and justify any acts of terrorism against Israel under the guise of &#8220;resistance&#8221; against this law you just invented. 
Step 3: If anyone points out that what you&#8217;re saying lacks any smidgeon of truth, simply reply, &#8220;I am just criticizing the Israeli government! Are you a fascist? Am I not allowed to criticize Israeli government policies?&#8221; 
It goes without saying that criticism of Israel&#8217;s government is as kosher as criticism of any country&#8217;s government. The only catch is the criticism hinges on the issue under scrutiny being real. It requires specific criticism, aimed at an existing law or practice. Conversely, what borders on bigotry is blithely fabricating non-existent laws or practices &#8212; like, Israel&#8217;s perpetration of ethnic cleansing &#8212; and using them to undermine Israel&#8217;s existence. Self-avowed &#8220;critics&#8221; of Israel who are derided as addled anti-Semites exclusively focus their ire on laws they themselves imagine into existence. Not for the betterment of the Palestinian Arabs, but for the belittling of Israel.

KHACHATRIAN: The Intellectual Dishonesty of ‘I’m Just Criticizing Israel’

Speaking on &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_5k6AJoNDs">The Breakfast Club</a>,&#8221; Temple University professor Marc Lamont Hill asserted that Fox News host Sean Hannity and former host Bill O&#8217;Reilly were as extremist and racist as anti-Semitic preacher Louis Farrakhan, and that the Israeli government bore responsibility for American police killing people.
Lamont Hill professed ignorance when he was asked if he was fired by CNN for his anti-Semitism, asserting, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know. They still haven&#8217;t told me that. They never told me it was anti-Semitic and it wasn&#8217;t anti-Semitic.&#8221;
Lamont Hill was fired after his comments at the United Nations, when he spoke of a free Palestine &#8220;from the river to the sea,&#8221; a phrase commonly used by anti-Semites to describe the extermination of the Jews living in Israel.
Asked if the phrase was offensive to the Jewish community, Lamont Hill replied, &#8220;I haven&#8217;t found that to be the case &#8230; I think there is a small sector of people who have a particular politics about that phrase.&#8221;
A host interjected, &#8220;That&#8217;s a lot more radical than your speech.&#8221;
Lamont Hill replied, &#8220;Right.&#8221; He added, &#8220;I want every part of the region to be free.&#8221; Lamont Hill did not mention that areas of Israel under the control of the Arab population are Judenrein. He continued, &#8220;There&#8217;s no way that black folk can be free if there&#8217;s folk on the continent that are unfree, in Latin America are unfree, or in Palestine that are unfree because we&#8217;re all oppressed by the same system.&#8221;
Host: &#8220;Many people are comparing this to apartheid, what&#8217;s going on in Palestine.&#8221;
Lamont Hill stated bluntly: &#8220;It is apartheid.&#8221;
Lamont Hill segued to discussing his association with the anti-Semitic and racist preacher Louis Farrakhan, saying that Farrakhan was no more extremist than Fox News host Sean Hannity and former host Bill O&#8217;Reilly:
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But for some reason, if you meet with Minister Farrakhan and you don&#8217;t throw him away wholesale, then you&#8217;re castigated in a way that doesn&#8217;t happen with anybody else. I worked on Fox News for many years. No one ever said, &#8220;Why are you meeting, why are you sitting with Bill O&#8217;Reilly? Why are you sitting with Sean Hannity? Why are you sitting with Ann Coulter?&#8221; No one ever said that.
And I&#8217;m not comparing Farrakhan to them except to say that if you think they&#8217;re extremist, well I think they&#8217;re extremist. So why is only set of people untouchable? Why does every black leader have to ritually denounce Farrakhan in order to sustain a position? That doesn&#8217;t happen to anyone else. Again, Mr. Farrakhan is my brother. We don&#8217;t agree on some issues that I&#8217;ve mentioned.
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Later in the broadcast, Lamont Hill attempted to blame the Israeli government for violence committed against the black community by police departments, asserting, &#8220;I can fight for black people here and struggle abroad but again, there&#8217;s a relationship between the two. The New York City police &#8212; they&#8217;re killing us but they&#8217;re trained by Israeli security forces.&#8221;
One host asked, &#8220;Really?&#8221;
Lamont Hill: &#8220;Yes! They&#8217;re being trained, New York City police and in other cities as well. So there&#8217;s a connection between the two. So I can&#8217;t stop one without the other. &#8230; There&#8217;s a relationship.&#8221;
A host commented that people would use the headline: &#8220;Mark Lamont Hill says that NYPD Police Officers are Killing People and They&#8217;re Trained By Israeli Jewish Security Forces.&#8221;
Lamont Hill responded by trying to make a distinction between the Israeli government and Jews, claiming there was a connection: &#8220;That&#8217;s what they&#8217;ll say, and now remember, I ain&#8217;t talking Jewish people; I&#8217;m talking about the Israeli state. This has nothing to do with Jewish people. I&#8217;m talking about the Israeli government.&#8221;
H/T <a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2018/12/17/after-cnn-firing-marc-lamont-hill-blames-israel-for-police-killings-of-black-people-opposes-renouncing-farrakhan/?utm_content=news1&amp;utm_medium=daily_email&amp;utm_campaign=email&amp;utm_source=internal/">The Algemeiner</a>

Lamont Hill Says Hannity And O’Reilly Are As Extremist As Farrakhan

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Hundreds of college professors and students are calling liberal news network CNN &#8220;racist&#8221; for firing Marc Lamont Hill after the Temple University professor called for a &#8220;free Palestine from the river to the sea,&#8221; a veiled phrase that is a call for the destruction of Israel.
&#8220;CNN&#8217;s response to Marc Lamont Hill was extremely unjust. CNN and Temple University should have celebrated Hill&#8217;s call for justice and equality, but instead used it as an opportunity to silence and intimidate those who criticise the state of Israel,&#8221; says <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xJ-9-bLEcsLSTiunou0yjlz3h9qToQz6FmlVX_V-Rdc/edit">the online letter</a> addressed to CNN.
&#8220;The racist nature of this incident should not be overlooked nor can it be excused. We are not alone in our deep disappointment in CNN for firing Marc Lamont Hill. It is for these reasons, that we, as supporters of justice and liberation for all, condemn CNN&#8217;s firing of Marc Lamont Hill. We believe in fairness and anti-racism and thus cannot stand idly by while CNN enacts blatant anti-Blackness and anti-Palestinian violence. We also urge Temple University to avoid repeating CNN&#8217;s mistake and to stand by Marc Lamont Hill&#8217;s right to speak for justice in Palestine.&#8221;
While the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) ripped Hill for using a United Nations speech to call for the establishment of Palestine &#8220;from the river to the sea,&#8221; the professors and students say the ADL &#8220;ignores Hill&#8217;s call for justice and conflates criticism of the Israeli state with anti-Semitism&#8221; which signatories assert is both factually incorrect and &#8220;extremely dangerous.&#8221;
&#8220;The ADL,&#8221; the letter adds, &#8220;has a long history with anti-Arab sentiment and Islamophobia&#8221; in addition to its current &#8220;complicity in the racist policing of Black communities.&#8221; The ADL&#8217;s criticism of Hill, the signatories claim, is &#8220;nothing short of racist.&#8221;
&#8220;Temple University Board Chairman Patrick O&#8217;Connor previously denounced Hill, suggesting that &#8216;people wanted to fire him right away&#8217; and that had Hill worked at a private company, administrators would have &#8216;tried to fire him immediately,&#8217; &#8221; <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11603">Campus Reform</a> reported.
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The Students for Justice in Palestine chapter at Temple University denounced O&#8217;Connor as racist due to his remark that Hill&#8217;s comments &#8220;unnecessarily blackened&#8221; the Temple name, saying that &#8220;the language used by O&#8217;Connor speaks for itself.&#8221;
The letter to CNN echoed this rhetoric. It claimed that a comment by Temple President Richard M. Englert painted Hill as a &#8220;threat that Temple University must remove&#8221; and that this move was not &#8220;fueled by anything other than racism.&#8221;
&#8220;Professor Hill does not represent Temple University, and his views are his own,&#8221; Englert had said. &#8220;Temple condemns in the strongest possible terms all anti-Semitic, racist or incendiary language, hate speech, calls to violence, and the disparagement of any person.&#8221;
&#8220;Policing black voices in academia and in public spaces,&#8221; the letter supporting Hill claimed, &#8220;is part of a much larger history of anti-Blackness.&#8221;
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Hill made his remarks while speaking during the United Nations International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, as first reported by Arutz Sheva.
&#8220;If we are in true solidarity, we must allow the Palestinian people the same range of opportunity and political possibility. We must recognize the right of an occupied people to defend themselves,&#8221; Hill said. &#8220;We must prioritize peace, but we must not romanticize or fetishize it. We must advocate and promote non-violence at every opportunity, but cannot endorse narrow politics of respectability that shames Palestinians for resisting, for refusing to do nothing in the face of state violence and ethnic cleansing.&#8221;
Hill concluded by saying that justice requires a &#8220;free Palestine from the river to the sea.&#8221; According to multiple reports, the phrase &#8220;Free Palestine from the River to the Sea&#8221; is a rallying cry often uttered by Hamas and other Islamic terrorist groups calling for the elimination of the Israeli state.
Campus Reform reported that Temple&#8217;s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter will hold an event on Thursday in support of Hill, dubbed &#8220;From the River to the Sea: Philly Stands with Marc Lamont Hill.&#8221;

Professors, Students: CNN ‘Racist’ For Firing Marc Lamont Hill After He Called For End Of Israel

When asked to identify the most common allegory of redemption, people often refer to the phoenix. According to Greek mythology, a phoenix combusts into flames and turns into ashes when its time has come to die. However, a newborn phoenix rises from the ashes of its predecessor and takes its mantle. This motif repeats itself in many modern cultures that analogize the rebirth of nation-states and empires, redemption of those from the clutches of darkness, and the renewal of values that may have been lost for a time but get reaffirmed by an awakening of the masses.
For the Jewish people, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/11815/real-story-chanukah-and-what-it-should-mean-jewish-elliott-hamilton">story</a> of Chanukah promulgates this theme in a manner that still remains evident over 2,000 years after the Maccabean Revolt. When the Seleucid Empire began to severely oppress the practice of Second Temple Judaism, the Jewish people in Judea found themselves at a critical turning point where a decision had to be made: Either the Jews of Judea would succumb to Hellenization and reject the teachings of G-d set forth to them at Mount Sinai upon receipt of the Torah or the Jews of Judea would have to revolt against the Seleucid Empire, liberate their land from Greek influence, and reconstitute the Jewish Kingdom that had been conquered and destroyed by the Babylonians centuries prior. There were no alternatives to either fate.
The Jewish people were divided at that time. Some had embraced the Hellenizer occupants of Judea and their ideologies, believing that they were more cosmopolitan, &#8220;sophisticated,&#8221; and universalist than the heavily rule-driven beliefs of Second Temple Judaism. The others remained committed to traditional Jewish values despite being subjected to draconian laws by King Antiochus IV that barred Jews from engaging in Jewish customs, including keeping Shabbos and studying the Torah. They were immensely oppressed by the Seleucid Empire, often forced to flee into caves and other hiding spots in order to continue practicing Judaism under the noses of their oppressors.
Before the Revolt, a cold civil war existed between both camps of Judean Jews where Hellenizer charlatans sparred with traditionalists on how to govern in Jerusalem. Once the latter began to revolt against the Seleucid Empire, the Hellenized Jews took up arms against their traditionalist brothers in an attempt to complete the process of Hellenization in the historic homeland of the Jewish people. For a moment in time, it seemed inevitable that the Jewish people and their traditional customs would combust in flames and never be resurrected. Fortunately, the traditionalist Jews led by Judah the Maccabee prevailed against the Seleucid Empire and their treasonous brethren, liberating Judea and constituting the Hasmonean Dynasty. The enemies of both the Jewish people and Jewish values crumbled as the eternal light of the Jewish people illuminated Jerusalem and reaffirmed their commitment to G-d and the values that He embedded in us.
Given the symbolism of Chanukah as one of Jewish redemption from the clutches of an anti-Semitic empire and their Jewish enablers, it comes as no surprise that enemies of the Jewish people often find themselves on the receiving end of poetic justice during this time of year. Take Marc Lamont Hill, the former CNN contributor and Temple University professor, who went to the United Useless Nations Headquarters and called for a free &#8220;Palestine&#8221; from the river to the sea. Hill is <a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/05/17/yes-marc-lamont-hill-is-an-antisemite/">no stranger to controversy</a> within the Jewish community and has made his anti-Zionist views adamantly clear to the rest of the world for years. His association with Louis Farrakhan is the tip of the iceberg compared to his belief that Israel&#8217;s use of the Iron Dome, the anti-missile defense system used to intercept Hamas rockets from landing in high population areas, was unfair since it took away Hamas&#8217;s military edge. This, as if the openly genocidal terrorist group ought to have the opportunity to shoot rockets into Israeli population centers. Despite the fact that former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke <a href="https://twitter.com/DrDavidDuke/status/1068647480320057345">emphatically agrees</a> with Marc Lamont Hill&#8217;s viewpoint on this subject, Hill never received the same degree of condemnation and scorn that Duke rightfully deserves for his own anti-Semitism.
However, his call for &#8220;Palestine&#8221; to be &#8220;free&#8221; from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea turned out to be the straw that broke the camel&#8217;s back. There was a reason that American Jews, including the liberal Jewish establishment, viscerally condemned Hill&#8217;s comments. &#8220;From the river to the sea&#8221; has been a staple in Palestinian-Arab terrorist propaganda since the &#8220;Palestine&#8221; Liberation Organization was founded in 1964. Jewish college students have heard this chant from pro-Hamas groups like Students of Justice in Palestine Jewish Persecution for over a decade. There is nothing to sugarcoat about its meaning and its intent. History provides the evidence of these facts.
Not long after international treaties <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/11948/breaking-down-israeli-occupation-myth-elliott-hamilton">codified</a> that a Jewish homeland would be constituted in Judea [known at that time as the Mandate of Palestine], <a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/hajj-amin-al-husayni-wartime-propagandist">Nazi war criminal</a> Hajj Amin al-Husseini spent decades seeking to undermine those international treaties, inciting genocidal violence against the Jews in the region, and aligned himself with Adolf Hitler to eradicate the Jewish people in the world. Just to provide an example of the Palestinian-Arab national movement&#8217;s historical hatred toward the Jews, al-Husseini <a href="http://www.thetower.org/article/how-the-mufti-of-jerusalem-created-the-permanent-problem-of-palestinian-violence/">wrote</a> the following to Nazi Germany&#8217;s Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop in 1943:
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But the Arabs see this Jewish immigration to their lands as a threat to their existential interests, something that causes me to turn your Excellency&#8217;s attention to this question and the damage it will cause to the Arabs. The friendly Arab people stood up without hesitation &#8230; in support of the Axis in this defensive war against communism and the Anglo-Saxons, and it expects its friends, the Axis powers &#8230; [to provide] the solution to the problem of world Jewry by means that will place the Jews under intense supervision and thus prevent the damage and danger expected from them.
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Al-Husseini&#8217;s genocidal intentions did not die with him, but rather remained part of PLO leader Yassar Arafat&#8217;s <a href="https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2004/11/11/the-father-of-modern-terrorism-the-true-legacy-of-yasser-arafat/">ultimate goal</a>. Thus, there is no honest, historically-based debate on the meaning of &#8220;from the River to the Sea&#8221;; it deliberately calls for the destruction of the Jewish state and for returning Islamic control to the land. For Marc Lamont Hill to suggest that it has anything to do with Israel returning to the indefensible 1949 Armistice Lines is to demonstrate that he is either a horrendous liar or an exceptional propagandist continuing the legacy of Nazi war criminals and their apologists. While CNN refused to articulate this point or condemn his anti-Semitism, Marc Lamont Hill lost his contract with the cable news network following his despicable comments at the Useless Nations Headquarters. To the Jewish people, this was vindication that those who openly call for our genocide will continue to receive the scorn they rightfully deserve. Much still needs to be done, but this is a good first step.
What is the lesson to be learned from this? The modern-day anti-Semites and their <a href="https://twitter.com/PeterBeinart/status/1068245289994194945">Jewish</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/JewishVoiceforPeace/videos/2237893946498041/">enablers</a> are the next generation of soon-to-be losers of a war against the Jews. As the story of Chanukah rightfully teaches us, there are G-dly forces at play that ensure that the Jewish people rise from the ashes of horrific oppression to reassert their covenant to G-d. What Antiochus IV refused to take into account was the willingness of the Maccabees to fight back against them and reclaim their Temple, Jerusalem, and their indigenous homeland. Like the Babylonians and the Philistines before them, the Seleucid Empire succumbed after attempting to oppress the Jewish people. Since the Maccabean Revolt, the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, the Roman Empire, the Umayyads, the Byzantine Empire, and other known tyrannical regimes that oppressed the Jews no longer exist. Nevertheless, the Jews have persisted and we will continue to remain regardless of how many times our enemies seek to wreak havoc on our lives. That is what the Jewish people celebrate during Chanukah and that should serve as a warning toward every Jew-hating psychopath in the world.
Chanukah Sameach to the Jewish people and may G-d bless and protect you all!

HAMILTON: Chanukah 2018: When Enemies of the Jewish People Paid The Price

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Last night on Fox&#8217;s &#8220;The Ingraham Angle,&#8221; Code Pink&#8217;s national co-director, Ariel Gold, defended Linda Sarsour, claiming that the Jewish community has &#8220;no greater ally&#8221; than she.
&#8220;You say that Linda Sarsour is an ally of the Jewish people, then why would Jewish Americans like Jonathan Greenblatt&#8212; he is the head of the Anti-Defamation League&#8212; have a real problem with her statements?&#8221; Laura Ingraham asked.
Gold responded by calling it &#8220;disgraceful&#8221; that Greenblatt is &#8220;spending his time going after people who are our real allies. After the attack on Jewish cemeteries, Linda Sarsour raised over $100,000 after the Pittsburgh massacre, she raised over $200,000.&#8221;
&#8220;We have no greater ally in the Jewish community in this time where anti-Semitism is dangerously on the rise than Linda Sarsour,&#8221; Gold said.
Gold went on to accuse the ADL of being on a &#8220;witch hunt&#8221; against Sarsour because she is a &#8220;strong, Palestinian, Muslim woman,&#8221; instead of &#8220;dealing with the fact that we have white nationalism in the Senate, in the House, and in the White House.&#8221;
Laughing, Ingraham asked her to clarify. 
&#8220;Name three white nationalist senators,&#8221; Ingraham said. 
&#8220;What about Shaun King?&#8221; Gold responded.
&#8220;Why is he a white nationalist? In the U.S. Senate? Shaun King?&#8221;
&#8220;In the House,&#8221; Gold clarified. 
&#8220;He is an activist for Black Lives Matter,&#8221; Ingraham responded.
&#8220;Sorry I might be referring to&#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;That&#8217;s all right,&#8221; Ingraham responded. 
Gold later clarified that she was referring to Representative Steve King (R-IA). 
Gold also went on to defend Marc Lamont Hill, who was recently fired from CNN for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/38855/cnn-commentator-who-called-elimination-israel-joseph-curl">implying </a>Israel should be eliminated when he used the slogan &#8220;free Palestine from the river to the sea,&#8221; which is commonly used by Hamas and other terrorist organizations that call for the elimination of the state of Israel.
&#8220;Marc Lamont Hill was clear that what he was discussing is that Palestinians deserve freedom, equality, and justice, just as Israelis do,&#8221; Gold said.
Ingraham asked, &#8220;Why is he hanging out with Farrakhan, would you hang out with Farrakhan?&#8221;
&#8220;I have no love for Farrakhan,&#8221; Gold responded.
&#8220;Okay, so why is the head of the Women&#8217;s March posing with him and why is the trio of fools at the Women&#8217;s March showing up at his Nation of Islam conferences? Why?&#8221; Ingraham asked.
&#8220;Linda Sarsour shows up for Jews. No one showed up after the Pittsburgh massacre,&#8221; Gold said.
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Gold took to Twitter later to call it &#8220;ridiculous&#8221; that she was the only Jew in the conversation and that Ingraham and the other guest, Michelle Malkin, &#8220;argued they, not me, were the authority on protecting Jews.&#8221;
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Ridiculous that I was the only Jew in the conversation last night on <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FoxNews</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/IngrahamAngle?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IngrahamAngle</a> but Laura and <a href="https://twitter.com/michellemalkin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@michellemalkin</a> argued they, not me, were the authority on protecting Jews. <a href="https://t.co/pJxNYjJF3S">pic.twitter.com/pJxNYjJF3S</a>
&#8212; Ariel Elyse (@ArielElyseGold) <a href="https://twitter.com/ArielElyseGold/status/1068487977813319682?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 30, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Code Pink: Linda Sarsour Is The Greatest Ally To The Jewish People

Code Pink

Linda Sarsour

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CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill, whose hatred of Israel was vehemently expressed on Wednesday when he implied to the United Nations that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/38814/watch-cnns-hill-appears-call-elimination-israel-ryan-saavedra">Israel should be destroyed</a>, has a long history of anti-Semitism.
Most recently, in May 2018, Hill implied Israelis were murderers in the <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-hill-palestine-israel-myths_us_5afc8e8fe4b0a59b4e001d8e">Huffington Post</a>, writing of the Palestinians, &#8220;This is about the 70-year struggle of a people who have been expelled, murdered, robbed, imprisoned and <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/how-israel-privatized-its-occupation-of-palestine/">occupied</a>.&#8221; He defended Palestinians&#8217; right to use violence against Israel but claimed Palestinians truly wanted peace, adding, &#8220;Occupied people have a legal and moral right to defend themselves. To ask them not to resist is to ask them to die quietly. Palestinians want peace.&#8221;
Hill continued by slamming Israel&#8217;s very right to exist: &#8220;By naturalizing the idea that nation-states have a &#8216;<a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/04/saudi-crown-prince-israel-has-a-right-to-exist.html">right to exist</a>,&#8217; we undermine our ability to offer a moral critique of Israel&#8217;s (or any settler-colony&#8217;s) origin story.&#8221; He continued with an outright lie, ignoring the fact that the Jewish state existed three thousand years ago, writing: &#8220;&#8230; the idea of nations and nationalism is relatively new.&#8221;
In May 2017, Hill ripped President Trump for calling on Palestinians to reject hatred and terrorism, tweeting, &#8220;Trump&#8217;s position on Israel/Palestine is repugnant. His call for Palestine to &#8216;reject hatred and terrorism&#8217; is offensive &amp; counterproductive.&#8221;
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Trump&#8217;s position on Israel/Palestine is repugnant. His call for Palestine to &#8220;reject hatred and terrorism&#8221; is offensive &amp; counterproductive.
&#8212; Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) <a href="https://twitter.com/marclamonthill/status/859905479178416129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 3, 2017</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/05/17/yes-marc-lamont-hill-is-an-antisemite/">The Algemeiner</a> commented:
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Hill later <a href="https://twitter.com/marclamonthill/status/863083640993067010">stated</a> in exchanges with other Twitter users that he found it &#8220;offensive to only call on Palestinians to &#8216;behave&#8217;, while normalizing/ ignoring the violence of the occupation;&#8221; he also <a href="https://twitter.com/marclamonthill/status/863081573737955328">rejected</a> it as &#8220;offensive&#8221; to compare &#8220;Palestinian resistance to settler-colonialism to the actions of ISIS.&#8221; He also <a href="https://twitter.com/marclamonthill/status/863081174201184256">declared</a>: &#8220;We all agree that hatred and terrorism are bad things. The issue is who gets to define each term, and under what conditions.&#8221;
Right&#8230;
Obviously, it&#8217;s appallingly presumptuous of Israelis to define it as &#8220;terrorism&#8221; when Palestinians murder and maim civilians who are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sbarro_restaurant_suicide_bombing">having pizza</a> for lunch, who <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passover_massacre">celebrate</a> Passover or attend services in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Jerusalem_synagogue_attack">a synagogue</a>, who <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Palestinian_suicide_attacks">ride</a> a bus, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2016_Tel_Aviv_shooting">go out</a> for dinner and entertainment, or just <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/30/13-year-old-israeli-girl-stabbed-to-death-in-her-bedroom/">go to sleep</a> in their bed at home. And , of course, it&#8217;s also terribly presumptuous of those Israelis to call it &#8220;hatred&#8221; when the murderous perpetrators of such attacks are celebrated by Palestinians as heroes &#8212; heroes who get handsomely <a href="http://jcpa.org/paying-salaries-terrorists-contradicts-palestinian-vows-peaceful-intentions/">paid</a> and have buildings or events named in their <a href="http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=448">honor</a>.
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In 2014, Hill tweeted that he opposed the occupation of Gaza:
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<a href="https://twitter.com/EileenHart1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@EileenHart1</a> I&#8217;m not anti israel. and i&#8217;ve fought, and continue to fight, anti-semitism my entire life. But i oppose occupation of Gaza
&#8212; Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) <a href="https://twitter.com/marclamonthill/status/499638522362748928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2014</a></blockquote>
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One problem: Israel left Gaza nine years before, in August 2005. Commenters also pointed out that Israel Defense Forces delivered tons of aid to Gaza, despite the fact that Gaza had been launching rockets into Israel since 2001, with the first hitting an Israeli city in 2002.
In 2004-5 alone, Jews killed by rockets from Gaza included Mordechai Yosepov, 49; Afik Zahavi, 4; Tiferet Tratner, 24; two infants on the eve of Sukkot in 2004; Israeli army Sgt. Michael Chizik, 21; Nissim Arbiv, 26; Ayala Abukasis, 17, who was left brain dead while attempting to shield her 11-year-old brother and later died from her injuries; and Dana Galkowicz, 22.
In 2008, when Fox News host Sean Hannity <a href="https://www.thewrap.com/louis-farrakhan-marc-lamont-hill-promotes-music-collection-photo-cnn-contributor/">confronted Hill</a> with the remarks of anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan, including calling Judaism a &#8220;gutter religion,&#8221; and asked Hill if he thought Farrakhan was an anti-Semite, Hill defended Farrakhan, saying, &#8220;I do not know whether he is an anti-Semite &#8230; those quotes are severely out of context.&#8221;
And of course, Lamont Hill doesn&#8217;t seem to care that Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas has made it clear that, unlike Israel, which has Arabs living within it, a Palestinian state would be ethnically cleansed of Jews, <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/170404">saying in 2013</a>, &#8220;In a final resolution, we would not see the presence of a single Israeli &#8211; civilian or soldier &#8211; on our lands.&#8221;

CNN Commentator Marc Lamont Hill’s Long History Of Anti-Semitism

Far-left CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill appeared to defend using violence to resist Israel and appeared to call for the elimination of Israel on Wednesday while speaking to the United Nations.
Hill made the remarks while speaking during the U.N.&#8217;s International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, as first reported by <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/255411" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Arutz Sheva</a>.
&#8220;Contrary to western mythology, black resistance to American apartheid did not come purely through Gandhi and non-violence,&#8221; Hill said. &#8220;Rather, slave revolts, self-defense, and tactics otherwise divergent from Dr. King or Mahatma Gandhi were equally important to preserving safety and attaining freedom.&#8221;
&#8220;If we are in true solidarity, we must allow the Palestinian people the same range of opportunity and political possibility. We must recognize the right of an occupied people to defend themselves,&#8221; Hill continued. &#8220;We must prioritize peace, but we must not romanticize or fetishize it. We must advocate and promote non-violence at every opportunity, but cannot endorse narrow politics of respectability that shames Palestinians for resisting, for refusing to do nothing in the face of state violence and ethnic cleansing.&#8221;
Hill concluded by saying that justice requires a &#8220;Free Palestine from the River to the Sea.&#8221;
According to multiple reports (<a href="https://freebeacon.com/national-security/cnn-commentator-endorses-palestinians-using-violence-to-resist-israel/">here</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/news/nation/242732/cnn-commentator-shouldnt-shame-palestinians-resisting-israel/">here</a>, and <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/cnn-commentator-calls-for-elimination-of-israel-endorses-violent-palestinian-resistance">here</a>), the phrase &#8220;Free Palestine from the River to the Sea&#8221; is a phrase that is commonly used by those who believe that Israel should be eliminated.
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CNN&#8217;s Marc Lamont Hill appears to call for violence against Israel and for the elimination of Israel, says, &#8220;Justice requires a free Palestine from the river to the sea.&#8221;
The phrase &#8220;from the river to the sea&#8221; is a phrase used by those who believe Israel should be eliminated. <a href="https://t.co/26TL205Ylb">pic.twitter.com/26TL205Ylb</a>
&#8212; Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1067926248154791936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 28, 2018</a></blockquote>
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As Philip Klein notes at the Washington Examiner, Hill has a <a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/05/17/yes-marc-lamont-hill-is-an-antisemite/">long history of anti-Semitism</a>. Hill so despises Israel that he revealed during his speech at the U.N. that he refuses to drink their water:
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CNN&#8217;s Marc Lamont Hill also said at the U.N. that he refuses to drink Israel&#8217;s water <a href="https://t.co/r5DbcX0Qdn">pic.twitter.com/r5DbcX0Qdn</a>
&#8212; Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1067937979497275392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 29, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Hill has been photographed with notorious anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan, who has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1984/07/17/us/farrakhan-again-describes-hitler-as-a-very-great-man.html">stated</a> that he believes Hitler was &#8220;a very great man.&#8221;
&#8220;Louis Farrakhan is using a photo with CNN contributor Marc Lamont Hill to promote a $260 box set of music on his Nation of Islam website,&#8221; <a href="https://www.thewrap.com/louis-farrakhan-marc-lamont-hill-promotes-music-collection-photo-cnn-contributor/">The Wrap</a> reported. &#8220;Hill, a political commentator for CNN touted on the site as &#8216;one of the leading intellectual voices in the country,&#8217; told The Wrap that he was not aware his image was being used for commercial purposes and will ask for its removal.&#8221;
The Wrap&#8217;s Jon Levine reported last month that &#8220;During an appearance on Fox News in 2008, Hill said he couldn&#8217;t be sure if Farrakhan was an &#8220;anti-semite&#8221; and that Farrakhan&#8217;s quote calling Judaism a &#8220;gutter religion&#8221; had been taken &#8220;out of context.&#8221;
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During an appearance on Fox News in 2008, Hill said he couldn&#8217;t be sure if Farrakhan was an &#8220;anti-semite&#8221; and that Farrakhan&#8217;s quote calling Judaism a &#8220;gutter religion&#8221; had been taken &#8220;out of context&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/HGT8qrXO2k">pic.twitter.com/HGT8qrXO2k</a>
&#8212; Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) <a href="https://twitter.com/LevineJonathan/status/1053322399972843520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2018</a></blockquote>
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On Monday, CNN contributor and Temple University professor Marc Lamont-Hill decided he wanted to celebrate the birthday of an accused cop-killer.
On Twitter:
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Thinking about Assata Shakur on her 71st birthday. She wrote the second book that changed (and saved) my life. She taught me about the value and power of Freedom Dreams. She showed me the&#8230; <a href="https://t.co/CHiTHZ9lgp">https://t.co/CHiTHZ9lgp</a>
&#8212; Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) <a href="https://twitter.com/marclamonthill/status/1018868202695094273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 16, 2018</a></blockquote>
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And the full quote on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BlS5hKylPlS/?utm_source=ig_twitter_share&amp;igshid=qgndm1ndulas">Instagram</a>:
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Thinking about Assata Shakur on her 71st birthday. She wrote the second book that changed (and saved) my life. She taught me about the value and power of Freedom Dreams. She showed me the beauty of struggle. And she proved that &#8220;a wall is just a wall. and nothing more at all. It can be broken down.&#8221; I pray for her continued safety and protection. I continue to work to demonstrate her innocence. And I implore the State to stop prosecuting an unjust and unfair campaign against one of our most treasured Freedom Fighters. Thank you Mama Assata. Wishing you 100 more ears! <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/palenquequeen/">#palenquequeen</a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/handsoffassata/">#handsoffassata</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/freeallpoliticalprisoners/">#freeallpoliticalprisoners</a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/everysingleone/">#everysingleone</a>
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For those who don&#8217;t know Shakur&#8217;s history: her birth name was JoAnne Deborah Byron. She married when she was almost 20; her husband for that year was Louis Chesimard so she became Joanne Chesimard. She began using the name Assata Olugbala Shakur in 1971, rejecting Joanne Chesimard as a &#8220;slave name.&#8221;
In the early 1970&#8217;s, she joined the Black Liberation Army, an offshoot of the Black Panthers. The Black Liberation Army attempted an armed struggle against the U.S. government by robbing banks and killing police officers and drug dealers.
As the FBI, which is offering a reward of up to $1,000,000 for information directly leading to Shakur&#8217;s apprehension, <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/wanted_terrorists/joanne-deborah-chesimard">states</a>:
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Joanne Chesimard is wanted for escaping from prison in Clinton, New Jersey, while serving a life sentence for murder. On May 2, 1973, Chesimard, who was part of a revolutionary extremist organization known as the Black Liberation Army, and two accomplices were stopped for a motor vehicle violation on the New Jersey Turnpike by two troopers with the New Jersey State Police. At the time, Chesimard was wanted for her involvement in several felonies, including bank robbery. Chesimard and her accomplices opened fire on the troopers. One trooper was wounded and the other was shot and killed execution-style at point-blank range. Chesimard fled the scene, but was subsequently apprehended. One of her accomplices was killed in the shoot-out and the other was also apprehended and remains in jail.
In 1977, Chesimard was found guilty of first degree murder, assault and battery of a police officer, assault with a dangerous weapon, assault with intent to kill, illegal possession of a weapon, and armed robbery. She was sentenced to life in prison. On November 2, 1979, Chesimard escaped from prison and lived underground before being located in Cuba in 1984. She is thought to currently still be living in Cuba.
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After President Trump was elected in November 2016, and some prominent black Americans met with him, Lamont Hill <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jan/17/marc-lamont-hill-bunch-of-mediocre-negroes-meeting/">snapped</a>, &#8220;It was a bunch of mediocre Negroes being dragged in front of TV as a photo-op for Donald Trump&#8217;s exploitative campaign against black people.&#8221;

CNN Commentator Celebrates Birthday Of Cop-Killer

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On Tuesday, a 16-year-old boy was attacked by a Texas man for wearing a &#8220;Make Again Great Again&#8221; hat at a San Antonio Whataburger restaurant. The suspect, identified as Kino Jimenez, 30, stole Hunter Richard&#8217;s hat, cussed him out, and threw a drink in his face.
The attack on the innocent teen was apparently comical to Temple University Professor and CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill. Replying to a tweet regarding the attack, Hill posted three cry-laughing emojis.
One of the boys accompanying Richard during the attack posted the video and explained via Twitter, &#8220;So went out for a 2am snack and my friend (wearing a MAGA hat) had his hat stolen and a drink thrown in his face (and mine, you can see my arms on the left of the video).&#8221;
Leftist podcaster Van Lathan quote-tweeted the post and suggested the teen deserved the attack because a &#8220;MAGA&#8221; hat &#8220;reads like a swastika.&#8221;
Hill then replied with the cry-laughing emojis:
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&#8212; Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) <a href="https://twitter.com/marclamonthill/status/1014781796834258945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 5, 2018</a></blockquote>
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And it didn&#8217;t stop there. Hill again expressed that it&#8217;s &#8220;a little harder to feel sympathy when someone gets Coca Cola thrown on him&#8221; when they wear a &#8220;MAGA&#8221; hat, which, to the professor, reflects &#8220;a movement that conjures racism, homophobia, xenophobia, etc.&#8221;
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I actually don&#8217;t advocate throwing drinks on people. Not at all. But yes, i think MAGA hats (deliberately) reflect a movement that conjures racism, homophobia, xenophobia, etc. So yes, it&#8217;s a little harder to feel sympathy when someone gets Coca Cola thrown on him. <a href="https://t.co/ASlATau2PF">https://t.co/ASlATau2PF</a>
&#8212; Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) <a href="https://twitter.com/marclamonthill/status/1014904101988167685?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 5, 2018</a></blockquote>
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This is incredibly disturbing, particularly at a time when harassment of Trump officials and Trump supporters have become frequent occurrences.
The attack on Richard comes in the wake of Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) calling for Trump administration officials to be harassed when seen out in public. &#8220;If you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd,&#8221; Waters <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/32232/watch-maxine-waters-calls-attacks-members-trump-ryan-saavedra">told</a> a California rally crowd, on June 23. &#8220;And you push back on them. Tell them they&#8217;re not welcome any more, anywhere! &#8230; God is on our side!&#8221;
Waters made the call for harassment the day after White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/32391/backlash-against-red-hen-booting-sarah-sanders-james-barrett">kicked out</a> of a restaurant because she works for President Trump. Since then, White House adviser Stephen Miller&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/32292/watch-activists-target-trump-advisers-home-pass-james-barrett">home</a> has been targeted by leftists decrying him as a &#8220;white nationalist&#8221;; Senate Majority Leader Mich McConnell and his wife, Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao, we&#8217;re <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/elaine-chao-blocks-protestors-husband-mitch-mcconnell">harassed</a> in D.C.; and last week, a Trump supporter was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/32539/man-maga-hat-denied-service-popular-seafood-joint-amanda-prestigiacomo">refused service</a> at a popular seafood restaurant in Canada.
Last year, there was an assassination attempt on Congressional Republicans by a deranged leftist on a baseball field in Virginia.

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