Just three days ago, CNN released a story showing that there is widespread ignorance of the Holocaust and anti-Semitism is alive and well all across Europe. What is ironic about this is that one of CNN’s regular contributors, Mark Lamont Hill, has a long history of anti-Semitism and on Wednesday called for Israel’s elimination while endorsing Palestinian violence.

Mark Lamont Hill is pals with Al Sharpton and Louis Farrakhan, both of whom hate Israel. Hill also belongs to a group called the Dream Defenders whose entire premise is virulently anti-Israel. Furthermore, he is an ardent supporter of terrorist Rasmea Odeh whom he claims was unfairly convicted by Israel for her role in an Israeli supermarket bombing. Legal Insurrection’s William Jacobsen has written volumes on Odeh and her terrorist anti-Semitic screeds. It’s worth your time to read.

But as for Mark Lamont Hill, what he said and advocated for at the UN on Wednesday is incredibly concerning.

“Contrary to western mythology, black resistance to American apartheid did not come purely through Ghandi and nonviolence,” Hill said (see video below.) “Rather, slave revolts and self-defense and tactics otherwise divergent from Dr. King or Mahatma Gandhi were equally important to preserving safety and attaining freedom. If we are to operate in true solidarity with the Palestinian people, we must allow the Palestinian people the same range of opportunity and political possibility. If we are standing in solidarity with the Palestinian people, we must recognize the right of an occupied people to defend itself. We must prioritize peace, but we must not romanticize or fetishize it. We must advocate and promote nonviolence at every opportunity, but we cannot endorse a narrow politics of respectability that shames Palestinians for resisting, for refusing to do nothing in the face of state violence and ethnic cleansing.”

“Justice requires a free Palestine from the river to the sea,”Hill thunderously concluded. [Emphasis Added]

The entire speech is problematic given that Hill is literally standing up for Palestinian terrorists. Even more problematic is that last phrase. You see, that particular phrase has long been the rallying cry for every terrorist group (especially Hamas) who want Israel eliminated.

Of course, the UN and others were thrilled with Hill’s speech.

@marclamonthill speaking from the perspective of civil society, highlights the irony of the 70th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights and the unattained Rights of the Palestinian People. #Rights4Palestine #Palestineday watch now @UNWebTV @UNISPAL pic.twitter.com/I4qq1BwXNq

— UN CEIRPP (@UNISPAL) November 28, 2018

International Day of #Solidarity with the Palestinian People: @marclamonthill address @UN Trusteeship Council, outlines Israeli practices that routinely violate full array of Palestinian #humanrights, notes irony of celebrating #UDHR at 70 while continued impunity. Urgent moment pic.twitter.com/MsM2g8qCGO

— Katherine Gallagher (@katherga1) November 28, 2018

This speech was applauded while people want us to conveniently forget that Hamas/Palestinian terrorists launched hundreds of rockets from Palestine and the Gaza Strip into Israel just two weeks ago.

The timing of Hill’s speech given the results of CNN’s survey is somewhat laughable given that Hill is a regular on CNN.

.@brianstelter @JakeTapper7

Is @marclamonthill one of your #ReliableSources when he calls for the eradication of the State of Israel? What is #CNN's policy on violent eliminationist rhetoric? pic.twitter.com/xstYzXsJ5S

— Jim Hanson (@Uncle_Jimbo) November 29, 2018

What is their policy? Because right now, CNN seems to be endorsing Hill’s remarks.

I’ve never been naive about anti-Semitism in America, but honestly never thought I’d see a mainstream CNN guy and professor, on camera, shout “free Palestine from the river to the sea” at the UN, to thunderous applause, and see a collective shrug from even non-socialist liberals.

— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) November 29, 2018

Hill talked about prioritizing peace and nonviolence should be promoted. But he doesn’t call out Hamas for that. He calls out Israel. Tell me something. Is this peaceful?

The Gaza Strip, from which Israel unilaterally withdrew in 2005, is under the governance of Hamas, a terrorist organization that has fired thousands of rockets at Israeli civilians. The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank continues to pay bounties to terrorists who attack and kill Israelis and Americans. Part of the past Palestinian resistance includes the two violent “Intifadas,” from 1987 to 1993 and 2000 to 2005, respectively, in which thousands of Israeli civilians were killed in terrorist attacks such as suicide bombings.

As stated above, Hamas launched well over 500 rockets from Gaza into Israel just a few days ago. Is that peaceful? No. Absolutely not.

Marc Lamont Hill hates Israel and the Jewish people with every ounce of his being. His remarks to the UN on Wednesday and his long history of anti-semitism makes that abundantly clear. Furthermore, he is absolutely NOT interested in a two-state solution.

I believe in a single secular democratic state for everyone. This is the only way that historic Palestine will be free. https://t.co/6RXO7WfwG1

— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) November 28, 2018

Hill attempted to defend his remarks and in doing so essentially stated that his “river to the sea” comment has multiple definition and we are just misinterpreting it. No, I don’t think so. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the Simon Wiesenthal Center most certainly didn’t misinterpret his remarks.

Photo Credit: Screen grab of UNWatch’s YouTube video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvzSv28z97o

Mark Lamont Hill wants us to believe that he isn’t calling for Israel’s elimination and that he has been hard on Hamas. His support of Palestine and terrorists such as Rasmea Odeh say otherwise, and right now it seems CNN is ok with that.

UPDATE 4:25 pm ET:

CNN has announced that they are cutting ties with Marc Lamont Hill.

“Marc Lamont Hill is no longer under contract with CNN,” a CNN spokesperson told @Mediaite exclusively. https://t.co/RR9pV4k4a7

— Mediaite (@Mediaite) November 29, 2018

Neither CNN or Hill has not made an official statement as of this update, though CNN has confirmed the information to other news outlets via email.

Feature Photo Credit: Screen grab of UNWatch’s YouTube video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvzSv28z97o)