(JNS) — Christiane Amanpour, CNN chief international anchor, is being denounced and mocked widely for a recent social media post about Marwan Barghouti.
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“To many Israelis, he’s a terrorist. To many Palestinians, he’s their Mandela,” she wrote of the convicted murderer, widely believed to have directed the first and second intifadas, which killed and wounded thousands of Israeli civilians.
Marwan Barghouti was convicted on five counts of murder and one count of attempted murder for the killing of 4 Israelis and a Greek Orthodox priest during the Second Intifada.
We know what @amanpour thinks of Israelis, but at least she could show some compassion for the priest.
— Joel M. Petlin (@Joelmpetlin) March 7, 2024
Amanpour has previously apologized for comments about Jews and Israel. She said live on air that she “misspoke” 12 days after she said that Rabbi Leo Dee’s unarmed wife and two daughters were killed in a “shootout.”
“To many Jews, he’s a genocidal maniac. To many others, he’s a bohemian artist with a chic mustache, a love of animals, and a penchant for energetic speeches. Adolf Hitler’s story,” wrote David May, a research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
Arsen Ostrovsky, a human rights attorney and CEO of the International Legal Forum, wrote that Amanpour would never run such a segment about Osama bin Laden or Hitler. “But when it comes to Jewish lives, of course the standard is different,” he wrote.
Erielle Azerrad, a prominent attorney and writer, called Amanpour “a disgrace. Vile.”
“Barghouti led the second intifada, where Israeli civilians, including pregnant women and children, were blown up, stabbed and murdered,” Azerrad wrote.
“Marwan Barghouti was convicted on five counts of murder and one count of attempted murder for the killing of four Israelis and a Greek Orthodox priest during the Second Intifada,” wrote Joel Petlin, superintendent of the Kiryas Joel School District.
“We know what Amanpour thinks of Israelis, but at least she could show some compassion for the priest,” Petlin wrote.
She has always been an anti Israel, terrorist supporting kalba.
To Amanpour. May all answer ‘Aman’ that you soon find yourself alone, with an Israeli flag unknowingly glued to your back, somewhere with Barghouti and when he ‘pours’ his terrorism and abuse on you, we’ll all cheer your Mandella. BTW, South Africa crime post Mandella is in a sorry state and its leaders easily swayed to file false intl crime charges against other noble countries.
She has always been biased against Israel nothing new here
Hopefully this ugly female dog will have the same ending as her girlfriend Shireen Abu Akleh.
What do you expect from a low life whose husband is a Muslim who supports a one-state solution and a complete eradication of the Jewish state.
This machshefa deserves to live with her “Mandela” hero in an Islamic country. She how she enjoys being treated the way they treat women. May she share a room with him in Gehennom. May it come speedily in our days.
When you’re starving for victories and heroes like the PLO-Hamas terror entities are, schmutz like Bargouti are elevated to a “Mandela”, who achieved a new nation without brutal apartheid, without a shot fired in the transition. This terrorist is no Mandela.