(VINnews) — A CNN This Morning panel got heated during a discussion on violent and vicious pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses.
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Political commentator Jonah Goldberg (who is not Jewish but whose father is a Jew) found himself cut off when trying to call protesters who support Hamas and Hezbollah.
Sparks fly during CNN panel discussion of Columbia University protests.
"When you're praising Hamas, when you're praising Hezbollah, when you're saying you're gonna globalize the intifada…"
"Excuse me, I'm so sorry."
"Yeah?!" pic.twitter.com/KlbxmJTg1e
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“I think the antisemitism stuff, particularly Passover, is a big issue, legitimate issue to talk about. It’s a serious issue, and I think there’s a lot of antisemitic stuff going on out there. But when you’re saying you’re Hamas, when you’re praising Hamas, when you’re praising Hezbollah, when you’re saying you’re gonna globalize the intifada —” Goldberg said before fellow commentator Lulu Garcia-Navarro jumped in.
“Excuse me, I’m so sorry. I’m, no, I’m sorry,” Garcia-Navarro said to a surprised Goldberg, who insisted who wrap up his point.
“I’m going to finish my point, it means you’re pro-terrorist,” he said.
Garcia-Navarro claimed some quotes out of protests are not from the demonstrators themselves.
“They are selective quotes that are being taken off and not from students themselves in the encampments in Columbia that they have said this. There are Jewish students who are actually part of this, and they are being used to —” she said before Goldberg tried to jump back in.
Garcia-Navarro did not let him.
“You didn’t let me finish my point, but go ahead,” he said.
Garcia-Navarro went on to criticize calls for police involvement on college campuses.
“Hold on,” CNN This Morning anchor Kasie Hunt said. “If there are, if the people in those encampments — whether they’re the Columbia students or not — if the university can clear them from that encampment, then that is something the university can do.”
Goldberg finally jumped back in to say he’s faced plenty of backlash for calling out antisemitism on the right, and he argued he sees far less of it from the left.
“I question the wisdom of having a double standard that says it’s okay to shout hateful terror, pro-terrorist things at Jews, but you can’t, you have to have —” he said as Garcia-Navarro jumped in.
“No one is endorsing that,” she said.
“A lot of people are endorsing that,” a shocked Goldberg said.
“No one here,” Garcia-Navarro said.
Goldberg called for more condemnations from “Squad-adjacent” Democrats.
“I’ve spent, I got a lot of scars from calling out horrible standbys on the right over the last ten years. I call out antisemitism and bigotry all the time on the right,” he said. “I don’t hear a lot of that from sort of Squad-adjacent type people calling out this stuff on the left.”
Yonasan Herschlag, why brew hatred and antisemitism albeit with a dark stripe! You are dead wrong! Didn’t your friends from Chusan show you that on that dreadful morning? These are animals.
The Israeli intelligence and military leaders are fully aware that a long drawn out conflict with unrelenting suffering of the enemy civilian masses will bring out violent anti-semitism world wide. As of yet non of the top echelon have presented “the-day-after” with a solution that would provide security. These people in control now are the same ones that gave the orders to empty the Nachal Oz and Re’eim army bases two days before October seventh, and give stand down orders for many hours for the 20,000 troops nearby.
No elected leader has the authority to replace Shabak director Ronen Bar, Mosad director David Barnea, or IDF Chief of staff Hrezi Halevi. No elected leader has access to security intelligence other than what Bar and Barnea decide to reveal. No elected leader has access to genuine intelligence sources to be able to dispute what Bar and Barnea present.
No one reading this has any inclination who appointed Bar and Barnea to be in charge of all security decissions.