BREAKING: CNN fires Marc Lamont Hill after anti-Semitic speech at the UN!

Marc Lamont Hill has now been fired from CNN after anti-Semitic comments he made at the UN this week in a speech on Israel and Palestine:

MEDIAITE – CNN severed ties with contributor Marc Lamont Hill on Thursday, following comments the university professor made in a speech at the United Nations.

“Marc Lamont Hill is no longer under contract with CNN,” a CNN spokesperson told Mediaite.

Hill urged countries to boycott Israel in a speech on Wednesday, calling for a “free Palestine from the river to the sea.” His comments sparked an immediate backlash, with many noting “from the river to the sea” is a phrase used by Hamas and other anti-Israel terror groups. Critics argue the phrase implies the replacement of Israel by a Palestine stretching from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea — though Hill disputes this characterization of his comments.

“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 in his speech.

Here’s the video of his comments:

CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill calls for the elimination of the State of Israel.

He says that "justice requires" a "free Palestine – from the river to the sea."

Will CNN allow this extreme, anti-Semitic opinion back on air?

You bet they will. pic.twitter.com/dRdXmmKRtb

— Benny (@bennyjohnson) November 29, 2018

You can’t just throw around the well-known terrorist phrase “from the river to the sea” without it bearing the very anti-Semitic connotation that it’s come to mean. It would be akin to me using the N-word in a pejorative sense and then saying I wasn’t using it to be offensive or refer to black people. Even Marc Lamont Hill wouldn’t let me get away with that.

No, he knew what he was doing when he used that phrase and CNN apparently knew it too and fired him.