Back in 2018, academic and CNN contributor Marc Lamont Hill actually managed to get kicked off of CNN. It was a few days after a conference where he said, "We must 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." Hill also repeated a Hamas rallying cry that we're hearing in the streets today:
And here it is, Marc Lamont Hill calling for a "free Palestine from the river to the sea" (video via @bennyavni) pic.twitter.com/E7ugrByKyf
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) November 28, 2018
Not long after, CNN dropped him with a brief statement that said nothing about Israel.
According to Google, Hill is now a professor of urban education at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City and the host of UpFront on Al Jazeera English. Christopher Rufo takes us back to 2015, though, when Hill went to the West Bank on a trip sponsored by Black Lives Matter:
In 2015, BLM co-founder Patrice Cullors led a delegation to the West Bank featuring Marc Lamont Hill, who said that the land was "stolen by greed" and that the law was "written in the blood of the innocent." He cheered on "revolutionary struggle" from "Ferguson to Palestine." pic.twitter.com/GbK7cmC7So
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) October 17, 2023
BLM, DSA, and academic "decolonization" theorists have always supported, excused, or rationalized violent revolution against Israel—and against the West.
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) October 17, 2023
Who currently employs this garbage person?
— JWF (@JammieWF) October 17, 2023
“I like superimposing the American race conflict on the Middle East where it doesn’t apply.” - Marc Lamont Hill
— Colin Reese (@COLINREESE) October 17, 2023
@marclamonthill approves of palenstine/Hamas/Hezbollah and this occupation has only been occurring for a few decades, not over a thousand years, time starts when he says it starts on this issue.
— King Richard (@HunterRichRach) October 17, 2023
Marc Lamont Hill could teach a master class in race hustling.
— Big Mook (@themook_99) October 17, 2023
I knew @marclamonthill was an anti-semitic asshole, but I didn't know he was this big an anti-semitic asshole.
— IncognegroNeville 🇯🇲🇺🇸 (@FormerlyCBM) October 17, 2023
It's almost like they were trying to tell us who they are from the beginning.
— thelonghop (@thelonghop) October 17, 2023
This shows how the far left has lost its principles.
— Michael Tastad (@michaeltastad) October 17, 2023
Just as an engineering firm should think from first principles up, a social movement should create moral principles and think up from there.
Instead, the far left picks who they see as the underdog. Moral laziness.
People filled with hatred talking about freedom.. code language for gaining power a la Marx, seize the oppressors and kill them.. they want violence.. losers, don’t have anything else going on on their lives than hating others
— Rita di Cascia (@C10055879C) October 17, 2023
What % of corporate donations to BLM were funneled to Hamas? Does corporate America need to do full audit on their own, or should DOJ investigate?
— J McElroy (@J__McElroy) October 17, 2023
Disgusting part is @marclamonthill is advocating people take actions that result in their houses being destroyed, their towns being burned down, while the whole time never living where his words will do the most damage
— Orange Man BadAss (@SonGandalf) October 17, 2023
Long live the revolution I'm going to Starbucks BITCHES!
He has a show on Al Jazeera. Go figure.
— xFXBGr (@GAn1xVAn1) October 17, 2023
Another flashback, this one from 2015. Black Lives Matter and Hamas have always been good buds.
BLM founder Patrisse Cullors in 2015, calling for the eradication of Israel:
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) October 11, 2023
“Palestine is our generation’s South Africa…if we don’t step up boldly and courageously to end the imperialist project called Israel, we’re doomed."
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