In MSNBC appearances ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt accused the network of pushing pro-Hamas stories and compared recent Palestine events to a 1939 Nazi rally.
Anti-Defamation League (ADL) CEO Jonathan Greenblatt has already been on MSNBC multiple times this week to talk about Hamas and Israel.
During an October 9th appearance on the Morning Joe program he claimed that the network had been promoting the views of Hamas. “While I am sad and trying to cope, I’ll be honest. I am angry. I am angry with the world that allowed the dehumanization of Israelis and sanitized the terrorism of Hamas,” said Greenblatt. “I must say, I love this show, and I love this network, but I’ve got to ask, who’s writing the scripts? Hamas?”
“So I just think, like, guys get this story, right, and all these pictures of like, you know, missiles or the rubble in Gaza, please talk to the Israeli mothers and fathers who lost their children,” he continued. “And please stop calling this a retaliation. This is a defensive measure against an organization that is committed to one thing: killing Jews, not a peaceful resolution of a conflict, but murdering Jews. And if you’re wondering if I’m exaggerating, please, I beg of you, everyone watching and everyone at this network, just watch the footage.”
Greenblatt didn’t mention what specific segment offended him, but he could have been referencing an interview with former Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Diana Buttu. “While many of us were surprised, we actually shouldn’t really be surprised by what’s happening,” she told host Ali Velshi. “This is the natural consequence, unfortunately, of 56 years of military occupation and the denial of freedom.”
The next day Greenblatt was on the same show denouncing the recent New York City march in support of Palestine. He compared the event to the 1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden.
“These protests here in America, these pro-Hamas, pro-terror demonstrations. These are like pro-Nazi things in this country in the thirties,” said Greenblatt. “They will not be remembered well when history looks back because they are complicit. These accomplices, they are guilty for excusing and rationalizing the absolutely barbaric irrationality of terror.”
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STFU, Jonathan. Nobody who’s honest about what’s been going on has been saying this. I see you Begging the Question, and I’m not impressed.
Here’s an idea: fuck Israel, and fuck Hamas. The civilians on both sides are the ones who are losing, no matter which side ultimately “wins.”
Hamas were not justified doing what they did, and Israel has not been justified with the kinds of tactics they have been using. So fuck both of them, free Palestine, and work on a peace agreement.