CNN Claims ‘Free Palestine’ Protests CAUSED Israeli Embassy Staffers Shooting

"I saw the same thing in his eyes that I saw in the eyes of all the protesters at Columbia. Nothing different between him and them."

“What I saw in his eyes,” claimed Jonathan Epstein, a witness of the aftermath of the shooting of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington last week, “I saw the same thing in his eyes that I saw in the eyes of all the [student] protesters at Columbia. Nothing different between him and them.”

The CNN anchor interviewing him apparently felt no need to push back on these outrageous claims. But that’s normal for CNN: in the wake of the shooting, Dana Bash, who has never commented on the “Death to Arabs” chants or any of the countless hate crimes pro-Israel supporters have committed against Arab-Americans, had a similarly racist take.

“You heard the alleged killer saying ‘Free Palestine,’” she said on CNN’s Inside Politics. “We hear that on college campuses, and there are a lot of people who have been worried that that has been turned into a call to arms and violence. Others claim that it’s not.”

During a week in which Israel has burned children alive in schools and hospitals and kept starving refugees fenced and trapped in the hot sun, drawing serious comparisons to Nazi concentration camps, it’s more clear than ever that the ‘others’ she sarcastically mentions are correct: it’s not a call to arms. It means Free Palestine.

Also in this week’s Thursday Throwdown: the former Biden official who sponsored Israel’s genocide in Gaza is CALLING OUT the Trump administration (for not warmongering hard enough against Iran), another conservative British politician accidentally spills the truth about the US, and even staunch Israel supporters are abandoning the newest lie about the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a fake aid fund set up by Israel and the US, because it’s so fraudulent they don’t want to be associated with it.

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