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CNN has fired commentator Marc Lamont Hill, after a speech he gave Wednesday where he called for the elimination of Israel and endorsed violent “resistance” from Palestinians.

“Marc Lamont Hill is no longer under contract with CNN,” a CNN spokesperson said in an emailed statement according to the Washington Examiner.

Hill’s comments urged countries to boycott Israel sparked an immediate backlash. Hill called for a “free Palestine from the river to the sea.” The phrase implies the replacement of Israel by a Palestine stretching from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea according to Mediaite. Although Hill denies 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.

The National Council of Young Israel and Anti-Defamation League deemed his comments were anti-Semitic.

However, Hill rejected those accusations of anti-semitism in several tweets:

I support Palestinian freedom. I support Palestinian self-determination. I am deeply critical of Israeli policy and practice. I do not support anti-Semitism, killing Jewish people, or any of the other things attributed to my speech. I have spent my life fighting these things. — Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) November 29, 2018

For more context here is more of what Hill had to say in his speech.

“Contrary to western mythology, black resistance to American apartheid did not come purely through Ghandi and nonviolence,” Hill said. “Rather, slave revolts and self-defense and tactics otherwise divergent from Dr. King or Mahatma Gandhi were equally important to preserving safety and attaining freedom. If we are to operate in true solidarity with the Palestinian people, we must allow the Palestinian people the same range of opportunity and political possibility. If we are standing in solidarity with the Palestinian people, we must recognize the right of an occupied people to defend itself. We must prioritize peace, but we must not romanticize or fetishize it. We must advocate and 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.”

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