CNN fires pundit who called for elimination of Israel during his speech at the United Nations

"CNN has reportedly fired a contributor who called for the elimination of the Jewish State of Israel during a speech at the United Nations...

Marc Lamont Hill addressed the opening meeting of the United Nations commemoration of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People on Wednesday.

During his speech, Hill explicitly endorsed the BDS movement and said that 'justice requires' a 'Free Palestine from the River to the Sea,' a phrase that has long been used to call for the destruction of Israel and its replacement by a Palestinian Arab State. He also appeared to endorse violence against the State of Israel...

CNN confirmed to multiple news outlets on Thursday that Hill had been terminated. Marc Lamont Hill is no longer under contract with CNN,' the company said in an email...

Human rights activist Anne Bayefsky, Director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust and President of Human Rights Voices, who witnessed the event firsthand, stated: 'I have been watching the UN's so-called Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People for decades and this was an especially obscene UN moment that reveals the true nature of the anti-Israel and anti-Jewish animus of the modern United Nations.'

'CNN commentator and Temple University professor Marc Lamont Hill's call at the United Nations for the destruction of the Jewish state was not some accident. He didn't misspeak. He was an invited guest. He was the only person invited to speak as 'the' representative of 'civil society.' When he ended his extraordinary tirade with 'Give us a free Palestine from the river to the sea' his words were met by a round of applause. The only applause for any speaker,' she observed.

'The host and Chair of the 'UN Committee for the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People,' Senegalese Ambassador Cheikh Niang, thanked him profusely for his 'elegant words' & 'hailed civil society organizations.' There are no excuses for democratic nations to tolerate, to support and to finance a world organization that has profoundly corrupted its spirit and purpose.'"