\u00ab\u00a0Marc Lamont Hill is no longer under contract with CNN,\u00a0\u00bb network says in a statement after the Temple University professor endorsed Palestinian violence<\/b>
\nCNN has officially fired Marc Lamont Hill as a contributor, the channel announced in a brief statement on Thursday after Hill told an audience at the United Nations that he supported violent Palestinian \u201cresistance\u201d to Israel.
\u201cMarc Lamont Hill is no longer under contract with CNN,\u201d said the network after refusing to respond to multiple inquires about the matter on Wednesday evening and Thursday morning.
Hill, a longtime critic of Israel and supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign, spoke at the United Nations on Wednesday, where he also echoed Hamas talking points calling for a Palestine \u201cfrom the river to the sea.\u201d
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Hamas is a terrorist organization that is committed to the destruction of Israel. Hill suggested at the United Nations that Palestinians could learn from \u201cslave revolts and self-defense and tactics otherwise divergent from Dr. King or Mahatma Gandhi.\u201d
\u201cContrary to western mythology, black resistance to American apartheid did not come purely through Gandhi and nonviolence,\u201d said Hill. \u201cIf 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.\u201d
\u201cWe 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,\u201d he added.
Hill concluded his remarks by calling for a free Palestine, \u201cfrom the river to the sea.\u201d The line has long been a rallying cry for Palestinian nationalists against the state of Israel, and has been used by Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal.
Hill spent most of Wednesday and Thursday on Twitter issuing denials and clarifications, saying his remarks had been misconstrued.
\u201cI believe in a single secular democratic state for everyone. This is the only way that historic Palestine will be free,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n