CNN host Dana Bash slammed the leftist group Code Pink on Friday for trying to smear her as “a mouthpiece for the genocide in Gaza.”
The slam came after Code Pink members confronted Bash after she spoke at a synagogue in Philadelphia’s western suburbs on Thursday.
Watch the confrontation below:
Journalist @DanaBashCNN‘s disbelief when confronted with facts about Israel’s policies raises a critical question: If you’re informing the public, Dana, shouldn’t you start by informing yourself?
If not, you are just being a mouthpiece for the genocide in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/qWzTuz5Ftl
— CODEPINK (@codepink) November 15, 2024
In the video, a Code Pink member in a red jacket approaches Bash at the synagogue and starts lecturing her.
“I want to tell you that I am really upset at what I perceive to be your conflation of anti-Semitism with anti-Zionism,” the Code Pink member says. “This is not true. And that is very anti-Semitic and very dangerous to our Jewish community and our Jewish values when you do that. I just don’t know if you understand that you are being a mouthpiece for the genocide in Gaza. That is wrong. Genocide is the most anti-Semitic thing out there.”
“This woman is 90 years old,” she adds, pointing to a photo on her smartphone. “She’s a Holocaust survivor. She stands outside the White House every single day because she lost people in the Holocaust. And she’s aware that what is going on now is a holocaust. Do you have an answer for me? I’d really like to know.”
“I’m not here to debate,” Bash pushes back. “I will just say one thing: Being anti-Israel, anti-Israeli government is not anti-Semitic.”
“Okay, well, that’s what the protests are about on campus, and you cited them several times,” the Code Pink member replies, referencing the anti-Semitic protests that erupted across college campuses after the Oct. 7th terror attack and that continue to this day.
“No,” Bash responds before the member starts speaking over her.
“I have been at these protests,” the member says.
“Have you been to the ones at my house where they call me Zionist trash and call for the intifada against me?” Bash then asks.
“I’m not going to single out the extremists,” the Code Pink member replies. “You talked about the protests on campus.”
“Those are extremists,” Bash replies.
“Those are not anti-Semitic,” the Code Pink member says.
“There are many genuine pro-Palestinian protesters,” Bash responds. “What I am talking about is when people say ‘from the river to the sea,’ they want to do away with the state of Israel.”
The Code Pink member then accuses Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud government of also using this phrase, to which Bash responds with confusion and bewilderment.
Bash responded to the video a day earlier on Friday with the following scathing tweet:
You came to a place of Jewish worship, stood on the Bhima, near the holy Torah scroll, and pretended to be congregants.
You have no shame, no decency, and no clue what you’re talking about. https://t.co/PdqzcMjP4b— Dana Bash (@DanaBashCNN) November 15, 2024
“You came to a place of Jewish worship, stood on the Bhima, near the holy Torah scroll, and pretended to be congregants,” she wrote in her tweet. “You have no shame, no decency, and no clue what you’re talking about.”
Ouch!
As of Saturday morning, Code Pink’s video had been viewed nearly three million times but attracted only a meager 10,000 or so likes. Bash’s reply meanwhile boasted over 17,000 likes and nearly 3.5 million views.
Yet despite Bash’s tweet performing better, her replies were inundated with anti-Semites accusing her of being a “genocidal Zionist propagandist.”
Look:
Said the genocide denier.
— Alysha Byars (@Anbcageabctb) November 15, 2024
You compared pro Palestine students to nazis, lied about mass rape, and defamed Rashida Tlaib as an antisemite you disgusting ghoul
— barbarism critic ↔️✨ (@SxarletRed) November 15, 2024
You appeared on people’s TV screens and pretended Palestinians weren’t sexually assaulted in Detention Centers. Your lying ass network is DYING!
— Sabby Sabs (@SabbySabs2) November 16, 2024
No shame is when you made up a whole story about Rashida Tlaib because you’re in Islamophobe and then refused to apologize when the writer corrected your ass.
— B L A K E L E Y™℠©® LLC (@_iamblakeley) November 16, 2024
Dana Bash is a genocidal Zionist propagandist who should be protested wherever she goes. And if the Nuremberg principles were applied, both she and her Zionist CNN colleague Jake Tapper would be hanged for genocidal propaganda like Julius Streicher washttps://t.co/duHi33UMMN pic.twitter.com/BWOXNg6peQ
— ☀️ (@zei_squirrel) November 16, 2024
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