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CNN’s Jim Clancy resigns after controversial Israel tweets | The Times of Israel
CNN’s Jim Clancy resigns after controversial Israel tweets
34-year veteran steps down after exchanges that began with assertion Charlie Hebdo cartoons didn’t mock Muhammad
By JTA January 17, 2015, 1:35 am 11
Jim Clancy speaking in a YouTube interview in 2010 (screen capture: YouTube/Roxanna Samii)
Veteran CNN anchor Jim Clancy stepped down on Friday, one week after a series of Twitter posts in which he mocked pro-Israel tweeters on a thread discussing the Charlie Hebdo massacre.
Neither CNN nor Jim Clancy gave a reason for his departure, which was reported byAdWeek. Clancy had worked at CNN for 34 years.
Although Clancy’s Twitter account no longer existed as of Thursday, the tweets have been preserved on a number of websites, including Twitchy and Mediaite, and by Tablet journalist Yair Rosenberg.
On Jan. 7, Clancy posted a tweet arguing that the cartoons posted by the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which was attacked last week by Islamist gunmen who killed 12, did not mock the Muslim prophet Muhammad.
“The cartoons NEVER mocked the Prophet,” he wrote. “They mocked how the COWARDS tried to distort his word. Pay attention.”
Challenged on the accuracy of the statement by Oren Kessler, a deputy director of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Clancy tweeted, “Hasbara?,” a Hebrew term used to describe public relations efforts by the Israeli government.
In the ensuing debate, Clancy argued that “Pro-Israel voice [sic] try to convince us that cartoonists were really anti Muslim” and accused a pair of Twitter accounts of being part of a public relations campaign for Israel. One of those accounts, called Jews Making News, is an anti-Semitic account “Dedicated to fingering #Jewish main players & their minions in news stories
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Americans know the truth. However speaking the truth has lifetime consequences. But its becoming growing phenomenona, Americans want to reclaim America from a certain establishment that's hijacking it. Salute to those brave Americans.
It's kind of funny that even he knows what hasbara is.
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Let's hope current tv/Al Jazeera have spot for him.
CNN’s Jim Clancy resigns after controversial Israel tweets
34-year veteran steps down after exchanges that began with assertion Charlie Hebdo cartoons didn’t mock Muhammad
By JTA January 17, 2015, 1:35 am 11
Jim Clancy speaking in a YouTube interview in 2010 (screen capture: YouTube/Roxanna Samii)
Veteran CNN anchor Jim Clancy stepped down on Friday, one week after a series of Twitter posts in which he mocked pro-Israel tweeters on a thread discussing the Charlie Hebdo massacre.
Neither CNN nor Jim Clancy gave a reason for his departure, which was reported byAdWeek. Clancy had worked at CNN for 34 years.
Although Clancy’s Twitter account no longer existed as of Thursday, the tweets have been preserved on a number of websites, including Twitchy and Mediaite, and by Tablet journalist Yair Rosenberg.
On Jan. 7, Clancy posted a tweet arguing that the cartoons posted by the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which was attacked last week by Islamist gunmen who killed 12, did not mock the Muslim prophet Muhammad.
“The cartoons NEVER mocked the Prophet,” he wrote. “They mocked how the COWARDS tried to distort his word. Pay attention.”
Challenged on the accuracy of the statement by Oren Kessler, a deputy director of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Clancy tweeted, “Hasbara?,” a Hebrew term used to describe public relations efforts by the Israeli government.
In the ensuing debate, Clancy argued that “Pro-Israel voice [sic] try to convince us that cartoonists were really anti Muslim” and accused a pair of Twitter accounts of being part of a public relations campaign for Israel. One of those accounts, called Jews Making News, is an anti-Semitic account “Dedicated to fingering #Jewish main players & their minions in news stories
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Americans know the truth. However speaking the truth has lifetime consequences. But its becoming growing phenomenona, Americans want to reclaim America from a certain establishment that's hijacking it. Salute to those brave Americans.
It's kind of funny that even he knows what hasbara is.
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Let's hope current tv/Al Jazeera have spot for him.
