CNN host says ‘Jews also committed terrorist attacks’
CNN host Ashleigh Banfield used a puzzling argument on Tuesday when discussing Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s controversial remarks about banning Muslims from entering the United States.
Banfield was interviewing former Ronald Reagan White House administrator Jeffrey Lord about the comments, when she asked him whether Jews should also be banned from entering America.
As the interview continued, Banfield claimed that Jews had also committed terrorist attacks on American soil.
“If you supplant the word ‘Jews’ for ‘Muslims’ in a lot of the rhetoric that we’ve had this morning, I think people would find it sort of cringe-worthy and reminiscent of a really ugly time in our history,” she told Lord, who noted in response that “there are no Jews that are coming in here to destroy America. They’re coming here to get away from these people.”
Banfield interrupted Lord and referenced to a congressional testimony by former TSA administrator John Pistole, in which he cited 18 known [so-called] “terrorist attacks” committed on American soil between 1980 and 1985, allegedly by the Jewish Defense League.
“What are you talking about? There have been Jewish terrorist attacks. Should we therefore ask no Jews to please apply for a visa?” she continued.
Lord then replied, “Are you really saying to me that there’s an international Jewish conspiracy to take over the world?”
Banfield replied and again claimed Jews have been perpetrators of terrorist attacks as have Muslims, but no one has suggested denying them entry to the U.S.
“The majority [of Muslims] are not crazy like that,” she added.
CNN is notorious for its anti-Israel coverage, most recently two weeks ago when the network posted a news article on its website in which Israel was literally wiped off the map.
The article, titled, “Beyond ISIS: 2016’s scariest geopolitical hot spots,” featured a graphic of the Middle East in which Israel is replaced with a red square marking the country of “Palestina.”
