Palestinian Activists, Israel-Supporters Clash As Pressure Builds To Fire Left-Wing Professor Marc Lamont Hill

Daily Caller: Former CNN contributor Marc Lamont Hill is facing calls to resign from his Temple University professorship after comments he made about Israel and Palestine in a speech to the United Nations last month.

Hill, who teaches in the Media Studies and Production and Media & Communication departments, was fired from CNN on Nov. 29 for his remarks at the U.N. commemoration of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.

Hill advocated the use of violence against Israel in the name of freedom and said the international community must recognize Palestine’s right to defend itself.

“Tactics otherwise divergent from Dr. King or Gandhi were equally important to preserving safety and attaining freedom,” Hill said during the speech. “If we are in true solidarity, we must allow them the same range of opportunity and political possibility. We must recognize the right of an occupied people to defend themselves.”

“We must prioritize peace, but we must not romanticize or fetishize,” he continued. “We must promote non-violence at every opportunity, but cannot endorse narrow politics that shames Palestinians for resisting, for refusing to do nothing in ethnic cleansing. Justice requires a Free Palestine from the River to the Sea.”

“From the river to the sea” has been used to refer to the violent replacement of Israel with Palestine.

The Anti-Defamation League and other groups called for a boycott following the speech, and he was fired from CNN 24 hours later.  more here