On the Wednesday edition of his eponymous NewsNation show, host Chris Cuomo took a rare swipe at his former employer, CNN and seemingly storied chief international affairs correspondent Clarissa Ward for giving attention to a dubious group of purported “scholars” who claimed Israel was carrying out a “genocide” against Palestinians in Gaza. Cuomo blew up the erroneous accusations by pointing to the facts on the ground and how the group weren’t actually scholars and broke their own regulations in order to reach their conclusion.
Cuomo started his opening monologue lamenting how “it's hard to be reasonable” and “much easier to be rash and that's why we see such extreme positions all the time.”
He would build off that premise by turning his attention to the so-called International Association of Genocide Scholars, which issued a resolution asserting that Israel was committing a genocide. With images of Ward up on the screen, he noted that many people had sent him video of “an old colleague of mine at CNN” who was “calling out the lack of attention to it that we all have a responsibility.”
“Now, I respect this reporter tremendously and the situation that we are all witnessing. But the lack of attention, the responsibility is really about how faulty this resolution is and calling it out,” he countered.
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