CNN anchor Dana Bash clashes with pro-Palestine protester who ambushed her at Jewish event

CNN anchor Dana Bash has deed backmost astatine pro-Palestinian protesters who confronted her astatine a synagogue claiming she was 'a mouthpiece for the genocide successful Gaza'.

Bash was astatine Main Line Reform Temple successful Philadelphia's occidental suburbs connected Thursday erstwhile she was ambushed by 'Liz', a Jewish activistic from Codepink.

After the protestation radical posted an edited video to societal media, Bash unleashed connected them successful a station connected Twitter.

'You came to a spot of Jewish worship, stood connected the Bhima, adjacent the beatified Torah scroll, and pretended to beryllium congregants,' she wrote.

'You person nary shame, nary decency, and nary hint what you’re talking about.'

Bash was determination for a post-election investigation lawsuit erstwhile Liz wandered implicit to her saying she was 'a subordinate of this community'.

'I privation to archer you I'm truly upset astatine what I comprehend to beryllium a conflation of anti-Semitism with anti-Zionism,' she said.

'This is conscionable not true, and that is precise anti-Semitic and precise unsafe to our Jewish assemblage and our Jewish values. 

'When you bash that, I conscionable don't cognize if you recognize that you are being a mouthpiece for the genocide successful Gaza. That is wrong. Genocide is the astir anti-Semitic happening retired there.'

Bash tried to leave, but stopped erstwhile Liz showed her thing connected her phone.

'This pistillate is 90 years old, she's a holocaust survivor. She stands extracurricular the White House each azygous time due to the fact that she mislaid radical successful the Holocaust and she's alert that what is going connected present is simply a Holocaust,' she said.

'Do you person an reply for me?'

Bash, yet capable to respond, said: 'I'm not present to debate. I volition conscionable accidental 1 thing. Being anti-Israel, anti-Israeli Government, is not anti-Semitic.'

Liz said the field protests astatine universities crossed the US earlier this twelvemonth were astir that, and she knew due to the fact that she had been to immoderate and objected to however Bash portrayed them.

'Have you been to the ones astatine my location wherever they telephone maine Zionist trash and telephone for the intifada against me?' Bash replied.

Intifada chiefly refers to Palestinian uprisings against Israeli occupation, but erstwhile utilized successful Arabic tin mean immoderate uprising.

Bash's location was picketed by protesters successful July, who shouted astatine her done a megaphone astir her sum of the UCLA protests.

Liz replied that she wasn't going to 'single retired the extremists' who picketed Bash's house, but insisted she was incorrect to accidental the field protests were.

The video past abruptly skipped to Bash saying determination were 'many genuine pro-Palestinian protests'.

'What I americium talking astir are erstwhile radical accidental "from the stream to the sea", they wanna bash distant with the authorities of Israel,' she said, earlier the video was chopped again.

'When they spell to my location and spell to different places...' she said, earlier Liz interrupted.

'Except that the Likud authorities says "from the stream to the sea",' she said, prompting a bemused 'what?' from Bash.

The video the showed footage of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking Hebrew and a translation claiming helium said the line.

Both hardline Israel and Palestinian groups privation their respective states to comprise the full country betwixt the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.

Some in Netanyahu's furniture accidental this to mean ne'er allowing a Palestinian state, and extremist Palestinian groups accidental it to mean the demolition of Israel.

Moderates connected some sides mostly privation a two-state solution and would ne'er usage the enactment arsenic a warfare cry, though immoderate usage it to mean state for each Palestinians successful the portion done their ain state alongside Israel.

After Bash returned occurrence connected Twitter, Liz made different video that was posted connected Codepink's channels to treble down.

Liz said she listened to Bash's speech and got upset due to the fact that she 'spent a batch of clip conflating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism'.

'I recovered that profoundly offensive. During you speech I judge you said "we Jews similar to argue, that's what we bash and we bash it nicely" - and that's precisely what I did with you.'

Liz said she bought a summons to the nationalist lawsuit and arsenic a Jew had each close to basal connected the Bhima - a raised level wherever the Torah is work from - 'to stock that beatified abstraction with you'.

She told Bash that they were taught increasing up that the Holocaust should ne'er hap again, and argued that shouldn't lone use to Jews but each of humanity.

'By refusing to amusement your humanity and usage your powerfulness arsenic a writer to outcry retired for the Palestinian people, you're the 1 who is betraying Jewish values, you're the 1 who is being anti-Semitic. That is shameful and indecent,' she said.

Bash's station was besides flooded with Twitter users calling her a 'genocidal Zionist propagandist' a 'propagandist for the murderous Zionist regime' and claimed she compared protesters to Nazis.

'If the Nuremberg principles were applied, some she and her Zionist CNN workfellow Jake Tapper would beryllium hanged for genocidal propaganda similar Julius Streicher was,' 1 wrote.

The seasoned broadcaster is often targeted by pro-Palestine and anti-Israel protesters, including astatine a Politics and Prose lawsuit successful September.

'After World War II, each azygous writer that was complicit successful their warfare crimes was charged. You beryllium down bars,' a protester shouted.

Bash, who is Jewish, appeared astatine the bookstore successful Washington DC to beforehand her caller book, America's Deadliest Election. 

Tapper, whose location has besides been picketed by protesters, defended her astatine the time, arguing she was targeted due to the fact that she was Jewish.

'There is thing astir her sum of the Israel-Hamas warfare that is antithetic from astir different quality coverage, covering some Jewish/Israeli and Palestinian pain,' helium wrote. 

'This harassment is antisemitism.'

Bash has often said it was tenable to protestation against however Israel conducted its subject enactment successful Gaza, but making Jewish students consciousness unsafe connected field was unacceptable.