Fox News: Former BLM activist criticizes ‘solidarity’ stance

On Wednesday night, Fox News discussed a Black Lives Matter group’s stance on Palestine and MSNBC spoke with a New York congressman about his family’s experience in Israel during the Hamas attacks.

Fox News — BLM Grassroots’ pro-Palestine stance

Tuesday on the “Ingraham Angle,” Laura Ingraham shared a social media post where Black Lives Matter Grassroots expressed solidarity with Palestine.

Black Lives Matter Grassroots aims to preserve the initial foundation of the BLM movement and bring its various chapters together under its name, according to the BLM Grassroots’ website.

Ingraham asked former BLM activist Xavier Durousseau if this surprised him.

“This doesn't surprise me at all,” he said. “There’s no such thing as being the good guy when you are beheading babies, and that is exactly what Hamas is doing.”

Laura Ingraham also shared a video of Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors in 2015 at Harvard Law, where she said, “What does the Black Lives Matter movement have to do with Palestine? I know a lot of people ask that. A lot of Black people ask that.”

Cullors continued, “We have to be a part of Palestinian solidarity. Palestine is our generation’s South Africa.”

Related

• Israel’s foreign policy advisor on plan of action and Iran’s response to the attacks

• Hillary Clinton’s ‘formal deprogramming’ of MAGA and accusations of ‘book banning’

MSNBC — Rep. Goldman’s experience while in Israel during attacks

On “The Last Word,” Lawrence O’Donnell spoke to Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., about being in Israel when Hamas attacked and if the United States had acted correctly in response.

“I do think that President Biden has shown incredible leadership and really demonstrated the solidarity that the United States has with Israel,” Goldman said.

According to Goldman, who has “thousands of people from my district who are stranded in Israel,” the State Department is actively working to get Americans in Israel home within the next two days.

O’Donnell then asked Goldman how he is teaching his children to cope with what they experienced “as they go through what I suppose in their lives, their first full sense of how Israel and Jews are threatened in this world.”

“Israelis deal with this from very young ages.” Goldman said, “It is, unfortunately, a fact of life over there to deal with bomb sirens. ... My kids have no idea much about war, much about any of that. So it’s been a process, and each of them are dealing with it differently, but it’s not over.”

Emphasizing just how real it was for his children, Goldman said his 9-year-old daughter awoke in the middle of the night Tuesday night with the fear that World War III was starting.