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Full text of Max Blumenthal's tweet below:

"CNN went 2 hours today without showing any video of Gaza destruction, and did not include a single non-Jew in studio for 1.5 hours. The network made sure everyone in studio was a committed Zionist.

Its coverage began with the ardently Zionist
@jaketapper
repeatedly branding the Hamas attacks of October 7 as "the greatest loss of life of the Jewish people since the Holocaust" – as though the Israeli soldiers who were killed inside military bases while maintaining the siege of Gaza had been defenseless prisoners in Birkenau.

@WolfBlitzer
, a former staff researcher for AIPAC, appeared next to give a fawning interview to Israeli President Isaac Herzog. Herzog, who has declared the entire population of Gaza collectively responsible for Hamas' attacks, framed Israel's fight as "good versus evil."

Blitzer then tossed to
@DanaBashCNN
, the daughter of a rabbi and ex-wife of former CIA and Pentagon chief of staff Jeremy Bash, whose father was also a rabbi. Following the interview with Israel's president, Bash fluttered with emotion and delivered the mask-off moment: "The way that [Herzog] framed this as nothing more important that good versus evil was really telling, I thought."

Finally, after two hours of coverage uniformly echoing the Israeli government's hasbara, CNN featured its first non-Jewish in-studio personality. It was former DHS flack
@juliettekayyem
, a neoconservative Christian Arab who is raising her children Jewish with her Jewish husband. Kayyem previously advised the Israeli spyware firm, NSO Group, whose Pegasus malware has been used to spy on journalists and human rights activists around the world.

It needs to be acknowledged that CNN has handed its studio over to ideologically committed Zionists who have been raised to view Israel as their second country, and who are personally invested in Israel exacting blood vengeance on the population of Gaza, which they view with absolute contempt. They are weaponizing historical Jewish suffering to ensure political space for Israel to massacre Palestinian ghetto dwellers, and to enforce conformity to their hyper-sectarian line within the Beltway media. And it is clear that anyone inside the networks who questions this festival of unabashed Israeli militarism will face severe professional consequences."