Several days ago, HonestReporting exposed Idris Muktar Ibrahim, a CNN producer who proudly declared himself a supporter of “#TeamHitler” on Twitter while describing Hamas terrorists as “freedpm [sic] fighters… definding [sic] their land.”
After HonestReporting notified CNN of their producer’s offensive social media history, a spokesperson immediately assured us the matter was being investigated.
A deafening silence followed, however, leaving us wondering whether CNN was serious about dealing with an employee who glorified Adolf Hitler and lavished praise on a terrorist group.
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We called on our readers to contact CNN and urge the network broadcaster to take action against Idris Muktar Ibrahim. Within hours, a CNN spokesperson responded in an email to HonestReporting with the following statement:
Idris was employed as a freelancer by CNN. We were not aware of these tweets, which were published before we began working with him. We have informed him that we will no longer be working with him in the future.”
Ibrahim is just the latest in a series of journalists whose anti-Jewish views have been brought to light by our editorial team. Over the last three months alone, we uncovered four antisemitic, anti-Israel journalists and successfully convinced reputable outlets, including The New York Times, to cut ties with several of them (see here, here, and here).
HonestReporting executive director Gil Hoffman praised CNN for having no tolerance for antisemitism.
“We at HonestReporting will continue to make sure that those who call for the annihilation of the Jewish people will not report the news about the Jewish state,” Hoffman said. “Like The New York Times, CNN was right to acknowledge that antisemitism is not fit to print.”
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