‘They’re Being Shot in the Street!’ CNN’s Scott Jennings Brawls With Cornel West Over Israel

CNN’s Scott Jennings brawled with far-left academic Cornel West over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Monday’s edition of CNN NewsNight.

The sparring session began with a Jennings monologue about President Donald Trump’s peace deal, Hamas’ atrocities, and the Israeli hostages finally returned to their families earlier that day.

“Hamas is going around and executing some Palestinians right now, torturing them in the streets. And apparently they plan to execute more tomorrow. I mean these are bad people, and the idea that they’re gonna de-radicalize or willingly give up their arms, I’m skeptical of. So I worry for the Palestinians actually because of what Hamas is now doing to them inside of Gaza,” he began. “But I, you know, I’ve been wearing this pin for two straight years waiting for these hostages to come home and I’ve been waiting to take it off. And I’m gonna take it off tonight because the 20 people came out. And I met some of the families earlier this year and I’ve been following their stories quite closely. And I’m gonna replace it with an American pin, American flag pin, because in my opinion, this was a huge victory for the American people led by our president.”

“But it was only through the power and the force of will of the president of the United States that 20 people returned to their families, that we have the beginnings of the possibility of a peaceful era in the Middle East. And that maybe a future can be had by millions upon millions of people in a place where it’s sometimes hard to visualize a future. And so I couldn’t be prouder to be an American tonight because without the United States and without our president, this doesn’t happen,” added Jennings.

“But Brother Scott, are you concerned about the Palestinians? Can you take that off of the Palestinians and all of their suffering?” asked West after Jennings finished.

“Well, I’m concerned about what’s happening to them right now. They’re being shot in the street by Hamas,” replied the conservative commentator.

“Well, they’re under occupation, and they just had 20,000 babies killed in 23 months,” shot back West, who then asked, “Do you believe that a hostage on the-, by Palestinians has the same value as a Palestinian incarcerated?”

“I don’t regard some of the people that were in prison in Israel to be hostages. These were terrorists that we had to let go in order to get these 20 people back. The 20 living hostages did nothing wrong. Many, as Abby pointed out in her monologue, of the Palestinians wanted released, are absolute terrorists who killed many, many people,” answered Jennings.

“Majority have no trial, and have had no due process,” contended West.

“But these 20 people did nothing. The people taken on October the 7th were purely innocent!” replied Jennings.

Watch above via CNN.