Palestinian Protestor Tells CNN Reporter “You Are Not Welcome Here! F*** CNN!”

A Palestinian protestors located at the West Bank made it very clear he wasn’t fond of CNN’s presence at the West Bank.

As CNN anchor Sara Sidner’s made her way to a group of pro-Palestine protesters, a protestors shouted out “You are genocide supporters.”

The professor continued “You are not welcome here! Genocide supporters! F‑‑‑ CNN! F‑‑‑ CNN!”

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Palestinian demonstrators in occupied West Bank tell @sarasidnerCNN: “You are genocide supporters! You are not welcome here! Genocide supporters! F*ck CNN! Fuck CNN!”

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Here’s what The Hill reported:

CNN anchor Sara Sidner was confronted by an angry pro-Palestinian protestor while reporting Friday from the West Bank.

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As Sidner and her team were walking through the streets of Ramallah, where demonstrators have erupted in protest over what they say is Israel’s continued oppression and targeting of their people, a man ran up to the news anchor and began shouting at her.

“You are genocide supporters,” the man shouted in her face. “You are not welcome here! Genocide supporters!”
“F‑‑‑ CNN! F‑‑‑ CNN!” the man continued to scream, pointing his finger in Sidner’s face as a crowd of demonstrators gathered around her.

After the anchor was moved away by a security detail traveling with her crew, Sidner turned back to the camera and said, “All right, you see that people are very angry, they do not like the way that CNN has been reporting the story, you hear that.”

Sidner, wearing a heavy-duty helmet and bullet proof vest, appeared to tell a producer in her earpiece and the security guard escorting her away “we’re fine.”

CNN reporter Clarissa Ward also faced backlash.

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This brave Egyptian woman confronting CNN’s Clarissa Ward, calling out mainstream media outlets for repeating Israeli lies, whitewashing Israeli crimes and dehumanizing Palestinians in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/rrfQsabVVM

— sarah (@sahouraxo) October 20, 2023

“We are watching the result of your silence.”

A woman at the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Palestine’s Gaza confronts a CNN correspondent over the West’s biassed media coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict pic.twitter.com/a9RiGwNmZ4

— TRT World (@trtworld) October 20, 2023

Newsweek added these details:

Video showing a pro-Palestinian protester call CNN reporter Clarissa Ward “a puppet” over the network’s coverage of the war between Israel and Hamas has gone viral on social media.

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On October 7, Hamas led the deadliest Palestinian militant attack on Israel in history. Israel subsequently launched its heaviest ever airstrikes on Gaza, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declaring that his country is at war and cutting off supplies of food, fuel, electricity and medicine to Gaza. The war marks a significant escalation in the decades-long conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.

American media is facing renewed scrutiny over its coverage of the conflict, with supporters of the Palestinians making the case that much of the reporting has been too dismissive of their perspective on the matter.

Ward, CNN’s chief international correspondent who has been reporting from Israel amid the conflict, was pressed about the network’s coverage of it during a protest. Video of the confrontation has gone viral on social media, receiving hundreds of thousands of views on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, on Friday.