Dr. Cornel West, a candidate for the 2024 presidential election, appeared to compare the Hamas attacks against Israel to slavery rebellions on Tuesday.
West said on “The Ingraham Angle” that he believes the attacks against Israeli civilians were atrocities and a “war crime.” However, West said that the occupation against Palestinians must end for the violence to finally cease. (RELATED: MSNBC Host, Palestinian Analyst Say Attacks On Israel Deserve ‘Context’, Blame Israel)
“Any time you kill innocent people … that’s a war crime,” West said.
He then suggested that Israel is culpable “and should have ended the occupation a long time ago.”
“We have to have some moral consistency here,” West later added.
West then appeared to draw comparisons of Hamas’ terrorism to slavery rebel Nat Turner.
“Did he kill some innocent white folk? He was wrong, but…
