TV host and author Van Jones has apologised – sort of – for mocking “dead Gaza baby, dead Gaza baby” as an Iran-backed propaganda campaign. Jones, as this compilation by Complex News shows, was speaking to pro-Israel talk-show host Bill Maher when he dismissed the slaughter of Palestinian children, leading to a massive backlash:

Van Jones: “I messed up”

The mealy-mouthed apology was also widely and correctly attacked for its failure to genuinely address the horror of Israel’s mass murder of children and other civilians – and for failing to withdraw the nonsense claim that the images of dead children is “disinformation” by Iran and Qatar. He also omitted to mention who is killing the babies – the word ‘Israel’ appears nowhere, let alone alongside any condemnation of its extermination campaign:

Israel has murdered almost 700,000 people in Gaza in the two years of its genocide, according to medical and statistical experts – more than half of them under five years old. Jones’s description of his comments as “insensitive and hurtful” look like he was a lot more worried about the backlash he received than about the “dead Gaza baby, dead Gaza baby” Israeli production line of slaughter.

Poor old Van Jones, says nobody but Van Jones.

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By Skwawkbox

This post was originally published on Canary.