ABC’s The View kicked off their first post-Thanksgiving break show with a bang, featuring racist and anti-Semitic co-host Sunny Hostin openly bragging about getting her news of the Israel-Hamas War from anti-Semitic/pro-Hamas news outlets like Qatar-based Al Jazeera (Qatar funds Hamas’s terrorism) and the U.K.-based BBC. On the bright side, co-hosts Alyssa Farah Griffin and Sara Haines called out left-wing women’s groups that have refused to condemn Hamas’s use of sexual violence against Israeli women.
Hostin began her comments with a lamenting lecture about how “it's unfortunate that people have taken such sides here because this is something that has been going on for decades.” Given her previous comments in support of Hamas, she was upset with people taking Israel’s side.
She followed up by huffing about the videos coming out of Israeli families being partially reunited with loved ones abducted by Hamas terrorists on October 7. She falsely suggested the people Israel was releasing were hostages of equal measure, despite the fact they were imprisoned for terrorist activities. She went on to demand that American media cover those “reunifications” too:
And we did show the reunification of Jewish families, and I think that was really important, especially little Abigail. I'm a mother. I can't imagine having your child taken from you and held hostage by a terrorist organization. But we -- also, there were, you know, 76 Palestinians including women and children that were being held in Israel with no understanding of why they were being held, no administrative hearings. And so those -- those reunifications are something that we should also be looking at and talking about.
There’s no way Hostin could feel what Abigail’s mother was feeling because Hamas murdered her (and her husband) in front of her child.
When pressed on whether there were media outlets in Gaza to cover what she wanted, Hostin bragged about watching pro-Hamas outlets and encouraged the audience to do the same. “I try to watch the BBC, I try to watch Al Jazeera. I try to get my news everywhere, and I think everyone should,” she declared.
Hostin went on to whine about how “ceasefire” had become “a bad word now” and suddenly believed that all lives matter. “When are we going to really meet at the table and understand that all lives in this situation are being affected, and we must have a two-state solution,” the decolonization advocate shouted.
Before Hostin went on her pro-Hamas screed (yet again), Farah Griffin called out the “silence from women's groups in this country about rape being used as an act of war in this attack.” “The fact that sexual violence was used against Israeli women and the major women's groups in this country have not come out and denounced it,” she added.
Haines agreed and suggested those “progressive groups” were coming into conflict with the freedom of religion. “[T]heir ideas of what women should have kind of ends because they can't remedy the honoring the freedom of religion and also welcoming the liberties and freedom that is everyone should have, girls and women across this globe,” she argued.
Moderator Whoopi Goldberg ridiculously suggested they were being silent as a way of protecting the women in Hamas captivity and not to “exacerbate” their situation.
Sara Haines agrees with Alyssa. She says those "progressive groups" are unable to reconcile with the freedom of religion:
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The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
November 27, 2023
11:05:16 a.m. Eastern(…)
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: One thing I want to say before I pass the ball is, I am still devastated – we're two months since this war has been under way – by silence from women's groups in this country about rape being used as an act of war in this attack. The fact that sexual violence was used against Israeli women and the major women's groups in this country have not come out and denounced it.
This weekend, Sheryl Sandberg put out a gripping video calling for it.
That violates every rule of warfare. It is the height of immorality and the fact that the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Women Empowerment has been silent, the U.N. Committee on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women has been silent, and the International Me Too movement has been silent.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Perhaps the same reason they have been silent is for the same reason that you just described. They don't want to exacerbate.
FARAH GRIFFIN: Hopefully.
GOLDBERG: Well, they don't want to exacerbate. Listen, I know that this is really hard for people to sit still with.
(…)
11:07:01 a.m. Eastern
SARA HAINES: Well, I also think that some of that, Alyssa, what you are addressing is the progressive groups bumping into their open cause. When it bumps into religion, their ideas of what women should have kind of ends because they can't remedy the honoring the freedom of religion and also welcoming the liberties and freedom that is everyone should have, girls and women across this globe.
(…)
11:09:32 a.m. Eastern
SUNNY HOSTIN: I think that it's unfortunate that people have taken such sides here because this is something that has been going on for decades. Right? And we did show the reunification of Jewish families, and I think that was really important, especially little Abigail. I'm a mother. I can't imagine having your child taken from you and held hostage by a terrorist organization.
But we -- also, there were, you know, 76 Palestinians including women and children that were being held in Israel with no understanding of why they were being held, no administrative hearings. And so those -- those reunifications are something that we should also be looking at and talking about. I think that you're absolutely right, Whoopi. What happens --
ANA NAVARRO: Is media allowed in Gaza?
HOSTIN: Yes, there is media in Gaza because I've seen these videos.
NAVARRO: There is?
HOSITN: I try to watch the BBC, I try to watch Al Jazeera.
[Crosstalk about CNN being there too]
HOSTIN: I try to get my news everywhere, and I think everyone should.
And I think what's really important is what happens after this pause – because a “ceasefire” apparently is a bad word now. So, what happens after this humanitarian pause? Who is in charge? Who isn't in charge? Are we going to continue seeing this devastation in Gaza? [Says “Gaza” with an accent] Are we going to continue seeing these three Palestinian kids going -- college kids, one who knows my son's friend, okay?! When is that going to stop? When are we going to really meet at the table and understand that all lives in this situation are being affected, and we must have a two-state solution!
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