Dana Bash, chief CNN political correspondent, denounced Code Pink after the anti-Israel group posted video footage of one of its members accosting Bash at Main Line Reform Temple, in the Philadelphia area, where she spoke on Thursday.
“What is going on now is a holocaust,” the Code Pink protester told Bash, accusing the Jewish CNN anchor of being “a mouthpiece for the genocide in Gaza.”
“I’m not here to debate,” Bash says in a video that Code Pink posted. “I will just say one thing. Being anti-Israel, anti-Israeli government, is not antisemitic.” When the agitator says that the protests on campus are anti-Israel, Bash asks if the woman has been to the protests outside her house, “where they call me ‘Zionist trash’ and call for the intifada against me?”
Bash, who co-anchors State of the Union and anchors Inside Politics on the network, later wrote, “You came to a place of Jewish worship, stood on the bimah, near the holy Torah scroll, and pretended to be congregants.”
“You have no shame, no decency, and no clue what you’re talking about,” she added.
Matt Brooks, CEO of the Republican Jewish Coalition, wrote that he was sorry that the anchor “had to be verbally confronted by the lunatic fringe at the shul where I grew up and was bar mitzvah-ed.”
Jill Stein, who ran for U.S. president as part of the Green Party, agreed with the protester.
