Journalist shuts down Gaza genocide claim live on air
Glenna Milberg at Miami's WPLG Local 10 News stops Oliver Larkin mid-interview for saying Israel is committing genocide. Her pushback: "That is factually incorrect. That's propaganda."
When Larkin cites UN findings about deliberate targeting of civilians, hospital bombings, and imposed famine conditions, she cuts him off again. "That is factually not correct."
Here's what matters: she frames Israeli military aid as "taking away Israel's money" as if the US isn't pumping $3+ billion annually in taxpayer dollars to fund it. The framing treats US money as Israel's money, full stop. The interview wasn't a disagreement on facts. It was a live demonstration of how a major US news anchor treats documented harm to Palestinian civilians as "propaganda" while defending the guy authorizing the blockade.
Oliver Larkin gets stopped by journalist Glenna Milberg mid-interview after saying Israel is committing genocide in Gaza "That is factually incorrect. That's propaganda. The definition of genocide, and the UN has said this, does not apply to—what many people might think is a disproportionate wartime action—that's what that is. Genocide is a very specific thing, actually genocide being committed against Jewish people, not by Israel." Larkin responds, "The UN recently in Geneva found that the IDF had deliberately targeted women and children. There's been famine conditions imposed over the Gaza strip by the blockading of aid. There's been indiscriminate bombing of hospitals, of mosques, of churches—" "Again, I'm going to have to stop you, as that is factually not correct. I'm being told we have to wrap." Glenna Milberg is an Emmy Award-winning television journalist at Miami's WPLG Local 10 News
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