The network's chief international anchor, Christiane Amanpour, made the comparison during her show's introduction on Thursday, prompting backlash on social media.
"This week, 82 years ago, Kristallnacht happened," Amanpour said. Kristallnacht, also known as the "Night of Broken Glass," occurred the night of November 9-10, 1938, when Nazis killed nearly 100 people and vandalized thousands of Jewish businesses and synagogues
"It was the Nazis' warning shot across the bow of our human civilization that led to genocide against a whole identity, and in that tower of burning books, it led to an attack on fact, knowledge, history and truth," the CNN anchor said.
Amanpour continued, "After four years of a modern-day assault on those same values by Donald Trump, the Biden-Harris team pledges a return to norms, including the truth."
StopAntisemitism.org, which describes itself as part of a nonprofit foundation that "works to hold antisemites accountable and to create consequences for their bigoted actions," called on CNN and Amanpour to "stop using the horrors of the Holocaust to justify an agenda."
Hey @CNN @camanpour please stop using the horrors of the Holocaust to justify an agenda.
— StopAntisemitism.org (@StopAntisemites) November 13, 2020
Our suffering is not yours to play political ping pong with. https://t.co/MIW2qKxuHP
The time has come for the corporate media to fire people like this; these media corporations must police themselves and their newsrooms. https://t.co/pXDaZcN5Tb
— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) November 13, 2020
Here we see CNN’s @camanpour pissing on the graves of the 6,000,000 Jews murdered by the Nazis. @CNNPR, you’re an absolute disgrace. pic.twitter.com/9ZXEdLTWTC
— Arthur Schwartz (@ArthurSchwartz) November 13, 2020
“Repulsive and misinformed” — Fox’s @JoeConchaTV calls out CNN’s Christiane Amanpour for her comparison of Trump and Nazis: “She needs to apologize.” pic.twitter.com/eBsH1ulnBm
— TV News HQ (@TVNewsHQ) November 14, 2020
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