Overview
- During a CNN NewsNight panel, Emma Vigeland said the U.S. under both Biden and Trump is complicit in a genocide in Gaza and has lost moral standing globally.
- Vigeland cited a claim of hundreds of thousands presumed dead in Gaza and attributed deaths to U.S.-supplied bombs, drawing on figures widely described in coverage as disputed.
- Scott Jennings forcefully rejected her comments as anti-Israel propaganda, stressing Israel’s status as a U.S. ally and pointing to Hamas’s October 7 atrocities and Israel’s right to self-defense.
- Vigeland referenced the Israeli rights group B’Tselem as labeling Israel’s actions genocidal, a characterization that remains contested in public debate and reporting.
- Host Abby Phillip curtailed further back-and-forth for time during a discussion initially focused on Russia’s war in Ukraine, after Vigeland linked U.S. Gaza policy to credibility on Ukraine.