> CNN has done the right thing.
Yes, but why?

There must be some sort of a litmus test for judging whether it was the right decision to fire her. Would she have been fired had she said something similar about someone like David Duke who is actually responsible for less real damage in terms of the results of his incitement to hate? Louis Farrakhan is not any less repulsive and hateful yet often I run into expressions of respect to him in the media. He was even interviewed rather schmoozingly by Larry King on CNN a few years ago. I'm afraid this move will only fuel the perceptions of a Jewish Lobby (and never mind the truth of the matter).

Somehow I don't feel it was right to fire her over this, especially after she explained what she said rather persuasively.

The older video clip Honest Reporting has from a previous update I believe -
(I clicked my way through the latest report and the one they reference and link to in that regarding her)
is more disturbing to me than this... in the older clip she almost sounds like an overjoyed cheerleader detailing how A-----L-------L the media outlets and social blog networks (which was the supposed pretext of her report the "latest" on the social networking sites) were showing disgust and rallying against Israel etc.... and then she adds how Israeli gov't may say "ab and c" but this is what all the networking and blogs etc... are saying about how bad Israel is etc.....

It's ridiculous! how openly biased she is in tha report her joy at bashing Israel almost can not be contained... as if she was the leader at a rally not a reporter...

So the fact they got her on this is good - but this doesn't even bather me as much to be honest.....
She's just stupid for tweeting that... but she got bold and careless believing she - as the Arab media "expert" was untouchable....

Noga,

I wouldn't worry about the ad hominem attacks on Jews. There will always be those who will use the "Jewish Lobby" or whatever as they lack facts on the ground.
The important thing is to get across to the public that the credibility of, for example, CNN staff is on the line.
That journalists don't get instant credibility just because they work for whatever media.

One must realize that journalists such as Nasr are aiding and abetting violence and are part of the problem and cannot be treated with kid gloves.
They in their bias are inciting towards further conflagrations and are prepared to sacrifice the Palestinians, as quickly as the Arab League is, to accomplish their agenda of ridding the world of Israel.

don't worry, I am sure there are a whole slew of
anti-Israel middle East "journalists"
waiting in the wings . . .

This multiculturalism is wonderful, isnt it? Empowering different cultures, attitudes, povs, and the people that hold them within the institutions of the West.

This is going to work out fantastic! Yes siree!

For every one who outwardly, who more overtly expresses her/his truer sentiments, there are likely several, perhaps more than we'd like to imagine, who do one of two things: 1) suppress their deeper/truer sentiments for fear of repercussions, or 2) more simply and no doubt more commonly are content to remain abstractedly incurious, apathetic, etc. in order to refrain from applying any more probity, any more probative conscientiousness to the subject.

They're all grovelling and you can guess the reason

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-theyre-all-grovelling-and-you-can-guess-the-reason-2028720.html