CNN Photo Editor Resigns Over Anti-Semitic Tweets

CNN photo editor Mohammed Elshamy has resigned from his position at CNN due to a series of anti-Semitic tweets from 2011, according to a spokesperson from the network.

The tweets, which started to gain attention on Twitter on July 25, involved Elshamy writing on March 23, 2011, “More than 4 jewish pigs killed in #Jerusalem today by the Palestinian bomb explode,” a likely reference to the March 23, 2011 bombing at a Jerusalem bus stop that killed two people and injured 39 others.

Other tweets from Elshamy that emerged in 2011 included several instances of him tweeting favorably of Hamas and that “Israel is the main enemy for the people of Egypt and shall always remain despite rulers who lick Jewish legs.” CNN hired Elshamy in January.


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