Sunny Hostin Defends Herself Against Possible “Hate Mail” After Criticizing Israel For Bombing Iran: “Criticizing The Israeli Government Is Not Anti-Semitic”

Sunny Hostin debated with her View co-hosts about the legality of Israel’s recent attacks on Iran, but shared a pointed disclaimer with their viewers to avoid backlash.

“By the way, I will say this so I don’t get a bunch of hate mail, criticizing the Israeli government is not anti-semitic, okay?” Hostin stated. “I am criticizing Benjamin Netanyahu, I am criticizing Israel, I am not an anti-semite. But under international criminal law, what is happening now is not legal. That’s the bottom line.”

She continued, “That’s what I think is very problematic because what people aren’t talking about is Israel preemptively struck Iran. So, I think the conversation would be very different if another country preemptively sent missiles to this country.”

Hostin and Joy Behar also debated whether Israel was right to take action against Iran, as Behar claimed that Iran has become “an actual existential threat to Israel.”

“That is fine but you have to do that legally. And under international criminal law, you are not supposed to do this,” Hostin maintained.

With a roll of her eyes, Behar then fired back, “I’m not sure Iran does things legally.”

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Hostin also pointed out that President Trump possibly set a dangerous precedent by threatening the leader of Iran.

“The current executive order says you cannot threaten nor can you kill the leader of another country. We really need to have a bird’s eye view of what’s going on. If that’s ok for Israel to do, if that’s okay for our president to do, is that okay for another country to do to us? That’s unsafe and illegal,” she stated.

Behar responded by asking, “What if Canada was threatening to build a nuclear bomb  and they threatened to kill us all?”

“You have to do it diplomatically, Joy. You cannot bomb a country,” Hostin replied. But Behar did not appear so sure.

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