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Last Friday, 34-year CNN International veteran Jim Clancy went on a bizarre anti-Israel twitter rant which ended with him using the politically incorrect term "cripple." One week later he sent a short note to his colleagues announcing that he was leaving the network without giving a reason for his departure. Clancy deleted his entire twitter account before he announced his departure.

CNN's veteran news anchor and international correspondent Jim Clancy has provoked controversy after a series of bizarre anti-Israel tweets following Wednesday's deadly terrorist attack in Paris. Journalists throughout the world and from across the political spectrum reacted with horror at the slaughter of 12 people at Charlie Hebdo's Paris offices yesterday. The satirical magazine was targeted by Muslim extremists wielding Kalashnikov rifles, after years of threats and previous attacks by Islamists over several cartoons it published which mocked Islam and Muslim leaders - in addition to countless others mocking other religious and secular figures. Clancy, however, took exception to the...

Well, only if one counts rockets fired into Israel as “celebration.” The IDF struck targets in Gaza this week as Hamas continued firing rockets at civilian targets in Israel, which happened to coincide with the announcement of the Palestinian reconciliation agreement between Hamas and Fatah. CNN’s Jim Clancy spends four minutes discussing the agreement with PLO official Hanan Ashrawi without once mentioning the years-long rocket attacks from Gaza by Hamas, or even whether the PLO will push Hamas to stop the attacks now that it’s back in the Palestinian Authority government. However, as soon as former ambassador Dore Gold appears...

To: Jim Clancy clancy@cnn.com Where on earth does CNN get the “information” that there are “scores of civilians” (Jim Clancy this morning) in the air strike targeting Hamas? CNN admits that they are not allowed into Gaza because of the danger, so they “rely” on Arab “journalists” but mainly on Palestinian sources in Gaza for info, oh well, because the Pallywood is a new thing? they have not been known to add dead bodies in Jenin or to fake images as a whole? I realize that they have SOME kids dead, as this was Hamas’ (like Hezbollah's) intention when they...

It’s not every day that commentators like me get hate mail. Well, actually it is every day – but not from CNN!You mean, they can dish it out, but can’t take it? Apparently, someone at CNN thought I was being unfair. To whom? To CNN. A million clichés come to mind, foremost – how does it feel?I should have seen this coming. I’d been warned, by people in high places, to watch out since the serialized newsroom novel I’ve got running on Amazon.com (“The Bathsheba Deadline”) has offended some people in journalism for being so critical of (left-wing) journalism. I...