By Al Mayadeen
May 20, 2026
World figures including Yvette Cooper, Jake Tapper, and Marjorie Taylor Greene condemn Itamar Ben-Gvir’s call for “all of Lebanon to burn.”
The backlash also drew commentary on what the remarks revealed about Israeli political discourse itself. Writer and activist Alon Mizrahi who identifies as ex-Israeli wrote that the post “everyone is sharing aghast” is in fact “a perfectly normal and common Israeli view, held by millions,” adding that it reflects “the Israeli mainstream, and not extreme in the least,” and that he “grew up hearing that endlessly.”
US Republican Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene also condemned the remarks, calling Ben Gvir “a murdering psychopath” and writing, “how about no mother, of any kind, should shed a tear.”
CNN anchor Jake Tapper also weighed in, and described the post as “hideous,” writing that “Israeli National Security Minister Ben-Gvir, an anti-Arab racist zealot, says ‘all of Lebanon must burn.’ That’s almost 6 million people.”
Meanwhile, British broadcaster Piers Morgan asked, “How can anyone still support this Israeli govt when psychopathic monsters like Ben Gvir are ministers in it, advocating genocide in Lebanon? Disgusting.”
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