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NN political commentator Van Jones has apologised for remarks he made on HBO’s Overtime with Bill Maher after drawing backlash for appearing to joke about images of children in Gaza killed by Israel’s genocide.

On the programme, Jones argued that younger audiences view Israel differently because of what he described as a “massive disinformation campaign” run by “Iran and Qatar” on platforms such as TikTok and Instagram.

“If you are a young person, you open up your phone, and all you see is dead Gaza baby, dead Gaza baby, dead Gaza baby. That’s basically your own feed,” he said during the show.

Omar Suleiman, a prominent Muslim American scholar and activist, called the remarks “truly disgraceful and vile” in a post on X.

“I’m sorry dead Gaza babies bother you so much. Maybe tell the people paying you to put lipstick on a genocide to stop killing them,” Suleiman wrote.

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