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Channel 4 issues statement amid calls for Rachel Riley to be sacked over now-deleted tweet

Channel 4 has issued a statement amid calls on Twitter for Countdown star Rachel Riley to be sacked over her now-deleted tweet.

“In the second intifada over 1,000 Israelis were murdered in restaurants, on buses and in the streets by suicide bombings, stabbings, stoning, lynching, shooting rockets. My aim was to highlight the weekly calls for ‘intifada’ being tolerated in London and around the world, which in actuality means violence on our streets. Furthermore, she went on: “Sadly, the type of attack seen in Sydney yesterday is exactly the kind of violence the previous intifada involved and I hope to avoid in future.

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