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Sky News Makes On-Air Apology After Presenter Compared Israel’s War In Gaza To The Holocaust


Sky News has made an on-air apology after presenter Belle Donati compared Israel’s war in Gaza to the Holocaust in an interview with former UN ambassador Danny Danon. In a live statement, Sky…

Sky News has made an on-air apology after presenter Belle Donati compared Israel’s war in Gaza to the Holocaust in an interview with former UN ambassador Danny Danon. In a live statement, Sky News presenter Jonathan Samuels said Donati’s comments on Friday were inappropriate and that the broadcaster was “unreservedly” sorry to viewers and Danon. During a heated exchange earlier in the day, Danon — who served as Israel’s ambassador to the UN from 2015 to 2020 — took issue with the way Donati characterized a Wall Street Journal op-ed he wrote in November.

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