Van Jones distances himself from CNN while making pro-Israel statements at antisemitism conference

I americium sitting astatine the Blue Square Alliance Against Hate Conference this week, listening to Van Jones, and I'm disappointed successful myself due to the fact that I'm not hating everything he's saying.

It starts with this: 

"I enactment for CNN," Jones says, "But I'm not CNN. I don't hold with everything CNN says oregon does."

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Van Jones attends the 85th Annual Peabody Awards astatine the Beverly Wilshire Hotel successful Beverly Hills, California, connected June 1, 2025. (Alberto Rodriguez/Variety via Getty Images)

Van Jones An Ally To Jews

I indispensable not beryllium good due to the fact that Jones was erstwhile appointed a "czar" successful the Obama administration, and the United States Congressional Record intelligibly paints him arsenic an avowed communist.

And I'm an big calved into communism who experienced it first-hand. So, I cognize radical successful America who praise communism contempt ne'er having lived that disastrous totalitarian acquisition are idiots. Actually, they're utile idiots, arsenic Lenin said.

Despite this, Jones is saying immoderate worldly that isn't outright wrong.

He shares with the assemblage astatine the Blue Square Alliance Against Hate league that helium visited Gaza successful 2002 and 2004 earlier Hamas took over. So helium understood the profound meaning of the Hamas onslaught connected Israel connected Oct. 7, 2023.

"You accidental Hamas to me, you're saying the Ku Klux Klan, the Nazis, I knew precisely what that radical is about," Jones says. "But past I realized astir cipher successful my satellite would cognize Hamas from hummus. They wouldn't person immoderate idea.

"Suddenly, I decided I person to measurement up and beryllium an state [to Israel]."

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Van Jones speaks onstage during 2025 ForbesBLK Summit astatine Ray Charles Performing Arts Center Morehouse College connected October 10, 2025 successful Atlanta, Georgia. (Paras Griffin/Getty Images)

USA Wouldn't Allow Mexican Rockets

Jones has done the mathematics connected Jews and, due to the fact that he's astatine an antisemitism symposium, helium shares however determination are lone astir 15.7 cardinal Jews connected Earth, with astir fractional of those successful Israel.

"You've got 15 cardinal Jews successful the world, fractional of them are successful Israel, surrounded, and getting rockets fired astatine them each day," Jones says. "Nobody successful the United States would perceive to folks successful Mexico saying, ‘Look, Texas utilized to beryllium Mexico. California utilized to beryllium Mexico. That’s stolen land, we privation it back. So present we're going occurrence rockets astatine your babies each day. And your kids person to aftermath up each greeting and look astatine their telephone to spot if it's harmless to spell outside, and you person to person a spot to fell successful your house.

"That would hap 1 clip here. If Mexico fired rockets up present 1 time, talking astir springiness america Texas back, Mexico would beryllium a parking lot."

Yes, mostly correct.

Except, of course, determination decidedly person been Mexicans protesting ICE actions, flying Mexican flags and saying California and Texas were stolen from them. No 1 is firing rockets, but Univision anchor Maria Elena Salinas said "all the Southwest is Mexico."

And she said it unchallenged connected the aforesaid CNN Jones works for but connected Thursday disavowed.

We digress.

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Van Jones attends "The Morning Show" Season 4 premiere astatine the Museum of Modern Art, successful New York City, connected Sept. 9, 2025. (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)

Jones: Protecting Jews Most Important

"So," Jones says, "the thought Jews are expected to unrecorded nether this changeless authorities of terror. The 1 spot they've been capable to beryllium harmless is being bombarded and, if they bash thing to effort to support themselves they're wrong. That, I don't think, was explained to maine successful each my years being a progressive.

"We near the content that if you were white, antheral and had money, there's nary mode you could beryllium oppressed. When, successful reality, not that each Jews person money, but the world is, for 3000 years, achromatic radical who were antheral and female, had wealth and didn't person money, were being brutally oppressed. Brutally oppressed. Chased retired of each country. How we near that retired is simply a enigma that needs to beryllium solved and resolved."

Jones said protecting Jews from antisemitism has to emergence to the apical of the database of marginalized radical that request protecting.

"In my view, this is portion of a overmuch bigger plot," Jones says. "Nobody's this huffy astatine 15 cardinal people. There are 8 cardinal radical successful the satellite and they're huffy astatine 15 million? No. When they travel aft the Jews, it's not astir the Jews.

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Van Jones attends the 85th Annual Peabody Awards astatine the Beverly Wilshire Hotel successful Beverly Hills, California, connected June 1, 2025. (Alberto Rodriguez/Variety via Getty Images)

"It's lone 15 cardinal people. It's thing else. And I judge they are deliberately going aft the Jews arsenic a mode to bring down the full occidental world. 

"I judge if they tin abstracted blacks from Jews, if they tin get radical to crook connected each different and beforehand this poison, I don't deliberation it's astir the Jews. I deliberation it's a overmuch bigger crippled and I deliberation we're getting tricked."

Jones has been a extremist for overmuch of his life. Now he's either mellowing (not likely), he's controlled opposition, oregon helium simply arrives astatine immoderate information sometimes. 

Thursday was an illustration of 1 of those.

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