CNN lied to terror victims: now apologizes

More than a month after Christiane Amanpour, a so called journalist from the Compromised News Network, wrongly claimed that Lucy Dee and her two daughters were killed "in a shoot-out," she finally apologized for suggesting that the women were armed during their murder.

“On April 10, I referred to the murders of an Israeli family: Lucy, Maia and Rina Dee, the wife and daughters of Rabbi Leo Dee. I misspoke [aka lied] and said they were killed in a ‘shoot-out’ instead of a shooting,” Amanpour explained in her on-air apology on May 22.

“I have written to Rabbi Leo Dee to apologize and make sure that he knows that we apologize for any further pain that may have caused him.”

However, Amanpour's apology did not mention that the women were victims of a terror attack, nor did it identify or discuss the attackers or their motives.

Last month, the pro-Israel group HonestReporting shared a video clip on Twitter of Amanpour talking about the incident on TV. Lucy Dee and her daughters Maia and Rina were brutally shot at close range in their car by terrorists in an attack that had no provocation. But this is what terrorists do--like the Oct. 7 attack last year when Hamas and other cowards came into Israel and mercilessly killed, tortured, raped and burned to death over 1,200 unarmed Jewish men, women, children and babies. 

🚨On May 11, HonestReporting called out @CNN @Amanpour for misrepresenting the murders of Lucy, Maia, & Rina Dee. Join Rabbi Leo Dee in calling for a public acknowledgment of their mistake. Sign our petition here: https://t.co/4viV813MgH

— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting)

When Amanpour described the attack, she claimed that the mother and daughters were “killed in a shoot-out,” implying that the British-Israeli women were armed and defending themselves in an exchange of fire with the terrorists. Even if that was the case, which it was not, remember who instigated the slaughter of the innocent family.

“A shoot-out is two sides firing at each other,” HonestReporting posted as a caption to the clip. “A mother and her two daughters were shot at close range by Palestinian terrorists.”

Addressing Amanpour, they wrote that “you owe a grieving family an apology.”

Rabbi Leo Dee, the widower and father of the victims, was outraged by Amanpour’s characterization of the murders.

“This is the perfect example of ‘terror journalism’ where you have a moral equivalence between the terrorist and victim,” Dee said in a media statement.

“This type of journalism perpetuates the conflict in the Middle East. The real cycle of violence is a comment like this followed by a terrorist atrocity and then more of the same.”

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