Van Jones is walking back recent comments he made about the casualties left by the Israel-Hamas war .
After appearing Friday on Real Time with Bill Maher , during which he referred to online videos of dead babies killed in Palestine as a massive “disinformation campaign” on behalf of Iran and Qatar, the CNN host apologized on social media.
“Yeah, I messed up on this one. And I’m sorry. I was trying to raise awareness about foreign adversaries creating chaos online – which is undermining democracy everywhere,” he wrote on X .
“But what I said was easily misunderstood, and the way I said it was flat-out insensitive,” added Jones. “Babies are dying every day in Gaza . Nobody should dispute that fact or make light of it in any way. To the people living in fear and burying famil