Piers Morgan gets called a ‘racist’ by Cornel West during heated debate

Piers Morgan and Cornel West got into a heated argument on Wednesday, leading to West calling Morgan a “racist”. Three panelists joined Morgan on his program Piers Morgan Uncensored to debate racism, terrorism and the crisis in Gaza. The heated debate started when the host asked about the numerous pro-Palestine protests at universities across the US. West argued Morgan was not speaking about the growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza and purposely ignoring the civilian deaths by Israel. “And that's why I call you a racist because it means then that Palestinian lives do not have the same value as an Israeli life,” he said. Following West’s comment, Morgan hit back at the Presidential candidate and defended his criticism of pro-Palestine protests at US universities. “How dare you call me a racist. What you don’t know is before I did this debate, I did a long interview with one of the IDF spokesmen in which I went after him about their planned invasion of Rafah because I think it would be a catastrophic mistake. So don’t call me a racist,” he said.