Katie Halper, a US journalist, who has described herself as both secular and Jewish, was censored and fired by The Hill newspaper for a video monologue she made in which she defended Michigan Representative Rashida Tlaib’s recent characterization of Israeli Occupation as an “apartheid government.”

Halper published a blog post on Oct. 3 in which she released the video that got her fired from The Hill’s “Rising” show which she had worked in for three years.

In the post, she wrote, “The Hill refused to publish my piece on their YouTube channel. When I pushed back and respectfully urged them to reconsider they not only fired me as a guest host but told me I was no longer needed as a weekly guest.”

“The producers I worked with wanted to do the right thing but the higher-ups at The Hill and at Next Star Media, which recently bought The Hill, refused to,” she added. Halper, then, went to an independent media outlet to shoot and publish the video.

Notably, Michigan Rep. Tlaib had called out progressive politicians and said that they cannot describe themselves as such if they support Israeli Occupation’s apartheid government.

The Michigan Democrat’s statements received backlash and some called her “outrageous” and “nothing short of antisemitic.”

“Tlaib is merely stating that Israel is an apartheid state and that people who claim to have progressive values cannot support an apartheid state,” Halper explained in the video, adding, “No matter how loose a definition of “progressive” we use, it certainly excludes supporting a racist apartheid system.”

“What’s outrageous is attacking Tlaib for pointing out that “progressive except on Palestine” is an intrinsically contradictory position,” Halper stressed in the video The Hill newspaper fired her for.

She continues that although some may not “feel like Israel is not an apartheid state but unfortunately for them, Apartheid isn’t about your feelings. It’s about facts.”

The video, then, goes on to cite details of inhumane acts committed by the Israeli Occupation that would qualify them as an aparthied state, such as, ‘The Law of Return of 1950’ and ‘The Israeli Citizenship Law of 1952.’