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Friday, January 23, 2026
Argentine news channel fires US correspondent due to antisemitic comments
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleC5N, a highly popular Argentine news channel, has fired its US correspondent, Silvina Sterin Pensel, after a series of posts on social media, in which she called for the expulsion of Israeli citizens visiting Argentina.
Last week, Pensel accused Israelis of “genocide” and tweeted, “Get Out Of Argentina,” seemingly in reference to conspiracy theories that spread in Argentina, alleging Israeli tourists had started a wildfire in the Patagonia region.
Those claims were later found to be unfounded, prompting condemnations from Jewish leaders and public officials.
A C5N source told Clarin, an Argentine newspaper, that Pensel’s “radicalized ideas and fanaticism have no place in our space.” The news channel’s decision came after Patricia Bullrich, an Argentine senator and former minister of security, publicly called Pensel’s comments “antisemitic.”
Por más que los “turistas” israelies sean turistas sin comillas y que no estén armando fogatas y simplemente divirtiéndose y pasando el rato, son GEN0CIDAS. Representan -y muchos quizás han formado parte- de quienes vienen exterminando al pueblo palestin0. Fuera de Argentina!!!!
— SilvinaSterinPensel (@SilSterinPensel) January 16, 2026
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