Rachel Riley has returned to social media after viewers called for Channel 4 to fire her over comments she made on the Sydney mall knife attack that left six people dead over the weekend.
READ MORE - Countdown's Rachel Riley apologises for 'misunderstood' Sydney mall stabbings tweet amid sack calls "And with France , with the second largest Jewish community outside of the US, @Le_CRIF reported an increase of 284% with 1,676 incidents, 12% of which were in schools." "Five victims stabbed to death and eight transferred to hospital, including a baby, due to one man and a knife. In the second intifada over 1,000 Israelis were murdered in restaurants, on buses and in the streets by suicide bombings, stabbings, stoning, lynching, shooting rockets. The youngest victim was just nine hours old. Sydney mall, multiple times over is what they’ve been proudly calling for.
Quote-tweeting her original offensive tweet, Riley wrote at 4.10pm: "Just to clarify, my intention with this tweet was not to say this attack was caused by any ideation or to link it to Islamic extremism. At the time we did not know who the attacker was, and as such I made no reference.
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