CNN has banned the right-wing commentator Ryan Girdusky after he told Zeteo host and journalist Mehdi Hasan on air, “I hope your beeper doesn’t go off.” It was a reference to Israel’s terrorist attack in Lebanon last month that killed 37 people and injured thousands by implanting and detonating explosives in personal pager devices. This is their exchange Monday on ”CNN Newsnight.”

Mehdi Hasan: “Nobody wants to be called Nazis. It’s very inflammatory. But if you don’t want to be called Nazis, stop doing” —

Ryan Girdusky: “You’re called an” —

Mehdi Hasan: “Stop saying” —

Ryan Girdusky: “No, no, no. You got called an antisemite more than any of us at this table.”

Mehdi Hasan: “Stop saying things — yeah.”

Ryan Girdusky: “And people will sit there and” —

Mehdi Hasan: “By you?”

Ryan Girdusky: “No. By me? I never called you an antisemite.”

Mehdi Hasan: “OK.”

Ryan Girdusky: “I mean, I’m not sitting here saying I don’t” —

Mehdi Hasan: “I’m a supporter of the Palestinians, so I’m used to it.”

Ryan Girdusky: “Yeah, well, I hope your beeper doesn’t go off. The thing is, is that” —

Mehdi Hasan: “Did you just say I should die?”

Ashley Allison: “Oh wow! You should not” —

Ryan Girdusky: “No.”

Mehdi Hasan: “Did you just say I should be killed?”

Ryan Girdusky: “No.”

Host Abby Phillip apologized to Mehdi Hasan following the incident, and CNN released a statement reading, “There is zero room for racism or bigotry at CNN or on our air.”