Mehdi Hasan
@mehdirhasan · High-reach critics & hostile narrative — US/West
Mehdi Hasan is the founder of Zeteo and the most effective broadcast debater among Israel's critics.
From the reporting on Netanyahu ignoring explicit warnings of a Hamas attack days before Oct 7th, to confirmation that Netanyahu rejected a Hamas offer to release civilian hostages right after Oct 7th, without conditions, this Haaretz piece is astonishing: https://t.co/7jw9UbwVll
2 million targets. A reminder that Israel viewed/views all of Gaza as Hamas, Which is genocidal.
Israel’s first prime minister David Ben-Gurion was a not a practising or theistic Jew and admitted to eating ham sandwiches. Zionism was built by very secular and often atheist Jews: ‘I am completely irreligious,’ wrote Herzl in his diary.
Mamdani’s lawyer represented people accused of being terrorists, not at the time actually convicted in courts of being ones, because that’s his job as a lawyer. Trump, on the other hand, invited the Taliban to Camp David around a 9/11 anniversary, recently sent perfumes to an ex-Al Qaeda leader, and is best friends with the Saudis. So… STFU maybe?
The funniest part of this is when she suggests Mamdani doesn’t have American citizens’ interests at heart because of his… ‘anti-Israel’ comments! Do these people hear themselves?
A Jewish Foreign Secretary Just Announced a Trade Ban on Israeli Settlements. Give Ed Miliband Credit, as the Bad-Faith Attacks on Him Escalate https://t.co/2cGJJronq7
Sorry, what does BDS have to do with 9/11? Funny how Islamophobes like @Noahpinion accuse pro-Palestine people of being obsessed with the Middle East and Israel but it’s always the pro-Israel people inserting Israel into everything.
Insane story. He was warned two weeks before the Oct 7th attacks by the Emiratis about an imminent attack by Hamas - and did nothing. No wonder Netanyahu has always wanted to drag out this war and block any chance of a proper independent investigation into Oct 7th.
Glad to see @JoaquinCastrotx saying this - lays down a marker in the Dem Party. The 2028 candidate should be at a minimum opposing illegal Israeli settlements and goods from them.
As ever, those of us who support Palestinians rights and criticize Israel go out of our way to NOT conflate Israel with all Jews. Meanwhile, prominent US and UK Jewish organizations do the opposite and go out of their way to conflate themselves, and all Jews, with Israel.
“A Jewish Foreign Secretary Just Announced a Trade Ban on Israeli Settlements. Give Ed Miliband Credit, as the Bad-Faith Attacks on Him Escalate” In which I argue that charges of antisemitism don’t work against the new UK foreign secretary. Sorry Israel! https://t.co/2cGJJronq7
Folks, this guy begins a paragraph accusing me and @PeterBeinart of being "pompous" and "elitist" and ends it with: "The few Palestinians that you and Beinart love to salivate over are ultimately an irrelevant drop in the ocean." Anyways, he doesn't want to debate/talk to Palestinians from Gaza. Make of that what you will. (What I make of it is that he wants to be the Maajid Nawaz of the Palestinians.)
Hi Ahmed, if you're such a representative and authentic voice of Gaza, why have you repeatedly turned down opportunities to debate your views, and your op-ed, on camera, with multiple other Palestinian activists and journalists from Gaza, including Christian Palestinians who hate Hamas? What are you afraid of? (I think we all know...)
Hi, this is a hilarious post. If a paying audience is still going to Ed Sheeran concerts featuring Macklemore despite Macklemore’s criticisms of Israel at those concerts then isn’t that capitalism working? Shouldn’t the free market sort this out, per your view? But no, your side is insisting Macklemore be removed from the concert tour for his views which clearly is a free speech issue. The pro-Israel side loves to censor and cancel, always has, always will, as it is the only way to defend apartheid and genocide.
I get insane levels of racism and Islamophobia from MAGA and Likud types on here but a reminder that self-proclaimed liberals and centrists are not immune to it either. Here’s Noah Smith, a pundit, quite mainstream, saying I’d apparently ‘be happier’ living in the Gulf and ‘America would be happier too.’ Does he speak for America? Stephen Miller and Laura Loomer couldn’t have said it better. Also, even a cursory look at my journalistic record of two decades would show it’s obviously untrue to claim I only care about the MidEast. But it is an Islamophobic trope, and the fact that I do care about the fate of peoples other than my own is indeed hard for a selfish racist nationalist like Smith to absorb.
I think, if 3 years into a horrific Israeli genocide in Gaza, 100,000+ killed, almost 2m displaced; and as Israel carries out live ethnic cleansing in front of our eyes in the non-Hamas West Bank; if you’re focus is still on Hamas and ‘both sides’ then you’re telling on yourself.
Still waiting for you to find a statement from me supporting Hamas, Hizbollah and the Houthis. You made the false claim. You can’t defend it so, like every Islamophobe, you jump to guilt by association. You lied, got caught, so now you deflect. I’ll go back to blocking you now.
How about… get America (troops, bases, bombs, wars, financial support for dictators) out of the Middle East? Idiot.
Actually, Dan, I am on record repeatedly criticizing Hamas war crimes. My opponents and adversaries almost never ever criticize Israeli war crimes, let alone genocide, so I don’t need to take any lessons on mirror images or hypocrisy from anyone on the pro-Israel side.
Google AIPAC, you Islamophobic gaslighter
1. I’m the one trying to stop yoking the US to the Middle East; it’s why I oppose aid to Israel, oppose this Iran war and all the other endless US Mideast wars. 2. I should leave your country? It’s my country, you racist POS! Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds, exhibit 626
The president of the United States used ‘American politics’ to bomb five countries in the Middle East, separate to the ongoing genocide we’re complicit in, in Gaza. We are currently in the middle of a seven month war against Iran. But apparently we’re the ones obsessed with the Middle East!
Ok. Let’s forget a debate over terms. But you do proudly support what Israel has done in Gaza for the past three years. You said so to me on my show. And what they have done is kill tens of thousands of civilians, 20,000 kids, created the biggest cohort per capita of amputated children, and destroyed homes, universities, hospitals and schools, even graveyards. They have massacred aid workers, including foreign workers, and lied about it. You have supported all that.
“These people”? Well, maybe Smith isn’t being racist as usual. But then he ends the post with ‘screw the Middle East.’ 🤷🏽♂️👇🏽
Hi Joe, the reason so many people think you’re a genocidal prick and dishonest is because 1) you support a genocide, 2) you publicly accused me of antisemitism despite years of supposed friendship, and now play victim when I point out your dishonesty, and 3) it is indeed dishonest to claim ‘only’ the Palestinians are to blame when even pro-Israel people no concede that Smotrich and Ben-Gvir don’t believe in any kind of peace or negotiations.