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Mehdi Hasan

@mehdirhasan

21 May

https://twitter.com/VirkSh786/status/1395652823606571010

This is the kind of crap I've been dealing with for the past 24 hours.

As a Muslim journalist, criticize Israel and you get called antisemitic.

But also as a Muslim journalist, criticize antisemitic tropes and you get called a 'sellout' and a 'Zionist apologist' etc etc.

https://twitter.com/VirkSh786/status/1395652823606571010

This isn't actually that hard or complicated:

1) Criticism of Israel, a country, and/or Zionism, a political ideology, isn't in and of itself antisemitic.

2) Criticism of Israel and Zionism can sometimes be antisemitic.

Both these statements can be true.

https://twitter.com/novocainerush/status/1395645385721397251

Btw, much of the trolling & abuse I've had on here over the past 24 hours has had little to do with Israel/Palestinians. This tweet is a reminder that it's all to do with *Pakistan* & a lot of nationalists not liking anyone criticizing their government:

https://twitter.com/novocainerush/status/1395645385721397251

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Mehdi Hasan

@mehdirhasan

30 Apr

Josh Duggar is in multiple smiling images and pictures with almost every top Republican politician you can think of.

If he was a Democrat, and they were Democratic politicians in the pix, what do you think Fox News and Breitbart etc would be doing with those images?
#onaloop

The fact that one side in the so-called culture war has a propaganda media arm with few ethics & astonishing message discipline, & one side doesn't, explains much of what's going on in America right now.

Asymmetric conflict. Asymmetric polarization. Asymmetric 'media' coverage.

E.g. if a guy charged of possessing child pornography was photographed with Ilhan Omar and AOC, multiple elected Republicans would be sharing those images on Twitter right now.

How many elected Dems are sharing images of Duggar with Rubio, Cruz, Huckabee, Santorum, Jeb Bush etc?

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Mehdi Hasan

@mehdirhasan

14 Apr

@RepBarbaraLee

Much talk of how the Afghanistan war failed over the past 20 years.

Much less talk of how the original invasion itself was an outrage, given there were no Afghans aboard any of the 4 planes.

@RepBarbaraLee was the only member of Congress to vote against it and she was right.

The response to 9/11 by the Bush crew was to declare an open-ended 'war on terror', which began with an invasion of one of the poorest countries on earth, whose nationals had nothing to do with 9/11. Then Iraq, which also had nothing to do with 9/11.

None of it made us safer.

To avenge the 3,000 innocents who died on 9/11, the U.S. under Bush invaded, occupied and/or bombed multiple Muslim-majority countries, leading to the deaths of 100s of 1000s of innocents who had nothing to do with 9/11.

The war on terror only gave us more war and more terror.

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Mehdi Hasan

@mehdirhasan

8 Apr

https://twitter.com/auschwitzmuseum/status/1379852722984247296

#NeverForget #HolocaustRemembranceDay

https://twitter.com/auschwitzmuseum/status/1379852722984247296

Today we remember 6 million Jews massacred as part of a hate-filled, premeditated, industrialized genocide. Massacred for being Jews.

Plus millions of Romani, homosexual, and disabled victims.

Nazism was the greatest evil of the past 100 years and we cannot allow it to return.

The rise of the far right is truly concerning. And as a Muslim, the Holocaust denial that still rears its head in some Muslim communities is frustrating.

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Mehdi Hasan

@mehdirhasan

5 Apr

@MehdiHasanShow

Tonight on the @MehdiHasanShow, I'll talk infrastructure, spending, 'Bidenomics,' and the seemingly new progressive moment we're in, with economist and former Labor Secretary @RBReich.

Live from 7pm ET on @peacockTV & @YouTube:

@MehdiHasanShow

Tonight, on the @MehdiHasanShow, whatever happened to the GOP treating corporations as people, with First Amendment rights? Or was that only for donations?

I'll discuss with @JRubinBlogger & @MsLaToshaBrown.

Live from 7pm ET on @peacockTV & @YouTube:

@MehdiHasanShow

Tonight, on the @MehdiHasanShow, I'll speak to Crystal Mason, who was ridiculously sentenced to five years in prison for voting on supervised release in 2016, when she didn't realize she was ineligible in Texas.

Live from 7pm ET on @peacockTV & @YouTube:

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Mehdi Hasan

@mehdirhasan

22 Mar

@MSNBC

Me: "Since the pandemic... border apprehensions have gone up month after month. Joe Biden did not inherit falling numbers."
GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw: "I don't know where you're getting figures from."
Me: "Those are CBP numbers."

Watch our exchange on @MSNBC:

@MSNBC

On @MSNBC tonight, I asked GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw why he said on Fox, twice, that Biden has been telling migrants "we're not gonna deport you," given 72% of migrants apprehended at the border in Feb were expelled straight away.

Watch his, ahem, response:

Me: "Do you know many migrants were sent to Honduras & El Salvador under what you call 'very important' Asylum Cooperation Agreements?"
Rep. Dan Crenshaw: "I don't have the numbers."
Me: "Roughly?"
Crenshaw: "I don't have that data on me."
Me: "Zero."