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Mehdi Hasan
@mehdirhasan
British-American journalist. Editor-in-chief and CEO of new media company @zeteo_news. Subscribe here: https://t.co/sEC1ETyGtn
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May 5 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
You really wanna do this? I accept many pro-Israel people have said 'if Hamas releases the hostages *and* surrenders' but plenty of people have ALSO only claimed 'if Hamas releases the hostages' then the war could be over.
*You* are lying if you say otherwise.
Thread/Receipts:
1/ Let's start with the president of the United States, who said "the release of hostages held by Hamas" is "now the only obstacle to an immediate ceasefire"
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Mar 12 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
"It comes across as a racist double standard."

My response to @piersmorgan's classic 'Do you condemn Hamas?' question to Palestinian/pro-Palestinian/brown guests.
Me: "Hamas is a symptom of the problem...& now you have 10s of 1000s of orphans, people who've lost their kids...what you think they're not going to fight back?"
Piers: "I feel the same way."
Me: "Then we agree."

Watch @piersmorgan agree with me on the futility of Israel's war:
Jan 18 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Irony is dead. For months now, American politicians & pundits, Jewish community leaders & students, have obsessed over ‘from the river to the sea’; censuring Rashida Talib & accusing pro-Palestinian activists of genocidal language.

Meanwhile, the Prime Minister of Israel says: To be clear btw: when @RashidaTlaib said ‘from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’, and when @marclamonthill said it, theirs was a call for *freedom* in that space

Netanyahu’s ’from the river to the sea’ is much worse - it’s a call for permanent military *occupation*.
Nov 7, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Gaza:

More kids killed than the annual number of kids killed across all conflict zones since 2019 (Save the Children)

More UN workers killed than in any comparable period in the UN’s history (UN)

More journalists killed than in any conflict period since 1992 (CPJ) Save the Children:
savethechildren.net/news/gaza-3195…
May 11, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Last night, Trump brought his own (fake) receipts, stuff on a piece of paper.
Had it not been for the town hall format, Kaitlan Collins could have come armed with her own receipts.
E.g. when he denied asking Raffensperger for votes, she could have played the audio!
1/ E.g. when Collins asked Trump about the violence and injuries inflicted on police officers on January 6th, and Trump immediately deflected to Ashley Babbitt, Collins could have played video of the horrific violence and made Trump watch it with her and respond to it.
2/
May 10, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
So ahead of Trump's appearance on CNN, we get to watch JD Vance - a man who has pushed conspiracy theories and the white supremacist 'Great Replacement' - come on live and do a friendly, pre-game chat.

The normalization of extremism and conspiracism continues. Anyone watching this interview with Vance on CNN right now would have no idea how extreme Vance is.

Doesn't bode well for the actual interview with Trump.
Apr 14, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Okay Twitter folks, I'm back. What did I miss? 😉 Oh! 👀
democrats-judiciary.house.gov/news/documents… Image
Apr 11, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Fang is lying about me in his defense of Taibbi. My point was that Taibbi chose to misrepresent CIS as CIS[A] to make his argument both in Congress & in the Twitter Files. He intentionally changed a quote. That may not bother Fang, who has now left The Intercept, but it should. Funnily enough, Fang nowhere in his piece addresses my central charge, which Taibbi tbf copped to in the interview!, but constructs a strawman argument about me in order to knock it down. I literally wrote a book about lazy and cynical moves like this.

bookshop.org/p/books/win-ev…
Apr 9, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
To be clear: Taibbi deliberately & under oath misrepresented a nonprofit for a government intelligence agency, & suggested another nonprofit traveled back through time to get '22 million' posts 'labeled' as misinformation (it didn't &, er, couldn't.)
These are not 'minor' errors. Reminder: the EIP came up with their 22 million number, of tweets on election misinfo, in March 2021. They didn't get them labeled by Twitter as misinfo in March 2021. They certainly didn't get them labeled, as Taibbi claims, pre-November 2020... WHEN THE NUMBER DID NOT EXIST.
Apr 6, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Nearly two weeks ago, @mtaibbi challenged me on Twitter to invite him onto my show to discuss Elon Musk working with the Indian government to censor speech online.

Today, he came on the show... and refused to talk about it or criticize Musk.

Preview:
Me: "Would you like to criticize Musk now?
@mtaibbi: "No, I don't particularly want to."

Watch:
Apr 3, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I have been on a month-long book tour, pushing the importance of tougher interviews & need for follow-up Qs. I had a piece in The Atlantic on how to deal with Gish Galloping by bad faith interviewees.

And then… Leslie Stahl goes & does *that* interview with MTG.

Kill. Me. Now. My Atlantic piece, which I wish Stahl had read.
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Mar 23, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
It made the New York Times bestseller list in its first week. The Times called it "impeccably timed" and USA Today a "must-read". Riz Ahmed calls it a "masterclass" and Naomi Klein "indispensable."

Buy my new book #WinEveryArgument in the U.S. here:
amazon.com/Win-Every-Argu… Buy #WinEveryArgument in the UK here:
amazon.co.uk/Win-Every-Argu…
Mar 15, 2023 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
In #WinEveryArgument, I say that you need to know the other side of the argument as well as your own. In London, in front of 350 people, @Freedland put me on the spot & got me to make the case for Trump, for US intervention in the MidEast, for suspending Lineker. So I did🤦🏽‍♂️
🧵
1/ Here is me at @intelligence2 in London, without any heads-up or warning, being challenged to make the case for a *Trump second term* in less than 60 seconds.

TO BE CLEAR: I DO NOT BELIEVE WHAT I AM SAYING. It's a game, an exercise, a challenge (!)
2/
Mar 9, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I am stunned, delighted, humbled, and so grateful to you all.

I just discovered tonight that my new book #WinEveryArgument is now officially a New York Times bestseller!

Thank you. 🙏🏽
nytimes.com/books/best-sel… Still can’t quite believe it. Seeing is believing, I guess. Pinching myself.
Feb 28, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
So, because today is publication day of #WinEveryArgument, forgive me a thread on how and where you can buy the book, and in what forms 🧵

If you're in the U.S., you can buy it here:
amazon.com/Win-Every-Argu… If you're in the UK, you can buy it here:
amazon.co.uk/Win-Every-Argu…
Feb 27, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Loads of rightwing and centrist non-scientist dudes on this site have now convinced themselves that the lab leak theory wasn’t just ‘suppressed’ but is also ‘the most likely factual explanation of the origin’ of Covid - when most scientists don’t think that’s the case at all! 🤦🏽‍♂️ science.org/content/articl…
Feb 26, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The simple reason why so many people weren’t keen to discuss the ‘lab leak’ *theory* is because it was originally conflated by the right with ‘Chinese bio weapon’ conspiracies and continues to be conflated by the right with anti-Fauci conspiracies. Blame the conspiracy theorists. It’s hard to have a good faith disagreement about a major issue if the issue itself has been hijacked by bad faith folks.
Feb 23, 2023 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
“I won’t say Fox ‘News’ because why should I play along with this conceit? It is not a news channel. It is a propaganda arm of the Republican party. It is a booster of white supremacy."

My interview with the @guardian to promote my new book. Quotes 🧵
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 theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2… "If you want to understand why... democracy is under threat, the Fox narrative is part of that story. You can’t turn your eyes away from it because they’re fellow media organisations. They’ve been coddled for far too long by the rest of the media." - me
2/
 theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…
Feb 15, 2023 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
🧵
1. If you're in New York on Feb 28th, the day my new book 'Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking' comes out, please do come join me and @PreetBharara as we discuss it at the iconic @strandbookstore.
Details/tickets:
eventbrite.com/e/mehdi-hasan-… 2. If you're in DC on March 1st, the day after my book #WinEveryArgument comes out, please do come join me and @jrpsaki as we discuss it at the legendary @PoliticsProse bookstore. It's free!

Details:
politics-prose.com/event/book/meh… Image
Jan 16, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
If you're in Houston, on Saturday March 4th, join me and @WajahatAli for a conversation about politics, the media, and my new book 'Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking.'

It'll be fun. Join us!

Tickets:
risala.org/upcoming-event… Also, pre-order the book here obviously:
bookshop.org/p/books/win-ev…
Jan 11, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Looking for self-improvement? Confidence-building? Public speaking skills?

Three tips from my forthcoming book - let's start with confidence building:🧵#wineveryargument
amazon.com/Win-Every-Argu… 2. The importance of humor
amazon.com/Win-Every-Argu…