Mehdi Hasan

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Mehdi Hasan (born 1979) is British of Indian descent, Islamist propagandist, political journalist, broadcaster and book author.


Mehdi Hasan: “Once we lose the moral high ground we are no different from the rest, of the non-Muslims, from the rest of those human beings who live their lives as animals, bending any rule to fulfill any desire.”[1]

Mehdi Hassan is a devout Muslim, jihad apologetic and with a history of anti-Semitism.[2]

Hasan began his career working for Qatar's Hamas-linked Al Jazeera.[3]

In 2004,[4] Mehdi Hasan rehashes the same tired old anti-Israel Christmas story in the New Statesman.

In 2015, Hasan moved to Washington D.C. to be a full-time employee of Al Jazeera on UpFront[5] At MSNBC since 2021.

On Apr 10, 2021:[6]

The host of MSNBC’s “The Mehdi Hasan Show” tweeted a libelous claim on Saturday about a supposed Israel Defense Forces sniper injuring a Palestinian boy.

This anchor has been described in 2022:[7]

Mehdi Hasan is a hate-filled far-Left MSNBC host who espouses fashionable Big Lies such as the claim that “white supremacy is now a key ideology of the Republican Party” and “the far-right domestic terror threat is more dangerous than even Al Qaeda after 9/11.” During the Whoopi Goldberg controversy, remarks that Hasan made in 2009 resurfaced, leading many to question why Hasan’s star has consistently risen in the Leftist media, despite his manifest hatred and contempt for non-Muslims. Hasan, a Shi’ite, said of the early Sunni caliph Yazid: “All of these ulama unanimously agree that at the very minimum if Yazid was not a Kaffir [unbeliever] — then at the very minimum he was a fasiq, a transgressor, a breaker of Islamic laws, a corrupt individual, a tyrant, a killer, a drunkard, a dog lover, a music lover, a homosexual, a pedophile, a sexual deviant, someone who slept with his own mother.”

After Mehdi Hasan, on MSNBC May/2022, used his rhetoric against the GOP and inserted, somehow, the words "neo nazis" ... Elon Musk replied: "NBC basically saying Republicans are Nazis …"[8] He slammed NBC over scandals after host Mehdi Hassan says he’ll hand Twitter ‘to the far right.[9]

In May 2022, he presented a fake "history" based on lying propagandist Ilan Pappe.[10]

On June 4, 2023, Hasan's deceitful defense of an Antisemitic screed.[11]In Nov 2023, he was out of MSNBC, reportedly for his Israelophobia. [12]

In a 2024 'debate,'[13] law expert Natasha Hausdorff Dismantles Mehdi Hasan Anti Israel LIES."[14]

Well, thank you and good evening. What a privilege it is to be here stood on this stage on what I consider to be the most important topic of our age. I have to begin with a debating tip coming from uh a land with a culture of uh a rich history of debate. Uh and that is that in debates it is for the proposition to define the motion and Douglas did that for you loud and clear.

Mehdi seems to think that he can redefine anti-zionism without you noticing. But the proposition are not going to allow him to pull the wool over your eyes and conflate Zionism with politics. Who has the right to define Zionism? Well, apart from the proposition in this debate because that's how the rules work. Would you ask a misogynist to define misogyny? You wouldn't ask a sex offender to define rape. You wouldn't ask the KKK to define anti-black racism. So why, when it comes to the Jews, would you let the anti-Zionists define anti- Zionism?

No. Ladies and gentlemen, no minority should have its identity dictated to it. And we have defined Zionism. It concerns the right of the Jewish people to self-determination in their ancient homeland. Zionism is not a political ideology. Zionism does not stipulate how the Jewish state should be governed, which is what a political ideology does. It simply says it should exist. It doesn't dictate borders or the makeup of population. It does not say that Israel should be socialist kibbutzim or capitalist startup nation. Israel has exemplified both of those and everything in between. This is not about political ideology. This debate is about racism and creating a double standard where you make an exception for the Jews.

Now, you don't have to support Zionism. But if you are anti-Zionist, if you are against the Jews having a state, you are against the Jews. Mehdi is lying about what Zionism is in an attempt to win this debate and to provide cover for his own anti-semitism.

We usually hear a series of lies spewed by anti-semite and anti-Zionists in an attempt to justify their anti-Zionism. And these are the modern blood liable. They are widely believed as widely believed as the ancient blood lible that Jews [supposedly] killed [sic] Christian children to use their blood for religious ritual. As widely believed and as false.

I'm going to take you through four blood libels that anti-Zionists rely on.

Number one, the libel of colonialism. Israel is the ultimate decolonization success story. Against all odds, after Arab imperialism, Islamic conquest and British colonialism, the Jews, indigenous to Judea, reestablished Israel. My family lived under Ottoman and then British colonialism in Jerusalem long before Yasser Arafat, who was born in Cairo, created Palestinian national identity in the 60s.

Number two, the libel of "ethnic cleansing". In 1948, when five Arab armies and the local Arab population attacked the fledgling state of Israel with the stated intention of annihilating its people, 700,000 Arabs escaped the fighting. Those that remained became Israeli citizens. The Arab population of Israel has increased 10-fold. This is ethnic cleansing? No, ethnic cleansing is what happened to the Jews in 1948 when Jordan occupied the West Bank. Ethnic cleansing is what happened to 850,000 Jews expelled from Yemen, Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq, where they'd lived for thousands of years. Ethnic cleansing left Arab countries Jewree. Meanwhile, 2 million Arabs live in Israel today.

Number three, the libel of "apartheid". Because those Arabs that remained in Israel are now 20% of its population, the only free Arabs in the Middle East. They are represented in every area of Israeli society as mayors, army officers, police commanders, members of parliament and the Supreme Court. I served under Salem Juban who put both an Israeli prime minister and a president in jail and those who propagate the lie of apartheid seek to conflate Arab citizens of Israel with Arabs living under the Palestinian authority who have an autonomy and should be voting for their leadership. But President Mahmud Abbas is now in his 19th year of his 4-year term.

Mumber four, the libel of "genocide", the reprehensible smear that maliciously accuses the Jews of perpetrating the very crimes committed against them. October 7 was the latest in a long history of genocidal acts by Arabs against Jews in the Middle East. The genocide lie inverts reality. Hamas has spent 16 years embedding its terror infrastructure in mosques, schools, hospitals, and every second house. Its central military tactic is to use civilians as human shields. And in the face of these unprecedented challenges, the IDF has taken greater measures to prevent civilian casualties than any other army in history, far exceeding the requirements of international law.

"Genocide" is the latest modern blood libel that anti-semites use to justify their anti-Zionism, and it is central to Hamas's war strategy. Today, its only aim is to survive and to achieve this with international pressure on the Jews to cease their self-defense. Voting for the opposition supports Hamas in this endeavor by legitimizing, aiding, and abetting their anti-ionist aim to wipe out the Jews from the river to the sea. Don't stand with the terrorists and anti-semites. Stand on the side of moral integrity. Stand with the proposition...

In Nov 2024, Hasan justified the racist Amsterdam Pogrom by Arab Muslims (2024).[15][16]

In Jan 2025, Hasan and AOC were accused of "Jewsplaining" to ADL over Elon Musk gesture: accused of attempting to dictate to Jews what antisemitism is after they attacked the ADL's comment that Elon Musk did 'not make a Nazi salute.[17]

Hasan: Make American Planes Crash Again

In February 2025, Hasan deletes ‘Make American Planes Crash Again,’ and blames the backlash on so called "Islamophobia."[18]

On Dec 30, 2025, Mehdi Hasan distorted Holocaust History. [19]

In March 2026, Mehdi Hasan downplayed Nazis, claiming "American sailors Amare worse [sic] than Nazis.[20]

This Islamist bigot Hasan is believed to be very active on Wikipedia.[21] Not just about himself, of course.

References

  1. NBC Hires Islamist-Linked Journalist with a History of Hate. Mideast Forum, October 5, 2020
  2. Adam Kredo, "HuffPo’s House Jihadi", Washington Free Beacon, May 22, 2012.

    A devout Muslim who has praised Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and publicly branded all non-believers as mentally ill "animals" was recently hired to serve as the Huffington Post’s political director in the U.K.

    Mehdi Hasan, a controversial British media figure whom insiders have billed as a mouthpiece for the Iranian regime, recently left his job at the left-wing New Statesman magazine to join the Huffington Post as a senior staffer, according to reports in the British press.

  3. All eyes should be on Al Jazeera for being founded, funded — and directed — by terrorists. By Douglas Murray, NY Post, June 20, 2024

    On Monday this week I was debating in Toronto against another Al Jazeera contributor: Mehdi Hasan.

    Hasan began his career working for Al Jazeera.

    But a few years ago MSNBC gave him a show.

    It had some of the lowest ratings even on MSNBC.

    Which means that the only homes in which it was playing were ones where the people had left the television on by accident.

    But after Oct. 7, even MSNBC had enough of him.

    His views — which had always been extreme — became even more so.

    Which may be one reason why he has now had to return to Al Jazeera.

    Qatari apartheid. It was interesting sparring with him this week.

    Because of course he tried to throw every possible accusation against the IDF.

    And against me.

    Eventually it got a bit much.

    Here was someone who was working for the Qataris.

    And Qatar is an actual apartheid state — a place where a few hundred thousand citizens are waited on by a slave class of foreign workers with zero human rights.

    In its capital, Doha, live not only the heads of Al Jazeera but also their friends in Hamas.

    Most of the terror group’s leaders who are not in Gaza live protected in the slave state of Qatar.

    So when Mehdi complained about the war that has followed Hamas’ invasion of Israel, I pointed out that it would all be rather easier to take if one of his fellow Al Jazeera contributors hadn’t just been found with Israeli hostages in their home.

    After all, if my colleagues kept being found with people in their basements, I reckon I’d keep my head down for a bit.

    But no — that is Al Jazeera for you.

  4. Palestinian Christmas Rehashed, Honest Reporting, Dec 23, 2004.
  5. "Mehdi Hasan to host new weekly show on Al Jazeera", Al Jazeera, 18 December 2014
  6. MSNBC host tweets libel about IDF sniper targeting Palestinian boy, JNS via Cleveland, J News, Apr 14, 2021.
  7. MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan, Joe Rogan, and the Left's Cancel Culture Double Standard, PJMedua, Feb 6, 2022
  8. Elon Musk @elonmusk Replying to @tomselliott and @mehdirhasan (May 2, 2022):

    NBC basically saying Republicans are Nazis...

  9. Thomas Barrabi, Elon Musk slams NBC over scandals after host says he’ll hand Twitter ‘to the far right’, NY Post, May 3, 2022.
  10. Mehdi Hasan, Historical Revisionism, and “Nakba Day” By David Litman, CAMERA, May 19, 2022.

    Earlier this week, following news of Rashida Tlaib’s “Nakba Day” bill, MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan delivered a four-minute rant about “Nakba Day,” the term given by Palestinians for the anniversary of their failed effort to destroy the newly born State of Israel. The conclusion of Hasan’s rant was to imply Israel was guilty of “ethnic cleansing.” In reaching that conclusion, Hasan relies on what he admits are “revisionist” historians like Ilan Pappe.

  11. TV Host Mehdi Hasan Provides Cover for Anti-Jewish Hate. Algemeiner, June 9, 2023. By David M. Litman.

    Both Mehdi Hasan and Fatima Mohammed are entitled to their opinions and their free expression. It would just be nice if their speech came with a little less anti-Jewish demagoguery and with a lot more factual accuracy.

  12. MSNBC cancels Mehdi Hasan’s weekend show amid poor ratings, anti-Israel views: sources. By Ariel Zilber and Alexandra Steigrad, NY Post, Nov. 30, 2023; Mehdi Hasan leaves MSNBC after network cancels his primetime show. JPost. Jan 9, 2024.

    Hasan joined the network in 2021 after writing for the news and commentary site The Intercept and appearing as a presenter on Al Jazeera English, the Qatari-funded 24-hour news channel. Hasan received criticism in October for presenting the al-Ahli Hospital incident, in which a medical center was struck by a rocket launched by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, as a likely Israeli airstrike. On October 19, Hasan wrote on X that the evidence ultimately suggested otherwise.

    Hasan was also criticized for a heated interview with Mark Regev, in which he charged that Israel had rejected a proposed hostage deal with Hamas. Regev responded that “there was not a real option” and called the premise of the question “misinformation.” More criticism came when Hasan compared Israel’s role in Gaza to Russia’s war in Ukraine.

  13. Mehdi Hasan Embarrasses Himself on Debate Show on Israel By Simon Plosker, Algemeiner, June 25, 2024.

    ...it was gratifying to see Hasan’s holier-than-thou persona brought down a peg or two when he came up against UK lawyer Natasha Hausdorff and author and political commentator Douglas Murray in a must-see Munk Debates on anti-Zionism.

    Speaking in favor of the motion that anti-Zionism is antisemitism, Hausdorff and Murray beat Hasan and hateful Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy by 66% to 34%. Not only that, between the beginning of the debate and the end, support for Mehdi’s position actually dropped by 5%.

    But more importantly, people saw that Hasan, the author of the book Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking, actively employs lies and distortions in his efforts to win every argument.

  14. Natasha Hausdorff DISMANTLES Mehdi Hasan Anti Israel LIES 🔥 J-TV. Jun 1, 2025.
  15. NY Rep. Torres blasts former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan for ‘justifying a pogrom’ in Amsterdam. By Matt Troutman, NY Post, Nov. 11, 2024
  16. ‘Globalize the Intifada’ Becomes Reality as Amsterdam Erupts in Fresh Wave of Antisemitic Riots. Rachel O'Donoghue, Honest Reporting, November 12, 2024
  17. AOC accused of "Jewsplaining" to ADL over Elon Musk gesture, INN, Jan 21, 2025
  18. Alexandra Steigrad, Ex-MSNBC Host Deletes ‘Make American Planes Crash Again,’ Blames Backlash on Islamophobia New York Post, Feb. 18, 2025.
  19. Mehdi Hasan’s Haavara Claim and the Distortion of Holocaust History. Sharon Levy, Honest Reporting, January 1, 2026
  20. Mehdi Hasan Claims American Sailors Are Worse Than Nazis. NewsBusters, March 7, 2026.
  21. Article discussing Wikipedia controversies in media commentary mentions Hasan interacting with Wikipedia-related issues. On radical liberal "dissident" in Oct 18, 2018; Hasan referencing his own Wikipedia page in an interview with Jimmy Wales, posted on April 8, 2014; Hasan has been very busy 'collecting' pallyweid promoters, whoever used both buzzwords "apartheid/genocide".