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| | Mehdi Hasan, a controversial British media figure whom insiders have billed as a mouthpiece for the [[Iran]]ian 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.</blockquote></ref> | | Mehdi Hasan, a controversial British media figure whom insiders have billed as a mouthpiece for the [[Iran]]ian 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.</blockquote></ref> |
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| − | Hasan began his career working for [[Watar]]'s [[Hamas]]-linked [[Al Jazeera]].<ref>[https://nypost.com/2024/06/20/opinion/all-eyes-should-be-on-al-jazeera-for-being-founded-funded-and-directed-by-terrorists/ All eyes should be on Al Jazeera for being founded, funded — and directed — by terrorists]. By Douglas Murray, ''NY Post'', June 20, 2024<blockquote><small>On Monday this week I was debating in Toronto against another Al Jazeera contributor: Mehdi Hasan. | + | Hasan began his career working for [[Qatar]]'s [[Hamas]]-linked [[Al Jazeera]].<ref>[https://nypost.com/2024/06/20/opinion/all-eyes-should-be-on-al-jazeera-for-being-founded-funded-and-directed-by-terrorists/ All eyes should be on Al Jazeera for being founded, funded — and directed — by terrorists]. By Douglas Murray, ''NY Post'', June 20, 2024<blockquote><small>On Monday this week I was debating in Toronto against another Al Jazeera contributor: Mehdi Hasan. |
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| | NBC basically saying Republicans are Nazis...</blockquote></ref> He slammed NBC over scandals after host Mehdi Hassan says he’ll hand Twitter ‘to the far right.<ref>Thomas Barrabi, [https://nypost.com/2022/05/03/musk-slams-nbc-after-host-says-hell-hand-twitter-to-the-far-right/ Elon Musk slams NBC over scandals after host says he’ll hand Twitter ‘to the far right’], ''NY Post'', May 3, 2022.</ref> | | NBC basically saying Republicans are Nazis...</blockquote></ref> He slammed NBC over scandals after host Mehdi Hassan says he’ll hand Twitter ‘to the far right.<ref>Thomas Barrabi, [https://nypost.com/2022/05/03/musk-slams-nbc-after-host-says-hell-hand-twitter-to-the-far-right/ Elon Musk slams NBC over scandals after host says he’ll hand Twitter ‘to the far right’], ''NY Post'', May 3, 2022.</ref> |
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| − | In May 2022, he presented a fake "history" based on lying propagandist [[Ilan Pappe]].<ref>[https://www.camera.org/article/mehdi-hasan-historical-revisionism-and-nakba-day/ Mehdi Hasan, Historical Revisionism, and “Nakba Day”] By David Litman, ''CAMERA'', May 19, 2022.<blockquote><small> | + | In May 2022, he presented a fake "history" based on lying propagandist ''Ilan Pappe''.<ref>[https://www.camera.org/article/mehdi-hasan-historical-revisionism-and-nakba-day/ Mehdi Hasan, Historical Revisionism, and “Nakba Day”] By David Litman, ''CAMERA'', May 19, 2022.<blockquote><small> |
| | 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.</small></blockquote></ref> | | 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.</small></blockquote></ref> |
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