Mehdi Hasan

British-American journalist. Editor-in-chief and CEO of new media company @zeteo_news. Subscribe here:

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

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[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Yes, the biggest issues in America!

[Acyn @Acyn]

Perino: I do hope that El-Sayed does come back. I want to hear more about windmills and if he thinks Enes Kanter Freedom should play in the WNBA.

[The Centre for Media Monitoring (CfMM) @cfmmuk]

The Mail and GB News crusade against "illegal family voting" goes on, now invoking Muslim men who influence voters through "Islamic gestures, blinking eyes, hand signals."

Blinking? Islamic gestures? Sorry, what? 🙃

Here's last weekend's coverage against UK #Muslims voters:

1/6🧵

[Nathan McDermott @natemcdermott]

We probably won’t ever see anything like this for the rest of our lives

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

If a key part of your identity as an American in the 21st century is supporting a genocidal, apartheid foreign state that is going to be a problem obviously.

If Muslims in America insisted that supporting Saudi Arabia’s gender apartheid or head-chopping of dissidents was a key part of their identity, I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t be immune from criticism be able to argue that any criticism of them was Islamophobia.

[Jeb Fain @JebFain]

Piker called on American Jews to reject a key part of their own identity (at least for most) — and claimed those who don’t are “making antisemitism worse.”

If Democrats condemning that kind of gross, blatant antisemitism makes you feel like you’re “going crazy,” that’s on you.

[Parker Molloy @ParkerMolloy]

I feel like I'm going insane because all these statements are just straight-up responses to something he didn't say. At all.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Rep Lois Frankel, chair of Elect Democratic Women, a super PAC that serves as a vehicle for AIPAC money, told MA06 candidate @JamieBelsito to accept large amounts of AIPAC, crypto and AI money because it was important for a woman to hold the seat, according to Belsito.

Belsito refused and EDW instead endorsed state Rep. Tram Nguyen (@TeamTram) and has spent $450k the past week to back her.

The secret use of these ostensibly pro-women’s rights PACs to funnel AIPAC money into races is a relatively new phenomenon.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

i am a very accessible media figure. it is strange that i am blacklisted from most of these news outlets who will talk about me endlessly. it’s perhaps easier to present a negative frame rather than address me directly and have your audience recognize that i’m fairly agreeable

[Julian Andreone @JulianAndreone]

Nevada senators — Jacky Rosen & Catherine Cortez Masto, two of the most conservative and pro-Israel Dems

New Hampshire senators — Jeanne Shaheen (soon to be succeeded by Chris Pappas) and Maggie Hasan, three more ardently pro-Israel conservative Dems.

68% and 70% of Democratic voters in Nevada and New Hampshire say the U.S. should SANCTION Israel. 78% in each say Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza.

Are the congressional delegations in those states truly representative of the voters’ wishes?

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Good thing that man doesn’t exist then outside of your imagination.

Also, on Israel, the base is more in line with AES than you!

[Destiny | Steven Bonnell II @TheOmniLiberal]

You are dramatically out of step with the party. Most Americans, especially Democrats in a battleground state, aren’t going to be happy aligning with a man who’s cheering on Islamic terrorists, pushing for a Jewish genocide and praying for the destruction of the United States.

[It's politics @uspolitics1111]

Kudos to Abdul always reframing the conversation back to talking about pocketbook issues.

Jesse Watters: Some of the stuff is just straight up wacky.

Abdul El-Sayed: We have a president of the United States that cares more about the drapes in a ballroom that shouldn't be built than he cares about the war he just got us into. That seems to be a little wacky

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

@billscher You really don’t accept that the Dem attacks on Piker and obsession with him while giving Rogers a pass for his alliance with actual fascists and racists isn’t what’s gonna tank the AES campaign?

[Matt Duss @mattduss]

You've never seen corporate Democrats fighting as hard and as on message against Trump as they are against Hasan right now. It's insane.

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

This is not subtle.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

Since Booker is preening about “hatred” and “violence” note: this photo was taken only 3 weeks after the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Gallant for “the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare; and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution & other inhumane acts”

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

He has neither ‘encouraged’ nor ‘justified’ violence against American Jews. Literally zero evidence for that.

That these pro-Israel Dems never actually quote him in their condemnations tells you everything you need to know about their deliberate dishonesty and gaslighting.

[Congressman Brad Sherman @BradSherman]

Hasan Piker is trying to encourage and justify violence against American Jews.

And he’s saying that if violence does occur, it’s the fault of those in the Jewish community who publicly support Israel.

We faced tougher threats than those of Mr. Piker, who’s literally a piker. We will not be silenced.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Nothing to see here, just a conservative pundit blaming all Muslims in America for 9/11.

Imagine if a leftist pundit blamed all Jews in America for Gaza.

Will we see heated condemnations of this racist freak, à la Piker? Of course not.

[Will Chamberlain @willchamberlain]

I totally agree. American Muslims like Abdul need to pay reparations to the families of the victims of 9/11 and the soldiers who lost their lives in the war on terror

[friedflamingo @honestlygfy]

@WalshFreedom @mehdirhasan Can you dipshits start actually using your brain and stop making AI think for you

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

You said in your original tweet that Piker said US Jews ‘will deserve’ the violence that comes their way. He doesn’t say that anywhere below. He warns of what could happen, just as Ezra Levin and Hannah Arendt have done before him. Now that you yourself have quoted him and we can all see you misquoted him, you should apologize and retract.

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

Wrong @mehdirhasan. This is clearly what Piker was saying - hey American Jews, keep standing with Israel, and there will be violence coming your way. Ugly antisemitism. Why can’t you condemn what he said?👇

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

If @RepJoshG really does do a House resolution on this, as he says he will, someone needs to submit these actual comments into the congressional record so future generations can get a glimpse of the combination of insanity and stupidity that drives this party establishment

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Sorry this is an absurd take. It’s AES’s Dem opponents who have not just signaled but made clear they are willing to sacrifice the Senate because of their refusal not just to get behind AES and endorse him but actually actively undermine his campaign with the Piker obsession.

[Ronald Brownstein @RonBrownstein]

What AES (like other Bernie-acolytes) signal at these moments is that stopping Trump is not their highest priority. It's taking control of the D party. It's why AES, like Bernie, calls Trump a "symptom" of a "disease" that has distorted both parties & why he won't cut Piker loose