Former MSNBC host Mehdi Hassan accused the Israeli military of killing more than 100 innocent Palestinians in Gaza this week and then lying, and blamed these acts on Russian President Vladimir and Syrian President Donald Trump. He equated it with President Bashar al-Assad’s actions against his enemies.
Hasan, whose MSNBC show “Mehdi Hasan” was canceled late last year, emphasized this point in a conversation with CNN’s Abby Phillippe on Thursday night.
On Thursday, more than 100 Palestinians were killed while rushing toward trucks loaded with humanitarian aid. Local reports said Israeli forces opened fire on the Gazans, but Israeli military officials said most were killed when they were trampled in the scramble to reach the trucks.
Liberal MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan’s history of controversial rhetoric draws attention amid hostile coverage of Israel
Former MSNBC star Mehdi Hasan accused Israel of killing more than 100 innocent Gazans this week on CNN. (Screenshot/CNN)
According to the Israel Defense Forces, “Gazan residents surrounded the truck and looted the supplies being delivered. During the incident, dozens of Gazans were injured as a result of pushing and trampling. The incident is under review.” There is.
A statement from the Israel Defense Forces suggested that less than 10 civilians were injured when Israeli forces opened fire during the delivery of humanitarian aid, and that most of the casualties were due to this killing.
Phillips asked Hasan, “Do you lend any credibility to that explanation? And in the eyes of the world, does it matter what the explanation is for the developments we saw?”
Her guests began by disputing these claims by the IDF and comparing Israeli military tactics to the police brutality that sparked the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots.
“In terms of believing in Israelis, for the people of this country, whether it’s Breonna Taylor, whether it’s Freddie Gray, whether it’s George Floyd, there are multiple innocent victims in this country,” he said. “You could say black people needed to die at the hands of police.” Our industry, Abby, should start saying that maybe we shouldn’t just blindly believe what police say after a shooting. ”
He went on to say, “I feel that the Israeli military has not yet reached that stage in the Middle East.” He also accused Israel of telling “so many lies” throughout its war with Hamas. “There are too many to count,” he added.
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Mehdi Hasan left MSNBC last month as the network sought to downsize his role. (David Livingston/Getty Images)
“And according to one of the witnesses in the Washington Post, even though witness Abiy said that the Israelis opened fire and Israeli tanks also fired without any warning, They say, well, it was actually just a charge,” Hasan said. He continued to criticize the IDF’s statement.
“The Israelis opened fire on the starving people who were trying to get flour. That’s why it’s called the Flour Massacre.”
The former MSNBC host then compared Russia and Syria’s dictators, saying, “When President Putin did something like this in Ukraine, we condemned him. When President Assad did something like this in Syria. , we condemned him.”
Hasan reprimanded the US government and asked where the blame lies. He also urged President Biden to end Israel’s war against Hamas, saying, “Joe Biden has the power to pick up the phone and end this war. “We can say, ‘We’re going to isolate ourselves from the rest of the world.’ And we will do that.” Cut off aid and cut off military equipment. ”
Hasan had been skeptical of Israel’s actions since it began the war following the October 7 Hamas massacre.
Last November, the then-MNSBC host spoke out against Israeli official Mark Regev, an adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, about his government’s killing of innocent Palestinian children and his actions. They told me to my face that I was spreading misinformation.
In November 2023, before becoming an MSNBC personality, he made inflammatory comments such as comparing non-Muslims to “animals” and linking homosexuals to “pedophiles” and “sexual deviants.” began to spread on the internet. “It’s hard to imagine that MSNBC would put someone on TV who has said similar things about different religions,” said John Levin of the New York Post.
“We know that maintaining the moral high ground is key. Once we lose the moral high ground, we will be forced to live like other non-Muslims, bend any rules and live like animals. He is no different from any other human being who exists to fulfill every wish,” Hasan said in one of the unearthed videos.
Fox News Digital’s Michael Dorgan and Brian Flood contributed to this report
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