"The Israeli position now is anyone who disagrees with them is Hamas."
Watch & share my full response to an Israeli colonel accusing me of "parroting Hamas talking points" on
@CNN
tonight, and watch me calling out the Israeli military's Gaza lies, which even CNN has debunked:
More than 10 children per day, on average, have lost one or both of their legs in Gaza since conflict erupted three months ago -
@Save_GlobalNews
Lifetimes of pain management and medical care will be needed
Cruz is a graduate of Princeton and Yale, a lawyer, a senator, the multimillionaire husband of a Goldman Sachs executive, who sends his kids to an exclusive school, but sure, letโs listen to him on โelitesโ!
โLook, it is true that Gazans did at one point elect Hamas. But if you think that makes them all complicit in war crimes their government commits, then boy, do I have bad news for you about decades of U.S. foreign policy.โ - โฆ
@iamjohnoliver
โฉ
How are Palestinians in Gaza, who have had their electricity and internet communications cut off by the Israeli military, supposed to hear/receive this โurgentโ message from the Israeli military?
Donโt forget,
@Kaepernick7
was lambasted by conservatives, and had his career destroyed, for the imaginary offense, and supposedly unforgivable crime, of โdisrespectingโ the troops.
And yet here is Trump calling dead US troops โlosersโ and thereโll be no backlash from the right.
Election officials are saying they fear for their lives.
The president's son is calling for "total war."
The president's former top adviser is calling for the beheading of the FBI chief.
But yeah, those of us who talk of authoritarianism & fascism, we're the alarmists, right?
You tweeted a link to a homophobic conspiracy theory on a fake news website about an attack on the Speakerโs husband. You then quietly deleted the tweet, without explanation or apology. Does that count as something โin particularโ?
Most Americans - including educated, informed Americans; including people working in politics and the media - still donโt understand how close we are to fully losing our democracy in the next year or two.
Last night Trump called for the impeachment of Barack Obama - who hasnโt been president for three years. This batshit demand from the sitting president wonโt feature on any front pages of any newspapers or any nightly news headlines on TV. We have normalized an abnormal person.
Credibility: The Israeli army said it had targeted โa suspicious vehicle containing several terroristsโ The only people in the car were three girls, ages 14, 12, and 10, their grandmother, and their mother. All were killed except the mother.
Me: "Did you not make 750,000 dollars?"
Vivek Ramaswamy: "Not at the time I had applied for the [Soros] scholarship."
Me: "Yes you did Vivek. This is awkward for you because you did. I've got the tax returns in front of my face."
#receipts
New clip ๐๐๐ฝ
"It's gross. It's racist."
Today is a good day to remember that time when legend
@BenAffleck
brilliantly and passionately called out Bill Maher's lazy and pernicious Islamophobia and anti-Arab bigotry on Maher's own show:
Worth remembering tonight:
1) state crimes canโt be pardoned by a president in DC
2) in Georgia, even the GOP governor lacks the power to pardon
Oh and just for fun:
3) trials are televised in Georgia
To be clear: there is no other Western democracy I can think of where armed men in camo and other military-style gear regularly turn up on the streets of cities and towns, who aren't themselves anything to do with law enforcement but who get left alone by law enforcement.
Just on a practical point, in the current climate: whatโs to stop anyone from claiming to be feds and pulling up in an unmarked car and grabbing/kidnapping a random person and driving off? And onlookers assuming it to be โfedsโ. Genuine question.
This is a teachable moment for Dems, with McConnell not even waiting till the morning to make his move. Iโm not saying Dems should be as vicious or heartless or amoral, but at least learn from GOP ruthlessness and their single-minded focus on winning, holding, & exercising power.
Donโt forget: this isnโt just about Joe Manchin. Itโs about the dark money and billionaires and coal interests behind him, which keep winning at ours and the planetโs expense. Manchin is a living breathing reminder that America is often more oligarchic than it is democratic.
Anyone who thinks all these people are endorsing Joe Biden, suddenly, on the eve of Super Tuesday, because they believe Biden is the best candidate to face Trump, and not because they just want to stop Bernie, well, I have a degree from Trump University to offer you.
Irony is dead. For months now, American politicians & pundits, Jewish community leaders & students, have obsessed over โfrom the river to the seaโ; censuring Rashida Talib & accusing pro-Palestinian activists of genocidal language.
Meanwhile, the Prime Minister of Israel says:
โThe cries of the Palestinian and Israeli children sound no different to me. What I don't understand is why the cries of Palestinians sound different to you all.โ
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) chokes up while condemning the resolution to censure her that the House is considering:
โSpeaking up to save lives, Mr. Chair, no matter faith, no matter ethnicity, should not be controversial in this chamber.โ
Just a warning: I have no tolerance for people telling me that theyโre ok with a 2nd Trump term or that โtheyโre all the sameโ. Some of us, especially those of us who are Muslims and immigrants, donโt have your privilege. So unfollow me, or prepare to be slammed and/or blocked.
10,000-plus Palestinians killed, including 4,000-plus kids, and the U.S. House of Representatives is busy censuringโฆ the only Palestinian-American member. Canโt make this stuff up.
"We're imposing a complete siege on Gaza".
Israel's Defense Minister, Yoav Gallant, orders a total blockade of Gaza - leaving them with "no electricity, no food and no fuel".
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Hunter Biden indicted. Wow, that would be so bad for him if he was running for president.
Imagine running for president and getting indicted.
Just imagine.
What the past 48 hours or so has revealed is that there are a lot of people who mourn for dead Israeli civilians but not dead Palestinian ones, and a lot of people who mourn for dead Palestinian civilians but not dead Israeli ones.
What has happened to our collective humanity?
Marjorie Taylor Greene's account has deleted 19 tweets in the last 12 hours.
Greene is also scrubbing her Facebook of old posts and videos from 2018 and 2019 where she spread conspiracies and endorsed violence against Democratic lawmakers.
The president of the United States is trailing in the polls, canโt possibly win the popular vote, and wants to install a judge who supports him to the highest court in the land in order to help guarantee his re-election.
What would you call this if you saw it another country?
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He *actually* said that. He did.
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Actually just said by Donald Trump Jr: "I wish my name was Hunter Biden. I could go abroad and make millions off my father's presidency. I'd be a really rich guy"
Second-biggest owner of Twitter is executing a man for his tweets.
Silence from the owner of Twitter, who is a self-styled โfree speech absolutist.โ Not even a โconcerningโ.
A Saudi court has sentenced a man to death based solely on his Twitter& YouTube activity.
Repression has reached a terrifying new stage when a court can hand down the death penalty for nothing more than tweets. Saudi authorities should quash the verdict.
Serious question: how does American democracy survive when in times of controversy or crisis you have 100s, if not 1000s, of public figures willing to publicly and repeatedly lie about basic demonstrable facts; and carry on lying even after theyโre confronted with those facts? ๐คท๐ฝโโ๏ธ
So folks have been comparing the weird
@GMB
morning show interview with the climate activist in the UK with *that* scene from
#DontLookUp
.
So we at the
@MehdiHasanShow
put them side by side & the results are.. astounding. Reality mirroring art!
Watch:
1. It's astonishing how wrong so many of the predictions of a 'red wave/tsunami' were. I for one am fed up with pundits and commentators getting things so, so wrong & then just... moving on.
So here's a thread/reminder of some of the worst midterm predictions. Read/share/enjoy:
Just got an email from my kidโs school saying they had their โlockdownโ drill today.
You know schools in other countries donโt do this, right? You know other countries donโt scar entire generations of kids to appease the gun lobby, right?
This. Is. Not. Normal.
Russiaโs attacks against civilian infrastructure, especially electricity, are war crimes.
Cutting off men, women, children of water, electricity and heating with winter coming - these are acts of pure terror.
And we have to call it as such.
Me: "It's just error after error, Matt?"
@mtaibbi
: "Well, that is an error."
Watch me confront Matt Taibbi with multiple, unacknowledged, and glaring mistakes in his Twitter Files reporting.
Full
@MehdiHasanShow
interview later tonight. Preview:
Remember when the UK government and Prime Minister Sunak also condemned Israel's "reckless attack" on an Iranian consulate in Syria "in the strongest terms"?
Oh, wait...
Letโs do a deal.
Donald Trump gets to ignore the 14th Amendment and run for president again in 2024.
But Barack Obama gets to ignore the 22nd Amendment and also run for president again in 2024.
Republicans cool with that?
So hold on, wait, wait, youโre suggesting by Shapiro just switched his position on indicting presidents once it was a Republican president who actually got indicted? No way? But that would make him completely unprincipled and hyper partisan ๐ค
Ben Shapiro in 2014 on indicting presidents: "If we start treating them as criminals, maybe they'll think twice before they act so criminally in the future"
Iโm not a conspiracy theorist but how do you explain a headline/tweet that reveals a new poll showing Trump beating Warren and Biden in Iowa but *not mention* that the same poll shows Sanders *beating* Trump there? How do you explain that? How? How? No, seriously, how?
Dozens of fighter jets and helicopters attacked a series of terrorist targets of the Hamas terrorist organization throughout the Gaza Strip.
So far, the IAF has dropped about 6,000 bombs against Hamas targets.
Anyone who watches my show knows I am as critical of Manchinema as the next person - if not more so! - but why do we give *50* GOP senators a pass? Why arenโt they constantly being asked by reporters why they donโt support popular & necessary measures on climate or paid leave?
She wants to turn a refugee camp โinto a soccer fieldโ and wants โall 2 million [Gazans] to leaveโ - how is this not an open call for ethnic cleaning?
Former Israeli Interior Minister Shaked:
"After we turn Khan Younis into a soccer fieldโฆwe need to take advantage of the destruction to tell the countries that each of them should take a quota, it can be 20K or 50K. We need all 2 million to leave. That's the solution for Gaza"
The people who shout and complain loudest about โwhen will the pandemic and the restrictions end?โ are, ironically and annoyingly, often the ones most responsible for prolonging the damn thing.
Most Muslims born and brought up in the west - including, erm, me - have been waiting our whole lives for a politician who is Muslim to get elected and deliver an answer like this to the โusualโ Qs. I felt like cheering as I listened to
@IlhanMN
deliver this powerful riposte.
'As Muslim legislators we are constantly being asked to waste our time speaking to issues that other people are not asked to speak to.' โ Watch
@IlhanMN
shut down this biased, 'appalling' question
AOC was born in the Bronx; Ayanna Pressley in Cincinnati; Rashida Tlaib in Detroit.
Your regular reminder that the president of the United States is not just a brazen racist but the laziest and most unoriginal (โgo back to where you came fromโ) of racists:
Let that sink in: the top infectious disease scientist in the US government in the midst of a pandemic needs a security detail because the presidentโs supporters, egged on by the president - his boss, head of the government - hate him and want him gone.
At least 2,215 Palestinians, including 724 children, have been killed and 8,714 others wounded in Israel's bombardment, the health ministry in the Gaza Strip has updated.
๐ด LIVE updates:
For months, all weโve heard from Israel is that Hamas commits war crimes by disguising themselves as civilians & not wearing uniforms.
And now we see Israeli soldiers/assassins โdisguised as medics and other civilians making their way through a corridorโ:
Yes the
@MehdiHasanShow
has ended on
@peacock
& will be ending on
@MSNBC
*next* month (still a few weeks left!)
Thank you all for watching over the past 3 years.
Going forward at
@MSNBC
, I'll serve as a guest anchor across prime shows and beyond, & as an on-air political analyst.
Dark day for minorities in the UK. Especially for British Muslims who watched as a man who said "Islam was the problem," mocked veiled Muslim women, & also turned a blind eye to massive anti-Muslim hatred in his party, was just given a landslide majority by their fellow Britons.
Gaza, in the words of an ex-Israeli intel chief, is an "open-air prison."
"Hell on earth," per the UN Secretary-General.
2.2. million people. 50% kids. 50% in poverty. 90% without access to clean drinking water.
I shared some important background & context on
@MSNBC
tonight:
Let me be clear: there's no scenario in which someone who looked like me, with my name, could get away with even six seconds of behavior like this at an airport, let alone sixty. Where on earth are the police? Security?
There are literally five pages, 59 to 64, in the suit which just lay out all the statements made by Israeli officials, in their own words. Itโs all there. In black and white. With footnotes. Kirby can disagree with the suit but he canโt say it is โwithout any basis in factโ.
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby calls South Africaโs 84-page suit accusing Israel of genocide โmeritless, counterproductive, and completely without any basis in fact whatsoever.โ
This conflict for me has always been about morality.
Morally, you cannot justify the killing of Palestinian civilians, even if you say itโs fighting terrorism.
But morally, you also cannot justify the killing of Israeli civilians, even if you say youโre fighting occupation.
Raise your hand if you want this plane landing in your town?
America paid unimaginable costs in Afghanistan because of uniparty globalists who dominated the Bush & Obama administrations.
No moreโฆ
The United States, our country, is currently helping starve, literally starve, half a million innocent people.
But hey, letโs talk more about Harvard Universityโฆ
It is difficult for the uninitiated to fully comprehend how much poison Fox News injects into US public life on a nightly basis, and how much damage it has done - and continues to do - to US politics.
So the GOP just got rid of their own Speaker after bringing the country to the brink of a government shutdown, while their presidential frontrunner is in court for fraud and getting gagged by the judge for defaming the clerk.
The big question then: what about Joe Bidenโs age?
Separate to the injustice & illegality of it, there is a fundamental racism to suggesting Gazans just up & move to Egypt & other Arab countries. Folks, Arabs arenโt all the same. No one asked Northern Irish Catholics to just relocate to France because theyโre all white Europeans.
Do a poll of Americans tonight. Ask them if they know:
1) who the Houthis are,
2) where they live,
3) why we are bombing them, and
4) whether the president has the authority, under the constitution, to bomb them.
Go!
In recent days, Republicans have taunted Democrats over Andrew Cuomo, and accused them of hypocrisy, and engaged in much Trump-related whataboutism.
Thing is, Dems called for Cuomo to resign. And he did.
Republicans never called on Trump to resign. And he didn't.
#bothsides
Given how confident they are about who is to blame for the hospital deaths, Israeli authorities should allow foreign journalists & international war crimes investigators into Gaza to see for themselves; to gather evidence at the scene; to interview eyewitnesses.
And yetโฆ
Americans should be furious with the governments of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump, which told us, for 20 straight years, that we were winning in Afghanistan, that the billions we were pouring into the Afghan government & military were worth it.
It was all a lie.
I donโt know if I can overstate how much it means to me and to millions of others, and what a big bloody deal it is, that today we learned the Muslim ban will be gone in January 2020. Lifted. Repealed. Reversed.
๐๐ฝ๐๐ฝ๐๐ฝ๐๐ฝ๐๐ฝ๐๐ฝ๐๐ฝ
On a serious note, no Democratic politician from the coasts could ever go visit a Republican-led city in the South & then go on a liberal media outlet & call it repulsive, smelly, & disgusting. No way. A reminder of the double standards, & asymmetry, in our politics & our media.
Hereโs the harsh reality for Americans whoโve long believed we lived in the greatest democracy on earth: if Raffensberger wasnโt Sec of State in GA and/or if GOP controlled both chambers of Congress, thereโs more than a high chance that Biden wouldnโt be president come Jan 20th.
Our girl preached in the airport on our way home from our mission trip and she proclaimed passionately, full of the Spirit and love! This is how we catch flights โ๏ธ
Hold on, Breitbart just put out the names of the FBI agents who did the search? Are you kidding me? And presumably Breitbart got leaked this search warrant from Trump, unredacted?
Wow good luck to those agents & their families. Sheesh the right donโt give a damn about โthe blueโ.
Every single Dem candidate from Sanders to Bloomberg has pledged to lift the Muslim Ban. Trump has pledged to expand it.
So, yes, do please tell me, a Muslim, with all your non-Muslim privilege, that there's no difference between the Dems & Trump & a 2nd Trump term ain't so bad.
A senator, and former leader of his party, announces he is retiring and reveals he was paying 5,000 dollars a month for security to protect his own family from his partyโs own voters.
Totally normal. No fascism here.
America and the GOP in 2023.
I see some folks on this hellsite claiming whatever happens to Gazans in the coming days is on them for electing Hamas.
1) There hasn't been an election in Gaza for 17 years.
2) It's literally the same unhinged argument Bin Laden made to justify killing American civilians.
Let's be clear, in the context of Trump, there is no
#Never
anyone.
Trump vs Warren. It's Warren.
Trump vs Biden. It's Biden.
Trump vs Gabbard. It's Gabbard.
Trump vs your mailman or Uber driver. It's your mailman or Uber driver.
Trump vs Nixon's ghost. It's Nixon's ghost.
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