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January 23, 2024

MSNBC’s Chief Apologist for Anti-Semites Lost in the Marketplace of Ideas

The fall of Mehdi Hasan.

Exhibit A of how Qatar’s propaganda operations infiltrate American media is the far-left, fanatically anti-Israel, Anglo-American television commentator Mehdi Hasan, who began his career at Al Jazeera and in 2020 became host of a show on MSNBC. When the network canceled it in late November, Hasan and his defenders complained loudly of the “silencing” of criticism of Israel and, of course, Islamophobia. In fact, as Christine Rosen explains, market forces drove him off the air:

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