Mehdi Hasan

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the far left socialist types, they're, they're never gonna be like, "Oh, well, the reason he lost is because he was associated with Hasan," or, "He was too far left," or, "He wouldn't denounce Hamas," or blah, blah, blah.

Like, they would never obviously admit that.

But that doesn't, like, matter, 'cause that's not really the conversation.

Mm.

That's not the conversation.

The conversation is whether the mainstream media and, like, the Democratic Party and, and those sorts of people, whether they will conceptualize in their mind, "Okay, the associ- the association with Hasan is a toxic issue.

The association with the DSA or the far left is a toxic issue.

And it remains sacred.

Today, I want to bring you an important conversation between journalist Mehdi Hasan and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Benjamin Moser, a discussion that arrives at a time when debates surrounding Israel, Palestine, Zionism, and Jewish identity have become some of the most contested and emotionally charged conversations in the world.

At the center of this interview is Moser's new book, Anti- A Jewish History, a work that challenges one of the most common assumptions repeated in mainstream political discourse, that Zionism and Judaism are one and the same.

Moser argues that they are not and have never been.

Rather than relying on slogans or political talking points, Benjamin Moser invites audiences to examine history, confront uncomfortable realities, and engage with a tradition of Jewish thought that many have never encountered before— It is a discussion about history, identity, power, memory, and the ongoing struggle over who gets to define the meaning of both Judaism and Zionism in the 21st century.

Okay, so enough from me.

Let's listen to the conversation between Mehdi Hasan and Benjamin Moser and hear the arguments for ourselves.

Israel is the most dangerous place in the world for Jews.

I showed you yesterday, James Tallarico is on board with that.

Here's Mehdi Hasan reiterating that fact.

I have said for a long time that it's time for the Democrats to play dirty.

At some point when your opponents are rigging elections, inciting insurrections, denying black people the ability to vote freely, you can't just roll over.

Let's look at this here.

Mehdi Hassan.

Haley Stevens gets heckled.

She is called a traitor and the press conference ends as she is ushered away.

You see, Mehdi got offended by the beeper joke on CNN.

It was a few years ago, but it's never not funny.

Well, of course he did, because he is, again, Mehdi Hassan is first and foremost a Muslim identitarian.

So he will always fall off on the side of defending other Muslims, even if those Muslims are committing terrorist acts.

the Democrats' dominating win in every sense of the word, governor's races, House races, Senate races, what that means.

The infighting that happened right after, it seems, between the further progressive left, dare I say DSA left, people like Assange Piker, Mehdi Hassan, et cetera, et cetera, and then the more centrist left.

Even though Democrats should be celebrating together, it seems like that is not exactly the case.

What does that mean? We'll talk about that as well.

And we need a majority in order to make sure that Chuck Schumer doesn't take majority leadership.

And Mehdi Hassan made a good point here, and he said this about Hakeem Jeffries, but I think it applies to Chuck, too.

He says that his first response to a Democratic landslide that he had little to do with is to bleat about finding bipartisan common ground.

Do you think Republicans would be talking about bipartisanship if they had just secured the biggest House majority of decades?