{"id":30314,"date":"2023-12-02T12:28:53","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T20:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=30314"},"modified":"2023-12-02T12:28:54","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T20:28:54","slug":"mehdi-hasan-booted-from-msnbc-after-daring-to-practice-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/12\/02\/mehdi-hasan-booted-from-msnbc-after-daring-to-practice-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Mehdi Hasan Booted From MSNBC After ‘Daring to Practice Journalism’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Mehdi Hasan interviews Mark Regev, senior adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on his MSNBC show on November 16, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Mehdi Hasan’s program has felt like an oasis on air and more needed than ever,” said one Palestinian American advocate of the journalist’s Gaza coverage.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

JULIA CONLEY<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nov 30, 2023 (CommonDreams.org)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Progressives on Thursday said the American public was losing a vital voice that for nearly two months has offered rare critical coverage of the U.S.-backed Israeli assault on civilians in Gaza, as MSNBC<\/em> announced it was canceling “The Mehdi Hasan Show.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/strong>The show began on the streaming service Peacock in 2020 and Hasan has hosted the weekend program on the network since 2021. He has gained recognition in the past for his incisive interviews of former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince<\/a> and GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More recently he has provided viewers with commentary on the war in Gaza, in which more than 15,000 Palestinians have been killed so far, while also condemning Hamas’ attack against civilians in southern Israel on October 7 as “undeniably, a vicious act of terror.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“How many more innocent people are going to die, and what will be achieved?” asked<\/a> Hasan in one segment last month. “Does killing innocent Palestinians in Gaza, and not just members of Hamas, killing a Palestinian child every 15 minutes since October 7… Does that help defeat Hamas?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guardian <\/em>columnist Owen Jones said<\/a> there is “no better interviewer than Mehdi Hasan: forensic, razor-sharp, an encyclopedic knowledge.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“So MSNBC<\/em> has now canceled his show,” Jones said. “The few mainstream voices who challenge Israel’s mass slaughter of Gaza are under attack.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the cancellation of Hasan’s show was announced, Palestinian American human rights lawyer Noura Erakat pointed to his recent interview with Mark Regev, an adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as “a whole class on journalistic method.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MSNBC cancels Mehdi Hasan\u2019s show@msnbc<\/a> make this make sense. @mehdirhasan<\/a>\u2019s program has felt like an oasis on air and more needed than ever. His program w Mark Regev was a whole class on journalistic method. He should be amplified,not shut down. https:\/\/t.co\/r5Saq1ssdm<\/a>#Gaza<\/a><\/p>— Noura Erakat (@4noura) November 30, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>