43 Comments
User's avatar
AJ's avatar

And genocide-complicit Western mainstream media must be held accountable for incessantly pedalling all these lies, just as media bosses in Rwanda were imprisoned for their complicity in genocide there.

Expand full comment
Nancy's avatar
16hEdited

I’d been fantasizing about a protest in front of the NYT for its many lies, omissions and distortions for a long time. Finally, a group of writers protested, and red paint was splashed on the NYT logo on the building. The NYT never did retract falsehoods in a front-page story it ran about alleged rapes by Hamas in Gaza, even though a primary investigator who worked on the story said later she could not substantiate its allegations and The Intercept debunked it in detail. That’s only one example. The editorial board ran an op-ed criticizing “antisemitism” on the right and the left. Examples of the so-called antisemitism on the left were of course protests about killing in Gaza.

Expand full comment
Carole Langston's avatar

Wow, Mehdi. And most will never see these facts. Such hate.

Expand full comment
Lynn's avatar

This is great, but too fast. I’d prefer the same content in 4 minutes. Still, an excellent reminder of all the misinformation sadly promoted by mainstream media.

Expand full comment
Tamsin brown's avatar

Yes! I agree! I'd love it at a digestible speed !

Expand full comment
Rob H's avatar

Oh good, I thought Mr. Hasan was speaking at 2X speed and I actually checked the playback speed which was at 1X. Glad to read I'm not the only person who felt he went a little fast even for us subscribers.

Expand full comment
Nina Menkes's avatar

Please do this in writing!

Expand full comment
Linda Raglione's avatar

Simply amazing!

Expand full comment
Tarek's avatar

genocide-complicit Western mainstream media must be held accountable for incessantly pedalling all these lies

Expand full comment
Elizabeth blakley's avatar

I love your fast talking clips❤️

Expand full comment
Mehdi Hasan's avatar

Thanks!

Expand full comment
Kamal's avatar

Mehdi speaks too slowly. I had to watch this in 2x speed. ;).

Expand full comment
Mehdi Hasan's avatar

LOL!

Expand full comment
Jennifer Armerding's avatar

I’ll never forget the video of the idf using the Palestinian man to call for the people, including his mother, to walk out of the hospital entrance, and after they did what they were directed, the IDF shot and killed the man they’d just used as their human shield. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.

Expand full comment
josephebacon's avatar

Mehdi told more truth about Booby Nincompoopo and his Likud thugs in 3 minutes than the Corporate Controlled Conservative Press has done in a decade.

Expand full comment
Amy Williams's avatar

Nicely done you legend!

Expand full comment
Mehdi Hasan's avatar

Thanks

Expand full comment
Judy Graboyes's avatar

This is great! I just used a lot of this to debunk a long post on Facebook by a family member. Thank you!

Expand full comment
dboing dboing's avatar

Such verbal bandwidth. I admit I needed the writing. The voice was development. Without the writing, I would have had vertigo. Not a complaint. It worked. I got it all. I knew of the propaganda claim, who would not, we have been manipulated for so long. I did fall for it early, that there had been cruelty, of systemic nature. That gives me anger, to have been played with my sense of morality that way. But the worst is all the months of inertia, that window of time for our numbness to implement that "final solution" for the long known civilian problem in the land without people. I am of the universalist interpretation for genocide (and I care that it won't be a hindsight proven without a doubt one). I.e. a risk of genocide is a genocide, if only words can make the reluctant interested parties abide by the internal law, not their moral integrity (which they have lost somehow... over the decades).

The UN workers and organizations and reporters about this Palestinian real existential threat are all in hindsight the most credible sources of predictive information. It was at the risk of genocide that action that we are seen being lipped service still about should have started. Calling it genocide, too late, does not really make this go away, the moral despair remains.

Expand full comment
Ennis's avatar

Capable of disgusting lies like babies in ovens - clearly capable of committing such disgusting crimes by themselves...

Expand full comment
B J Sutherland's avatar

The NYT is now the 'paper of note' on lies, obfuscation and lack of correcting their mistaken coverage. Keep holding them to account Mehdi!

Expand full comment
Jaroslaw N. Hruzewicz's avatar

Thank you Mehdi! Very well done!

Expand full comment