Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Mar 11 "Once you cheapen a phrase like antisemitism… when you call Miss Rachel an antisemite, you're completely undermining the very important common struggle we should have against antisemitism.” Piers Morgan & I discuss Ben Shapiro's attempts to cancel anyone who criticizes Israel.
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To stupid to understand the difference between the Israeli government and the Jewish religion. It’s like equating this administration with Christianity. Thinking genocide is part of Judaism is very anti semitic.
Damn you Mehdi for making me re-tweet PM. You as ever put forward a cogent coherent argument. PM for probably only the 2nd time has uttered words I can agree with. I shall not dead name him, he gets PMed only. (Checks phone to make sure PM hasn't compromised my messages!!!)
Submit IS intolerance.
I've been saying this for years. It's like the boy who cried wolf.
Antisemitism is a curious phenomenon of self infliction.
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I’m trying to understand why the only people anyone talks about people being bigots against are the Jewish ?
Ben could get hired as a voice of one the kids on South Park. Seriously. Gonna dazzle you with fast talk.
Fuck Israel
Well said. But we should still acknowledge that Tucker, Candace, Marge & Co. are still rightwing scum even though some of what they said is true
Might be the first thing I've agreed with Piers on.
Morgan, famous for saying what ever he likes under the label of speaking his mind or saying it "as it is" no matter the accuracy. It looks like cognitive dissonance is an accolade these days!
Exactly! It’s harder to fight antisemitism when people want you to confuse it with criticism of Israel
Actually, no different than being anti-American b/c America has a raging narcissist at the helm and being anti-Semitic b/c Israel has a raging war monger at the helm! It's an important common struggle we should have against being anti 'the people' b/c of these two leaders especially now.
Yup. Criticise Israel’s stance on something and you’re automatically an antisemite. Israel has played that card for years and governments have tiptoed round it rather than call them out for it. Yes the holocaust was horrific (no one can deny that) but so is what they are doing now.
Who cares what the NAZI guy, Ben Shapiro thinks, a nasally, whiny closet dweller, just makes me laugh, he’s so pathetic!!
Using false accusations of bigotry to defame and silence people is wrong. This is not hard to understand.
Um, and then there is the thing about them - Arabs and Jews - all being Semites. If you are antisemitic, you are, by definition (ok, not popular opinion) against pretty much everyone who speaks Arabic, Hebrew, and yes, even Aramaic (see New Testament).
Piers Morgan saying reasonable things is not something I expected but I'm all for it!
Miss Rachel is a wonderful decent empathetic woman. And all us free minded people love her for that.
I feel the same way about the term narcoterrorist.
Only Zionists equate criticism of Israel with antisemitism. Because only they say Israel is exclusively for Jews.
I am not a native english speaker, but I am impressed with how fast you produce eloquent phrases - like it was a pre-written speech
Ben Shapiro is scum. Happily supporting two murderous regimes in Israel and the U.S.
As a Jew, I concur. This whole thing where you can’t criticize the Israeli government the same way we criticize the US government without being labeled anti-semitic seems like a Neo-Nazi psyop to discredit anti-semitism as a real concern.
100% Israel isn't a theocratic nation. No government should be free from criticism. Is criticism of North Korea racist now too? I'll literally never accept such weak empty deflection from accountability from anyone about anything. There is real antisemetism out there. Its not helped by zionism
Well said
Relevant article to back your thoughts
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Hasan is just wasting his time, engaging Piers, a known publicity hound and his audience, who are just as clueless as he is.
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Right? That bothers me to no end. If criticism of Israel’s leadership = “antisemitism” that means Israel is a theocracy. Which it’s not.
Zionists are genocide deniers.
Are psychopathic extremists protected by claiming weaponised and false anti semitism?
This is a major reason Nazism is growing in prominence on the right. Even conservatives see our alliance with Israel as a problem, but their leaders keep invoking "antimerism" for their criticisms. So they lean into it because that's all they know.
go get them Mehdi!
Exactly! It’s not antisemitism to criticize genocide. This lack of accountability Israel enjoys by screaming antisemitism needs to stop. I’m not saying there aren’t Nazis and white supremicists out there, those crimes should be prosecuted and stopped!
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I've never understood how criticising Israel is antisemitic, but criticising countries like Iran, is not seem as anti Muslims! It is possible to separate murderous regimes from religion! It's also possible to be a war criminal and Jewish and for everyone to still support the Jewish communities.
Great adult conversation. So refreshing (even though it’s a serious topic)
Ok but you got to be careful that just because Shaprio is attacking Carlson in bad faith, it doesn't change the fact that Tucker Carlson does happen to be a genuine antisemite too irrespective of his Israel takes. This is a "cultural marxism" "great replacement" conspiracy theorist shit head.
I tend to save terms like antisemitism to describe islamic hatred of jews.....get called Islamophobic. You're ALL playing super hardball on the information war, pretending the "other side" is worse. Don't pretend to be all noble only going after teh gubbermints.
Why give Ben Shapiro any attention at all?
Governments around the world have caved in to this tactic. We all know that to criticize the government of Israel isn't necessarily anti-Semitic, but the constant conflation of the two things has worn down bigger men than Piers Morgan.
And the reactionary centrist crowd aren't much better. The ADL wilfully downplay actual Nazi salutes by Musk et al, while they blow mild statements by Mamdani way out of proportion. It's all doing more harm than good for efforts to combat antisemitic violence.