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Makdisi Street

"The other guy is more genocidal" w/ Mehdi Hasan

Makdisi Street

Bayt al Makdisi

News, Politics

4.9644 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2024

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

The Brothers welcome journalist and founder of Zeteo, Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) to the pod. They have a spirited discussion about anti-Arab and anti-Muslim bias in the mainstream media, the price of compromise to gain access, and whether voting for Harris is a vote against fascism or a vote endorsing genocide.

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Date of recording: Oct 22, 2024.

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0:00.0

Thousands of conservative Muslims are going to vote for Jill Stein because they want to stop genocide.

0:04.6

They won't be voted for Jill Stein because they support her transgender policies.

0:08.0

So this idea that if you vote for a politician, you agree with everything they say is just insane.

0:13.4

Right. The only person I would vote for endorse everything they say is myself.

0:18.2

Hang on.

0:18.5

And I'm not running for any longer.

0:20.0

Okay, not not everything.

0:21.8

It's not everything. But genocide in human history, genocide tends to be in a category by itself. For whatever right or wrong. If the alternative was non-genocidal, then we would have a discussion. She's not running in a vacuum, sorry. The other guy is more genocidal. So I have to weigh that up.

0:44.4

Hello, everybody, and welcome back to another Magda C Street podcast episode. Today, we're very happy to have with us, Mahdi Hassan, who's a British American progressive broadcaster,

0:50.8

but he's also been a political commentator, a columnist, and he's also the founding member of the media company Zeteo.

0:57.0

I'm sure he's well known to most of our viewers.

1:02.0

He's presented, he had the Mehdi Hassan show on Peacock and was also working on MSNBC.

1:08.0

He's a columnist at The Guardian. He's worked in many different platforms.

1:14.8

But he's also a graduate of Oxford.

1:18.2

And he at the same time, he also worked at Jazeera.

1:21.5

And he's the author of several books, including Win Every Argument.

1:26.2

And he's written a biography of the former Labor Party

1:29.6

leader Ed Miliband. So he's, you know, Mahdi is somebody that you should all follow on his

1:36.0

social media and his Twitter and his company. And we're very happy to have him today talking about,

1:41.8

in particular, kind of covering Gaza and the U.S. elections as well.

1:47.1

So please do listen.

1:49.2

And before we start, just another reminder that if you would be so kind as to join the Patreon,

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