Mehdi Hasan
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first heard Apr 2024
last heard 13 Feb
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The reason I set up Zateo, Don, I said this when I launched the media company, is we don't have enough context in our media company.
I'm all about context.
What is the context?
Intifada can be hate speech, like any word can be hate speech, depending on how it's deployed.
So if I go write intifada on a synagogue, I think that's anti-Semitic.
I think that's hate speech.
Right.
But if I'm protesting for Palestine and saying we want freedom for the Palestinians and we want a global struggle, a global uprising, which is the literal definition of intifada, then no, it's not anti-Semitic.
Yes.
Because she was the first college president since 1996 to send the police onto campus to break up a peaceful protest.
And don't forget, Don, the NYPD, John Chell, said that we found a bunch of peaceful protesters.
They were very friendly.
They posed no threat or harm to the NYPD when we arrested them.
The clear and present danger line was used by Shafiq.
The idea that the president of Colombia, who was born in Egypt...
is to the right of the NYPD on this issue.
It's pretty scary.
I think she's lost the confidence of students, of academics, on the pro-Palestinian side.
And ironically, Don, I believe that she, like so many liberals in this country, was trying to bend over backwards to appease the right, to appease the GOP, to appease Fox.
And guess what?
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