Mehdi Hasan

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4,624 appearances 9 recordings 7 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 9 Jul

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The Rest Is Politics · 552. Trump's Red Card Saga and Germany's Far-Right Machine · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

You must support Israel in that way, otherwise you're encouraged to resign or you're fired.

And I think we can't ignore the role of Israel right now in the German political debate.

We've seen

German mainstream politicians act in a very authoritarian way towards pro-Palestine protesters, towards Jewish Germans, anti-Zionist Jewish Germans who've been protesting the genocide.

I don't know if you've seen us to the horrific scenes of German police dragging nonviolent, unarmed people, women off the streets.

That kind of authoritarianism, you know who that helps in the long run?

It only helps the far right.

Same thing in the UK with Palestine Action.

When you act in an authoritarian way as a center left or center right party, the ultimate beneficiary of that is the far right, because that's where the political spectrum moves towards.

That's where the energy and the center of travel goes towards.

So in Germany, it is very worrying that they're on the rise.

It is very worrying that this media mogul who owns the Telegraph, owns Politico, owns, I think he owns Bilt as well, he has this power to...

to kind of set the political agenda in these places is backing Nigel Farage.

And Alistair, if you look at all these far-right parties, you will find these billionaire media and tech moguls behind a lot of them.

You will find Elon Musk backing the AFD as well.

You will find Rupert Murdoch with his fingers in a lot of these pies.

You will find Matthias Döpfner now supporting a lot of these groups.

He's obsessed with Islamism.

He's obsessed with Israel.

And that is not, you know, and that's why he's supporting a lot of these far-right parties.

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