Inventing Reality

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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml [S] 2 points 3 days ago (1 child)

I would 100% post Piers Morgan.

90% of Piers the last 3 years is Piers putting on a clown hat and giving Palestine activists an open goal to score. Then he posts a short of it and everyone in the comments dunks on him. I'm quite certain Piers is doing it on purpose. Over the past 3 years Piers Morgan has been a much better ally to the Palestinian cause than Mehdi Hasnake.

That said Mehdi is on the Chomsky tier of calling out propaganda. As long as you don't subscribe to his ideology of voting Democrat for the 9000th time as the solution to all your problems he has a lot of valid takes.

I can find issues with every online content creator. I've even got this person in my inbox who has large issues with people who aren't even Democrat plants like Mehdi Hasnake https://lemmy.ml/post/51050025/27110323

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[–] AlHouthi4President@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 days ago (1 child)

I can find issues with every online content creator.

This is a lazy and disingenuous response.

I expected better.

he has a lot of valid takes

Reducing the blood of the martyrs to "takes" is a systematic issue I also find bizarre and uncomfortable.

I must be insane that the struggle of Palestine has been reduced to a talking point.

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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml [S] 2 points 3 days ago (1 child)

What's been reduced to a talking point here? Do you only post takes of people you 100% ideologically align with and who would those be?

Recently we even had Ali Abumanah, Rania Khalek and others celebrating the wins of milquetoast Liberal Zionists I wouldn't call allies to the Palestinians cause but I'm not going to stop posting their content either.

Mehdi is an opportunist Liberal who isn't pushing the overton window for sure but he does occasionally say some valid stuff. Takes like these calling out Jewish Exceptionalism in media reporting are still quite rare these days

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[–] AlHouthi4President@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 child)

You're confusing me with someone else. I specifically said Mehdi Hasan in particular. This isn't about random twitter users

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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml [S] 1 point 3 days ago (1 child)

Ali Abumanah and Rania Khalek aren't random Twitter users.

My view is that posting a Mehdi Hasnake quote is no different than posting a BBC article if that makes any sense. Coincidentally Mehdi used to work for the BBC as well.

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[–] AlHouthi4President@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 days ago* (1 child)

Ali Abumanah and Rania Khalek

Ali Abumanah is a real journalist who doesn't spread explicitly anti-Resistance and pro-genocide propaganda and therefore not comparable to this dirtbag.

The twitter user comment was because you keep trying to expand the conversation beyond scope.

I just don't understand what is so difficult about this.

Don't worry I will stay out of your mentions now. Im tired

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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml [S] 1 point 3 days ago*

IIRC Ali Abumanah celebrated Liberal Zionist Brad Lander winning in NYC. (Brad Lander invested millions of dollars into Elbit Systems.)

And Rania Khalek praised Graham Platner...

Of course they're both not Mehdi Hasnakes but the point is that discrediting valid points especially when nobody else is making them just because they also did some bad thing isn't really helping. Not to claim they're the same as Hasnake.

Only Assal Rad, Alan MacLeod and Mehdi Hasan frequently make original relevant posts calling out media manipulation so there's really not that many options to pick from.

There are users which I wouldn't post, such as Shahiel Ben Ephraim. A known Israeli agent trying to infiltrate the Palestine movement. But that's because Shahiel doesn't actually create any content worthy of posting. He just reposts other people's work with the "as an israeli this is rly bad!!" appended to it..