As Twitchy told you yesterday, Al Jazeera English presenter and Intercept journalist Mehdi Hasan did his best impersonation of an Ilhan Omar/Rashida Tlaib apologist outraged by anti-Semitism after Donald Trump’s God-awful “great disloyalty” remark about Jews who vote for Democrats.
After Trump clarified his remark today by essentially doubling down on it, Hasan once again took to Twitter to white-knight for Omar and Tlaib:
With Omar & Tlaib, their critics have to bend over backwards to show that their words are "tropes", "codewords", "dog whistles" etc.
With Trump, he's just open about it: Jews are dumb & "disloyal". When asked who they're disloyal to, he says "Israel."#dualloyalty #antisemitism
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) August 21, 2019
To be clear, I'm not defending Omar/Tlaib across the board and think they should choose their words carefully, and I'm glad they apologize when they get things wrong.
But there's no "both sides" here. There is an open white nationalist anti-Semite on one side, but not the other.
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) August 21, 2019
Is Hasan honestly contending that being a white supremacist is a prerequisite for anti-Semitism? Is he honestly contending that Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib haven’t been open and unapologetic with their anti-Semitism?
You cannot be serious
— JAC (@michcusejoe5) August 21, 2019
— Unagi (@brownrobin64) August 21, 2019
When have Omar/Tlaib ever apologized for anything? Do you just assume everyone who reads your nonsense is a moron?
— Laurence Watkins (@thelarrywatkins) August 21, 2019
It amazes me how stupid Mehdi assumes you all are https://t.co/Htdnag8sWY
— Bob Malak (@bob_malak) August 21, 2019
And is he honestly contending that he isn’t tying himself into intellectual knots in order to defend Omar and Tlaib from accurate charges of anti-Semitism?
What are you “not defending” Mehdi? Like, precisely what?
— AJL (@AmosAjl) August 21, 2019
NARRATOR: He's defending Omar/Tlaib across the board. https://t.co/JWmb73sj2o
— RBe (@RBPundit) August 21, 2019
This is got to be a joke, you can’t be more blatant than what tlaib and Omar have done
— oh boy (@Welcome_2_Moes) August 21, 2019
What?!!! Haha omar and tlaib CLEARLY hate Jews. They say something anti-Semitic almost daily…
— Field Marshal Slaw (@His_Slawness) August 21, 2019
They openly advocate for the destruction of Israel and they have NOT apologized, you Qatari funded whore https://t.co/nGpEMdh9Sj
— Bob Malak (@bob_malak) August 21, 2019
It shouldn’t have to be said that anti-Semitism is awful and inexcusable no matter what political side it’s coming from, but here we are.
Not really. All of them are behaving badly
— Me (@LisaWork6) August 21, 2019
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