Mehdi Hasan, the anti-Israel propagandist who was dropped as a commentator last year by NBC for his outrageous charges against Israel, has now outdone himself, declaring on X/Twitter that Israel’s “genocide” in Gaza has been “worse than that of the Nazis.” Facing a firestorm of criticism, he has deleted the post, but has failed to publicly distance himself from it. More on his original remark about Israel’s “genocide” can be found here: “Mehdi Hasan posts, then deletes about ways ‘Gaza genocide’ worse than Holocaust,” Jerusalem Post, October 14, 2025:
Anti-Israel journalist Mehdi Hasan claimed there were ways in which the “Gaza genocide” is worse than other genocides, including the genocide in Rwanda and the Holocaust, in a now-deleted Monday post to X/Twitter.
“One of the ways in which the Gaza genocide is worse than a lot of previous genocides – Rwanda, even the Holocaust – is that you didn’t have Hutus or Nazis mocking the genocide after it was over. They were shunned/deradicalized/prosecuted,” Hasan wrote, according to saved screenshots of the post.
Hasan’s comment came in response to a post on X by Free Press columnist Eli Lake, who joked about “a genocide against the indigenous tunnels of Gaza.”…
Eli Lake was not “mocking” a genocide; he was mocking those who misapplied the word “genocide” to what has been going on in Gaza. In the last two months, “genocide” has become the most frequent charge flung at the Jewish state. It is absurd. “Genocide” requires intent, but the Israelis have not shown any “intent” to wipe out the people in Gaza. In fact, the IDF has made tremendous efforts to minimize civilian casualties, mainly by dropping millions of leaflets, sending millions of text messages, and making millions of robocalls, all to warn Gazans to leave areas or buildings about to be targeted. The result has been that to date, only 20,800 Gazan civilians have died as a result of combat, or less than 1% of the 2.2 million people in Gaza. Hasan, like so many other enemies of Israel, chooses to ignore the IDF’s campaign to minimize civilian casualties.
Hasan has since posted a clarification of the now-deleted post, stating that he was making his point “clumsily.” Still, he did not retract the sentiment, claimed that those criticizing his statement were making “bad-faith” attacks, and said “shame” on those who do not believe the Israel-Hamas War constituted a genocide.
“There was no offense meant to the Jewish community, and I abhor and condemn all genocides, unlike those pro-Israel politicians and journalists who defend or, worse, deny the current Gaza genocide. Shame on them,” Hasan wrote.
Those who “deny the current Gaza genocide” do so because, in fact, there has been no “genocide.” Let’s do the math one more time: Hamas has reported a total of 67,000 deaths in Gaza. The IDF reports that it has killed 26,000 Hamas combatants since October 7, 2023. In addition, historically, 800 people die in Gaza every month from diseases and accidents. Over 24 months of war, that amounts to 19,200 people who have died from causes unrelated to combat. 67,000-26,000=41,000-19,200=21,800.
To repeat: less than 1% of the Gazan civilians have died as a result of the combat. Does that sound like “genocide” to you?
Will Mehdi Hasan ever concede that there has been no “genocide” in Gaza and that to use that term is to debase it? No, of course not.
Tony says
Another Muslim lies and deceives against Israel and Non-Muslims as taught in Islam’s Quran(Quran 3:54; 7:99; 8:30, etc.). Allah, the best deceiver, is the actual source of Muslim deceit. Allah in Qur’an 3:54 says, “And they deceived, and Allah deceived. And Allah is the best deceiver.” Allah in Qur’an 8:30 says, “…And Allah is the best deceiver.” Allah in Qur’an 13:42 says, “And indeed, those before them deceived, so to Allah all the deception…” See also Qur’an 7:99, 178; 6:125, 149; 10:21; 27:50; 16:93.
Allah’s Islam, a CRIMINAL-TERRORIST-GANG ENTERPRISE and a MURDEROUS-DEMONIC CULT OF BELIEVERS, Terrorist Muslim Soldiers for Allah, continually fund, promote, and practice ideological subversion, propaganda, bigotry, discrimination, deceit, industrial-scale slavery, human trafficking, intimidation, supremacy, segregation, hatred, incitement to violence, criminality, genocide, victimhood, censorship, and terrorism as taught in Islamic Law, Sharia, and in Islam’s Quran(Quran 5:14,35; 8:60; 9:41, 88, etc.).
As taught by Allah, Muslims are supremacist terrorists for Allah with their MONEY and their LIVES. Allah in Qur’an 49:15 states, “Surely the believers[Muslims] are only those who believed in Allah and his messenger. They do not doubt, and they performed jihad with their MONEY and their LIVES for the sake of Allah. Those are the truthful.” Allah in Quran 4:101 says, “…Surely the infidels(Non-Muslims) were your clear enemies.”
MUSLIM BELIEVERS are a greater TERROR than diabolical Allah. Allah in Qur’an 59:13 says, “You[Muslims] are a greater terror in their chests than Allah. This is because they[Jews & Christians] are people who do not understand.” Islam must be banned as illegal, and we have the legal right to defend ourselves from Muslim violence. As a result, Non-Muslims are marked for death by Islam and its Muslims. Allah in Qur’an 9:29 commands, “Engage in war with those who do not believe in Allah nor in the last day. Nor forbid what Allah and his messenger forbid, nor believe in the religion of the truth among those who have given the book until they pay the jizyah out of hand and they are subdued.”
bill says
As I have said many times here, the claim that the Israeiis are as bad (or worse) than the Nazis is absurd. If they were like the Nazis who pursued a policy of extermination on any people they thought inferior, not only Jews, the so called palestinians would have disappeared long ago. Instead they have multiplied. No palesiinas have shipped to concentration camps and gaased or worked to death. Anyone making such claims and they even include people in the West sows not only a complete ignorance of modern history but anti semitism in its purist form.
Walter Sieruk says
It’s rather interesting that” “The Israel campaign In Gaza, despite contrary propaganda, has a very low ratio of civilian to combatant deaths compared with other urban counter- guerrilla warfare.” [1]
[1] THE EPOCH TIMES, August 7-13, 2024, A15
gravenimage says
+1
Walter Sieruk says
In the newspaper The Epoch Times April 3-6, 2024, A14 the reader in informed about “Civilian Casualties.” For it reads, “Israel risks the lives of its soldiers to prevent civilians deaths. Hamas risks the lives of civilians to prevent terrorist’s death. Israel considers it a failure, and Hamas considers it a globally advantageous when civilians die than its soldiers.”
The contrast between Israel and Hamas is vast and outstanding.
ploome says
And the support for hamas and the muslims is shocking.
WPM says
The western progressives support Hamas and Islamic terrorism against Israel and against western civilization in general because they hate western cultural, laws ,traditions in general. If Israel disappear they would still wage war against Jews ,Christians, and all non-believers world wide. Israel is the only “western” style government with west values, laws ,in the Middle East it is an island surround by an angry sea of Islamic jihad that wants to engulf it and drown all its people and western cultural. .The immigration both legally and illegally is drowning western Europe in jihad that is separate of Israel Gaza conflict from Moslem countries in North Africa ,Turkey ,Afghanistan ,Pakistan ,the Balkans the progressives in those European governments say this is good because it is bad for western cultural, law tradition and the “native” people who have lived there for thousands of yrs.
OLD GUY says
Islamic leaders don’t give a dam about civilian deaths or injuries to their enemies or their own people. Islam is about power over others at all cost. After all are not all Islamic followers supposed to commit Jihad against non believers. That makes them all enemy combatants.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
No
gravenimage says
Will Mehdi Hasan Ever Concede That There Has Been No ‘Genocide’ in Gaza?
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Of course not–lying is working for him.