Mehdi Hasan on Being a Muslim Immigrant in Trump’s America

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.comOur guest is Mehdi Hasan, formerly of MSNBC and now founder and editor-in-chief of Zeteo. Mehdi isn’t only one of the most important progressive voices in American media. He’s also a Muslim who cares deeply about his faith, and about reconciling it with his progressive principles. For several years now, we’ve held a running conversation, mostly in private, about what it means to be a progressive Muslim, or a progressive Jew, when many who speak for our faiths scorn the principles of human equality, and when white Christian nationalists run the United States. I’m grateful we had a chance to continue that conversation in public.Other topics include…Mehdi’s upbringingwhy the mainstream media is so dociledrawing the line on who he will or won’t engage withdistinguishing between Zionism and Judaism and confronting those who don’tdistinguishing between real antisemtism and false accusationsMehdi’s influences