Mehdi Hasan introduced he’s leaving MSNBC through the closing broadcast of his Sunday present.
“It’s been an absolute blast doing this stay present on MSNBC for the previous three years with a tremendous group of producers behind me and with all of you watching at house, it’s been a privilege,” mentioned the far-left host on the finish of his present Sunday.
“It’s been a pleasure. However as we start 2024 with an election coming, a struggle nonetheless ongoing, and too many Trump trials, truthfully, to even hold observe of, and with this present going away, I’ve determined that it’s time for me to search for a brand new problem,” he added.
“Tonight is not only my closing episode of the Mehdi Hassan present, it’s my final day with MSNBC. Sure, I’ve determined to depart.”
“To be clear, I’m so proud, so, so pleased with what we’ve achieved on this present, on this community. And I can’t thanks all sufficient for tuning in and to your help and to your suggestions. However as I say, new yr, new plans.”
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Tonight marks the tip of @MehdiHasanShow and @MehdiRHasan‘s time with MSNBC. Thanks for watching us, week after week, over the previous three years. pic.twitter.com/LPybcWmFTf
— The Mehdi Hasan Present (@MehdiHasanShow) January 8, 2024
Final November, MSNBC canceled Mehdi Hasan’s program as a part of a broader shakeup of its weekend lineup.
Whereas Hasan will now not have his weekend present or his program on the Peacock streaming service, he remained with the community within the roles of an on-camera analyst and occasional fill-in host.
This determination comes after Hasan’s antisemitic remarks within the wake of Hamas’ brutal assaults in opposition to Israel, Semaflor reported.
It’s truly context for the approaching (ongoing?) slaughter of harmless Gazans who had nothing to do with that barbarism on the pageant. However the truth that you solely care about unarmed individuals in Israel, and never Gaza, and I care about each, says extra about you than it does me, David. https://t.co/7y3WroTmLe
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) October 9, 2023
Semafor reported:
MSNBC has quietly taken three of its Muslim broadcasters out of the anchor’s chair since Hamas’s assault on Israel final Saturday amid America’s wave of sympathy for Israeli terror victims.
The community didn’t air a scheduled Thursday evening episode of The Mehdi Hasan Present on the streaming platform Peacock. MSNBC additionally reversed a plan for Ayman Mohyeldin to fill on this week on the community for host Pleasure Reid’s 7 p.m. present on Thursday and Friday. Mohyeldin, an Egyptian-American journalist and veteran NBC Information correspondent lined the battle from Gaza for 2 years. In 2021, he aggressively questioned Israeli leaders on strikes on the territory. Two community sources with data of the plans instructed Semafor that the community additionally plans to have Alicia Menendez fill on this upcoming weekend for Ali Velshi, a 3rd Muslim-American host who on Sunday interviewed a spokesman for the Palestinian Authority.
