Mehdi Hasan Progressive

An empty ‘ceasefire,’ illegal land grabs, thousands of amputees, generational damage, and perpetual U.S. funding – Israel’s war on Palestinian life continues to unfold, three years later.

Good evening, and welcome to this week’s ‘Ragebait.’

Marking three years since the beginning of Israel’s U.S.-funded genocide in Gaza, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet writes for Zeteo: ‘A Letter of Sympathy to the President of the United States.’

Officers told an anti-Zionist Orthodox Jew they ‘don't care’ about his need to pray away from a prison toilet. Plus: Trump gets angry over two advisers leaving the country for a major payday.

Mehdi asks Avi Melamed how thousands of Hamas fighters were able to invade and overwhelm a country with Israel’s level of surveillance and security, even despite multiple intelligence warnings.

Former Israeli peace negotiator Daniel Levy looks at Israel's response to the deadliest attack against the country and where it’s headed next.

Republican operatives are in midterms meltdown, with years of gerrymandering and stirring up hatred set to come home to roost. In Maine, Senator Susan Collins met Troy Jackson on the debate stage.

Genocidal wars framed as holy missions. Government agents shooting people on the streets. Robots that threaten extinction.

Three years into the Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, Diana Buttu reflects on why growing public criticism hasn’t changed the reality on the ground.

In this week's segment from Mehdi Unfiltered, Mehdi is joined by Maryland senator Chris Van Hollen, who discusses Israeli war crimes and the threat of AI, as well as his own 2028 presidential ambitions and Chuck Schumer's future as Dem leader in the Senate.

In this week's segment from Mehdi Unfiltered, Mehdi is joined by Melat Kiros, the democratic socialist insurgent who defeated a sitting Democrat from Colorado, and whose path to Congress started after being fired for opposing Israel's genocide in Gaza.

In this week's segment from Mehdi Unfiltered, Mehdi is joined by David Corn to discuss his new book, 'How Russia Won: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Fight for America,' and whether or not he has any regrets about breaking the news of the now-infamous Steele dossier.

In this week's segment from Mehdi Unfiltered, Mehdi is joined by Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed to discuss not sending money to Israel, being a girl-dad, and the never-ending questions about Hasan Piker.

In this week's segment from Mehdi Unfiltered, Mehdi is joined by US-Palestinian academic and human rights lawyer Noura Erakat and the executive director of the Internationalist Law Center, Lydia Ghuman . Erakat joins Mehdi after she was arrested at a budget hearing in Palm Beach, Florida, for trying to speak out on the county's enormous investments in Israel.

In this week's segment from Mehdi Unfiltered, Mehdi is joined by the mothers of two victims of the Twin Towers attack to reflect on their loss and the culture of fear and Islamophobia that has proliferated since.

Joel Rubin and Peter Beinart go head-to-head on dwindling Democratic Party support for Israel as well as the conflation of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish sentiment in this 'Mehdi Unfiltered' debate.