Mehdi Hasan introduced throughout the remaining broadcast of his Sunday present that he’s leaving MSNBC.
“It’s been an absolute blast doing this reside present on MSNBC for the previous three years with an incredible staff 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, actually, to even preserve monitor 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 isn’t just my remaining episode of the Mehdi Hassan present, it’s my final day with MSNBC. Sure, I’ve determined to go away.”
“To be clear, I’m so proud, so, so happy 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 top 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 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 really context for the approaching (ongoing?) slaughter of harmless Gazans who had nothing to do with that barbarism on the competition. However the truth that you solely care about unarmed folks 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 night time 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 information of the plans informed 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.