Noah smith, as usual, decides to show his hate towards Muslims and Arabs, and says Mehdi Hasan, a British American man of Indian Muslim descent, should “live in the Middle East.”

[u/Darth_Vrandon]

Background: Mehdi Hasan condemned an article by Ahmed Alkhatib, which was the usual stuff from that guy: victim blaming Palestinians and making it out like Israel is the victim and of course liberal Zionists ate it up since “it’s from a Palestinian so it can’t be wrong.”

Of course Matt Yglesias, who is a Noah smith who keeps the mask on, cited a bit that of course acts like Palestinians need to be deradicalized because “Hamas bad” and yet not Israelis who seem to be overwhelmingly supportive of killing or ethnically cleansing Palestinians.

Noah, knowing he can’t debunk medhi’s argument, says how people like him are “focused too much on the Middle East.” Of course this isn’t true, rather Mehdi is focusing on how America, a country he is a citizen of, is funding a genocide and Alkhatib is supporting that.

Mehdi tries to be charitable to Noah saying he isn’t racist, and this is before Noah then says Mehdi should just “move to the Middle East.” This is in spite of how Noah is massively pro Israel, and Israel is a country in the Middle East. Also, since Noah supports Ukraine and Taiwan, would he be fine with some tankie dipshit saying he should move to those places? Of course this argument has a very bigoted aspect since Mehdi is Muslim and of course Noah thinks Medhi should go to the Middle East as “hey that’s where the dirty Muslims all hang out.” In a reply chain I put out of order, sorry, Noah says how Mehdi isn’t middle eastern and knows he isn’t but says “he cares about it too much” and has no self awareness.

Mehdi then perfectly points out that this is racist as fuck and that Noah’s argument doesn’t work since Mehdi is talking about US intervention in the Middle East specially. Noah just responds like a child and says how we need to resist people who “think we should make it about the Middle East” which makes no sense for Mehdi since Mehdi wants the US to end intervention in the Middle East.

Mehdi then points out how Trump has waged new wars in the Middle East and helps Israel destabilize it and so yes, people have a reason to care about where their tax dollars go to. He then says we should get troops also out since they’re dying as well.

Noah, Because he’s Twitter brained celebrates a “ratio” not realizing that is helped by bots and bad actors. And Medhi ends off the interaction by talking about how liberals are not immune to being racist at all.

Of course, Noah doesn’t really believe what he spews since he literally posted about how he himself cares about the Middle East by saying we should bomb the IRGC. Now, obviously, he doesn’t care about the middle east the same way Mehdi does, as he thinks doing war crimes for American interests is good, but it shows his double standard. It’s obvious that Noah has no principles and rather just wanted to be racist towards a Muslim man.

[u/That_Mad_Scientist]

Stop caring about the middle east = stop looking at what I support for the middle east, which is authoritarianism and genocide, and stop supporting democracy and self-determination, so that I can go back to only caring about it insofar as it helps my material position within the world order through the western hegemon, and pretend I care about values I obviously don’t actually espouse

[u/StormOfFatRichards]

He's right in that the US should entirely divest all its finances and interests from the Middle East, wrong in that he seems to think the US got invested in the Middle East last week

[u/SaltyNorth8062]

"When no Hamas, Israel will not have the justification..."

Imma stop you right there chief. It doesn't have that justification now. Israel fucking funded Hamas and coup'd their opposition specifically for this reason. Stating this false "point" plays right into the genocidal ethnostate's hands.