#Zeteo

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By Jessica Corbett

Common Dreams

April 15, 2024

The journalist says Zeteo will feature "hard-hitting interviews and unsparing analysis" in op-eds, podcasts, and streaming shows.

After a few weeks of "soft launch" mode, journalist Mehdi Hasan on Monday officially debuted his new media platform, Zeteo, and declared that "this is not a one-man band."

The former MSNBC and Peacock host—whose show was canceled in November and wrapped up in January, after his incisive criticism of Israel's assault on the Gaza Strip—revealed nine of the contributors he has lined up so far, calling them "some of the biggest, boldest, and best names from media, activism, entertainment, and beyond."

They are Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Spencer Ackerman, comedian and podcaster W. Kamau Bell, Palestinian Canadian lawyer Diana Buttu, former CNBC and CNN correspondent John Harwood, foreign policy analyst Rula Jebreal, author Naomi Klein, novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen, actor and activist Cynthia Nixon, and Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg.

"The tough interviews and knowledgeable analysis are all coming back, along with a global cast of contributors," Klein said on social media Monday. "I was honored when Mehdi asked me to be one of them, along with Rula Jebreal and Greta Thunberg and many others yet announced."

"Mehdi and I will be having a regular conversation called 'Unshocked,'" noted Klein, who authored The Shock Doctrine.

Hasan—who has also produced content for Al Jazeera, The Guardian, and The Intercept—has saidZeteo will feature "hard-hitting interviews and unsparing analysis" in a variety of forms, from op-eds and podcasts to streaming shows, beginning with "Mehdi Unfiltered."

"To keep Zeteo's journalism independent and free of advertiser and corporate influence," Hasan explained ahead of the formal launch, "and to allow us to continue investing in the future, we have to rely on our individual paid subscribers."

#zeteo #medhi hasan #progressive journalism #progressive politics

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Jonathan Ben-Menachem for Zeteo News (04.23.2024):

“Reprehensible and dangerous.” “Terrorist sympathizers.” “It’s not 1938 Berlin. It’s 2024, Columbia University, NYC.” The White House, Congressional Republicans, and cable news talking heads would have you believe that the Columbia University campus has devolved into a hotbed of antisemitic violence – but the reality on the ground is very different. As a Jewish student at Columbia, it depresses me that I have to correct the record and explain what the real risk to our safety looks like. I still can't quite believe how the events on campus over the past few days have been so cynically and hysterically misrepresented by the media and by our elected representatives. 

Last week, the Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) coalition, representing more than 100 student organizations, including Jewish groups, organized the Gaza Solidarity Encampment, a peaceful campus protest in solidarity with Palestine. CUAD was reactivated after the university suspended Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace in the fall. On Wednesday morning, hundreds of students camped out on Columbia’s South Lawn. They vowed to stay put until the university divests from companies that profit from their ties to Israel. Protesters prayed, chanted, ate pizza, and condemned the university’s complicity in Israel’s attacks on Gaza. Though counter-protesters waved Israeli flags near the encampment, the campus remained largely calm from my vantage point.

Columbia responded by imposing a miniature police state. Just over a day after the encampment was formed, university President Minouche Shafik asked and authorized the New York Police Department to clear the lawn and load 108 students – including a number of Jewish students – onto Department of Corrections buses to be held at NYPD headquarters at 1 Police Plaza. One Jewish student told me that she and her fellow protesters were restrained in zip-tie handcuffs for eight hours and held in cells where they shared a toilet without privacy. The NYPD chief of patrol John Chell later told the Columbia Spectator that “the students that were arrested were peaceful, offered no resistance whatsoever, and were saying what they wanted to say in a peaceful manner.”  Since then, dozens of undergraduates have been locked out of their dorms without notice. Barnard College, an affiliate of Columbia, notably gave students just 15 minutes to retrieve their belongings after returning from lockup and finding themselves evicted. Suspended students cannot return to campus and are struggling to access food or medical care. Students who keep Shabbat, and do not use electronics on the Sabbath, were forced to rely on technology in order to secure food and emergency housing. This crackdown was the most violence inflicted on our student body in decades. I implore you, as our Jewish Voice for Peace chapter does, to consider whether arresting Jewish students keeps us and Columbia safe.

Smears from the press and pro-Israel influencers, who have levied charges of antisemitism and violence against Jewish students, are a dangerous distraction from real threats to our safety. I saw politicians compare student organizers to neo-Nazis and call for a National Guard deployment, apparently ignorant of the lives lost at Kent State and in Charlottesville, and with very little pushback from national media. This is a repulsive form of self-aggrandizement that I can only assume is intended to preserve relationships with influential donors. Calls to more heavily police our campus actively endanger Jewish students, and threaten the regular operations of the university far more gravely than peaceful protests.  [...]

On Monday, I joined hundreds of my fellow student workers for a walk-out in solidarity with the encampment; we listened respectfully as a similarly sizable group of Columbia faculty held a rally on the library steps. Frankly, it didn’t feel much different from the environment during my union’s most recent strike on campus – I felt inspired again by my colleagues’ commitment to making Columbia a safer and better place to work and study.  Later that night, a Passover Seder service was held at the encampment. Would an antisemitic student movement welcome Jews in this way? I think not.  [...] Here’s what you’re not being told: The most pressing threats to our safety as Jewish students do not come from tents on campus. Instead, they come from the Columbia administration inviting police onto campus, certain faculty members, and third-party organizations that dox undergraduates. Frankly, I regret the fact that writing to confirm the safety of Jewish Ivy League students feels justified in the first place. I have not seen many pundits hand-wringing over the safety of my Palestinian colleagues mourning the deaths of family members, or the destruction of Gaza’s cherished universities. 

I am wary of a hysterical campus discourse – gleefully amplified by many of the same charlatans who have turned “DEI” into a slur – that draws attention away from the ongoing slaughter in the Gaza Strip and settler violence in the occupied West Bank. We should be focusing on the material reality of war: the munitions our government is sending to Israel, which kill Palestinians by the thousands, and the Americans participating in the violence. Forget the fringe folks and outside agitators: the CUAD organizers behind the campus protests have rightfully insisted on divestment as their most important demand of the Columbia administration, and on sustained attention to the situation in Palestine. And we are not alone. College campuses across the United States have followed Columbia’s lead. 

Jewish Columbia University student Jonathan Ben-Menachem wrote in Zeteo debunking the false "antisemitic" smears used to attack protests against the oppression of Palestinians on campuses.

#Jonathan Ben Menachem #Zeteo #Zeteo News #Substack #Ceasefire NOW Protests #College #Israel/Hamas War #Palestine #Gaza #Antisemitism #Columbia University #Gaza Solidarity Encampment

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Debunked!: "Top Seven Lies About Gaza"

The first video from the new digital media company Zeteo, founded by former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan. (And, yes, "former" because MSNBC sidelined three Muslim broadcasters in mid-October—totes coincidental, claimed the network, which is also known for shedding Black journalists like petals in a windstorm.)

A worthwhile watch on what the U.S. media and Israeli government say about Gaza and just how far from the truth one might calculate it as being.

#mehdi hasan #zeteo #video #gaza #palestine #disinformation #misinformation #media bias #msnbc #islamophobia #Youtube

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#MehdiHasan launches #Zetero, "where independent and unfiltered journalism is making its comeback." https://www.zeteonews.com/

"Independent" means not owned or controlled by a big corporation or billionaire sponsors. Yea!

#mehdi hasan #zeteo #independent news #news media

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#mehdi hasan #naomi klein #zeteo #Youtube

[thatstormygeek]

The violent crackdown on students protesting against Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza reveals the stark hypocrisy of political and academic leaders at our colleges and universities, including my own. Instead of first turning to dialogue and debate – the very skills and values universities should promote – school administrators have turned to police, extreme discipline, and complying with a mainstream consensus that seems more interested in suppressing criticism of Israeli and American policy than protecting students. From Columbia University to my own University of Southern California, peaceful student encampments in common university areas have been dismantled by city police, with hundreds of students arrested. Some have been suspended, evicted from dormitories, and threatened with expulsion and criminal conviction. At UT Austin, state troopers threw a Fox cameraman to the ground and arrested him. At Emory University, the chair of philosophy, Noelle McAfee, was arrested by a police officer wearing a balaclava, as if he were conducting an antiterrorism raid. Another Emory professor, Caroline Fohlin, who sought to protect students being arrested, was wrestled to the ground by two police officers, handcuffed, and charged with battery. These student protests against a war that has killed over 34,000 Palestinians, at least two-thirds of whom are women and children, are what professors and administrators love to call a “teachable moment.” Unfortunately, most universities and colleges are failing their academic principles, their students, and their faculty. I wish I could say I was surprised, but after three decades in academia, I am not.

This strategy of avoidance and appeasement is doomed to failure. Columbia University president Minouche Shafik submitted completely to Republican demands to discipline her faculty and students, but this did not prevent Rep. Elise Stefanik and House Speaker Mike Johnson from demanding her resignation. Republicans will not be satisfied until students are being clubbed and tear-gassed in a law-and-order spectacle that will please Benjamin Netanyahu and the GOP base. But the right-wing reaction against student protesters is not only about their stance on Israel and Gaza, which includes their willingness to declare the war a genocide and to demand divestment from Israel and the ending of further military aid. Instead, the right wing is stirring a moral panic around antisemitism, using Jewish students and their feelings of being uncomfortable and threatened as a reason to crack down on protesting students. ... Racist and antisemitic threats are wrong and should be treated appropriately, which is to say, through academic disciplinary and legal methods targeted at the individuals who issue such threats, not through the deployment of riot police against masses of peaceful protesters. But a big difference exists between being threatened and being uncomfortable, and critics of the protesters – and the anti-war movement in general – blur the two.  This happens by conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism, even though many student protesters are themselves Jewish. It’s what some have called a “weaponized antisemitism,” which places more value on how some Jewish students feel uncomfortable than how Palestinians are actually being killed en masse by an Israel whose weapons are supplied by the U.S.

#us politics #zeteo #viet thanh nguyen #campus protests

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"Sleepwalking into World War 3": Mehdi on What the Media Isn't Telling Y...

#zeteo #mehdi hasan #Youtube

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بعد 300 حصة مُراجعة لكتابات الزملاء: إليك 9 أخطاء يرتكبها الكُتَّاب يسهُل جدًا تجنُّبها 🔐

ما هذه المجموعة من المختارات تسألني؟ إنّها عددٌ من أعداد نشرة “صيد الشابكة” اِعرف أكثر عن النشرة هنا: ما هي نشرة “صيد الشابكة” ما مصادرها، وما غرضها؛ وما معنى الشابكة أصلًا؟! 🎣🌐 🎣🌐 صيد الشابكة العدد #51 مساء -أو صباح- السعد حسب الوقت الذي تقرأ فيه هذا. 👋 جمعة مباركة. 🎣🌐 صيد الشابكة العدد #51📝 اِشترك في رديف واحصل على جلسات تقييم لا محدودة لأعمالك النصيّة*👌 ديبوراه كارفر (Deborah Carver) أفضل…

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#Counter Craft #Deborah Carver #Hamish McKenzie #ﻭﺯﺍﺭﺓ ﺍﻟﻌﺪﻝ ﺍﻻﻣﺮﻳﻜﻴﺔ #John Rampton #Penguin vs. DOJ #Simon Owens #UX Writing بالعربية #كتب رديف #مكتبة رديف الحصرية #ملفات رديف #مها عبد الله #مجتمع رديف #نجيب جورج عوض #نشرة Counter Craft #نشرة Zeteo #Zeteo #آل رديف #أمين قطوش #أخطاء كتّاب #حسن احجيج #دورية "أسطور #ستيفن هوكينج #عبدالعزيز حَمُّودة

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Jessica Corbett: Mehdi Hasan Launches Media Platform With Naomi Klein, Greta Thunberg, and More

The journalist says Zeteo will feature “hard-hitting interviews and unsparing analysis” in op-eds, podcasts, and streaming shows. Apr 15, 2024 After a few weeks of “soft launch” mode, journalist Mehdi Hasan on Monday officially debuted his new media platform, Zeteo, and declared that “this is not a one-man band.” The former MSNBC and Peacock host—whose show was canceled in November and wrapped…

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#censorship #Cynthia Nixon #Diana Buttu #Gaza #genocide #Greta Thunberg #Israeli-Palestinian conflict #John Harwood #Kamau Bell #Mehdi Hasan #MSNBC #Naomi Klein #Rula Jebreal #Viet Thanh Nguyen #Zeteo

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HER STORY: Christ's Ministry, Mary of Magdala

We’ll first follow Mary through the years she was a student and supporter of Jesus, then we will spend most of our time in the Garden with Mary at Christ’s empty tomb #MaryofMagdala #Magdelene #Resurrection #EmptyTomb #GardenTomb

Throughout his ministry, Jesus gathered around him men and women who became a community of 120 people joined in their love for and faith in Jesus. And one of those women was Mary of Magdala. She is mentioned fourteen times, in all four Gospels, and her name is almost always placed first, seemingly implying she was first in service, first in support. However, Mary’s most significant story appears…

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#empty tomb #Garden tomb #magdelene #Mary Magdelene #Mary of Magdala #Resurrection #who are you looking for #zeteo

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#zeteo #progressive politics #medhi hasan

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Former MSNBC pundit Mehdi Hasan is launching a new media company catering to the progressive left. 

Hasan’s new media outlet, named “Zeteo,” which comes from the ancient Greek word for seeking out and striving, will be a new media organization “that seeks answers for the questions that really matter, while always striving for the truth,” according to a Substack website for the company. 

Hasan told The Washington Post this week he has raised $4 million for the venture and said he plans to host a streaming show, publish podcasts and written pieces eventually charge $6 per month via yearly subscriptions. 

“This is one of the biggest news years of our lives, and that’s why I wanted to do something like this,” he told the Post. “I’m not a businessman. I’m not an entrepreneur. I’ve never done anything like this before. It’s a huge gamble. But if I wasn’t confident, I wouldn’t be doing this.”

Hasan’s weekend prime-time show was canceled last year by MSNBC, which offered for him to stay on as a paid contributor, an olive branch he ultimately declined. 

The progressive commentator also this week joined The Guardian as a regular columnist. 

Hasan is the latest in a slew of former cable news pundits to launch media companies and brands of their own. 

The ousted Fox News pundit Tucker Carlson started the Tucker Carlson Network last year, and former CNN anchor Don Lemon plans to launch a show on X, formerly known as Twitter, later this month.

#mehdi hasan #zeteo news

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The way we disingenuously talk about Iran could have us "sleepwalking into World War III," @mehdirhasanwarns in his latest Mehdi Unfiltered monologue. Mehdi sheds light on all the context mainstream media reporters excluded when covering Iran's attack on Israel. He explains why the media's framing of Iran's attack as "unprovoked" is not only irresponsible, but also dangerous.

#Mehdi Hasan | Unfiltered | Zeteo | News | Politics | Context | FYI

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AOC joined mehdi hasan to launch his name media company, zeteo, (pronounced za-tay-o) for a full range discussion about her political rise and agenda.

she hasn't done anything like this for a while, so this was really fun! mehdi is a great interviewer.

april 16, 2024

#aoc #alexandriaocasiocortez #alexandria ocasio-cortez #alexandria ocasio cortez #alexandriaocasio-cortez #aoc archive #aocarchive #aocinterviews #Youtube

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Top Seven Lies About Gaza

#gaza #free palestine #free gaza

[sataniccapitalist]

Mehdi Hasan on Genocide in Gaza, the Silencing of Palestinian Voices in U.S. Media & Trump's Fascism

Acclaimed journalist Mehdi Hasan joins us to discuss U.S. media coverage of the Israeli war on Gaza and how the war is a genocide being abetted by the United States. Hasan says U.S. media is overwhelmingly pro-Israel and fails to convey the truth to audiences. "Palestinian voices not being on American television or in American print is one of the biggest problems when it comes to our coverage of this conflict," he says. Hasan has just launched a new media company, Zeteo, which he started after the end of his weekly news program on MSNBC and Peacock earlier this year. The cable network announced it was canceling his show in November. The move drew considerable outrage, with critics slamming MSNBC for effectively silencing one of the most prominent Muslim voices in U.S. media.

Hasan also warns U.S. media coverage of the 2024 election is largely unable to capture the threat to democracy posed by Donald Trump and the modern Republican Party. “We need to speak very clearly about what that fascist threat is,” says Hasan, who warns media outlets cannot “normalize his extremism and racism and bigotry,” because the right to free press itself could be under threat if he regains power. “One of our two major parties has been fully radicalized and is now in bed with white supremacists. … Let’s be plain about that.”

#Youtube #fascisim