Mehdi sinks even lower
“Worse Than the Holocaust?!” – Mehdi Hasan’s Tweet Sparks Global Outrage and Antisemitism Firestorm
In a shocking outburst, journalist Mehdi Hasan claimed Israel’s Gaza campaign was “worse than the Holocaust,” igniting a storm of outrage across social media. Critics accuse Hasan of Holocaust inversion and antisemitic provocation, saying his words cross a moral red line by equating Israel’s war on Hamas with history’s greatest atrocity.
Well-known Jew-hating journalist Mehdi Hasan has unleashed a torrent of outrage by claiming Israel's Gaza campaign is a "genocide" worse than the Holocaust or Rwanda in one chilling aspect: the brazen mockery of victims without consequence.
Hasan's words, "One of the ways in which the Gaza genocide is worse than a lot of previous genocides - Rwanda, even the Holocaust - is that you didn’t have Hutus or Nazis mocking the genocide after it was over. They were shunned/deradicalized/prosecuted," have triggered a ferocious backlash from pro-Israel voices who slam it as outright antisemitic and a grotesque minimization of history's darkest horrors.
The tweet was a direct shot at Bloomberg columnist Eli Lake's sarcastic jab mocking genocide claims by quipping about "a genocide against the indigenous tunnels of Gaza."
Piers Morgan fired back in disbelief: "Worse than the Holocaust? Have you lost your mind?"
Hasan doubled down, clarifying he meant the denial and mockery of Gaza's alleged genocide by mainstream figures, something he insists never happened with the Nazi or Hutu atrocities.
Yet no one is buying it, with former Israeli spokesman Eylon Levy roaring that Hasan is "painting Israelis as worse than the Nazis" in a bid to "justify genocidal violence against Jews." Levy branded him a "Holocaust minimizer" and accused him of ignoring Jewish journalists killed in WWII while hyping Gaza journalist deaths.
The drama escalates as conservative firebrand Drew Pavlou blasts Hasan as a "radical Islamist who just hates Jews," and Joel Petlin declares him "a very sick and immoral man" for daring to equate the war on Hamas with the systematic slaughter of millions. Online forums like Reddit are ablaze, dissecting Hasan's words as "Holocaust inversion," a twisted tactic to delegitimize Israel and stoke hatred.
Even his defenders can't drown out the chorus of condemnation pointing to historical mockery by Nazis and Hutus that was later crushed in trials.This explosive clash erupts mere days after the heart-pounding October 8, 2025, ceasefire that halted the two-year Israel-Hamas war, a conflict ignited by Hamas's savage October 7, 2023, attacks killing 1,200 Israelis and snatching 251 hostages.
Hasan's relentless critique of Israel as genocidal has long fueled firestorms, will this be the tweet that finally derails his career?