Condemned
“I'm trying to imagine the reaction from our media and politicians if a speaker at a 'Muslim American Summit' said, to loud applause, 'I don't want Jews in America.'”
Hasan condemned the rhetoric through an analogy to an anti-Jewish exclusion statement and highlighted the audience applause.
- Speaker
- Mehdi Hasan
- Capacity
- Journalist and commentator
- Observed
- September 5, 2026
- Published here
- September 5, 2026
- Targets
- Mosab Hassan Yousef, Jewish American Summit
- Classification rationale
- The analogy presents the statement as plainly discriminatory and exposes what Hasan argues is a double standard in the response.
Surrounding material
Full context
Before the quotation
Hasan identified Yousef as speaking at the Jewish American Summit and quoted the statement about Muslims.
After the quotation
He later publicly asked Jonathan Greenblatt whether he agreed with the rhetoric and noted that the audience applauded.
Evidence
Complete source record
Mehdi Hasan responds to Mosab Hassan Yousef's Jewish American Summit remarks (opens in a new tab)
Original social post contrasting the response to Yousef's statement with the likely response to an analogous statement about Jews at a Muslim-American summit.
Fury as ex-Israeli spy delivers bigoted speech against Muslims, Quran and Prophet Muhammad in US (opens in a new tab)
Reaction roundup quoting Mehdi Hasan, Elizabeth Tsurkov, Ragıp Soylu, and CAIR. Used as secondary evidence where the original social posts were not accessible.