Any hope that MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan — known for posting baseless accusations about the Jewish state to his 1.1 million Twitter followers — would conduct a tough but fair interview, was dashed the second he opened with this leading question during a May 2 segment on his show:

“But at what point do we as a country say that we also offer our support to all people fighting repression and occupation, not just brave Ukrainians, because in places like Yemen and the occupied Palestinian territories we’re not on the side of those people are we? Our allies are the ones doing the oppressing and occupying in those places.”

Hasan is implying that the Israeli government’s steps to protect its citizens from acts of terrorism that are fueled by the Palestinian Authority’s continuous incitement to and financial incentivization for the perpetuation of violence are on the same moral plane as Russia’s war of choice against Ukraine — as well as the actions taken by some of the world’s worst human rights violators against their own people.