Appearing on Monday’s Morning Joe, MSNBC contributor and frequent guest Anand Giridharadas obnoxiously compared Israel’s war against Hamas to the Nazi mass murder of European Jews during a discussion of the thousands of Gaza civilians who have died since the war began.
After frequent guest Richard Haass of the Council on Foreign Relations incorrectly claimed that Gaza is “the most crowded parcel of earth on Earth” — even though there are almost 90 cities that are more densely populated — host Joe Scarborough went to Giridharadas and teed him up: “Anand, the suffering that’s been going on in Gaza for some time has just been just absolutely dreadful, but it keeps going from bad to worse.”
Although the push for a Jewish state in the region predated the Holocaust, Giridharadas began by linking Israel’s creation to the murder of six million Jews and invoked…
