As he filled in on Alex Wagner Tonight on Thursday, MSNBC host Ayman Mohyeldin allowed his anti-Israel guest to rant so that he took a full minute from his colleague Lawrence O’Donnell’s show — a fact that O’Donnell made sure to point out as he joined.
Mohyeldin introduced the segment by recounting that Israel recently increased military operations in the West Bank, and went to Palestinian American activist Omar Baddar for reaction. The MSNBC host began by posing: “…the West Bank raids come two weeks after the United States approved an additional $20 billion in arms sales to Israel. What do you make of this military operation and escalation that we’re seeing now in the occupied West Bank?”
Although Israelis have argued that the West Bank is disputed, not occupied, territory, Baddar began by claiming that Israel’s presence there is illegal. He soon…
