Hesham Tillawi

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Hesham Tillawi (* 1964 ) is an American TV talk show host and political analyst from Louisiana .

He was elected Vice President of the National Executive Committee of the Palestinian American Congress in 2004.

Tillawi moderates the weekly, two-hour TV show Current Issues , the program was initially broadcast on an open channel , later it was briefly taken over by Bridges TV , a Muslim cable network. In 2006 the program was removed from the program and is now available again on the open channel and via the Internet.

On his show, Tillawi criticizes the treatment of Arabs and Muslims by the State of Israel . He often uses anti-Semitic prejudices, such as B. the alleged control of the media by Jews . He interviewed well-known anti-Semites like the former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke or Holocaust deniers like Fredrick Toben , Mark Weber and Bradley Smith several times . According to the Anti-Defamation League , the show is a "mouthpiece for Holocaust deniers". Other guests on the show included the congressmanPaul Findley or the former Israeli nuclear engineer Mordechai Vanunu . Even Norman Finkelstein was Tillawis show guest and talked about his controversial book The Holocaust Industry .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Republic Broadcasting Network: Dr. Hesham Tillawi ( Memento of the original from February 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.republicbroadcasting.org
  2. Hesham Tillawi / “Current Issues” ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Anti-Defamation League dossier on Tillawi  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.adl.org