Matthew Cassel is a journalist whose career covering the Mid-East includes work, from 2011-2016, at Al Jazeera, a professional affiliation with the Qatari-controlled, pro-Hamas outlet which included a major role launching AJ+, the Western-facing, youth oriented propaganda unit of the Al Jazeera Media Network.
As an occasional Guardian contributor, Cassel has expressed sympathy towards Hezbollah, as well as former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
He came to Tel Aviv recently to produce a short film on how Israelis there feel about the war. He clearly arrived certain of four things: 1) his own moral superiority 2) That Israel is committing genocide. 3) That most Israelis are pathologically indifferent or outright supportive of this ‘genocide’ he’s sure is happening, and 4) That nothing Hamas does has any significance.
His Guardian video report, titled ‘Our Genocide’, How do Israelis feel about the war in Gaza?, Sept. 16, a title which is extraordinarily manipulative, as the words ‘Our Genocide’ was taken from the title of a report by the radical NGO B’tselem, whose international director, Sarit Michaeli, is interviewed by Cassel.