The news host’s treatment of a Palestinian journalist reveals a lot about why the Western political and media class have been so comfortable watching Israel commit a genocide.
Man with a Palestinian child injured by an Israeli airstrike of a house in Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip, 2023. (Ashraf Amra / UNRWA / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0)
By Jonathan Cook
Jonathan-Cook.net
I already had a very low opinion of Piers Morgan. But I was stunned by his display of racist ignorance last night while interviewing the Palestinian journalist Ahmed Alnaouq, who showed great fortitude and dignity throughout.
Outrageously Morgan berates Alnaouq, whose entire family in Gaza was wiped out by Israel early on in its genocide, for insisting that there is a distinction – recognised by Palestinians, if not Israel – between Israelis and Jews.
Alnaouq points out that Palestinians have a problem, not with Jews, but with Israelis for violently occupying and colonising their land for many decades, and for putting Palestinians in Gaza under a brutal 17-year siege that has now been transformed into campaign of starvation.
The exchange has to be heard to be believed.
“I’m Just Astonished That You Can’t Make the Difference Between the Jews and the Israelis” — Ahmed Alnaouq to Piers Morgan.
For nearly 20 months, Piers Morgan has repeatedly claimed that Hamas’s stated goal is to “kill all the Jews” — a false framing that dehumanizes… pic.twitter.com/OoivZ4uJ5R
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“How can you say you have no problem with the Jews, but you have a problem with the Israelis, given that most Israelis are Jewish?” Morgan asks incredulously.
Alnaouq: “I am simply astonished that you can’t make the difference between the Jews and the Israelis, Piers.”
Morgan: “I am astonished you would try to draw a distinction.”
Morgan then insists that Hamas is a “death cult” determined to kill all Israelis because they are Jews.
Alnaouq: “It’s dangerous when you make this [out to be] a religious war.”
Morgan: “It’s dangerous when you try to pretend that they’re not after killing Jews…
“You don’t think Hamas target Jews because they are Jews.”
Alnaouq: “Of course, not.”
Morgan: “It’s nonsense.”
Alnaouq: “I am surprised that you are saying this, Piers. Genuinely I am surprised.”
Morgan (again incredulous): “You’re surprised that I think Hamas target Jewish people.”
Alnaouq: “Of course.”
Morgan: “I find that staggering, Ahmed. It’s obviously a ridiculous thing to say.”
Alnaouq: “Why?”
Morgan: “Because obviously they target and murder as many Jewish people as they can get their hands on. And you say it’s because they are Israelis, not Jewish.”
Alnaouq: “Because they are occupiers, because they occupied our country.”
Morgan: “And because they are Jewish.”
Alnaouq: “No. Because they occupied our country, and colonised our country. Because they came to our country and kicked us out in 1948 and they killed thousands of Palestinians, including my grandparents.”
It is Israel and only Israel that I blame for the murder of my family and the genocide in Gaza. https://t.co/9dBSct0Aqz
— Ahmed Alnaouq (@AlnaouqA) June 3, 2025
Morgan: “But you know why Israel was set up after World War Two. Because Jewish people were the victims of an appalling Holocaust by Hitler and the Nazis where 6 million of them were exterminated purely for their ethnicity and for being Jewish. So the Jewish people were given the state of Israel.”
Alnaouq: “My country.”
Morgan: “I understand that argument, but it wasn’t ‘Israelis’ given that land. It was the Jewish people.”
Alnaouq: “Who are you to give the Jewish people my country?”
You can learn much from this exchange about why the Western political and media class have been so comfortable watching Israel commit a genocide against the Palestinians.
Journalists like Morgan are so immersed in their own confected narrative bubble, they have so bought into the dehumanisation of Palestinians, that Israel’s brutal, illegal occupation, colonisation and apartheid system is invisible to them – and therefore any resistance from Palestinians to their oppression by Israel can only be understood as an attack on Jews, as evidence of antisemitism.
Illustrating the trap faced by Palestinians, Alnaouq’s very attempts to make a clear distinction between “Israelis” and “Jews” is turned against him – becoming evidence for Morgan of his antisemitism.
Damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t.
Morgan introduced Alnaouq by pointing out that the Palestinian journalist had written on X / Twitter last year, after his family in Gaza were killed: “I blame you, Piers Morgan, for their murder and the murder of all innocent people in Gaza.”
Morgan’s subsequent exchange with Alnaouq proved precisely his point. Through dehumanisation of Palestinians, through racist incitement, through mindless, antisemitic conflations of “Israeli” and “Jewish,” Morgan continues to add fuel to the fire, he continues to give succour to the genocide apologists 20 months into that genocide.
His sudden, extremely belated reversal over the past two weeks about whether Israel has “overstepped the rules of war” — conveniently coinciding with a similar reassessment in European capitals — should be welcomed. It may finally help to turn the tide on Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza.
But let us not forget that, had Morgan and others decided to turn that tide sooner, many thousands of Palestinian children might still be alive.
Jonathan Cook is an award-winning British journalist. He was based in Nazareth, Israel, for 20 years. He returned to the U.K. in 2021. He is the author of three books on the Israel-Palestine conflict: Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish State (2006), Israel and the Clash of Civilisations: Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East (2008) and Disappearing Palestine: Israel’s Experiments in Human Despair (2008). If you appreciate his articles, please consider offering your financial support.
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P.M loses all these arguments in every way, but he keeps stepping up to get the intellectual shit beat out of him for his own ratings/career. Other pro-genocide journalists avoid debate because they lack the pugilistic moral emptiness of Morgan, and because the networks know how horrible the defense of mass slaughter looks against an intelligent argument.
Maybe Alnaouk should have brought a long list of prominent Jews who reject Zionism and Israeli aggression.
Just like the antichrist Murdoch, Piers Moron should have been served porridge for his role in phone hacking here in the UK, unfortunately justice was not served on these two reprobates.
Why is everyone afraid to use the “Z” word? Isn’t it past time that people learn
the difference between anti-semitism and zionism?
Boy, where to start?
Lather Casidy drives home the truth here about the parasitic demagoguery Piers Morgan claims as his self-righteous views in the statements he made during this ambush of Alnaouq during this interview (?). Hardly a performance to be proud of, but this is who Piers is, an empty suit.
Truth is this performance lays bare to the bone Morgan’s true lack of any worthy traits as a human being.
He uses his opportunity for personal gain, $$$$ and the patronization of his guest to garner praise from his employers, playing to the sickness of hate from members of his audience. All from his host role to be utilized as the seat of the Bully Pulpit. More of that empty suit thing.
I’m not at all sure how Morgan can show his face in public. Is there no justice?
“It is difficult for a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” Usually attributed to Upton Sinclair or H.L. Mencken. No one seems to know who authored the quote, but it rings true through the years.
“Never argue with a man whose job depends on not being convinced.” H. L. Mencken
Piers Morgan is, has been, always will be for Piers Morgan. Thoroughly disgusting.
I thought Morgan had begun to pull his head out of his ass of late; evidently not.
Why do people confuse propaganda artists with journalists? From a propaganda artist, one expects the sort of “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” logic applied to enemies of the owners of the propaganda mill. Yet, this piece acts as if the man is some sort of journalist and thus appears ‘shocked’ that a journalist would act in such a fashion. But, as soon as one considers the man as a propaganda artist, this becomes exactly what one expects from such a creature.
Understand that when you watch modern corporate ‘news’ you are watching propaganda artists performing on a propaganda outlet. Then people should not be surprised at their actions, and perhaps we can move on beyond these articles that point out that someone is not acting like a journalist.
Of course, I learned these lessons at a young age, when the picture was of a young girl burning with American fossil fuels (napalm), and the voices from the talking propaganda artists still just kept saying “that’s war” to justify the continuing slaughter of over 2,000,000 Vietnamese to protect middle and upper class Americans enjoyment of the profits from vast overseas investments.
Piers Morgan has always been against humans. The man is in favor of elites, and celebrities, but has always been firmly against humans. As such, he has long been a consistent mouthpiece for inequality, oppression, and all of the horrors of war.
If this image of a distraught man running while he carries a limp, bloody child doesn’t move you, something died in you.
Of course, if they bother to say anything, apologists will trot out the usual, “that’s war,” a useful phrase when the other side takes an ugly hit.
Piers Morgan is thick.