The Quad

Iran-backed Houthis have unleashed deadly missile attacks on Saudi airports, killing 13 people, including an American, and President Trump now faces a dangerous decision just weeks before the midterm elections.
On this episode of "The Quad", Emily Schrader, Bellamy Bellucci, Shosannah Keats-Jaskoll and Ruthie Blum debate whether America and Israel must strike back, and why Iran's escalating aggression could trigger a much wider war.
Three years after October 7, the panel also examines disturbing footage of Gazans continuing to glorify the massacre and confronts claims that Israel's military response is creating more terrorists. Plus, a controversial U.S. proposal to publicly broadcast the execution of the Fort Hood terrorist sparks a heated debate over justice and deterrence, while Britain's Green Party faces fierce backlash over its anti-Zionist policies. Is the West finally prepared to confront radical Islamist terrorism, or are its attempts at deterrence only setting the stage for the next devastating attack?

Europe is cracking down on Israeli products while its leaders meet with Iran and "The Quad" says this week exposed a staggering contradiction in the West’s approach to Israel. The panel unpacks the Netherlands’s treatment of Israeli travelers, Britain’s escalating battles with Israel and the controversy surrounding Ireland’s soccer match against the Israeli team. Then they turn to the UN, challenging António Guterres’s statements on Gaza and revealing the story behind the dramatic walkout during Netanyahu’s speech, including claims that the Palestinian mission helped organize the stunt. Plus, the panel examines an alleged terror plot targeting a British airbase and newly released footage documenting the Iranian regime’s brutal crackdown on protesters.

A prominent Gazan journalist just admitted he withheld footage of Israeli hostages being beaten, and "The Quad" says his revelations raise much bigger questions about what the world has been shown from Gaza.
Emily Schrader and the panel examine Motaz Azaiza’s interview, including his description of a Hamas-linked journalists’ WhatsApp group and his decision not to publish certain footage from October 7. They also dig into polling presented by CNN showing a dramatic deterioration in American attitudes toward Israel and debate what is driving that shift. Plus, the panel tackles anti-Israel protests targeting Jews on Yom Kippur and the backlash engulfing Ed Sheeran, before naming this week’s Scumbags and Heroes.

Twenty-five years after 9/11, has the West forgotten who the enemy actually is? "The Quad" reacts to Bill Maher’s explosive warning about a generation increasingly sympathetic to Osama bin Laden and debate how Islamist extremism went from being recognized as a threat to being defended by parts of the Western Left. Then the conversation turns to a new global danger: the Houthis’ advance around the strategic Bab al-Mandab shipping route and what it could mean for global trade and your wallet. Plus, the panel unloads on Jeremy Corbyn, the controversy surrounding Fauda and an anti-Israel film celebrated in Venice...before revealing why Pink and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch earned Hero of the Week.

A Gazan activist just called for the end of Hamas, and the backlash from the Western Left reveals a much bigger problem. In this episode of "The Quad", Emily Schrader and the panel unpack the firestorm surrounding Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib’s New York Times op-ed, asking why some Western activists refuse to listen when Palestinians themselves condemn Hamas.
Then the debate turns inward as U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee labels violent Israeli extremists “terrorists”: Is he right, is the comparison with Palestinian terrorism dangerously misleading and does Israel need to confront its own extremists more aggressively?
Plus, the panel takes aim at Macklemore, Ed Miliband and more in this week’s Scumbags and Heroes!