Nuseir Yassin, the Israeli vlogger also known as Nas Daily, has shared his political opinion amid the ongoing crisis in the Middle East caused by the three-front war by Israel against the Hamas in Gaza, Lebanon’s Hezobollah and Houthi rebels in Yemen. Voicing support for the two-state solution, he said, “I think Israel should exist.”
“My political opinion, which I make very clear, that we need two states for two people, but also we need to free Palestine from Hamas, from radicalism, from terrorism. I am not for that at all. I think Israel should exist,” 32-year-old Yassin, who runs the popular Nas Daily channel on YouTube and Facebook, said at the NDTV World Summit.
Yassin, who is popular for his one-minute videos on Nas Daily platform, said he lost followers and brand deals due to his political opinion but still managed to succeed.
“So, I succeeded despite being cancelled more than 10 times. Because the videos are just so damn good, you’re willing to listen to somebody from Israel even though you hate Israel so much. And the lesson here I think for everybody is – there is this amazing picture of one guy standing and a 10,000 people and the guy says ‘You’re all wrong’. I want everybody to think about this picture, ‘You’re all wrong’.”
“What are you willing to stand in front of 10,000 people who disagree with you and tell them ‘You’re all wrong’? What is something you deeply believe in, that is deeply, deeply unpopular? For me, it is the Israel-Palestine conflict. But for you it is something else. It is a great exercise for every single person sitting here.”
“What is something you deeply believe in that everybody around you still disagrees with? Yet for some reason you still believe in it. I think that is what you should make videos about,” Nas Daily said.
Who Is Nas Daily?
Nuseir Yassin is an Israeli-Palestinian vlogger, known as Nas Daily, the name used on his social media profiles. He shot to fame with his one-minute-long videos, that show him sharing insights from his trips around the world. Eventually, he came up with a media company – Nas Daily Corporation.
Yassin was born on February 9, 1992 in Arraba, Israel, to an Arab Muslim family of Palestinian descent. According to the information available on Wikipedia, he is a Palestinian Arab with Israeli citizenship.
At the age of 19, Yassin applied to United States’ Harvard University to seek a degree in aerospace engineering. In 2014, he earned a graduation degree in economics and a minor in computer science.
He founded a pay-it-forward registration service and a social media search engine while earning his degree at Harvard.
He started working as a software developer for PapPal-owned mobile payment service Venmo in New York in September 2014.
