Hasan Piker says the designated terrorist organization Hamas is 1,000 times better than Israel.
His statement outraged many — who now just want to write him off. That's a mistake. He has a massive audience and is emerging as one of the major voices of his generation. Those of us who disagree owe him — and his audience — a real argument.
Here's mine … And my position doesn’t come from ignorance about oppression. For a big chunk of my life, I was a grassroots activist — because of the pain of my own people. During those years, I was lucky enough to learn from elders who had been in the Black Panther Party, in SNCC, in the ANC. These were people who had to choose whether to pick up the gun — and how to use it if they did.
They taught me this: even in armed struggle, there are principles. No women. No children. No rapes. No kidnapping. Mandela held that line. Amílcar Cabral held that line. You don't become what you're fighting.
Hamas fails that test. They are not fighting for MORE freedom for Palestinians. They're fighting for less. They want theocracy, not democracy. And their means? They don’t use principled armed struggle (hitting military targets). They use terrorism (targeting civilians).
The vast majority of Americans — including those who sympathize with the Palestinian cause — reject terror tactics. Reasonable people would agree on three principles: secure homelands for both peoples; no hatred for Jews or Muslims; and protection for all civilians. Hamas’ approach undermines all three.
That's the conversation Piker's audience deserves. Not name-calling.
An arsonist set fire to Beth Israel Congregation, the largest synagogue in Mississippi. A house of worship whose history stretches back to 1860 was reduced to ruins in a single moment by the flames of Jew-hatred.
The arson against Beth Israel is a repeat of history. In 1967, the Ku Klux Klan bombed the same synagogue in a campaign of terror directed at Rabbi Perry Nussbaum, whose home was also bombed for his righteous alliance with the Civil Rights Movement.
Domestic terrorism against Jews never happens in a vacuum. Instead of extinguishing the fires of antisemitism, American politics is often guilty of fanning the flames.
@24Claim99893 At this point I am just going to move back to AT&T . I’m sure you can look up my account with my name and see the things that occurred when trying to become a customer. Including poring my number over when I don’t have a device, and having customer svc text a phone I don’t have.
@VerizonSupport@Verizon I’ve now had my worst customer experience ever. Currently you ported my numbers to you without a phone. Def wouldn’t encourage anyone to use Verizon. #shitshow
@VerizonSupport , @Verizon Hello, due to a horrific new customer-experience - you now have ported my numbers away from AT&T and I do not have phones. I'd say to contact me, but I don't have a phone. Just crazy how bad this experience has been.
I woke up thinking I was seeing images from October 7.
It wasn’t history. It was today. Sydney.
A Jewish community event turned into a scene of terror.
This is what happens when the danger of Islamic ideology is denied, excused, or rebranded as “resistance.”
We the people who have experienced living under Islamic ideology warned the free world. But we were mocked. Called Islamophobic. Silenced.
Now innocent civilians are dead.
This is the result of normalizing so-called “resistance.”
Of cheering terror at rallies.
Of chanting “intifada” in the streets
It is beyond tragic that some Western leaders choose ideology over national security.
Warnings about Islamist terrorism are dismissed in the name of “tolerance” and “political correctness.”
This is the cost.
Denial has consequences.
Cowardice has a body count.
Stand against Islamist terrorism
Or this will keep happening.
Our hearts are with the victims, their families, and the entire Jewish community in Australia, who came together in joy and were met with violence instead.
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#Hanukkah event at #BondiBeach in #Sydney,
Here's a timeline cleanse for you:
Apparently, there's a pet adoption place where people line up....and the dog chooses them.
Bring on the happy tears.... 😭
#TEXANS OWNER CAL MCNAIR WITH ONE OF THE FUNNIEST TIKTOKS OF ALL TIME AFTER CJ STROUD IGNORED HIM.
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CRYING OF LAUGHTER WATCHING THIS. HE DID THIS ALL DAY LONG.
🧵1/ Hello world, my name is Gal, and I am an Israeli, Jewish, mother, and lawyer. It is 3 am in Israel and I can’t sleep after what I had to witness. I want to share a bit about my experience over the past (almost) two years.
This is my ‘message in a bottle’ to you.
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Hi Rachel.
Iranian here.
I think the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and their supporters are a bunch of inbred uncivilized barbarian savages who belong in the 7th century along with their evil ideology.
Does that make me racist too?
Iranians are worried because people didn’t choose war.
But listen closely… that’s not silence, that’s laughter.
Laughter at the faces of IRGC commanders who once ruled by fear, now reduced to billboards.
I’ve received thousands of messages from inside Iran showing young women dancing in the streets, or families cheering in their kitchens. They remember these commanders as the ones who gave the orders to shoot protesters in the eyes, jail teenage girls, and lie to the world while building bombs in secret.
One mother in Tehran who was imprisoned for protesting the 2019 murder of her child wrote to me that “waking up to the news of Salami’s death, I started to scream out of joy that I’m seeing justice.” She told me that “soon you’ll be back to Iran and we’ll dance on the graves of these killers.”