Hasan Piker has now been condemned by dozens of Democratic senators and members of Congress, which must mean that his comments were so horrifying they would shock anyone with a conscience.
According to these fairly scripted denunciations, Piker said that American Jews “deserve” or “bear responsibility” for rising antisemitism. Here’s how Sen. Cory Booker put it: “Suggesting that Jewish Americans bear responsibility for hatred or violence directed against them is wrong, dangerous, and antisemitic.”
Rep. Jimmy Panetta edited it slightly, saying: “The suggestion that Jewish Americans who publicly support Israel bear responsibility for violence against the broader Jewish community is wrong, reckless, and antisemitic.”
So if Hasan Piker’s remarks were severe enough to warrant this extensive round of condemnation, it should be easy to pick them out. See if you can find his below. (The answer is in the reply.)
“You can’t have the kind of policies the government of Israel is engaged in and not expect that there’s gonna be pushback and backlash. The people that say that people that disagree with the policies of the government of Israel are antisemites are frankly full of shit and they need to be told that.” 1
“Anti-Zionism is rising as a response to what Israel is doing. It will simply not be possible to treat it as a marginal viewpoint that can be shamed or shunned into invisibility. Yes, antisemitism often cloaks itself in anti-Zionism. So don’t do the antisemites’ work for them. If you keep telling people that if they oppose the Jewish state then they must hate the Jewish people, eventually, they will believe you.” 2
“Look, the anti-Zionist Jews in my community, you have a very tough job ahead of you, where you have to go back to your communities and try to get your elderly relatives to understand that this connection between Israel and Zionism that is expressed over and over again through a lot of these Jewish institutions . . . is teaching people the idea that Jews are monolithic. And this is a dangerous…mode of propaganda…If Jews in America keep putting this idea out there that they are singularly invested in Israel, eventually someone’s going to come around and take action. Not against the State of Israel, mind you, but against American Jews…I don’t know how many different ways I can explain this. I don’t know how people don’t recognize how dangerous this predicament is, how dangerous this is for Jews.” 3
“A lot of the actions by [Netanyahu and his] government are making Jews in the United States unsafe.” 4
“Benjamin Netanyahu has made us less safe. He has frankly put Jews in an uncomfortable position across the country.” 5
It is an “obvious fact that Netanyahu is making Jews in America and the world less safe.” 6
My dad was a public school teacher; and he always said the toughest parts of the job were:
1. Having to pay for your own classroom chalk, and
2. Performing gender-reassignment surgeries during class hours w/out parents finding out.
@David_Mauricioo He's right @Ericrse37986. Almost every Democrat came out against ICE, but for the most, only AIPAC bought Democrats have come out against Hasan.
This is something Corporate Democrats will never understand, because they literally stand for nothing beyond party loyalty.
It's not about Hasan, we believe in the same policies, that's why we defend Hasan. You're not just attacking him, you're attacking everyone who holds similar policy views.
We are everyday Americans, who want to see their country be better, actually help it's people, and we vote.
And you are telling us to go fuck ourselves. I'm sure you'll get all those MAGAs to switch their vote for you though.
@SwannMarcus89 That's the stupidest line of thinking. You get ONE thing from the store if you're good while were there.
Nobody thinks they are going to pass prison abolition. But I'd rather move towards that, then For Profit/Private Prisons.
Walmart spent $8.1 billion on stock buybacks last year.
Over 156,000 Walmart workers are on Medicaid because they don't get healthcare from the company.