Gottheimer asks House leaders to sign onto bipartisan measure decrying Jew-hatred in both parties

After antisemitic streamer Hasan Piker tried to blame Jewish supporters of Israel for worsening antisemitism, Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) called on House Republican leaders on Tuesday to allow a vote on his bipartisan resolution condemning such voices in both parties.“Hatred is hatred. Period,” stated Gottheimer, who is Jewish. “Let’s bring the vote to the floor.”The resolution, introduced with Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.), takes aim at both Piker on the Democratic side and Candace Owens on the Republican side for their attacks on Jewish Americans.Piker has been welcomed by Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Dr. Abdul El-Sayed and others from the party’s left wing. He recently warned that Jewish Americans who support a Jewish state were stirring up antisemitism themselves.“If Jews in America keep putting this idea out there that they are singularly invested in Israel, eventually someone is going to come around and take action, not against the State of Israel,…
Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) has urged House Republican leaders to allow a vote on a bipartisan resolution condemning antisemitism from figures in both political parties. The resolution, co-sponsored with Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.), targets streamer Hasan Piker for his comments blaming Jewish Americans for rising antisemitism, and conservative commentator Candace Owens for amplifying antisemitic figures. Gottheimer stated, "Telling millions of followers that Jewish Americans are bringing violence on themselves is blatantly antisemitic and one of the oldest tropes in the book." He added, "Hatred is hatred. Period." The American Jewish Committee also criticized Piker, saying, "Blaming Jews for the antisemitism directed at them is itself antisemitism."
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