Hasan Piker incites millions against Jews, and the silence is deafening – opinion

Twitch personality Hasan Piker recently told his millions of followers that US Jews "have it coming" and should expect "eventually someone's going to come around and take action, not against the State of Israel, mind you, but against American Jews." Piker called Israel "Jewish ISIS" and accused Jews of "making antisemitism worse." This rhetoric, which demonizes Jews and delegitimizes Jewish self-determination, aligns with Natan Sharansky's test for identifying antisemitism. While some, like Michigan congressional candidate Jeremy Moss and Rep. Hillary Scholten, condemned Piker's statements as incitement, the article highlights a "deafening silence" from many, particularly within the Democratic Party, which it argues demonstrates a double standard compared to how similar threats against other minorities would be treated. The author contends that Piker's language, which holds Jews collectively responsible for Israel's actions and suggests their identity is inherently corrupt, borrows from historical antisemitic traditions, including those that led to the Spanish Inquisition and Nazi racial laws.