1/ The @The New Yorker's decision to platform Hasan Piker is the latest example of mainstream media normalizing his brand of antisemitism and anti-Zionism. Piker’s toxic and extreme rhetoric opposing Zionism and the Jewish state normalizes #antisemitism, reinforces bigotry, and launders terror – and it has no place at a conference devoted to prominent influencers. jewishinsider.com/2025/09/new-yo
2/ His appearing at a festival alongside such notables as Salman Rushdie, who lived for decades under threat of death from the Iranian regime, is deeply ironic, considering that Iran supports Hezbollah and the Houthis, two groups that Piker has openly admired and celebrated.
3/ Not only has Piker inexplicably compared the Houthis to Holocaust victim Anne Frank, he’s labeled Hezbollah as a ‘successful… resistance group,’ stated that “America deserved 9/11,’ and that ‘it doesn’t matter if rapes happened on October 7th.’
4/ These extreme statements, and others, should permanently disqualify him from appearing at any major media festival.
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