Vance Can't Dance

Hasan Piker spent Monday telling people he isn’t antisemitic. His own words prove otherwise. In a Monday stream he insisted he takes “special care” against antisemitism and that criticism of Israel isn’t bigotry. That doesn’t match his record. In August he told his audience that if American Jews 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, mind you, but against American Jews.” He called Israel “Jewish ISIS” and said Jews supporting it are “making antisemitism worse.” He’s repeatedly said “Hamas is a thousand times better” than Israel. He’s called strictly Orthodox Jews “inbred,” later defending the language as a pejorative for ethno-supremacist ideology. He’s referred to Zionists as “liberal Nazis” and equated “Zionist tendency” with being a “rabid neo-Nazi.” He’s said he doesn’t have an issue with Hezbollah and has compared Houthi actions to Anne Frank. These aren’t isolated slips. They’re a pattern of holding Jews collectively responsible for Israel’s actions, predicting violence against American Jews for supporting the Jewish state, and elevating groups that explicitly call for killing Jews. The Anti-Defamation League has called him one of the most virulent antisemitic influencers online. Democrats distanced themselves after the August comments. Jewish leaders in the UK pushed to bar him from entering the country. Piker can keep repeating that he opposes bigotry. His streams and posts show the opposite. He’s an antisemite. His own words prove it.