Donald Trump is leading a deeply corrupt, fascist administration that seeks to punish and imprison his enemies – big and small, real and perceived. The unpopular president and his team are laying the groundwork to try to steal the 2026 midterms, and they’re not even trying to hide it.
Democrats in Washington, meanwhile, are hyper-focused on… condemning a left-wing podcaster, Hasan Piker, and distorting his comments criticizing Zionists as a way to marginalize and block the rise of anti-Israel voices on the left.
With less than 10 weeks to go before the election, the opposition party is using this crucial time to demonstrate their continued fealty to Israel – despite its deep and growing political unpopularity in the U.S., its horrifying genocide in Gaza, and the ruinous Iran war that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dragged America’s idiot president into.
It makes me livid that the danger Hasan is pointing to is real and yet centrist Dems can’t even handle the subject being brought up without having performative meltdowns.
The movement Hasan has come to represent is a threat to establishment dems’ donors. Donald Trump and Mike Rogers aren’t. They’re pretty silly to think that “knocking down” Hasan will change much of anything, though.
That being said, I think calling El-Sayed’s statement a “condemnation” is an exaggeration. It seems to me more like he condemned a caricature of what Hasan said.
I mean, Hasan is right, trying to flatten Israel and Judaism into one concept does place Jews in the US at far greater danger as it forces them into a story they weren’t necessarily a part of and if anything US Jews are very likely experiencing their soul recoil in horror from what is happening in the Palestinian Genocide same as anyone else with a heart.
The amount of immaturity the media has with grappling with Hasan’s point is stunning.
I don’t think Hasan is an anti-semite, but saying “jews in America” instead of Zionists does seem like the kind of slip-up Zionists love to seize on.
And I’ll reiterate that if they think taking down Hasan will change anything for them, they’re out of touch with reality. I think El-Sayed responded the way he did so he doesn’t have to constantly defend what Hasan said and can talk about other things. I doubt it will work, because the media is a bad faith actor, but we’ll see.
That isn’t a slip up, that phrasing does not imply or assert “all jews” grammatically in that context?
I’m agreeing with you, but I think leaving any ambiguity for Zionists to capitalize on is the slip up. They aren’t going to provide context.