Hasan Piker Finds Humor In Injured Federal Agents, Democrats Find Another Reason To Call Him A Voice Of The People

Hasan Piker [AI generated]

Far-left Twitch streamer, anti-Semite, and professional purveyor of revolutionary nonsense, Hasan Piker sparked outrage Monday night after mocking Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents injured during Operation Metro Surge, delivering his routine blend of socialist agitation, hatred of America, and contempt for law enforcement at a campaign event alongside  Rep. Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, [aka Ilhan Omar] (D-MN).

Recounting his time in Minnesota amid protests against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, comrade Piker suggested that ICE agents braving the state’s brutal winter weather must be "extra racist" and proceeded to joke about an injured officer while the obscene audience laughed along. 

Remember, Piker is the same post-digested waste who said the USA deserved the 9/11 attack.

Apparently, the revolution has reached the stage where broken bones qualify as entertainment, provided the victim has the wrong job and political affiliation. And don't get me started on Jews.

"We saw a lot of funny compilations as well, you know. A lot of hip bones were broken. 'Officer Martinez down,'" the scumcrumpet said while speaking to Democratic socialist and failed Minneapolis mayoral candidate Omar Fateh, who hosted the sold-out Minneapolis event.

The spectacle offered another glimpse into the Democratic Party’s increasingly awkward courtship of keyboard radicals, a political ecosystem where calling for economic revolution can apparently coexist with celebrating injuries to the people tasked with enforcing federal law. 

Piker has accompanied several prominent Democrats on the campaign trail, emerging as a polarizing figure whom some party leaders embrace while others would apparently prefer to keep several counties away from a microphone, at least until after the elections.

His previous controversies include, as mentioned above, his declaring that "America deserved 9/11" and making remarks about Israel and Hamas that have shown us his anti-Semitism. Yet his standing among segments of the progressive left remains strong, suggesting that Democratic political strategists have decided the best way to reach young voters is to invite a wealthy internet personality with a history of inflammatory rhetoric to explain why America is irredeemably evil and that the world needs more dead Jews.

Omar, meanwhile, has accumulated controversies of her own. 

Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents searched her Washington, D.C., home earlier this month, and a federal court filing identified the congresswoman as "Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, aka Ilhan Abdullahi Omar." She joined Piker onstage as Minnesota Democrats continued wrestling with the question of whether associating with the far-left online celebrity would energize young voters or convince everyone else that the party's internal compass had been replaced with a broken turn signal.

Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) publicly condemned Piker's remarks, while other Minnesota Democrats called for the event to be canceled ahead of next week's midterm elections. Omar's campaign defended her decision to attend, arguing that the event would help mobilize young voters.

The campaign's reasoning is understandable. Young voters are notoriously difficult to mobilize, and few things demonstrate a commitment to political moderation quite like sharing a stage with a streamer who finds injured federal officers amusing. Still, the strategy could prove effective if the campaign's goal is to convince voters that the Democratic Party's definition of compassion depends heavily on the victim's government employer.

Piker also told Fateh that he had been inspired by the "solidarity" and "mutual aid" that emerged after thousands of ICE and Customs and Border Protection agents were deployed to Minnesota. The resulting protests included multiple arrests, objects and fireworks thrown at law enforcement, and the disruption of a church service. Two U.S. citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, were killed during interactions with federal law enforcement, both under justified circumstances. 

"It wasn’t just the networks that were very quickly propped up, the mutual aid that I saw, the protests that sparked up that said, ‘We’re not going to take it. We’re not going to sit aside and watch this administration come and rip our communities apart and kidnap our neighbors,'" the weasel said.

For Piker, the protests represented a triumph of community solidarity. Critics might describe the same scenes as evidence of what happens when political activists decide that federal law enforcement has no legitimate authority whenever its activities conflict with their ideological preferences. The difference, apparently, depends on whether one views immigration enforcement as a lawful government function or an international conspiracy personally designed to ruin one's X feed.

Piker, using the psychological defense mechanism known as projection, called Republicans "terrorists" during the event, while Omar disgustingly referred to the party as the "pedophile protection party." 

The exchange demonstrated the high-minded civility that has become a hallmark of American political discourse, with elected officials and celebrity activists competing to see who can attach the most grotesque label to millions of fellow citizens before the next commercial break.

Conservatives on social media were quick to condemn Piker's divisive comments.

"Hasan Piker was asked what stuck with him from Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis: ‘Funny compilations’ of federal agents being injured," Charlie Kirk Show executive producer Andrew Kolvet posted on X. "He also called the agents ‘extra racist.’ This isn’t comedy. It’s tacit support for the far-left insurrection network against federal law enforcement. Pro-revolution. Pro-anarchy."

"Every Democrat he campaigned with should be asked if they agree. Disgusting."

"Hasan and his elected Democrats are sick," Loomer Unleashed posted on X.

Federal law enforcement agents confront anti-ICE protesters during a demonstration outside the Bishop Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on January 15, 2026. (Getty Images)

In another post on X, Crucible Updates wrote, "Hasan watched federal agents get hurt and his takeaway was 'funny compilations… a lot of hip bones were broken.' Millions of young women take their politics from this guy. Let that sink in."

"WTF?!" Gina Milan, a conservative media personality, posted on X.

"This guy is America’s biggest cancer. Just another Nepo baby," Kevin Smith, host of Loud Majority Live, posted on X.

A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson told Fox News Digital that the "vilification" of ICE agents who "put their lives on the line" every day to enforce the law is contributing to a more than 1,600% increase in assaults against them, thanks to dolts like Piker and the media that minimizes attacks on law enforcement. 

"They should be thanking our law enforcement for removing these dangerous criminals from Minnesota—NOT vilifying law enforcement," the spokesperson wrote. "While these people smear ICE, law enforcement is arresting criminals and saving countless American lives."

The spokesperson added that ICE agents do not target individuals based on skin color and take required steps to determine immigration status and removability before making an arrest.

"Politicians and activists must turn the temperature down and tone down their rhetoric," the spokesperson wrote.

That advice may prove difficult to implement in a political environment where activists portray immigration officers as villains, politicians describe their opponents as protectors of pedophiles, and online celebrities receive applause for joking about injured law enforcement personnel. Turning down the temperature would require somebody to stop throwing rhetorical gasoline on the fire, a task that seems unlikely to attract many volunteers.

John Nagel 

Omar is running against former state trooper John Nagel and independent candidate DeVelle Jackson in the upcoming midterm elections for Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District. 

Voters will ultimately decide whether the district wants another term of Omar's progressive politics, whether Piker's brand of revolutionary commentary helps or hurts the campaign, and whether mocking injured federal agents is the kind of political entertainment Minnesota residents want their representatives endorsing.

For now, the far-left's latest demonstration of compassion appears to have come with a curious exception: the people wearing badges.

And at least Hasan Piker hasn't married his sister, we believe.

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Was James Talarico in a mental institution or did he actually have the flu?

Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico has returned to the campaign trail after nearly two weeks out of public view, but a recorded phone call alleging he was discharged from an Ohio mental-health facility has intensified scrutiny of his absence. His campaign insists he was home in Austin recovering from the flu. So far, neither the allegation nor the campaign’s account has been independently verified in full. 

But we all know a politician and his staff, would never lie on their behalf.

The state representative went roughly 12 days without an in-person campaign appearance in late September and early October. His campaign blamed influenza, saying he was diagnosed at a Dallas urgent-care facility on September 30 and recovered at home in Austin.

And we all know a politician and his staff, would never lie on their behalf.

For a candidate hoping to flip a Republican Senate seat, disappearing during a critical stretch of the campaign is hardly ideal. President Donald Trump, Republican nominee Ken Paxton, and political commentators all took notice.

Talarico resurfaced at the festival on October 9. Campaign spokesman JT Ennis posted video of the candidate and declared, “Hate to disappoint the conspiracy theorists, but James is still alive and meeting with voters at ACL today.”

Being alive and attending a music festival, however, does not answer every question about an extended absence. If you pay attention to some of the things he had said, including his take on Christianity, you would not be surprised to hear another take on where he actually was during his absence.

On October 11, independent journalists Nick Sortor and Rhein Amacher released a recording of a phone call with an unidentified employee at the Lindner Center of Hope, a residential mental-health facility in Mason, Ohio. According to the journalists, the employee reportedly said, after a pause, that Talarico “was just discharged this evening,” or within the preceding 24 to 48 hours, and confirmed the facility's name.

Sortor and others have presented the recording as evidence that Talarico was a patient there, contradicting the campaign's explanation that he was recovering from the flu at home in Austin. Related reporting has cited private-flight tracking involving a nearby Ohio airport and the fact that Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo previously stayed at the same facility. Neither detail independently establishes that Talarico received treatment there.
 
The campaign has categorically denied the allegation.

Ennis responded: “This is a lie designed to promote a pathetic conspiracy theory. Last week James Talarico was home in Austin, Texas recovering from the flu.”

The facility has issued no public confirmation of Talarico's alleged stay. Subsequent callers, including Brian Krassenstein, reportedly received the standard response that patient information cannot be confirmed or denied.

As of October 11, no official records, facility statement, or independent verification establishes that Talarico was treated at the center. The recording has fueled speculation, but it does not conclusively prove the allegation. Earlier reporting also described the mental-health rumors as unverified.

The distinction matters. Voters have every right to question a candidate's unexplained absence, but allegations should not be presented as established facts without evidence.

Talarico offered his own explanation during a September 30 video appearance at the United States Hispanic Business Council's “In Dialogue: Texas” candidate forum in Edinburg. He had originally planned to attend in person.

“I was starting to feel kind of under the weather a few days ago and last night it got so bad that I went to the urgent care here in Dallas, and I was diagnosed with the flu.”

His last scheduled in-person appearance before the illness was reportedly a September 28 New York fundraiser featuring actor Robert De Niro.

Talarico is expected to resume a full schedule of in-person events. CNN and Jubilee Media have also scheduled a live town hall with him in Fort Worth for October 14 at 7 p.m. Central, with Paxton invited.

That appearance will give Talarico another opportunity to address voters. Whether he can put the controversy behind him remains to be seen.
A Candidate With a Rather Unusual Christian Message

Talarico has made Christianity central to his political identity. His campaign describes him as “a Presbyterian seminarian studying to become a pastor.”

Yet his policy positions include support for federal legislation codifying Roe v. Wade and protecting same-sex marriage, putting him at odds with many traditional Christians.

His longtime Austin congregation, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, has previously listed Planned Parenthood Greater Texas among organizations that shared its “vision and goals for the world.” The church's benevolence budget has also supported the organization, according to The Dallas Express.

Talarico has also attracted criticism for declaring that “God is non-binary” and arguing that there were six biological sexes. He subsequently revised those positions.

In a September Fox News interview, he acknowledged that he had “missed the mark on some of my past statements,” said there are two sexes, and supported a federal ban on sex-alteration surgeries for minors.

The reversal raises an obvious political question: Has Talarico genuinely reconsidered his views, or is he adjusting his message to appeal to Texas voters as Election Day approaches?

Even some on the left have expressed dissatisfaction. The Washington Post reported that Texas Stonewall Democrats leader Robert Vargas III called Talarico's recent remarks “a significant shift,” while Equality Texas CEO Brad Pritchett said, “We expect better.”

Meanwhile, socialist streamer Hasan Piker has applied pressure from another direction. At a September 30 event at the University of Texas at Austin, Piker told activists who helped Talarico win his primary to remind the candidate who put him in power. As The Dallas Express reported, Piker said that “if he wants to maintain it he’s got to play ball.”

Talarico must therefore navigate competing demands from progressive activists while attempting to reassure voters who may be uncomfortable with his earlier statements. His challenge is to explain whether his changing positions reflect genuine conviction or political expediency.
Democratic Unity Shows Cracks

Talarico's difficulties extend beyond Republicans and religious conservatives.

The Congressional Black Caucus PAC endorsed him in September, and Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett publicly supported him after losing her own primary. Yet Crockett's Fueling Individual Rights Everywhere PAC later released an endorsement list that did not include Talarico.

That omission does not establish a falling-out, but it illustrates the complications facing a nominee who must unite competing factions of his party.

Sheena Flanary, a former Collin County Democratic Party chair who now serves as Texas Democratic Party vice chair for voter engagement, also said in an undercover recording that Talarico's campaign had rebuffed her offers of assistance, according to The Dallas Express.

Talarico has faced pointed questions from Black voters before, including at a July 19 town hall in Houston.

Winning the Democratic nomination is one thing. Building a statewide coalition is another. Talarico must persuade voters that his candidacy offers more than carefully calibrated messaging designed to appease whichever faction happens to be demanding his attention.
Why the Race Matters

Republicans hold 53 Senate seats, compared with 45 Democrats and two independents who caucus with them. A Democratic victory in Texas would eliminate one Republican seat in a cycle in which Democrats need a net gain of four seats to reach 51.

Texas has not elected a Democrat to the U.S. Senate since Lloyd Bentsen won reelection in 1988. Flipping the state would therefore represent a major Democratic victory, with consequences for legislation, judicial confirmations, federal spending, and President Donald Trump's agenda.

For Republicans, the opportunity is to make Talarico defend his record, his shifting positions, and his vision for the country. For Talarico, the challenge is to demonstrate that he can withstand scrutiny and represent Texans rather than simply satisfy the demands of progressive activists.

The allegation concerning the Ohio mental-health facility remains unverified and should be treated accordingly. But the broader questions surrounding Talarico's campaign, including his public statements and ability to manage a high-stakes Senate race, are legitimate subjects of debate.

Voters need neither accept every campaign explanation at face value nor believe every rumor circulating online. They should demand evidence, examine the candidates' records, and judge them on their policies and conduct.

Early voting in Texas begins October 19 and runs through October 30. Election Day is November 3.

Talarico's return to public view may end his absence from the campaign trail, but it does not end the scrutiny. With control of the Senate potentially at stake, Texas voters deserve a clear account of what their candidates believe, what they intend to do in Washington, and why they should be trusted with the responsibility.

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Former Hamas Hostage Counters Hasan Piker’s UT Austin Appearance With the Reality of Oct. 7

Maya Regev recovers in hospital

There is a peculiar luxury enjoyed by people who discuss atrocities from a comfortable distance. They can reduce human beings to political abstractions, transform suffering into talking points, and dismiss inconvenient facts when those facts interfere with a preferred ideological narrative.

Former Hamas hostage Maya Regev does not have that luxury.

Regev survived the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre at the Nova Music Festival, was shot in both legs, abducted by Hamas and held captive in Gaza for two months. When controversial Twitch streamer and human excrement Hasan Piker appeared at the University of Texas at Austin, Regev offered students something considerably less fashionable than internet commentary: firsthand experience.

Piker, a vocal critic of Israel and proud anti-Semite, made headlines with his visit to UT Austin, even before he arrived in the Lone Star State.

Piker: post-digestive waste

While he was speaking at an event hosted by University Democrats, Regev was telling students what it was actually like to experience the horrors of Oct. 7 and Hamas captivity.

The contrast was difficult to miss.

In a recent conversation with Fox News Digital, Regev addressed one of Piker's most infamous remarks concerning the sexual violence committed by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7: "It doesn’t matter if rapes f---ing happened on Oct. 7, like that doesn’t change the dynamic for me." What a dickweed.

Regev pointed out the obvious problem with allowing such a worldview to dominate the conversation, particularly among students who may be hearing competing claims about the atrocities committed that day.

Asked about his remarks concerning reported rapes committed by Hamas, Piker later told The New Republic that there was "definitely testimony of sexual violence that had taken place amongst the hostages. But that doesn’t change the dynamic of Israel committing a genocide against the Palestinians, and my opposing that genocide."

Regev's response was not to demand that Piker be silenced. It was to make sure students heard from someone who had actually been there.

Chabad, a Jewish organization with representatives across the globe, contacted Regev about speaking at UT Austin after Piker's appearance was announced.

"I'm not here to silence anyone," Regev told Fox News Digital. "I came there to let people hear what I've been through, like the other side of the story, with facts, with pictures, with records."

That distinction matters.

Piker has millions of low-information followers and an enormous platform. Regev has something different: the scars of what she is describing, much like the Hamasshole who video taped the atrocities and bragged about it. Much like the other now eliminated Hamasshole who called his parents on his dead victim's phone and bragged about all the Jews he murdered.

The Anti-Defamation League has criticized Piker for what it calls his "anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and tropes." Among the comments highlighted by the organization is Piker's claim that Hamas hostage and American-Israeli soldier Edan Alexander had volunteered for the "Nazi army."

Anyone who actually believes this garbage needs a brain transplant.

Regev acknowledged that Piker has freedom of speech and "can say whatever he wants." Her point was that students should not mistake popularity for evidence or social-media reach for firsthand knowledge.

"For me, Oct. 7, it's not a debate, it's not something I read online. It's something that I've lived through, something that will forever be inside me, something that I will have to live with for the rest of my life," she told Fox News Digital. "I just think that it's important for them to understand that behind every story there are real human beings."

There is a fundamental psychological difference between reading about an atrocity and being one of its victims, aka fiction v. truth.

"I was a hostage. I was a Hamas hostage," Regev told Fox News Digital. "I was being held by Hamas, by those monsters, and I think that students might, you know, forget that they are actually real human beings, real families that lost their lives, real women that got raped, men, lives were destroyed on Oct. 7."

That is precisely the danger of turning mass violence into ideological theater. Once victims become symbols rather than people, almost anything can be rationalized, especially by a scumcrumpet like Piker who makes a ton of money off his Jew-hating balderdash.

Regev also challenged the growing influence of online personalities who form opinions for audiences that have never personally encountered the realities being discussed.

"When they hear an influencer post something, when they read something, it's important for them to check the facts before they are repeating a slogan or celebrating death of innocent people," Regev said.

She later added, "I sat with those people. I lived with them for two months, with Hamas people... I think that people should listen to a person who was really there and not to a person who just sees stuff online and has millions of followers."

It is difficult to identify a more elementary principle for evaluating competing claims: someone who experienced an event possesses information that someone watching videos about the event does not--especially by someone looking to weave a story to align with his anti-Zionist/anti-Semitism about the event.

Regev also addressed what she believes influencers such as Piker fail to understand about Gaza, particularly Hamas' use of Palestinian civilians as human shields.

I suspect Piker understands what Hamassholes did on Oct. 7, 2023, but lies about it to make his evil point.

"Hamas is using children and women and elderly women as a human shield," Regev said. "I think, again, people should know the facts before they're talking, and especially when you're very influencing."

Her own story began at the Nova Music Festival on Oct. 7, 2023.

Regev attended the festival with her brother, Itay Regev, and her friend Omer Shem Tov. When the rocket alerts began at 6:29 a.m., she initially was not especially alarmed. Having grown up in Israel, she had experienced rocket alerts before. Even young children know the score.

"We thought it was just a matter of time before everything will calm down, and we can keep on partying, but after some time we understood that it [was] a lot more serious than what we thought," she said.

The group headed toward their cars, only to be told by police officers to abandon them because terrorists had invaded Israel.

Regev, her brother and Shem Tov then ran for what she estimated was between 60 and 90 minutes.

Eventually, they received a call from Ori Danino, a friend of a friend who had also been at the festival. Danino had escaped the immediate danger but turned around to try to rescue them.

It was an act of extraordinary courage.

It also ended with all of them being abducted.

The group had been driving for approximately five minutes when "a big pickup truck" carrying terrorists opened fire. Regev was shot in both legs. Her brother was also wounded.

The terrorists dragged Regev, her brother and Shem Tov from the vehicle, forced them into the pickup truck and drove them into Gaza.

Danino initially escaped, but another group of terrorists eventually captured him and took him into the Strip.

The Regev siblings were released from Hamas captivity in late November 2023, only days apart.

Freedom, however, did not mean that Regev could simply return to the life she had known.

Her release was accompanied by the knowledge that friends remained underground in Gaza.

"It was a total shock. I thought that Omer will return home, like, a few days after me, but then the ceasefire was stopped. So, it was very hard for me. I couldn't believe that I escaped this hell, and they are still there being held, Ori, Omer, all the other hostages," Regev told the outlet.

Danino, the man who had risked his life attempting to rescue Regev, her brother and Shem Tov, would spend 11 months in captivity before Hamas executed him along with Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Eden Yerushalmi, Carmel Gat, Almog Sarusi and Alexander Lobanov.

Shem Tov endured 505 days in Hamas captivity before being released on Feb. 22, 2025.

For Regev, surviving created its own psychological burden.

"I felt very guilty that I was saved, that I'm back home with my family. I can get the medical treatment that I needed to receive and there are people there suffering, still hostages suffering, not eating, being abused physically and mentally. But I understood that I have a voice now, and I have to use it, and I'll do anything in my [power] to bring them back home," she added, obviously experiencing survivor's guilt.

Eventually, with her brother and Shem Tov home, Regev could begin contemplating a future rather than simply surviving the present.

Her ambitions are remarkably ordinary.

She wants to walk outside. Look at the sky. Travel. Study. Spend time with friends and family. Enjoy being alive.

"I just want to do everything that makes me happy," Regev told Fox News Digital. "When I was there in captivity, I promised myself that I will live life. I told myself that if I'll ever be home again, I'll live life, and I'll study, and I'll go travel the world, and I'd be with friends and my family. And it's what I'm doing now, you know, I'm just doing whatever makes me happy."

"I think that the only thing I wish for myself is to be happy forever and grateful for everything that I have."

Perhaps that is the most important counterargument Regev brought to UT Austin.

It was not merely a competing political position. It was a reminder that beneath the slogans, statistics and ideological narratives are human beings who bleed, suffer, remember and mourn.

Piker can discuss Oct. 7 from a livestream. Regev carries Oct. 7 with her.

One is hateful commentary.

The other is real memory.

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Jihadi Democrat Abdul El-Sayed refuses to condemn IRGC

The Democrats’ jihadist nominee for the Senate in Michigan was asked a straightforward question at a town hall in Ann Arbor on Wednesday: would he condemn the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps?

He declined to do so.

As reported by Newsweek, Iman Dashti, an attendee who identified himself as Persian, informed the candidate, Abdul El-Sayed, that his own family had suffered persecution at the hands of the regime in Tehran. 

Dashti noted his dismay over leaked audio in which El-Sayed refused to comment on the death of former Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after U.S. strikes, remarking at the time that “there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad today.”

“That silence had a gaping hole in our community,” Dashti said, before pressing El-Sayed to clarify whether “you stand unequivocally against the IRGC?”

Rather than offering a clear rejection of a brutal state apparatus, El-Sayed offered a studied evasion, replying, “I will always stand for and with democratic movements,” while adding that he opposed U.S. involvement in regime change. Of course, in actuality, El-Sayed opposes the U.S. in general. His good buddy, Hasan Piker, had openly said that the United States deserved 911.

The voter who posed the question was under no illusions about the reason for this hesitation. Speaking later on Fox News, he observed that “a lot of his supporters are very supportive of these institutions, the IRGC. They love the Iranian regime and he doesn’t want to alienate them.”

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Hasan Piker Discovers the Jews Are Somehow Responsible for Antisemitism

Hasan Piker, the multimillionaire socialist who has somehow managed to turn complaining about capitalism into a very lucrative career, is facing backlash after suggesting that American Jews could be responsible for the anti-Semitism directed at them. 

During his Aug. 20 stream, Piker offered a novel solution to anti-Semitism: Apparently, Jews should stop being so Jewish about Israel, or someone might decide to attack them.

“People don’t f–k with Israel any longer. And if Jews in America keep putting this idea out there that they’re singularly invested in Israel, eventually someone will come around and take action not against Israel, mind you, but against American Jews,” Piker, a blatant anti-Semite said.

The remark immediately drew criticism from people who apparently missed the memo informing them that blaming Jews for the hatred directed at Jews is not, in fact, a groundbreaking new analysis of anti-Semitism.

Piker, a caviar socialist with a multimillion-dollar home in West Hollywood and a $200,000 Porsche, has become an increasingly prominent surrogate for Democratic Socialists of America congressional candidates. Here's the dude saying "workers of the world unite" from his luxury sports car. 

Among those unwilling to join Piker's latest intellectual adventure was Rep. Hillary Scholten (D-MI), who blasted the streamer over what she called “talk of violence” targeting Jewish Michigan State Sen. Jeremy Moss.

Scholten, a Christian, called Piker “a hack who thrives on hate, shock and awe because he lacks substance.”

“Hasan Piker’s talk of violence against American Jews, and directly naming a Michigan elected official, and future member of Congress, Jeremy Moss, is unacceptable. Full stop,” Scholten’s statement read.

“We should all be calling out this disgusting rhetoric so it loses its grip on our politics once and for all. It has no place in Michigan, and no place in our country.”

Piker responded in the traditional manner of the modern political intellectual: by attacking Scholten personally and labeling her an “Israel 1st congresswoman.” 

“if i was an israel 1st congresswoman with a possible cheating scandal with a republican in the state, i wouldn’t spend so much time vying for the spotlight by actively defaming a prominent antizionist voice to harm the dem senate majority chances over a 90/10 issue,” Piker wrote on X. He evidently can'tsee how truth is truth, and has nothing to do with her personal life.

The exchange comes as Piker has become a regular presence on the campaign trail in Michigan, where he backed Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, another Jew-hating jihadi who would be a danger to America if he wins in November.

El-Sayed defeated Rep. Haley Stevens in the Democratic primary earlier this month, despite criticism over his association with Piker and the streamer's increasingly inflammatory rhetoric.

Even El-Sayed felt compelled to distance himself from Piker's comments, although apparently without quite reaching the point of actually condemning the man whose political support he had eagerly accepted.

“I believe all Americans deserve the right to advocate for what they believe without fear of violence. This is particularly true for communities that have been intimidated for their beliefs in the past,” El-Sayed wrote.

He also emphasized that Piker does not speak for his campaign, but clearly they speak the same hateful language. But who doesn't think that political candidates will say anything to get elected?

“nobody speaks for this campaign besides me and my campaign spokespeople.” 

Jewish organizations were considerably less diplomatic.

The Jewish Federation of Detroit called Piker's remarks “repugnant and anti-Semitic,” noting that he had discussed violence against Jewish Americans while displaying an image of a Jewish Michigan lawmaker.

“We call on all responsible leaders to condemn this extremist, attention-seeking conduct which divides Americans, foments hate, and makes our Jewish community less safe,” the organization said.

The American Jewish Committee similarly accused Piker of putting a target on Jewish Americans and Jewish candidates and officeholders.

“Blaming Jews for the anti-Semitism directed at them is itself antisemitism,” AJC wrote on X. “Every public official who has shared his platform now has a choice: denounce this and walk away, or be complicit. There is no third option.”

Hillary Scholten 

Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt also weighed in, wondering whether elected officials who associate with Piker actually watch his streams or simply notice his enormous audience and decide that the rest is someone else's problem.

“The Jewsplaining is extraordinary: Piker appoints himself an authority on anti-Semitism, lecturing Jews about what is and isn’t anti-Semitic while blaming the Jewish community for the hatred directed against it,” Greenblatt said.

Piker's comments came amid controversy over an audio clip circulating online that purportedly featured Moss saying the “entire purpose” of his congressional campaign was to ensure America's continued support for Israel.

Moss denied making the remarks and said the audio was fabricated, and personally, I believe him.

“We are in a dangerous era of disinformation. Circulating a lie because it affirms your bias or belief is equally bad whether it comes from the left or the right. We all have a choice not to spread fabricated images, videos, and audio about candidates and campaigns. We all have a role in stopping the erosion of our democracy,” Moss said.

Thus, in the latest installment of the Hasan Piker School of Advanced Political Thought, we have learned that anti-Semitism is apparently the Jews' fault, fabricated audio is apparently useful when it advances your argument, and socialism works best when financed by a multimillion-dollar mansion and a $200,000 Porsche.

Karl Marx may have envisioned the proletariat seizing the means of production.

Piker appears to have seized the means of streaming, and anyone believing the garbage he spouts is a fool.

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Democrat Sends ‘Condolences’ To Hasan Piker After Florida Primary Defeat

WASHINGTON, D.C. Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz celebrated defeating Democratic Socialists of America-backed challenger Oliver Larkin by doing something rarely seen in modern Democratic politics: winning an election and then immediately sending his condolences to Hasan Piker.

Moskowitz offered his “condolences” to the far-left, anti-America, anti-Zionist streamer who had enthusiastically backed Moskowitz’s execrable opponent, apparently demonstrating that there are still Democrats who would prefer socialism remain a theoretical concept that works beautifully in countries that somehow still have capitalism to pay for it.

Larkin lost to the more moderate Moskowitz in Florida’s 25th Congressional District, proving that at least some Democratic voters remain reluctant to hand the controls of the American economy to people whose primary qualification is having memorized the word “oppressor.”

The heavily redrawn swing district is expected to be one of roughly two dozen House races that could determine whether Republicans retain their razor-thin majority in the midterm elections.

Naturally, Moskowitz knew exactly whom to thank for his victory.

"My condolences to @hasanthehun," Moskowitz wrote on X with the kind of graduate-level snark normally reserved for academic journals and congressional group chats.

Piker, apparently unable to witness a congressional election without immediately locating Israel somewhere inside it, responded:

"its pretty wild that his first thought was a prominent critic of israel, before even thanking his constituents lmao. really worried about his genocidal emotional support apartheid state."

Piker refused to capitalize Israel, apparently saving his capital letters for more important subjects, such as Islam.

Moskowitz eventually got around to thanking his constituents the following day, along with his wife, children and late father.

"I want to thank the voters of District 25 for continuing to have the faith in me to deliver results for Florida," he wrote. "I want to thank my wife and kids who I have spent a lot of time away from. My dad died of cancer 4 years ago. He would have enjoyed all of this. I miss him. Onward!"

So, to recap: Moskowitz won an election, thanked his voters and family, remembered his deceased father, and then apparently committed the unforgivable political sin of noticing Hasan Piker.

Moskowitz later argued that Democrats should stop treating Piker like the embarrassing relative who arrives at Thanksgiving, insults the host, declares the family business exploitative, and then gets quietly ushered into the garage whenever respectable guests show up.

"Democrats shouldn’t play hide the Piker now," Moskowitz said after his victory, according to Politico Playbook. "For all those people who thought it was a great idea to campaign with him, as Jay-Z once said, ‘Bring ’em out, bring ’em out.’ They shouldn’t be hiding him now."

Piker was not exactly thrilled by the invitation to step into the electoral spotlight.

"I’m genuinely concerned for his mental well-being."

In reality, Piker is not concerned about anyone's mental well-being. He's only concerned with hating on the American people.

"I think he should stop posting on the internet and focus on defeating the Republican in his newly redistricted congressional seat," Piker added.

Apparently, according to Piker, Moskowitz's mental health became endangered somewhere between winning an election and mentioning the guy who campaigned against him.

Moskowitz then called DSA members "anti-American at their core."

This presumably did wonders for the atmosphere at Piker's online headquarters, where the American flag presumably remains classified as hostile propaganda.

Piker has become something of a political flashpoint for Democrats, who are now wrestling with a fascinating strategic dilemma: Should they appeal to ordinary Americans, or should they continue taking electoral advice from a millionaire internet celebrity whose political worldview sometimes sounds like it was assembled from the comment section of a college freshman's TikTok video?

Piker has campaigned with several far-left candidates, including Francesca Hong, who lost her gubernatorial primary in Wisconsin, and Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.

Sen. Bernie Sanders has argued that Democrats should include people like Piker because the streamer reaches a large audience. Democratic strategist James Carville, meanwhile, has expressed considerably less enthusiasm about turning the Democratic Party into a group project with Piker.

This leaves Democrats facing the sort of strategic question that political consultants usually charge six figures to avoid answering: Is Hasan Piker an electoral asset, or is he what happens when a campaign accidentally gives the microphone to the internet?

Commentator Kaivan Shroff noted that Piker probably would have been celebrating loudly had Larkin won.

"One of the asymmetries in Democratic politics right now is that when a DSA candidate wins, it is immediately treated as evidence of some enormous ideological realignment in the party," Shroff said. "When a more moderate Democrat wins, there is usually much less hype and almost no corresponding narrative.

"We saw that with David Crowley beating Francesca Hong in Wisconsin, and now Moskowitz has beaten a DSA-backed challenger in Florida," Shroff continued. "Imagine the coverage if the result had gone the other way, and imagine the victory lap Hasan Piker and the online left would be taking right now.

"I actually think there is value in Moskowitz picking this fight," he added. "Piker backed his opponent and made himself part of the race. By going after him publicly, Moskowitz is forcing people to tell the other side of this story, and, frankly, here we are talking about it because he did."

Indeed, Piker's involvement in Democratic politics has produced an electoral strategy that appears to have been designed by someone who believes America is simultaneously an oppressive empire and the most important audience on Earth.

After El-Sayed won his Michigan primary, Piker rejected calls for the candidate to repair relationships with skeptical Democrats ahead of the general election against Republican Mike Rogers.

"Like everyone being like, Abdul has a f--- ton of work to do mending bridges. Here's the f---ing take nuke for you, OK? You are all unbelievably Islamophobic pieces of s---, OK?" Piker said.

Which is certainly one approach to coalition building.

Nothing says “let's expand the Democratic coalition” quite like immediately informing large portions of the existing coalition that they are human garbage.

And now Piker has another Democratic primary loss to contemplate, along with the horrifying possibility that a Democratic congressman might actually want voters to know who his political allies are.

Moskowitz has apparently decided that if Hasan Piker wants to help Democrats win elections, Democrats should at least have the courtesy to introduce him to the voters.

"Everyone, this is Hasan. He thinks America is terrible, Israel is worse, capitalism is evil, and somehow we're supposed to believe he's helping us win Florida."

The condolences, it seems, were entirely appropriate.

In the strange new world of Democratic politics, apparently the most controversial thing a congressman can do is win an election, thank his constituents, remember his father, and then point out who was rooting for the other guy.

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El-Sayed campaign backed by over $100,000 from dozens of members of group with alleged terror ties

The "Taqiyya Grin"

The political fundraising rule used to be simple. Candidates would promise to keep special interests out of politics, then quietly cash checks from the usual suspects. Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed appears determined to modernize the tradition by proving that "special interests" is apparently just another term that depends on who's writing the check. [H/T Fox News Digital.]

According to a Fox News Digital review, El-Sayed's campaign has collected more than $115,000 from at least 41 individuals who either work for, formerly worked for, or held leadership positions with the Council on American-Islamic Relations, better known as CAIR. That's one way to build a coalition. Another is to skip the middleman and rent a conference room at headquarters.

The irony is particularly rich because El-Sayed has made getting "money out of politics" one of the signature themes of his campaign. Apparently, the money was willing to leave politics, but politics kept inviting it back for coffee and a little bit o' jihad.

Among the contributors were some of CAIR's biggest names, including national Board Chair Manal Fakhoury, national Board Treasurer Eyas Abdeen, national Vice Chair Emad Sabbah, and CAIR-Michigan board member Jukaku Tayeb, who also happens to be El-Sayed's father-in-law. Family gatherings must feature unusually productive finance committee meetings.

Tayeb has reportedly been one of the largest financial backers of the super PAC supporting El-Sayed's campaign. He is also part of the founding committee of the Islamic Society of North America, a group that has been linked to Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood funding, according to previous reporting by the Washington Free Beacon.

Another donor attracting attention is CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad, [aka Nihad Adickwad] listed in Federal Election Commission records under the name Nehad Hammad. The dickwad sparked widespread criticism after saying he was "happy" to see Hamas break out of Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023, while arguing Israel "does not have the right to self-defense" as an occupying power. In Washington, that apparently qualifies as a controversial statement. On some college campuses, it qualifies as tenure material.

The support for El-Sayed stretched far beyond Michigan. Fox News Digital identified contributions from CAIR officials representing chapters in California, Arizona, Texas, Georgia, Washington, Illinois, Minnesota, Ohio, and several other states, suggesting that El-Sayed's fundraising operation has become something of a national reunion tour.

Other contributors include CAIR-California Governance Board Treasurer Rubina Alvi, Governance Board Chair Asaad Traina, CAIR-Michigan board member Muzammil Ahmed, who contributed $11,600, Governance Board members Atef Ibrahim and Dina Ezzeddine, along with former National Board Chair Roula Allouch.

"Taqiyya Grin"

El-Sayed's relationship with CAIR extends beyond campaign donations. In 2022, he appeared at a CAIR event and was paid for a speaking engagement, where he criticized Oklahoma's ban on Sharia law and compared it to the Trail of Tears, according to the Washington Free Beacon. Nothing says "local Senate campaign" quite like re-litigating Oklahoma's legal code through historical analogies.

CAIR has faced scrutiny for years over allegations regarding ties to Hamas. In 2007, federal prosecutors identified the organization as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing case, the largest terrorism financing prosecution in American history.

CAIR was never charged with a crime and has consistently denied the allegations, challenging its designation in the case. Still, the organization has been formally designated or labeled a terrorist organization by Florida and Texas, while the United Arab Emirates designated CAIR a terrorist organization in 2014, a move widely understood to reflect the UAE's assessment that CAIR has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Responding to Fox News Digital, CAIR rejected allegations that it has ties to terrorism. The organization pointed to its "Dispelling Rumors About CAIR" webpage, memoranda stating it has "repeatedly condemned anti-Semitism throughout our 30 years of existence," and statements saying it has condemned attacks by Hamas and other designated terrorist organizations "for decades."

CAIR also highlighted a 2009 declaration stating, "We unequivocally condemn all acts of terrorism, whether carried out by al-Qa’ida, the Real IRA, FARC, Hamas, ETA, or any other group designated by the U.S. Department of State as a ‘Foreign Terrorist Organization."

The organization further cited a National Board statement condemning antisemitism and the Oct. 7 attacks, along with a 2023 editorial in which National Executive Director Nihad Awad said he agreed with CAIR's condemnation of attacks on civilians.

Meanwhile, El-Sayed has continued to draw criticism from Republicans and pro-Israel advocates over various Middle East-related controversies, including campaigning alongside far-left streamer Hasan Piker, his response to an attack targeting a Detroit synagogue, and declining to comment on the death of Iran's supreme leader because, he said, some constituents in Dearborn were mourning. Piker is the nephew of Cenk Uygur, the guy who yells garbage about Israel and founded Young Turks.

Despite the controversy, El-Sayed defeated Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens in Tuesday's Senate primary, surprising many political observers with a much stronger showing than expected. He now heads into a November showdown against Republican Mike Rogers.

Michigan voters will ultimately decide whether this fundraising strategy represents principled coalition building or merely another case of campaign ethics discovering that campaign slogans come with plenty of fine print.

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Cuban Operative From Hasan Piker And Code Pink's Luxury Communist Vacation Planning Committee Arrested After Rubio Ruins The Fun

In a shocking development that has leftist activists clutching their Che Guevara T-shirts, the Department of State announced on Wednesday that three Cuban nationals were taken into federal custody after Secretary Marco Rubio had the audacity to terminate their legal status in the US. One of those arrested was a man the department said has "spent more than a decade working as a foreign subversive for the Communist Cuban regime’s premier influence and intelligence front group in the United States."

Carlos Antonio Lloga Dominguez, along with his wife and son, was taken into custody by federal agents. Lloga Dominguez was employed by the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the People (ICAP) for over a decade, the department said, and has continued to maintain ties to the network during his time in the US.

Rubio designated ICAP for sanctions in early June. The group "is the central node in a sprawling Cuban intelligence and influence operation, claiming to span more than 2,000 organizations across more than 150 countries," the department said. The current head of ICAP, Fernando González Llort, previously served 15 years in US prison for his role in the Wasp Network, a Cuban spy ring discovered in Florida in the late 90s.

The department said, "Working in close coordination with the Cuban communist regime, ICAP maintains an outsized footprint across the United States, trafficking in vile anti-American propaganda, cultivating pro-Havana regime activists and politicians, and lobbying federal, state and local politicians on behalf of the Cuban dictatorship. The organization facilitates close working relationships between Havana and radical U.S. groups, using America’s far left milieu as a vehicle to export Cuba’s Communist revolution to the United States."

Che got woke

How dare they. Everyone knows the real threat to democracy is mean tweets and insufficient pronoun usage, not actual foreign agents embedded in America's compassion industrial complex.

An investigation by Fox News Digital found that ICAP officials have been closely coordinating with American nonprofits over the last decade to support Cuba’s Communist Party. The nonprofits include People’s Forum, Breakthrough News, Tricontinental, CodePink, the ANSWER Coalition, and the Party for Socialism and Liberation, many of which are funded by far-left businessman Neville Roy Singham. Because nothing says "organic grassroots movement" like a trust fund socialist wiring cash from overseas.

In May, the Trump administration's Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control subpoenaed socialist political YouTuber Hasan Piker, as well as CodePink’s Susan Medea Benjamin, over a trip taken to Cuba. One such trip took place in March, with activists being seen partying while much of the island faced a blackout. ICAP worked with US nonprofits to organize this trip. Nothing builds solidarity with the starving proletariat quite like doing the Macarena while grandma sits in the dark.

The March trip was under the banner of the "Nuestra America Convoy," with organizers claiming the trip aimed to deliver humanitarian aid and protest US sanctions. They also painted murals. Of course they did. Revolutionary change begins with tasteful public art.

The federal inquiry is over whether activists who went on the March trip violated US sanctions laws through the financing, coordination or delivery of goods to Cuba, including potential contacts with Cuban government personnel or entities on the island.

Amid news of the subpoena, it was revealed that Piker had admitted in 2025 that the Cuban government had reached out to a contact of his in an attempt to get him to come to the country. "The Cuban government actually hit my contact from the embassy and told them that if the only thing stopping Hasan from coming to Cuba was the consistent internet access, we can make it happen," he said.

Truly, the Cuban regime's willingness to provide reliable Wi-Fi for content creators is the kind of humanitarian outreach that makes America look bad. Thank goodness patriotic federal agents are finally treating these brave truth-tellers like the foreign influence agents they keep proving themselves to be. The revolution will not be subsidized.

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The UK rightly bans Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker from entering the country

Young Turks [the 'k' is pronounced as a 'd'] founder Cenk Uygur and his nephew, the left-wing streamer Hasan Piker, both virulent anti-Semites, have discovered that the politics of open borders and unrestricted movement occasionally collide with the realities of national sovereignty.

Both men announced Monday that they had been barred from entering the United Kingdom ahead of their planned appearances at the upcoming South by Southwest festival in London. The British government reportedly revoked their visas over concerns related to their public rhetoric on Israel, a remarkable development given the contemporary West's usual reluctance to police incendiary political speech.

According to Uygur, the British Home Office designated him a "serious risk to the public order" after he claimed that "Israel controls the American government through donations to 94% of Congress." Whether one views such remarks as criticism, conspiracy theory, or something in between, British authorities evidently concluded that importing them was not in the public interest as riots and destruction tend to occur when anti-Zionist/anti-Semitism are brought forth in the public arena.

The response from the loudmouth Uygur was immediate and characteristically dramatic.

"Are we free anymore?" he asked in a post on X. "This is oppression of Western citizens by our own governments on behalf of a different country!"

In a subsequent thread, Uygur portrayed the visa ban as a badge of honor.

 
"It is an honor to have made Israel's enemies list. I'm very proud to have fought against their genocide."

"The mighty United Kingdom is afraid of speech that shows you who's responsible for those war crimes. But no amount of censorship will get us to stop telling the truth."

Piker, who generally favors fewer words than his uncle, offered his own interpretation of events. He claimed the United Kingdom had revoked his visa at "the behest of Israel."

"The West is betraying 'liberal values' for a genocidal fascist foreign government," Piker wrote. "Soon we will all become Israel." 

What a piece of human excrement this man is.

The episode highlights one of the more curious contradictions of modern political activism. Many of those who insist that nations have little right to control their borders become deeply indignant when a nation exercises precisely that right against them.

The controversy arrives amid additional scrutiny surrounding the execrable Piker. 

Last week, Fox News reported that the U.S. Treasury Department had subpoenaed Piker and CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin, a self-loathing Jewish woman, as part of an investigation into whether activists violated U.S. sanctions during a trip to Cuba. 

According to the report, investigators are examining the activities of roughly 40 American citizens who allegedly coordinated with foreign nationals, including Brazilian activist Thiago Avila, who recently gained attention after being detained by Israel following his participation in a Gaza-bound flotilla. He had been accused of inappropriate sexual activity, which he denied. and claimed he had been tortured by Israel, which is not at all likely. 

Further subpoenas are reportedly expected.

Fox also reported that those under investigation include Isra Hirsi, the daughter of Representative Ilhan Omar. Sources told the network that investigators are examining whether Omar herself may have helped finance her daughter's travel.

For years, anti-Israel activists have portrayed themselves as dissidents bravely speaking truth to power. What appears to have unsettured Uygur and Piker is the realization that governments, including Western governments, sometimes retain the authority to decide who may cross their borders and under what conditions. Whether that authority has been exercised wisely in this case is a matter for debate. That the authority exists should not come as a surprise.

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