Can y’all please stop defending and thirsting over this asshole? He has a history of misogyny and making inflammatory remarks. Now he’s defending the use of anti-Semitic tropes to criticize Israel. I have Jewish ancestry and ancestors who died in the Holocaust, yet I hate Netanyahu and believe Israel is currently an apartheid state that is committing genocide and war crimes against the Palestinians. Criticizing the Israeli government is not anti-Semitism. However, invoking anti-Semitic tropes, such as Jews controlling the world’s media and wealth, to criticize Israel is anti-Semitic. Hasan defended the Pakistani Foreign Minister’s use of these tropes in response to a Tweet by Bianna Golodryga of CNN, who is Jewish herself. Jews know better than anyone what anti-Semitic tropes are. And saying that Israel “controls the media” through its “connections” conflates Jews with Israelis. It assumes that all Jews who work in the media support Israel. Also, the AP was pressured by American conservatives, not Israelis, to fire the reporter Hasan is referring to. If you’re gonna defend anti-Semitism, at least get your facts straight.
View attachment 35255171
Here’s a clip of the interview in which the Pakistani Foreign Minister invoked anti-Semitic tropes to criticize Israel rather than (rightfully) criticizing Israel for a million other legitimate reasons:
And then Hasan had the nerve to “denounce” anti-Semitism with the following Tweet:
View attachment 35255681
MSNBC anchor Mehdi Hasan, who is Muslim and a progressive, denounced the Pakistani Foreign Minister’s use of anti-Semitic tropes because unlike Hasan Piker, he’s not a bad person or an extremist:
View attachment 35255951 View attachment 35255961 View attachment 35255971 View attachment 35255981View attachment 35256071
It really isn’t that difficult to criticize Israel without using or defending the use of anti-Semitic tropes. Hasan Piker is just trash and has always been trash. Wake up and stop thirsting over this asshole!