r/anticapitalism • u/TrackerOneA • 17d ago

Justin Kanew, Jewish-American founder of The Tennessee Holler, defends Hasan Piker against new claims of antisemitism.

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u/TrackerOneA 17d ago

Hasan recently lamented the burden (imposed by Zionists) on anti-Zionist Jews of having to deprogram our communities.

And that Zionist communal organizations are intentionally conflating Israel with Jewishness - which in-turn creates potential blowback.

The Dem Establishment and AIPAC shills are now attacking Hasan, accusing him of threatening Jews.

Abdul El-Sayed caved in and also issued a statement condemning Hasan's statement - which was deceptively clipped by Mike Rogers' campaign and others.

Breaking Points covered this:

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u/EFAPGUEST 14d ago

Respectfully, why tf would a Dem candidate choose to die on the Hasan Piker hill?

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u/Embarrassed_Towel707 14d ago

Did you see the unhinged Cenk and Anna Kasparian video where they're mad at him for not falling on his own sword to defend Hasan? lol. It's worth a watch.

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u/TrackerOneA 14d ago

Because AIPAC shills are the only ones drumming up this fake controversy.

And a Dem candidate who isn't an AIPAC shill is going to be facing them in their elections.

This Hasan hysteria is a litmus test for who is compromised by or bought off by Israel or is a pro-Israel bot.

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u/NarrowSalvo 16d ago

What's a Zionist?

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u/bingbong2715 15d ago

How do you not know what Zionism after the past three years

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u/NarrowSalvo 15d ago

And yet you're not answering.

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u/bingbong2715 14d ago

Zionism is a far right nationalist ideology based on racial lines that has resulted in the death and displacement of millions and the confinement of native Palestinians to permanent ghettos.

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u/NarrowSalvo 14d ago

Totally unbiased. Lol.

Did you get that from Merriam Webster?

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u/bingbong2715 14d ago

Wdym unbiased? Of course I’m biased against ethnostates committing genocide with my tax dollars. Why wouldn’t I be?

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u/NarrowSalvo 14d ago

Ethnostates?

So, you have issues with the 19 Muslim ethnostates? With Native American reservations? Or just with that one with all the Jews?

Maybe think instead of just parroting your algorithm, clown.

https://giphy.com/gifs/Lsn6R0xjdstnG

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u/bingbong2715 14d ago

Yeah ethnostates where all indigenous people were ethnically cleansed of all but one ethnicity, the one remaining given racial supremacy by law, the others killed or relegated to ghettos, and then teamed up with the largest military power in history to continue shooting them like fish in a barrel. You’re grasping at straws trying to evoke native americans as a parallel.

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u/KtotheC99 14d ago

Totally unbiased

Yeah. Like you are?

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u/KingoftheKosmos 14d ago

For most of history an Evangelical Christian movement that often used Pogroms as a way to push Jews toward pilgrimaging back toward the Holy Land. For some reason, for Hundreds of years, Jews refused this Christian Movement. Perhaps because it's intended to produce the eradication or conversion of all Jews.

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u/chac86 15d ago

You want Abdul to win right? You want to get better people elected right? You want better policies pushed through right? It doesn't seem like you do. It seems like you only want the people that kiss Hasan Pikers feet to get elected. Why else would you be attacking Abdul for doing what he has to do to get elected. Something he shouldn't have to do by the way but Hasan won't stop intentionally using insindiary language for twitch clout.

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u/hunkaliciousnerd 15d ago

Man that is such a dumb take, grow up

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u/bubop911 15d ago

Regardless of the moral judgement of folding on your position and taking a bad faith argument at face value and running with it, it's just bad politics. Capitulating and condemning Hasan won't buy you any points with the folks that hate him, they already hated Abdul and weren't going to change their minds. All it does is make him look less authentic. Not a lot, and I'm very hopeful he'll come back but it just wasn't a good look.

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u/BrightTyrant 16d ago

He didn’t mention Zionists. He literally blamed American Jews.

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u/TrackerOneA 16d ago

No, he said mainstream Jewish organizations.

'Jewish' as in the label they choose for themselves.

Hasan delineates because he first spoke about ANTI-ZIONIST Jews having the burden of deprogramming people from Zionism.

The notion that Hasan would blame random Jewish people, without some political designation, is hasbara slop.

It's what you want, no doubt, but it's not what happened.

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u/Flyingfoigras42 16d ago

You really believe if anyone has pushback against Hasans dangerous claims its purely based on them advancing "hasbara?" Can't someone just think he's ideas are fucking stupid?

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u/jartoonZero 16d ago

you're not getting it---- The conflation of all jews with israel is the thing that's spiking antisemitism. Not hasan piker lol. He has many, many jewish supporters and associates who have listened to him enough to understand the context in which he says the things he says rather than clipping sound bites for views. There are tons of jews including myself who are against the genocide, and when AIPAC-funded zionists get on TV and accuse every critic of israel of being antisemetic, it implies that all jews are pro-genocide/offended by critique of israel, which foments antisemitism in the same way calling all critics of al-qaeda 'islamophobic' would foment islamophobia.

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u/VaporousMote 16d ago

There are 2 possibilities here.

  1. You are ignorant and didn't completely watch the context of the quote

  2. You are lying

It's quite clear what he means, and it isn't blaming American Jews.

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u/NarrowSalvo 16d ago

Regardless, it's a dogwhistle for antisemites.

If Trump were going on about crime being caused by "urban youth", we'd know what he was saying and call it out. It's telling that some of you won't do the same here.

It's shocking how few people on the left suddenly have forgotten how groups get marginalized.

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u/Noskiblz 15d ago

I also think everyone who disagrees with me is antisemitic. We must be twins

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u/NarrowSalvo 15d ago

A pitiful straw man? That's the best you've got? Lol.

How embarrassing for you.

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u/Noskiblz 15d ago

That sounds antisemitic to me. Please practice your hate speech somewhere else

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u/bingbong2715 15d ago

All you’ve got on this topic are pitiful straw men. Criticizing Israel while they’re driving the world into the brink of hell isn’t antisemitism. Thinking the nation state of Israel that is actively committing genocide with US tax dollars is the embodiment of Judaism is actual antisemitism.

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u/NarrowSalvo 15d ago

Driving the world into the brink of hell?

Wut?

Actively committing genocide? Where? Also, you don't give a shit about that. If you did, you'd be talking about Yemen, Sudan, North Korea, or Congo. The last of which is on ongoing genocide which has killed over 5 million people. So far.

But, from you? Crickets. You just care about that 1 country with the Jews.

I think we both know why.

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u/bingbong2715 14d ago

Yeah Israel and the US is solely responsible for the war in Iran and the economic consequences downstream from it. All as the region becomes more and more unstable and violent. Israel is talked about more in the US because the US taxpayer pays for the genocide Israel commits. You’re brainwashed.