The Anti-Defamation League on Wednesday blasted the New Yorker for inviting anti-Semitic streamer Hasan Piker to its annual festival, warning that the magazine is giving a platform to rhetoric that "normalizes antisemitism, reinforces bigotry, and launders terror."
"The New Yorker's decision to platform Hasan Piker is the latest example of mainstream media normalizing his brand of antisemitism and anti-Zionism," the ADL wrote in a series of X posts after the magazine announced that Piker will join a round-table discussion at its cultural festival next month. ...
Piker, a far-left streamer whose videos have millions of viewers on Twitch and YouTube, has denied the atrocities that Hamas committed during its Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel, dismissing reports of the terror group's sexual violence as "rape fantasies" and "hallucinations," Jewish Insider reported. In a stream last year, Piker said that "it doesn't matter if fucking rapes happened on October 7—like, that doesn't change the dynamic for me even this much."
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