The New Yorker magazine is being ripped for inviting controversial lefty influencer Hasan Piker to headline an upcoming event — despite his vile history of calling Israelis “inbred” and that America “deserved 9/11.”
Piker, a popular left-wing Twitch streamer, is slated to participate in a New Yorker Festival roundtable event — titled the “New Political Arena” — next month.
But news of the progressive darling’s appearance on the lineup has sparked outrage — with many blasting the mag for giving a “pro-9/11 radical” a platform to potentially spew hate and peddle antisemitism.
The 33-year-old New Jersey-born streamer has also downplayed the sexual assault of women on October 7, declaring it “doesn’t matter if rapes happened.”
“The New Yorker’s decision to platform Hasan Piker is the latest example of mainstream media normalizing his brand of antisemitism and anti-Zionism. Piker’s toxic and extreme rhetoric opposing Zionism and the Jewish state normalizes antisemitism, reinforces bigotry, and launders terror – and it has no place at a conference devoted to prominent influencers,” the Anti-Defamation League said in a statement on X.
Piker, who has millions of followers, has been repeatedly condemned for his controversial remarks.
In addition to saying America “deserved” the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, he’s repeated assertions that Israel is committing “genocide” in its war against Hamas.
He was also temporarily booted from Twitch after he suggested that the killing of two Israeli Embassy diplomats in Washington, DC earlier this year looked like it could be a “false flag” operation.
“Not only has Piker inexplicably compared the Houthis to Holocaust victim Anne Frank, he’s labeled Hezbollah as a ‘successful… resistance group,’ stated that “America deserved 9/11,’ and that ‘it doesn’t matter if rapes happened on October 7th’,” the League said.
“These extreme statements, and others, should permanently disqualify him from appearing at any major media festival.”
Famed women’s rights lawyer Gloria Allred agreed, saying his past comments condoning rape should ban him from the event.
“We should not provide mainstream forums for persons who may wish to normalize the concept that rape doesn’t matter, because I believe that rape always matters, not only to the victims of rape, but also to the status and condition and future of women and girls,” Allred told the Telegraph.
“I also believe that persons who express hate speech should not be invited to prestigious round tables. Anyone who suggests that it doesn’t matter if rape happened, [that] should be sufficient to exclude a person from an invitation list to participate in the New Yorker round table.”
New York’s GOP Chair Ed Cox was among those to also pile on, blasting Piker as a “radical zealot.”
“As we approach the 24th anniversary of 9/11, a supposedly mainstream gathering of left-wing New Yorkers has invited a speaker who openly expressed his support of the attacks, in addition to calling for violence against Republican officials and numerous instances of overt antisemitism,” he said in a statement.
“This takes place against the backdrop of a Democratic Party that has nominated a defund-the-police, globalize-the-intifada Communist as their candidate for Mayor.
“Kathy Hochul and Hakeem Jeffries have spent months hemming and hawing about whether to endorse Mamdani. Their silence is pathetic cowardice. They must immediately and unequivocally repudiate both Hasan Piker and Zohran Mamdani: anything less is complicity in these radicals’ war on Western Civilization.”
The Post reached out to the New Yorker about the backlash but didn’t hear back immediately.
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