Jonathan Greenblatt calls it disgusting to compare American Jews to the KKK
Jonathan GreenblattChief executive and national director of the ADL, on his X account
Greenblatt writes that Piker compared Detroit's Jews to the KKK in his livestream and that it is disgusting to compare American Jews to a white supremacist movement that terrorizes Black and Jewish Americans.
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Pro-Israel voters in West Bloomfield who refuse to vote for El-Sayed share the supremacist attitude of a KKK neighborhood opposing a Black candidate, which Piker called Jewish supremacy.
“It's disgusting to compare American Jews to a white supremacist extremist movement that terrorizes Black and Jewish Americans”
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Hasan Piker compares canvassing in West Bloomfield's Jewish community to stumping in a KKK neighborhood; El-Sayed and Michigan Democrats condemn the remark
Hasan Piker said on his livestream that canvassing for Abdul El-Sayed in heavily Jewish West Bloomfield, Michigan, was the equivalent of stumping in a KKK neighborhood. El-Sayed, Sen. Elissa Slotkin and ADL chief Jonathan Greenblatt condemned the comparison.
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Post on the ADL chief executive's X account saying Piker compared Detroit's Jews to the KKK in his livestream the night before and calling the comparison disgusting.
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Greenblatt opened the post by saying Piker had outrageously compared Detroit's Jews to the KKK in his livestream the night before, saying their supremacist attitude is identical.
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He added that the ADL has spent over a century fighting that movement, and that the irony of comparing Jews to a movement whose ideology is steeped in Jew hatred is apparently lost on Piker.
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The reference point is Piker's livestream remark comparing canvassing in West Bloomfield's Jewish community to stumping in a KKK neighborhood. Greenblatt calls the comparison disgusting and says it ignores the movement's hatred of Jews, condemning the remark.
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