Noah Arbit says Piker's KKK comparison is dangerous rhetoric that will encourage violence against West Bloomfield
Noah ArbitMichigan state representative (Democrat) whose district includes West Bloomfield, speaking to Jewish Insider
Arbit tells Jewish Insider that Piker's remarks are an incitement to violence, saying that talking about West Bloomfield's Jewish community as if it were the KKK will encourage radicalized people to take up violence against it.
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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.
“Talking about West Bloomfield's Jewish community as if it is the KKK, some white supremacist community, is exactly the kind of vile, dangerous, radicalizing rhetoric that will no doubt encourage people who have already been radicalized to come and take up violence against us.”
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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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Jewish Insider report on Hasan Piker's livestream remarks comparing the heavily Jewish community of West Bloomfield, Michigan, to a Ku Klux Klan neighborhood while watching a news segment about canvassers for Abdul El-Sayed. It quotes the remarks and responses from El-Sayed, state Rep. Noah Arbit, Sen. Elissa Slotkin and state Sen. Jeremy Moss.
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Arbit told Jewish Insider that he found the clip disgusting, repugnant, insane and irresponsible, and an incitement to violence, saying it is exactly the kind of rhetoric that will breed violence.
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Jewish Insider reported that Arbit said local police would need to be told about the clip and that the community would have to take extra precautions, and that he had asked El-Sayed many times to disavow 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. Arbit calls the remark disgusting and an incitement to violence, condemning it.
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Read the full caseElissa Slotkin says Piker's KKK comparison should be condemned loudly
“Hasan Piker's latest online rant targeting Michiganders in West Bloomfield Township, comparing the community to the KKK, should be condemned loudly. It is anti-semitic, divisive and deeply offensive.”Read statement
Jeremy Moss says Piker is the last person who should be antagonizing West Bloomfield's voters
“After spending a whole campaign putting a target on Oakland County's Jewish community, Hasan Piker is the last person who should be antagonizing these voters.”Read statement
Jonathan Greenblatt calls it disgusting to compare American Jews to the KKK
“It's disgusting to compare American Jews to a white supremacist extremist movement that terrorizes Black and Jewish Americans”Read statement
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