Hakeem Jeffries
Role at the time: House Democratic leader and U.S. representative
Condemned
Response to this claim
Piker’s wording assigned American Jews responsibility for antisemitic violence directed at them.
“The malicious claim that American Jews are inviting violence against themselves is dangerous and antisemitic.”
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Statement from Jeffries’s official congressional account directly characterizing the disputed remarks.
Why we used this label
The statement explicitly labels the disputed claim dangerous and antisemitic.