Jacky Rosen
Role at the time: U.S. senator from Nevada and co-chair of the bipartisan Senate antisemitism task force
Statement summary
Sen. Jacky Rosen said in a post on X that Hasan Piker had been trafficking in antisemitic tropes for a while and that his latest remarks were a new low. She said that blaming Jewish Americans for the violence and hate they face is wrong and gives an excuse to those who commit anti-Jewish hate crimes.
“Hasan Piker has been trafficking in antisemitic tropes for a while but even this is a new low Blaming Jewish Americans for the violence and hate they’re facing is not just wrong, it provides an excuse to those perpetuating these anti-Jewish hate crimes. Let me be absolutely clear: crimes against Jews for being Jews is antisemitism plain and simple. There’s no excuse for it.”
Fox News Digital report on responses from Sens. Elissa Slotkin and Jacky Rosen to Hasan Piker's remarks about American Jews and Israel. It quotes Rosen's post on X.
Archived copy (opens in a new tab)Why we used this label
The case asks how people responded to Piker's August 20 remarks about American Jews and Israel, including whether they read them as a warning or as an implicit threat. Rosen called the remarks a new low and said that blaming Jewish Americans for the violence and hate they face is wrong and gives an excuse to those who commit anti-Jewish hate crimes. That rejects the remarks directly, so we labeled it Condemned.