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Progressive Democratic activist David Hogg has called the media and establishment Democrats\u2019 obsession with Hasan Piker \u201cweird\u201d as influential figures ignore \u201cincredibly horrible\u201d remarks and actions by far right figures in order to attack the left-wing streamer.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be honest with you, I find it kind of weird,\u201d Hogg said in an interview Sunday with MeidasTouch<\/em> commentator Jack Cocchiarella. \u201cHe\u2019s a streamer. This guy is not an elected official, and there\u2019s a lot of elected officials out there that are saying incredibly horrible things.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s fascinating that people are so obsessed with a streamer that the median voter knows nothing about,\u201d Hogg went on. \u201cI think it speaks to the fact that a lot of moderates in [the Democratic] Party don\u2019t have an actual vision that they are fighting for other than the center.\u201d<\/p>\n

Piker is a left-wing streamer on Twitch who discusses politics and speaks to political figures. Piker, for his part, has repeatedly said throughout the election cycle that candidates and the media should talk about campaign issues that affect Americans, rather than drumming up round after round of discourse about him and groups like the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).<\/p>\n

Indeed, amid the midterm election season, the corporate media and establishment Democrats have brought up Piker for months as influential figures such as Center for American Progress President Neera Tanden have tried to drum up fear and opposition to the progressive wave of candidates winning their primaries. <\/p>\n

This has involved a full-court press by corporate news outlets, from CNN<\/em> to Fox News<\/em>, and major Democratic figures focused on attacking Piker and the candidates who have gotten his support \u2014 despite major issues like the U.S.\u2019s war on Iran and the Trump administration\u2019s brazen corruption looming over this election cycle. The focus on Piker is seemingly all-encompassing: A recent analysis of archived clips, for instance, found that Fox News<\/em> mentioned Piker\u2019s name hundreds of times this month alone.<\/p>\n

In a clip shared as an attack by Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed\u2019s Republican opponent, Mike Rogers, Piker espoused his belief that the insistence of pro-Israel figures to equate Judaism with support for Israel may actually fuel antisemitism and danger for Jewish people. He said that the \u201cidea that Jews are monolithic\u201d is \u201cdangerous\u201d for the community. This is an opinion shared by many others in the Jewish community including centrist commentators like Ezra Klein.<\/p>\n

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However, Rogers distorted Piker\u2019s words to say that he was calling for violence against Jewish people. \u201cMore calls for violence coming out of the El-Sayed campaign,\u201d Rogers said in a post on X, despite Piker having no role in the El-Sayed campaign other than a couple of appearances at campaign stops.<\/p>\n

Bizarrely, many establishment Democrats, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York), picked up a similar line of attack \u2014 seemingly siding with Rogers over their own party\u2019s candidate.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe malicious claim that American Jews are inviting violence against themselves is dangerous and antisemitic. There is zero justification for threats against the safety of our Jewish brothers and sisters at a moment of rising hate,\u201d said Jeffries in a statement that he later confirmed was about Piker, despite Piker not having called for any form of violence against Jewish people. \u201cWe will fight the cancer of antisemitism with the fierce urgency of now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sen. Elissa Slotkin, Michigan\u2019s other senator, also joined in. \u201cThis shouldn\u2019t be hard: no community should face the threat violence[sic] for their political views,\u201d Slotkin said in a post on X, where many users pointed out that the responses to Piker\u2019s statements did not even match what he said at all.<\/p>\n

Hogg said something similar this week on social media \u2014 pointing out, for instance, that major Trump ally and adviser Laura Loomer\u2019s calls for all Muslims to be deported from the U.S. have been met with silence from the corporate media.<\/p>\n

In a post on X on Monday, Hogg expressed his disbelief that \u201cDSA discourse gets 10 times the coverage that a senior advisor to the President of the United States is getting despite the fact she is doubling down on deporting millions of Americans purely on the basis of their religion.\u201d<\/p>\n

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