It sounded better in the original German
“If Jews in America keep putting this idea out there that they are singularly invested in Israel,eventually someone’s going to come around and take action, not against the State of Israel,mind you, but against American Jews,” Piker said.
He also said that Jews were feeding into the antisemitic tropes of dual loyalty and that Israel was fomenting Islamophobia.
“You’re running around basically tying your entire identity to a country that inevitably will be seen as, basically, Jewish ISIS, and you’re saying, as Jews, ‘This is all we care about.’ You’re making antisemitism worse,” he said.
When I read this, it immediately struck a chord of memory. What did it remind me of? This:
"Today I will once more be a prophet: If the international Jewish financiers in and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, then the result will not be the Bolshevization of the earth, and thus the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!"
Most Americans are ahistorical morons who couldn't remember the disaster of Donald Trump's first regime. So it's no surprise most wouldn't recognize this quote. Adolf Hitler delivered to the German Reichstag on January 30, 1939.
The similarities between Hitlerian and Pikerian rhetoric are truly gobsmacking. Both posit Jews as the source of all evil in the world. Both blame Jews for their own suffering and oppression. Both absolve themselves of any responsibility for the actions they take, as anything they say or do is forced upon them by perfidious Jewry.
I, quite frankly, am tired of hearing about Islamophobia. The drumbeat of this has been sounding loudly since the pushback against Hasan Piker and his Manchurian candidate, Abdul el-Sayed has gained momentum. It's classic DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender): Piker makes statements which would get him arrested in many countries in Europe; he receives pushback; and then he paints himself, poor innocent and affronted Muslim, as the real victim. I'm (not) sorry: accusing Jews of dual loyalty, when Muslim voters all over this country voted based on Gaza is DARVO in full effect. And explain to me how two billion Muslims who rule in fifty-plus nations are "oppressed", compared to fifteen million Jews who have one small state, which has a large Arab minority which has full legal and political rights? I don't see Israel's Arabs yearning to be governed by Mahmoud Abbas. No, Israel is far from perfect, and prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu has made a devil's pact with the likes of vile racist and fascist Itamar Ben-Gvir. But even with all that, life in Israel is better for its Arab population than life in any majority-Muslim state. (Remember what happened to Palestinians in the Gulf States when PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat chose to side with deceased Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in 1991. They quickly learned how expendable they were to their "Arab brothers", as they were expelled.) If Jews have "dual loyalty", the same can be said of American Arabs.
Piker is nothing but a vile and disgusting Jew-baiter, who should have absolutely no influence in Democratic politics, or in a democracy. He is the Internet Age's Father Coughlin, spewing hatred against fifteen million souls from his multimillion dollar mansion in Los Angeles. I don't see him flying to Gaza to fight the Zionist entity. That would be too dangerous. People like him and the executed Julius Streicher of Der Sturmer fame are disgusting humans who incite hatred but never get their own hands dirty. And yet, a large segment of the world Left hangs onto his every word. He shapes their worldview, blaming the Eternal Jew for all their troubles. And people like el-Sayed throw away a chance at winnable seats to cleave to his bosom. His hatred is their hatred.
Perhaps it's time for American Arabs and Muslims to cast off their dual loyalty. American Jews are highly critical of the Netanyahu regime; I see no analogous condemnation of any Arab or Muslim dictatorship from America's Muslims. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. When will American Muslims call out the hatred in their culture? I wait with bated breath.