Hasan Piker Compares Jewish Michigan Suburb to “KKK Neighborhood,” Calls Vo

Far-left streamer Hasan Piker is facing bipartisan condemnation after he compared voters in West Bloomfield, Michigan, a Detroit suburb with one of the state’s largest Jewish communities, to the Ku Klux Klan. The remarks came days before Tuesday’s Senate election.

Piker campaigned alongside Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed during the primary. On a Friday livestream, he reacted to footage of El-Sayed canvassers knocking on doors in West Bloomfield. “This is the equivalent of going to that, like, Klan, KKK neighborhood to stump for a Black candidate,” he said. “The supremacist attitude underlying in their worldview is identical.”

He then went further. “If you are pro-Israel to the degree that you are making a big fuss about never voting for Abdul El-Sayed, a Muslim anti-Zionist, yes, it is the equivalent, the racial equivalent,” he said. “It’s racial supremacy. It’s Jewish supremacy.”

Piker also lashed out at a Jewish Democrat from Oakland County who appeared in a news segment saying she would vote for Republican Mike Rogers. “If it’s so dangerous, go live in Israel… You f***ing idiot,” he shouted.

Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), who is Jewish, said the rant “should be condemned loudly,” calling it “anti-semitic, divisive, and deeply offensive.”

El-Sayed also rejected the comparison. “I grew up in the town over from West Bloomfield,” he said. “Comparing Jewish Michiganders to the Ku Klux Klan is utterly inappropriate and flat out wrong.”

State Rep. Noah Arbit, who represents West Bloomfield, called it “insane, unhinged, repugnant and hateful rhetoric” that “threatens every single one of us.” He said this was “exactly why we have asked Abdul El-Sayed time and time again to disavow Hasan Piker.”

The comments land in a community still shaken by the March 12 attack on Temple Israel in West Bloomfield. In that attack, a gunman rammed a vehicle into the synagogue and opened fire on a security guard before killing himself. El-Sayed drew heavy criticism at the time for saying “hurt people hurt people,” a reference to reports that the attacker’s relatives had been killed in an Israeli strike in Lebanon. He apologized in August, telling Jewish Democrats, “I made a mistake.”

Piker’s ties to El-Sayed have dogged the campaign for months. In August, after Piker made separate comments about American Jews and Israel, El-Sayed said that “nobody speaks for this campaign besides me and my campaign spokespeople” and that he had no plans to campaign with Piker in the general election. Rogers has made the relationship a centerpiece of his campaign.