{"id":2486508,"date":"2025-09-15T07:58:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T11:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyt-allows-anti-semitic-streamer-whos-called-for-violence-to-write-op-ed-about-charlie-kirks-killing\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T07:58:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T11:58:47","slug":"nyt-allows-anti-semitic-streamer-whos-called-for-violence-to-write-op-ed-about-charlie-kirks-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyt-allows-anti-semitic-streamer-whos-called-for-violence-to-write-op-ed-about-charlie-kirks-killing\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT Allows Anti-Semitic Streamer Who&#8217;s Called for Violence to Write Op-Ed About Charlie Kirk&#8217;s Killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnyt-allows-anti-semitic-streamer-whos-called-for-violence-to-write-op-ed-about-charlie-kirks-killing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2486508&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Teh article criticizes The new York Times for its handling of political violence and commentary following the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. It contrasts the Times&#8217; past reaction to a controversial op-ed by GOP Senator Tom Cotton, which led to significant backlash and the resignation of an editor, with its decision to provide a platform to Hasan Piker, a leftist Twitch streamer known for his extremist and anti-Semitic views. After Kirk was fatally shot at Utah Valley University,the Times published an opinion piece and an interview by Piker,who framed the violence as a symptom of broader systemic issues in America,such as gun laws,economic inequality,and cultural desensitization to violence,while downplaying the political motivations behind the assassination.<\/p>\n<p>The article accuses Piker of promoting violent rhetoric, hatred toward Israel and zionists, and excusing aggressive actions by extremist groups, contrasting him sharply with Charlie Kirk, who advocated for nonviolent political discourse and support for Israel.The author condemns the Times for portraying Piker as a victim and a voice of reason after the tragedy, arguing that Kirk is the true victim and that giving piker a platform is dangerous and hypocritical, especially given his history of endorsing violence and hateful speech.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_3)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Remember when The New York Times got so angry over a guest opinion piece by GOP Sen. Tom Cotton back in the summer of George Floyd that they chased an editor out the door as retribution for it? Those were the days.<\/p>\n<p>Cotton, if you&rsquo;ll recall, had committed the grave thoughtcrime of suggesting that maybe &mdash; just&nbsp;<em>maybe<\/em> &mdash; the chaos in America&rsquo;s streets called for military intervention. This occasioned cries of racism and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/attempt-bash-sen-cotton-op-ed-1619-project-creator-accidentally-blasts-instead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resignation of James Bennet, the editorial page editor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But when Charlie Kirk was assassinated five years later, the Times brought in one of the most notorious online leftist anti-Semites to bray about the nature of political violence (spoiler alert: it doesn&rsquo;t come from the left or from him, even though the alleged assassin was apparently a leftist and has called for violence on numerous occasions) and lecture us all about why the Turning Point USA founder was <em>really<\/em> killed.<\/p>\n<p>Kirk was shot and killed at age 31 at an event at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/leftists-celebrated-charlie-kirk-assassination-fired-rapid-rate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Utah Valley University<\/a> on Wednesday. He leaves behind a wife and two children.<\/p>\n<p>Of all the people to&nbsp;<em>not<\/em> give a platform to in the wake of Kirk&rsquo;s death, it&rsquo;d be difficult to think of someone more odious than Hasan Piker. Piker is an incredibly popular Twitch streamer, who also happens to be a terror apologist and polybigot who believes Zionists are the new neo-Nazis.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=src; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.async=true; \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.body.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer=new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries)=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadScript(\"https:\/\/embed.sendtonews.com\/player3\/embedcode.js?fk=s28Az7AY\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #stnvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#stnvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>The fact that Twitch platforms him is problem enough in its own right, but that&rsquo;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney ...eral Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platform<\/a> which focuses on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fncs-hilton-biden-presidency-dead-this-is-an-ex-presidency\/\" title=\"FNC&#039;s Hilton: Biden Presidency &#039;Dead&#039; -- &#039;This Is an Ex-Presidency&#039;\">video game streamers<\/a>. The Times &mdash; which, despite its credibility crises in the 21st century, is still one of America&rsquo;s two or three newspapers of record &mdash; is another matter entirely. And yet, this isn&rsquo;t the first time they&rsquo;ve given Piker a relatively uncritical platform to spread his rhetoric; in April, they ran a fawning piece in which they talked about how he was &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/27\/style\/hasan-piker-twitch-youtube.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Progressive Mind in a Body Made for the &lsquo;Manosphere.&rsquo;<\/a>&ldquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Times managed to not just sneak under expectations but dig a trench in the ground and burrow miles beneath them: Not only did they allow Piker a platform to discuss his opinion of Kirk&rsquo;s death, they also published an interview with Piker in which he fretted for his own safety.<\/p>\n<p>Piker&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/13\/opinion\/charlie-kirk-debate-violence.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opinion essay<\/a> was titled &ldquo;I Was Supposed to Debate Charlie Kirk. Here&rsquo;s What I Would Have Said.&rdquo; Another spoiler alert for you: Not &ldquo;I&rsquo;m sorry, this shouldn&rsquo;t have happened to you,&rdquo; or &ldquo;it&rsquo;s time for the left to ratchet down the rhetoric.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Selections from the piece:<\/p>\n<p><em>  The United States has both very loose gun laws and more violent gun deaths per capita than any other developed nation in the world. And while shootings occur most anywhere, campuses can be especially deadly. As news broke that Mr. Kirk was shot at Utah Valley University, there was a near-simultaneous tragedy at a high school in small-town Colorado, where a 16-year-old shot two fellow students. There have been 47 school shootings this year.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Though it may ultimately prove correct to classify Mr. Kirk&rsquo;s death as a tectonic political murder, the shooting was not itself uncommon or extraordinary. The victim was. &hellip;&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The social challenges include rising rents and homelessness, the destruction caused by climate change, titanic levels of inequality, and too many others to name here. Our capitalist way of life &mdash; always accumulating, never evening out &mdash; leaves more and more people to deal with these problems on their own.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This produces feelings of isolation and resentment as material conditions worsen. And considering that our society is swamped by and yet somehow stitched together by a 24\/7 news cycle that too often feeds this resentment, it is little wonder that a country of stressed-out gun owners would have so many grim, needless gun deaths.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This connects to my final idea.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Americans inhabit a culture of violence to which we have become habitually desensitized. There&rsquo;s a connection between our culture of violence and American foreign policy. Over time, our culture of violence has targeted people around the world &mdash; anywhere from Cuba to Iraq &mdash; people who serve as literal targets for American weapons and bombs, absorbing what I think of as Americans&rsquo; excess capacity for violence.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So, in other words: It was the guns, and also America, because we&rsquo;re awful. But Cuba and Iraq,&nbsp;<em>inter alia<\/em> &mdash; those are the&nbsp;<em>real<\/em> victims. They published this, too. This was a real thing, pushed by the Times just three days <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/jasmine-crockett-doubles-hitler-rhetoric-wake-charlie-kirk-assassination\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">after Kirk&rsquo;s assassination<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It somehow gets worse: Joseph Bernstein of the Times also conducted an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/12\/style\/hasan-piker-charlie-kirk.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a> with Piker about Kirk where the streamer &ldquo;talked about what Mr. Kirk&rsquo;s death means for the kind of <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >attention-grabbing media activism<\/a> the two men have helped define.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>This anti-adversarial interview went about as you might expect. Again, excerpts:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Do you think what happened will change the way that political influencers relate to their audience and put themselves out there in crowds?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>PIKER<\/strong> I have been the recipient of millions of death threats over the course of the past decade of my professional media broadcasting career. And it&rsquo;s always in the back of your mind when you&rsquo;re doing this sort of stuff, but it&rsquo;s something that I&rsquo;ve been able to compartmentalize. So it&rsquo;s probably what I&rsquo;m going to continue doing as well, because I can&rsquo;t let fear dictate my life. &hellip;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>It makes me wonder if there&rsquo;s some kind of free-floating anger or sense of meaninglessness or helplessness among young men. I wonder whether that&rsquo;s something you see.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>PIKER<\/strong> Yes and no. I try to redirect people&rsquo;s anger and resentment to systemic problems because I&rsquo;m a leftist, I&rsquo;m a Marxist, I&rsquo;m a socialist, and therefore, I believe that everything still comes back to material conditions. And that&rsquo;s what people&rsquo;s anger and resentment are born out of: deteriorating material conditions and hopelessness that is instilled upon them because they don&rsquo;t see a hopeful future.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Charlie Kirk got killed; Hasan Piker is the victim. Charlie Kirk thrived off of meaninglessness; Hasan Piker&rsquo;s Marxism &ldquo;redirects&rdquo; it.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone familiar with Piker probably shouldn&rsquo;t be stunned at this kind of thing:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>WARNING: The following videos contain vulgar language that some viewers will find offensive.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Dear Mr <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk?\">@elonmusk<\/a> sir.<\/p>\n<p>Hasan Piker called for the death of:<br \/> &ndash; Senator Tom Cotton (a on X)<br \/> &ndash; Senator Rick Scott<br \/> &ndash; Landlords<br \/> &ndash; &ldquo;fascists&rdquo; (he&rsquo;s made 5+ videos on youtube calling you a nazi btw)<br \/> &ndash; Zionists (he means Jews)<br \/> &ndash; said &ldquo;someone&rsquo;s gotta do it&rdquo; regarding Trump<br \/> -&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v2wyeWtkPa\">https:\/\/t.co\/v2wyeWtkPa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nux (@Nux_Taku) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nux_Taku\/status\/1967333480288686425?\">September 14, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is who just wrote a piece in the NYT on political violence <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QaktdeNH0g\">pic.twitter.com\/QaktdeNH0g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EndWokeness\/status\/1967309589499789452?\">September 14, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The man who talks about shanking your opponents on stage and disembowling them or letting the streets run red with the blood of capitalists is apparently the ideal Gen Z-adjacent streamer to talk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/josh-hammer-martyrdom-friend-charlie-kirk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">about Charlie Kirk&rsquo;s assassination<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And it&rsquo;s not just this, mind you. Here are a few of the incidents cited back in April by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/the-handsome-face-of-terror-apologia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Free Press<\/a> after the Times ran its first ingratiating piece of drivel about him:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2023, Piker played a Hamas propaganda video, with a title card which read, &ldquo;We will continue Killing your Soldiers by our locally manufactured Snipers.&rdquo; Piker&rsquo;s comment: &ldquo;Wow, there&rsquo;s a little message for the Americans out there, as well!&rdquo;<\/li>\n<li>Piker interviewed a Houthi rebel named Rashid Al-Haddad who took a commercial ship hostage in the Red Sea in 2024; he said that Al-Haddad had &ldquo;withstood genocide&rdquo; and that speaking to him was akin to&rdquo;talking to f***ing Anne Frank, basically.&rdquo;<\/li>\n<li>Piker has called Jews &ldquo;inbred, said that &ldquo;in a totally just world, regardless of your background, any kind of f***ing Zionist tendency should be treated in the same way as being a f***ing rabid neo-Nazi,&rdquo; and that &ldquo;[i]t doesn&rsquo;t matter if rapes happened [to Israelis] on Oct. 7th.&rdquo;<\/li>\n<li>On sharing a propaganda video by the Houthi rebels in which they promised to &ldquo;defeat the masses of infidels&rdquo; and waved banners with the motto of the movement &mdash; &ldquo;God is Great. Death to America! Death to Israel! Damn the Jews! Victory to Islam!&rdquo; &mdash; Piker said that, &ldquo;When the beat drops, it&rsquo;s like jihad drops in your heart.&rdquo;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Charlie Kirk is the one who called for nonviolent political discussion. Hasan Piker called for the streets to run red with the blood of his enemies. Charlie Kirk stood up for Israel. Hasan Piker hates both Israel and its inhabitants &mdash; and I mean that to the fullest extent that the word &ldquo;hate&rdquo; intimates, because it&rsquo;s clear that&rsquo;s how he feels.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Kirk is dead. Hasan Piker is not.<\/p>\n<p>And yet: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ny-times-ny-yankees-go-head-head-charlie-kirks-assassination-yankees-win\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlie Kirk is not a victim to the New York Times<\/a>; Hasan Piker is allowed to portray himself as one. Charlie Kirk was the <em>real<\/em> answer to alienation and violent tendencies among Gen Z; Piker is part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-utah-gov-reads-twisted-messages-engraved-bullet-casings-used-charlie-kirks-killer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">problematic anger and violent rhetoric that claimed Kirk&rsquo;s life<\/a>, yet is allowed to cosplay as the solution by the nation&rsquo;s most prominent paper. But nobody will get fired for this tonal faux pas, I&rsquo;m almost certain. Give Tom Cotton a platform on sane solutions to violent problems, meanwhile, and it&rsquo;s a different story entirely. 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Those were notable times. Cotton had suggested, controversially, that military intervention might be necessary to address the unrest in American cities. This led to accusations of racism and the resignation of James Bennet, then editorial page editor.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward five years: after Charlie Kirk was assassinated, The Times gave a platform to Hasan Piker-a well-known left-wing online figure with a history of anti-Semitic remarks-to comment on political violence. Despite evidence suggesting Kirk&#8217;s killer was left-leaning and had previously advocated violence, Piker denied that political violence comes from the left and used Kirk&#8217;s death as an opportunity to push his own narrative.<\/p>\n<p>Kirk was shot at Utah Valley University at age 31, leaving behind a wife and two children. Many would argue there are few worse choices than giving someone like Piker-who has been described as an extremist with hateful views-a voice in this context. While Twitch hosts him mainly for gaming streams, The New York Times is one of America&#8217;s leading newspapers; yet it has repeatedly given Piker uncritical coverage.<\/p>\n<p>In April, they published a flattering profile calling him &#8220;A Progressive Mind in a Body Made for the &#8216;Manosphere.'&#8221; After Kirk&#8217;s death, they ran an opinion piece by Piker titled &#8220;I Was Supposed to Debate Charlie Kirk. Here&#8217;s What I Would Have Said,&#8221; which did not express sympathy or call for reduced rhetoric but instead blamed America&#8217;s gun culture and systemic issues like inequality and climate change for such tragedies.<\/p>\n<p>Piker also linked American cultural violence with foreign policy aggression abroad-claiming countries targeted by U.S. military actions absorb Americans&#8217; &#8220;excess capacity for violence.&#8221; This piece appeared just three days after Kirk&#8217;s assassination.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, The Times interviewed Piker about what Kirk&#8217;s death means for political influencers; rather than challenging him aggressively, they allowed him to portray himself as a victim despite his history of inflammatory statements-including calls for harm against various public figures and groups-and spreading conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n<p>Piker has openly expressed hatred toward Israel and Jews while praising violent groups hostile toward America and Israel. In contrast, Charlie Kirk advocated nonviolent political discourse and supported Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this stark contrast-Kirk dead; Piker alive-the New York Times treats them very differently: portraying Piker as victimized while ignoring or dismissing those who supported or aligned with Kirk. This double standard is disturbing but unsurprising given past editorial decisions: giving Tom Cotton space on solutions is controversial; platforming someone like Hasan Piker is accepted without consequence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>If you want me to condense it further or focus on specific parts just let me know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2486509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/default_wj.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[5212,44291,32558,15823],"class_list":["post-2486508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-anti-semitism","tag-charlie-kirk","tag-hate-speech","tag-nyt"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/default_wj.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2486508"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2486512,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486508\/revisions\/2486512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2486509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2486508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2486508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2486508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}