Abdul El-Sayed campaign surrogate Hasan Piker compared pro-Israel voters in a heavily Jewish Michigan suburb to the Ku Klux Klan on Friday, drawing a rebuke from Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI).
Slotkin, who is Jewish, called the remarks “anti-semitic, divisive and deeply offensive” and urged others to condemn them.
During a rambling livestream, Piker, who has said America deserved the September 11 terrorist attacks, launched into a hateful rant while watching a video of Democratic organizers canvassing in West Bloomfield.
“This has got to be the wildest door knocking operation of all time,” Piker said. “Trying to get perhaps the most Zionist district in the country. Well, not the most, but like one of the more Zionist wealthy districts in the country to vote for a Muslim anti-Zionist. Brave soldiers, all of them.”
“Thank God they don’t probably own any guns,” he added.
Piker compared the canvassing effort to a campaign operation in a Ku Klux Klan stronghold.
“I don’t think this is insensitive to say — this is the equivalent of going to that, like KKK neighborhood to stump for a Black candidate who’s running expressly… to abolish anti-miscegenation laws,” Piker said. “The difference, of...