Hasan Piker

And you're doing that while you're associating with Judaism.

The way I explain it, I delivered a speech at the Oxford Union a year and a half ago at this point.

And the way I explained it to people, and at the time, the change in attitude in the Western world was not so calcified, right?

But my positions were obviously the same.

And I explained to people, look, what a lot of people don't understand with this dangerous conflation, I will give you a warning as a Muslim American who has lived in the United States of America since 2009 and has experienced Islamophobia.

A lot of people think that Israel is still an acceptable country.

It's no longer an acceptable country.

It will become a pariah state if it hasn't already.

It has always been a pariah state for the third world, but now in the first world, in the developed nations, people are beginning to recognize Israel as a pariah state.

The previous ways of defending Israel by saying it's the most moral nation on earth, it's the only democracy in the region, no matter how racialized those tropes were and how silly they were, it worked because most people were oblivious to what Israel does.

Now they know.

So this would be equivalent to me running around and saying, you can't criticize Saudi Arabia because the Mecca is there.

Medina is there.

The Kaaba is in Saudi Arabia.

You cannot criticize Saudi Arabia's blockade against Yemen, for example, because you're Islamophobic.

This would be the equivalent of me running around as a Muslim saying, I'm a Muslim.

And our institutions, our mosques are fundraising for ISIS.

And if you criticize ISIS, if you dare say anything about the Islamic State that are trying to implement a caliphate, that's true Islam.

You're Islamophobic.

And then the media was also defending that position.