ADL's Greenblatt Blasts DSA Over Hasan Piker Election Livestream Pick

On the night Democrats won major gains in the House and Senate, the Democratic Socialists of America put Hasan Piker, a Twitch streamer, in charge of its official election night livestream. Within hours, Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, had answered with a post on X.

"Of all the people the DSA could have chosen to host its official election night livestream, it chose Hasan Piker," Greenblatt wrote, describing him as someone who proudly expresses support for terrorist organizations and traffics in antisemitism. He added that the DSA was not distancing itself from that kind of rhetoric but elevating it. His post linked to an ADL article cataloguing statements by Piker that the organization criticized, including comments it said alluded to classic antisemitic tropes and conspiracy theories.

The article includes some of Piker's best-known remarks. He once referred to Orthodox Jews as "inbred," and he has described Zionism as an "exterminationist ideology built around ethnoreligious supremacist values."

Piker's reply was profane and personal. He wrote that Greenblatt's "best friend Elon" had burned 450 million dollars to lose races across the country that night, and he closed with an insult aimed at Greenblatt. The ADL did not immediately respond to that remark.

The stream itself ran more than 13 hours as votes were counted. Piker called the outcome a "blue-clear apocalypse" and told his audience, "Trumpism is dying, and I could not feel any better." He said it was perhaps the worst possible scenario for the Republican Party, arguing that its agenda, its corruption, its destabilizing effects and what he called endless warfare were finally coming back to bite it.

Several DSA-endorsed or DSA-supported candidates won on Tuesday: Chris Rabb in Pennsylvania, Melat Kiros in Colorado, Donavan McKinney in Michigan, and Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier, both in New York.

Before the election, Piker had drawn attention in political circles by interviewing and even campaigning with DSA-backed and DSA-aligned candidates. He rose to national prominence after campaigning with Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, now Senator-elect. El-Sayed's race was not explicitly DSA-backed, though the organization said he supports DSA priorities such as Medicare-for-all.

That appearance drew criticism, and El-Sayed appeared to put distance between himself and Piker, holding no more campaign events with him toward the end of the cycle. The shift followed an August Twitch stream in which critics said Piker suggested that Jewish Americans' support for Israel could invite violence against them. In that stream he said people no longer mess with Israel, and that if Jews in America keep presenting themselves as singularly invested in Israel, someone will eventually act not against Israel but against American Jews.

El-Sayed did not outright condemn the comments but responded, saying all Americans deserve the right to advocate for their beliefs without fear of violence, particularly communities intimidated in the past. He said his commitment to Jewish safety is the same as his commitment to the safety of his own daughters, called antisemitism a scourge, and said he stands against any rhetoric that puts the community at risk.

Fox News Digital asked the DSA for comment and had not received a response. Whether the group answers Greenblatt, and whether other DSA-aligned figures keep working with Piker, remain open questions.