NYGOP Chair Ed Cox has issued a statement criticizing the New Yorker Festival for inviting Hasan Piker as a speaker. Cox described Piker as someone who has shown support for the 9/11 attacks, engaged in anti-Semitic rhetoric, and advocated violence against Republicans.
“As we approach the 24th anniversary of 9/11, a supposedly mainstream gathering of left-wing New Yorkers has invited a speaker who openly expressed his support of the attacks, in addition to calling for violence against Republican officials and numerous instances of overt anti-Semitism,” Cox stated.
Cox linked this decision to broader concerns within the Democratic Party, saying, “This takes place against the backdrop of a Democratic Party that has nominated a defund-the-police, globalize-the-intifada Communist as their candidate for Mayor.”
He also called on New York Governor Kathy Hochul and Representative Hakeem Jeffries to make clear statements rejecting both Hasan Piker and Zohran Mamdani. “Kathy Hochul and Hakeem Jeffries have spent months hemming and hawing about whether to endorse Mamdani. Their silence is pathetic cowardice. They must immediately and unequivocally repudiate both Hasan Piker and Zohran Mamdani: anything less is complicity in these radicals’ war on Western Civilization,” Cox said.
