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We'll re-present the same story as a thoughtful proponent of the combating online antisemitism would. Not to convince you. To let you actually meet the argument.

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The mainstreaming case
A bipartisan legislator focused on antisemitism would argue —
Hasan Piker has millions of young viewers and has openly defended Hamas, a designated terrorist organization that murdered Jews on October 7. Candace Owens reaches a comparable audience pushing Holocaust revisionism and the ancient blood libel that Jewish texts teach hatred of gentiles. When two of the largest political broadcasters in America — one left, one right — are laundering these specific ideas to tens of millions of people, and Jewish Americans are being assaulted at synagogues and on campuses at record rates, silence from Congress is itself a statement. A non-binding resolution doesn't censor anyone; it puts the legislature on record that this rhetoric is connected to real-world violence. Naming it across the aisle, left and right, is precisely how you avoid the partisan trap.

If this read like a fair rendering of the argument — even when you disagree — it's doing its job. Steelmen aren't aimed at persuading you; they're aimed at what the other side actually believes when they're thinking clearly.