Steelman · slot A
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.