NEW YORK CITY – NYGOP Chair Ed Cox released the following statement in response to the New Yorker Festival’s invitation to Hasan Piker, a radical zealot who has expressed support for the 9/11 attacks, open anti-Semitism and called for 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.

“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. 

“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.”

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