Adam Hamawy won the Democratic primary in New Jersey for the 12th Congressional district. He is a Muslim, and he hates Israel almost as much as Zohran Mamdani does. He also finds the virulently antisemitic Hasan Piker much to his liking. More on Adam Hamawy can be found here: “Democratic Congressional Nominee Adam Hamawy Says Comments Defending 9/11 Should Be Viewed ‘In Perspective,’” by Corey Walker, Algemeiner, July 30, 2026:
New Jersey Democratic congressional nominee Adam Hamawy is facing renewed criticism after brushing aside far-left streamer Hasan Piker’s infamous declaration that “America deserved 9/11.”
During an interview with comedian and political commentator Walter Masterson, Hamawy argued that Piker’s comments about the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks should be viewed “in perspective” and suggested the streamer regretted making them.
“I think we have to put it all in perspective. And I do believe he regrets saying that,” Hamawy said. “I still love the guy though.”
Try as I might, I don’t see what “perspective” would make the statement that “America deserved 9/11” acceptable.
Piker made the remark during a 2019 livestream about US foreign policy. He later called the wording “inappropriate,” although he has continued to argue that American conduct abroad helped create the conditions that produced the attacks.
In other words, Piker wanted to distance himself from his monstrous statement, but not completely. He didn’t find his original words “monstrous” or “intolerable,” but merely “inappropriate.” He did not apologize for saying “America deserved 9/11.” In characterizing his own phrase only as “inappropriate,” Hasan Piker was wildly… “inappropriate.”
Hamawy’s attempt to wave away the controversy is likely to deepen scrutiny of the Democratic nominee, who has already drawn criticism for opposing US military assistance to Israel and embracing some of the party’s most outspoken anti-Israel figures.
Piker has a long record of inflammatory rhetoric concerning Israel, Jews, and terrorism. He has expressed support for Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis; cast doubt on documented evidence of sexual violence during Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre; compared Zionism to Nazism; and referred to Orthodox Jews as “inbred,” a remark for which he later expressed regret.
Hasan Piker is the man who has been a stout supporter of the terrorist groups Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis, the man who said “America deserved 9/11,” the man about whom Adam Hamawy has insisted that despite everything,“I still love the guy, though.”
Hamawy appeared on Piker’s livestream during the Democratic primary campaign, where he advocated ending US military assistance to Israel and accused the Democratic Party of being beholden to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
The Democratic Party, contrary to the latest anti-Israel canard, is not “beholden” to AIPAC. AIPAC is not some all -powerful manipulating monster; it does nothing more than raise money for candidates it thinks support Israel. Some of those AIPAC-supported candidates lose. Some of them, despite AIPAC’s support, end up abandoning their previous support for Israel. AIPAC does exactly what thousands of other groups raising money to support political candidates who share their views do. Only AIPAC has been held up as a uniquely dangerous organization, and this, I regret to say, is because it supports the Jewish state, and right now, anything “Jewish” is cause for alarm. No such alarm, it seems, extends to the fundraising efforts of American Priorities, a group of well-off Muslims who raise and donate money to candidates who support Muslim causes, especially “the cause of Palestine.”
On his campaign website, Hamawy highlights his service as a volunteer surgeon in Gaza and describes Israel’s military campaign against Hamas as a “genocide” financed by American taxpayers.
“In 2024 and 2025, I went on medical missions to Gaza. While bombs were falling, I treated patients,” the website says. “What I witnessed was a genocide, paid for with American tax dollars and propped up by our foreign policy.”…
Hamawy’s charge of a “genocide” that the IDF has perpetrated in Gaza is false. “Genocide” requires “intent.” The IDF makes tremendous efforts not to kill civilians. It does this by dropping milliions of leaflets, sending millions of text messages, and making millions of robocalls, warning civilians away from sites about to be targeted. Its pilots call off their missions if they detect the presence of too many civilians near the target. Hamawy was in Gaza, so he knows all about those Israeli efforts, just as he knows that Hamas embeds itself within the civilian population in the Strip, hoping thereby to increase the number of civilians that the IDF has killed and wounded.
Cynthia says
Like minded Muslim candidates have popped up all over the US. They, together with the millions spent by Islamic countries to brainwash university students, along with the foreign backed loops of hatred on Social Media have poisoned US useful idiots. They espouse every ideology that tears our social fabric apart. This illness of anti western causes has become normalized in the Democratic Party now.
They totally understand divide and conquer.
OLD GUY says
Yes Cynthia we are being taken over through the migration invasion of islam and the billions of islamic money flowing through higher education, the media and our political system. We are truly under attack and most have no clue.
David Grisez says
There must be a tremendous amount of ignorance among United States citizens that so many Muslims are now being elected into government offices. No Muslim should ever be elected into any government office in the United States. At the very best these people will have a divided loyalty that is divided between loyalty to the United States and loyalty to the Islamic Ummah and political Islam. For many of these Muslims loyalty to the Islamic Ummah and Political Islam will win out. Also these Muslims are highly anti-semitic with a strong hatred of the Jewish people and the nation of Israel. Also it would not surprise me if leftist Democrat-Socialism is just a step in the process of turning the United States into an Islamic country with Islamic Sharia Law for these Muslims.
Rod says
The IDF makes tremendous efforts not to kill civilians.
It is indeed a wonder that such a statement can appear anywhere in print. We’ve heard about kids queuing for food being killed by snipers. We’ve seen the XRays of Israeli bullets in children’s heads. We’ve read the reports from doctors and surgeons about clusters of children arriving, all with similar bullet wounds, followed on later days by clusters with different wounds. We all know how food and water supplies were restricted, and we’ve seen the shocking films of little kids with their basins and tins, desperate to collect food for their families.
And of course there are the findings of UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Amnesty International, and the International Court of Justice. It’s possible, of course that all these earnest and qualified people are fools or liars, and that none of them have seen the reports that everybody else has seen, but it isn’t very likely, is it?
Gamzu says
“It’s possible, of course that all these earnest and qualified people are fools or liars”
No, it’s not “possible,” it is certain.
Jules says
I’m watching this huge influx of muslims being elected to various offices, and for now it seems very concentrated north of the Mason-Dixon Line. There is no way that many American citizens are voting our enemies into office, and it begs the question of whether these muslims and illegals are claiming multiple residencies across multiple states…and who is moving them around the country? The only way this could be is if they are showing up in swarms to vote our enemies in.