When Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed announced that Hasan Piker would join him at campaign rallies this spring, the Democratic establishment reacted as if someone had lit a cigarette inside a Whole Foods.

Rep. Brad Schneider of Illinois, who chairs the moderate New Democratic Coalition and cochairs the Congressional Jewish Caucus, called Piker “an unapologetic antisemite.” Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan and Senate candidate Rep. Haley Stevens piled on with their own condemnations. Meanwhile, Mallory McMorrow, El-Sayed’s Democratic primary opponent, compared Piker to Nick Fuentes, the far-right influencer and leader of the so-called “groyper” movement. “[Piker] is a provocateur, to put it lightly, who says things that are misogynistic and antisemitic,” said McMorrow. Senators Cory Booker and Ruben Gallego both told Politico they wouldn’t go on Piker’s stream.

Third Way, the milquetoast centrist think tank where left-wing energy goes to be euthanized, published a Wall Street Journal op-ed demanding that no Democrat engage with Piker, calling him a bigot whose association is “morally repugnant and strategically self-defeating.” On Wednesday, they sent El-Sayed a letter saying he owed it to Michigan voters to distance himself from Piker’s “hateful views.” You will not be shocked to learn that Piker’s “antisemitism” boils down to criticism of Israel; unlike Fuentes, Piker never hints at any dislike of Jewish people, only a hard-line distaste for the state of Israel and its partner in crime, America.