A planned event in Minneapolis featuring antisemitic streamer Hasan Piker, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and far-left state Sen. Omar Fateh, set to take place days before the midterm election, is facing growing backlash inside the state.

Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN) condemned the planned event on Saturday and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), the Democratic candidate for governor, also criticized Piker in a statement on Sunday.

On Monday, Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party’s Jewish Caucus and the local Jewish Community Relations Council condemned the event, planned for Oct. 26, and urged Minnesota Democrats to reject it in statements to Jewish Insider. The regional branch of the Anti-Defamation League also criticized Piker.

The DFL Jewish Caucus urged Minnesotans to unite against the event, emphasizing the way that the state had turned out against Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity in the state, which resulted in the deaths of two U.S. citizens.

“[Piker’s] record speaks for itself. He has built an empire on contempt for this country, for anyone who disagrees with him, and for the basic decency that binds a community together,” the caucus said in a statement. “Hasan Piker is not progressive. He is not brave. He is a hate profiteer, selling the very thing Minnesotans rejected just months ago.”

The group said that DFL members cannot welcome hate “under a different banner” and that it is not “acceptable because it claims to be on our side.”

“Our values mean nothing if we only apply them to our opponents. We are grateful for Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Rep. Angie Craig for having the courage to say so,” the caucus continued. “That is why we now call on every DFLer to reject Hasan Piker, plainly and publicly, and to refuse him the stage he seeks. Our victories have never depended on hate. We should be ashamed to court it.”

“Hasan Piker and his brand of hate have no place in the DFL, and no place in Minnesota,” the caucus added.

Just last week, the Jewish caucus had defended Omar after a federal raid of her home.

The JCRC of Minnesota and the Dakotas  said in its statement to JI that it is “appalled by Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and state Sen. Omar Fateh’s decision to share a stage with Hasan Piker,” adding, “[e]levating someone with a longstanding record of antisemitic rhetoric is a betrayal of Jewish Minnesotans.”

The JCRC highlighted Piker’s past rhetoric that “dehumanizes Jews and shifts responsibility for antisemitic violence onto its potential victims” as well as a range of other past offensive statements expressing support for terrorism and racist and homophobic comments.

The JCRC demanded that other Minnesota Democratic leaders speak out.

“The silence from too many other state DFL leaders is deafening. Jewish Minnesotans hear that silence, and it further erodes their trust,” the group said. “We call on Minnesota’s DFL leaders, including candidates and party officials, to publicly repudiate Piker’s antisemitism and reject the decision by Congresswoman Omar and Senator Fateh to provide him this platform. They must confront antisemitism not only when it comes from the other party, but also when it comes from their own. Jewish safety and dignity must never be subordinated to partisan convenience.”

The JCRC praised Craig for her clear condemnation and said that “[h]er willingness to challenge her own party demonstrates the leadership this moment demands,” and “welcome[d]” Klobuchar’s statement to JI.

The group also emphasized that surveys increasingly show that Jewish voters feel that neither party supports their community.

“Congresswoman Omar and [state] Sen. Fateh’s choices deepen an already profound sense of political alienation,” the JCRC continued. “Jewish Americans should never have to choose between political belonging and the expectation that their leaders will stand against antisemitism.”

Rebecca Weininger, the Anti-Defamation League’s Midwest senior director, said, “Hasan Piker has a history of inflammatory rhetoric that sanitizes violence and denigrates Jewish people, including expressing support for designated terrorist organizations and referring to Israelis and Orthodox Jews as ‘inbred,’ a term he justified using to NPR just last week.”