Tom Tiffany criticizes Francesca Hong for appearing with Hasan Piker, but the Republican appeared on a podcast with a host who made antisemitic remarks

In recent weeks, Republican candidate for governor Tom Tiffany criticized Democratic candidate Francesca Hong for appearing on a podcast with Hasan Piker, who Tiffany called “one of the leading antisemites in the country.” However, Tiffany appeared on a podcast late last year with a host that has publicly defended Adolf Hitler and used antisemitic tropes.

Hong appeared on Piker’s show in late June and in the weeks since Tiffany has been critical.

“Remember what (Hong) said the day after we had all these socialists win recent elections?,” Tiffany recalled on “The Jay Weber Show” on July 10. “Wisconsin, you’re next.

“And you’re going to hang around with an anti-Semite (Piker)? That’s what you’re going to have as governor. People really need to wake up to what she is selling. And as you said, even if it isn’t her as the nominee, that’s the agenda that’s coming for Wisconsin. If the Democrats win this governorship.”

The New Republic reported in April that Piker has a long record of condemning antisemitism, rejecting antisemitic tropes, and calling out antisemitism among his followers. 

“There’s nothing grosser than both being antisemitic and then using the cause of Palestine to feed people more antisemitic commentary,” Piker has said. 

In December, Tiffany appeared on “The Quartering” podcast with Jeremy Hambly, who has said Hitler had “actually done some good things,” defended a “Camp Auschwitz” T-shirt as “dark humor,” and has repeatedly made antisemitic remarks. 

On a day of streaming in May 2022, a guest on Hambly’s program said people try to “twist” what Hambly says, to which Hambly responded, “Yeah, happens all the time. And there we have it. Hitler is bad, I said. And ‘there we have it’ has somehow morphed into me defending Hitler? And I’ve lost. I’ve lost that narrative, like I lose that’s that is now the truth. That I was literally defending Hitler.”

The guest responded, “You defended Hitler? That’s disgusting.”

“I know. I’m deeply ashamed,” Hambly said sarcastically. “I definitely wasn’t making fun of yet another hollow Hollywood virtue signal that said Hitler man, bad. Yeah, I was actually defending him. He’s actually done some good things. You know. Did you know he was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize?”

Later in the episode, Hambly and guests joke about Hitler being good for the economy. 

“Do you know much the Hall of Cost,” one guest asks in between laughter.

“Around 6 million bucks,” Hambly responds. 

A guest then responded, “And the trains, the trains were always on time.”

The group then makes more jokes about finances, to which a guest replies, “that’s just as scary for a Jew.” 

According to TheQuartering’s Twitter via Archive.org, “aaaaand there we have it… YIKES…” the account said in response to a reply that stated, “Fuck Hitler.” TheQuartering tweeted, “He was nominated for a noble peace prize. What the fuck have you ever done?” in response to a tweet that stated, “you unironically leap to defend Hitler you have no right to be YIKES’ing anybody”

The same day, Hambly encouraged someone tweeting at him to get out in the “real world” and “then oven.” 

He defended the remark on his program, “Somebody here makes a tongue in cheek joke about an oven. Again. This is my personal account, and I’m and I’m bantering with a friend, no harassment.”

When people called out Hambly for his remarks, he tends to double down and according to one Jewish news outlet he is using antisemitic tropes. 

“I was always afraid to speak up, but no longer. It is like literally the definition of crying out in pain as you strike me,” Hambly said. “You’re seeking a hate mob on me. You know, that’s what you’re doing. And you’re trying to play the victim while doing it.”

According to a Zac Schildcrout column from the Jewish News Syndicate, “The phrase, ‘The Jew cries out in pain as he strikes you,’ is popular within anti-Semitic circles.”

Hambly also linked Jewish identity and wealth to claims about Jewish “propaganda” pushing an ideology. 

“(Steven) Roth is Jewish? Why is that important? He’s married to a Broadway producer, also Jewish,” Hambly said. “So you’re saying two Jewish billionaires had a son who is in theater and produces propaganda films to push an ideology. I mean, I don’t know. I don’t know what that means. I’m just reporting the facts here. I don’t know, but it’s pretty clear to me where Jordan Roth gets his funding to own entire theater group as well as put out highly produced propaganda films. Nonetheless, I’m happy you exist Jordan Roth, and I really look forward to your next episode.”

In 2023, Hambly’s TheQuartering was sponsored by Antelope Hill Publishing, a white nationalist publisher that celebrated Hitler’s birthday with annual discounts on books written by and about Hitler. 

That same year, Hambly’s Twitter account posted a homophobic, racist and anitsemitic cartoon with antisemitic slurs before editing it. “I had to do a small edit i didn’t see the jew shit,” he tweeted. 

According to a Substack article on Hambly, he uses alias accounts that have since been discovered and contain antisemitic language and memes.  

Hambly’s Twitter account also weighed in following the Jan. 6, 2021 riot in the U.S. Capitol. 

“HEAVENS TO BETSY!!!! A JOKE!!!!,” the account posted while quote-tweeting a reporter, who wrote, “The bearded man on the left is wearing a shirt that says ‘Camp Auschwitz’ over the image of a human skull.” TheQuartering tweeted, “Dark humor is like food. Not everyone gets it,” in response to a reply that stated, “And the punchline to that joke being dead Jews. Hilarious stuff.”

Hambly said during the episode with Tiffany that he wanted to find out how to knock doors for Tiffany in Wisconsin, to which Tiffany encouraged him to sign up on his website. The episode also featured Kyle Rittenhouse, who tweeted in January that he was considering traveling to Minnesota after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot and killed a U.S. citizen.

Tiffany, Hong and Hambly did not immediately respond to a request for comment.