However, violence is a big part of revolutionary movements, and Piker has shrugged off violence, especially against Israelis and Americans. He begins talking about "redirecting" the violence, then stops to say that he knows talking about violence can be a "scary concept" before stopping himself and saying that he's talking about violence in an "academic sense." "When I'm talking about violence, I want to make it very clear, I'm not talking like 'Go out, take up arms, and start shooting people,' right? I'm talking about the structural violence of poverty, and redirecting that in the same way — the structural violence of equity." Piker: ""First of all, I abhor violence — I’m talking about the structural violence of poverty."