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26-05-2025
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Far-left streamer Hasan Piker suspended from Twitch after broadcasting DC shooting suspect's manifesto
One of Twitch's most popular streamers was suspended from the platform over the weekend for reading the manifesto of the suspect in the killing of two Israeli Embassy staffers last week. Hasan Piker, a streamer with nearly 3 million Twitch followers and 1.6 million YouTube subscribers, is known for broadcasting far-left content under the handle HasanAbi. In a May 23 YouTube video titled "What People Miss About The DC Israeli Embassy Shooting," Piker went through the manifesto of Elias Rodriguez word for word. Rodriguez was charged with two counts of first-degree murder and multiple firearm-related counts after Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim were killed outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night. In the video, Piker expressed a desire to "understand the mindset" of Rodriguez, who shouted "Free, free Palestine!" as he was arrested. "The reason why I read this manifesto … is oftentimes to understand the mindset of this person, especially when there are a lot of mainstream narratives that will immediately design an alternative scenario," Piker said in the video. 'Cheerleading For Terrorism': Twitch Star Called For New 9/11, Dismissed Horror Of Oct 7 Read On The Fox News App "I don't think that this person acted out on an antisemitic desire or is a f---ing Nazi or anything like that, but that is dangerous in a separate way," he continued. "The very fact that a person who is this legible, who has their s--t together enough to be able to write a f---ing, write prose such as this one, in the act of vengeance, in the acts of vigilante justice in his own mind, is meaningful in and of itself." Piker disputed claims that the shooter, who killed the victims outside an event held by the American Jewish Committee, was antisemitic – despite the fact that Lischinsky was an Israeli Christian and Milgrim was an American Jew. The pair worked together and planned to marry. "The idea that this is a neo-Nazi that came after Jewish people, deliberately looking for Jews to kill, like all of that stuff, is incorrect," Piker said. "This is not a value judgment on the actions of the shooter, but it's obvious that this was a person that was brain-broken by a lot of the realities that are unfolding in Gaza." In a Saturday post on X, Piker announced the suspension and shared an email from Twitch. The email stated that Piker violated a rule about the improper handling of terrorist propaganda content. "Based on a review of your activity or content, we have issued a global suspension on your account," the Twitch email said. "As a result, your access to Twitch services is temporarily restricted. Please be aware that repeated violations may lead to more serious actions on your account, including longer temporary suspensions or permanent suspension." In response, Piker claimed that Twitch's terms of service "dictates a suspension for even critical examination of the manifesto." Tim Walz And Aoc Play Madden On Twitch In Attempt To Appeal To Young Male Voters "i believe this is a bad policy for news and press freedom," Piker's post read. "ill take the suspension, but hope twitch changes this policy in the future." Piker has been known for creating extremist content in the past. He has regularly broadcast propaganda from the Houthis, an Iranian-backed group in Yemen that has been designated by the U.S. as a terrorist group, and claimed that "America deserved 9/11" during a 2019 stream. In March, Piker was temporarily suspended from Twitch after making a comment about murdering Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla. "They're not tackling providers; they're not actually going after false billing. They are trying to cut recipients. [Fraud] is not happening at the point of recipient. If you cared about Medicare fraud or Medicaid fraud, you would kill Rick Scott," Piker said. The political commentator later walked back the statements, telling his social media followers that he was "sorry" over the incident. Click To Get The Fox News App "I'll choose my words carefully next time and say, 'if Mike Johnson cares abt (sic) medicare fraud (since he wants to cut 800m from Medicaid/Medicare) he'd call for MAX PUNISHMENT for current fl gop senator/former gov Rick Scott- who has done the most Medicare fraud in us history!'" Piker's post read. Fox News Digital's Nikolas Lanum contributed to this article source: Far-left streamer Hasan Piker suspended from Twitch after broadcasting DC shooting suspect's manifesto
Newsweek
22-05-2025
- Politics
- Newsweek
Islamists' Murderous Lackeys Target the West
On Wednesday evening, a terrorist from Chicago named Elias Rodriguez, a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, shot and killed a young couple outside an event held at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. Rodriguez was filmed yelling "Free, free Palestine!" as he was finally taken into custody, having been inexplicably let into the museum after gunning the couple down. He also told the shocked and confused people inside the museum before being arrested, "I did this for Gaza. Free Palestine. There's only one solution. Intifada revolution." Please remember those words when you read on. But first, let us take a few moments to mourn the deaths of the young Israeli Christian Yaron Lischinsky, and the young American Jew, Sarah Lynn Milgrim. This beautiful couple were about to be engaged. Now they are going to be buried. People hold signs and Israeli national flags in a sign of support outside the Capital Jewish Museum following a shooting that left two people dead, in Washington, DC, on May 22. People hold signs and Israeli national flags in a sign of support outside the Capital Jewish Museum following a shooting that left two people dead, in Washington, DC, on May 22. DREW ANGERER/AFP via Getty Images Ironically, Milgrim was a peace activist and had visited Israel in 2023, promoting improved relations between Israelis and Palestinians. The event they were killed for attending was hosted by the American Jewish Committee to bring humanitarian aid to the Middle East and North Africa together with members of the D.C. diplomatic community. The theme was "turning pain into purpose"—but sadly, it ended in cold-blooded slaughter. Now, let's return to the murderer's claim about "one solution, Intifada revolution." Intifada is Arabic for uprising. The First and Second Intifadas were organized by terrorist turned "statesman" Yasser Arafat, who died in 2004 and was succeeded as head of Fatah, the Palestinian Liberation Organization, and the Palestinian Authority by Mahmoud Abbas. Both intifadas were extremely violent and involved a tangle of groups, including the PLO, Hamas, and others. Tactics included the killing of 21 mostly teenaged girls and the wounding of 130 young people waiting in line to enter Tel Aviv's Dolphinarium disco, bombing pizzerias filled with young mothers and kids, bombings and shootings in restaurants and holiday festivities, and firebombing city buses. This is what Hamas-supporting protesters on U.S. campuses, in city squares, on social media feeds, and just last night in Washington, D.C., are calling for when they use their now-fashionable kaffiyehs, conveniently don surgical masks, or sunglasses to hide their faces and scream for intifada. When glorifying murder becomes fashionable enough, the masks will be off. The thugs who got on a New York subway train in June 2024 yelling, "If you're a Zionist, raise your hand. This is your chance to get out," sounded like Nazis because that's what they are. It is hard to see this kind of evil for what it is, look it in the face and name it as such. But stare the evil in the face we must. Now, we need to discuss the targets. It is obvious that there are many Americans who think this is only an Israeli problem or only a Jewish problem. It isn't. For others, this latest tragic horror in Washington is déjà vu. Before 9/11, it was tough trying to explain to Americans that the real targets of terrorists attacking Israel were the United States and the West. It wasn't until the towers came down that Americans began to understand. Hamas is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, which recent reports show to be involved in an influence campaign aimed at European Union institutions, with Qatari and Kuwaiti backing. Qatar is also reportedly giving billions of dollars in often undisclosed funding to U.S. universities, where money clearly talks. Hamas is also supported and trained by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps in service of the Shi'ite Iranian theocratic dictatorship, the slogan of which is "Death to Israel! Death to America!" The Brotherhood and Iran mean what they say. The clock is ticking, and the stakes are extremely high. Attacking the Israelis, or the Jews, or the Zionists is just the opening act. It is never, ever the endgame. "Globalize the intifada" is not "simply" a call to have people rally for the Palestinian cause (which, according to Hamas's charter, involves the genocide of Jews and destruction of the State of Israel). "Globalize the intifada" means the violent destabilization of the U.S. and the West before their aspired conquest and destruction. That's why the Party for Socialism and Liberation, to which the assassin is reported to belong, and groups like it, are truly useful idiots or fellow travelers serving the mullahs of Tehran and the proxies they sponsor, like Hamas. They want the West ended. This is what the Red-Green alliance is all about. It's a fusion of political Islam with the radical left. The "enemies" to be destroyed "by any means necessary" are anyone or anything they can pin the label "colonialist" or "imperialist" on. They believe that U.S., Australia, Canada, etc., are all "settler colonialists," and they hate capitalism. After taking complete control in Tehran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had the leftists who had helped bring him to power executed with thousands of others. They, along with homosexuals, women, and girls protesting being forced to wear the veil, and other dissidents, became grist for the torturer's chamber and the executioner's noose. For now, the Red-Green Alliance is on the same page. They want America and the West brought down. Be forewarned. Ariel Cohen, Ph.D., is an expert on Russia, Eurasia, and the Middle East. He is Senior Fellow (non-resident) at The Atlantic Council ( Rena Cohen is the founder of the Books for Israel Project, which has delivered tens of thousands of English-language books to Jewish, Muslim, and Christian schools in Israel. She was born in Kibbutz Nachshon. The views expressed in this article are the writers' own.
