With more than 3 million followers on Twitch, Hasan Piker has used his sizable megaphone to amplify antisemitic tropes, deny or justify Hamas’ atrocities, and victim-blame American Jews targeted by antisemitism. Piker is not operating and spewing his hate in a vacuum.

Hasan Piker, known as HasanAbi on the video-game streaming platform Twitch, is a far-left antisemitic streaming star who has attracted millions of fans.

As Israel is increasingly demonized, it is imperative to examine the rhetoric being used—including Free Palestine and Globalize the Intifada—and to understand how, in certain contexts, it can escalate into real-world danger for Jews everywhere. 

Who are the Houthis in Yemen? The Houthis are an extremist Shia-Islamist movement and terrorist army.  acked by Iran, this organization controls approximately one-third of Yemen’s territory and more than two-thirds of the country’s population. It has emerged as a prominent player in the Israel-Hamas war, which began on October 7 with a mass murder attack by Hamas on Israelis.