Congress named him in a resolution. Britain barred him from the country. A court case accuses him of inciting violence against American Jews. And Twitch, the platform that pays him, has taken him off the air for a grand total of twenty days in seven years.
Hasan Piker (Hasan Doğan Piker, born July 25, 1991) is a Turkish-American political streamer who broadcasts as HasanAbi on Twitch (twitch.tv/hasanabi) and posts as @hasanthehun on X. He is the nephew of The Young Turks founder Cenk Uygur. His channel is one of the largest on Twitch, ranked 21st with 43,994 active subscribers in September 2026.
In 2026 the U.S. House resolution H.Res. 1239 named him for antisemitic rhetoric and support for Hamas, the United Kingdom barred him from entering the country, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries called his remarks about American Jews "dangerous, malicious and antisemitic," and a $150 million lawsuit accused him of inciting violence against Jews. He has said Hamas is "a thousand times better" than Israel and named Hezbollah's as his favorite flag. Twitch has suspended him seven times since 2019, for about twenty days in total.
On April 30, 2026, a bipartisan resolution was introduced in the House of Representatives condemning antisemitic rhetoric from online personalities. It named two people. One of them is Twitch's top political streamer.
Whereas Hasan Piker, a prominent online streamer, has often used antisemitic rhetoric, including expressing support for Hamas, a designated foreign terrorist organization;
Whereas, in August 2019, during a stream on Twitch, Hasan Piker stated that “America deserved 9/11”;
Whereas Hasan Piker referred to Orthodox Jews as “inbred”;
Whereas Hasan Piker downplayed sexual violence committed by Hamas against innocent civilians on October 7, 2023, stating, “It doesn't matter if f-ing rapes happened on October 7th, like that doesn't change the dynamic for me”;
Whereas Hasan Piker has expressed support for Hamas on multiple occasions, including on April 14, 2026, stating, “Hamas over Israel every single time”…
The Home Office cancelled his travel permit days before he was due at SXSW London and the Oxford Union: his presence "may not be conducive to the public good."
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Hasan's warning to American Jews: "dangerous, malicious and antisemitic and should not be tolerated by anyone in the public square."
A complaint filed in Palm Beach County Circuit Court accuses him of inciting violence against American Jews, built on his own words from August 20: "someone's going to come around and take action… against American Jews."
Shortlisted by StopAntisemitism for anti-Jewish epithets and streams that glorify terrorism. Rep. Ritchie Torres wrote to Twitch and Amazon calling him dangerous.
No summaries, no paraphrase. Press play. Every quote below was checked word for word against a machine transcript of the clip's own audio before it went on this page.
If Jews in America keep putting this idea out there that they are so singularly invested in Israel, eventually someone's going to come around and take action, not against the state of Israel, mind you, but against American Jews.
In the same breath he calls Israel "basically Jewish ISIS." This clip is the centerpiece of the $150 million lawsuit against him.
I do mean it. I'm a lesser evil voter and therefore I would vote for Hamas over Israel every single time.
Asked by Jon Favreau whether "Hamas is a thousand times better" was just a rhetorical move.
You could not have designed a better false flag incident like this.
The day after Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim were shot dead outside the Capital Jewish Museum. He was later suspended for one day for broadcasting the killer's manifesto.
What rapes did fucking Hamas do? What are you talking about?
The rapes of October 7 are documented by the UN's own envoy on sexual violence in conflict.
My favorite flag. It's got an AK on it and a fucking hand holding it up.
The flag of Hezbollah. From across the table: "We might have to cut this."
October 7 was a retaliation for an ongoing apartheid. Okay. That's it.
Twenty-two days after 1,200 people were murdered.
Of course there's going to be people that are prosecuted if a cop gets shot, even if it's an act of self defense by the person who shot the cop.
On Benjamin Song, sentenced to 100 years for shooting a police officer during a terrorist attack on an ICE facility.
If Hezbollah is a terrorist organization, then America is the top terrorist organization, which it is, by the way. America is the top dog in terrorism, and so is Israel.
As a resistance group they're pretty successful against Israel. I like what you like. I don't have an issue with them.
On Hezbollah.
Hezbollah is the far greater lesser evil in that situation. Incredibly restricted and restrained.
If anyone is going to say I'm against that and I need to stop that, I'm probably going to be like, well, okay, at least they're doing something.
Answering a question about why he backs Hamas, the Houthis and Hezbollah.
What these guys are doing, a good thing. Okay? That's it.
On the Houthis attacking shipping in the Red Sea.
We're going to take over your ship. You cannot fucking use this trade route anymore. And by God they started doing that and they were doing it real well.
Narrating Houthi hijacking footage for his audience.
You want to see a Houthi musical? These fucking musically gifted individuals.
He plays Houthi propaganda on stream: "They love walking over the American flag and the Israeli flag."
He is a teenager in Yemen, dude. These people have no material power. They cannot touch you.
Defending a Houthi supporter who posted an image of a Jew on a pike.
You fucking baying pig! You fucking bloodthirsty violent pig dog!
At a pro-Israel guest. Afterwards: "I stand by this."
A nation entirely comprised of messianic inbred ultra orthodox psychopaths with a nuclear arsenal.
On Israel.
It is literally the Jewish KKK brigades out there. Just a bunch of fucking inbred hicks.
Oh my god, these inbred fucking douchebags in the background, dude.
About Jews standing in the background of a news video.
Imagine the most inbred white supremacist guy you can imagine. Now instead of that guy being Christian, imagine if that guy was Jewish.
It's Jerusalem Day, which means the Israeli clan, the inbred hicks of Israel, are going to get extra rowdy today.
I should go to the old city so I can get my fucking shit pushed in by some of the most inbred, fundamentalist hicks.
Then he mocks an Israeli accent.
The 14 year old inbred psychopath.
About a Jewish teenager filmed spitting near Christians in Jerusalem.
They get their fucking untrained inbred asses shipped into southern Lebanon. Again, again, very funny.
On drafting ultra-Orthodox Jews.
Getting fucking executed by some inbred 15 year old fucking douchebag in military fatigues.
The irony, of course, that these inbred don't understand.
On Israeli protesters.
Isn't it funny how anytime someone's interviewed about how violent these protesters are, it's always someone who almost was hurt?
Right after a Jewish student describes a campus mob chasing them and calling them inbred.
There's a Jewish Oblast in Russia. Birobidzhan. Yeah, that's a place for Jews to go to if they want to.
Asked where Jews could go if not Israel.
Pulled straight from X by post ID. On January 8, 2026, a mob outside a synagogue in Queens chanted "say it loud, say it clear, we support Hamas here." Even Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called it antisemitic. Hasan spent that night defending it.
Three months later on Pod Save America: "I do mean it."
Posted three hours before Hasan's. The most progressive member of Congress drew the line. He went the other way.
The day after two young people were murdered for being at a Jewish event, he aimed at a Jewish creator and "his community."
Hasan's moderators decide what stays in his chat. We pulled 3.1 million messages from the public Twitch chat archive for the days that mattered, including every ban and deletion his moderators issued. On the left, what they left up. On the right, what they banned people for life over. Usernames, colors and subscriber badges are exactly as Twitch showed them.
Star badges mark paying subscribers; hover one to see how many months they had paid. 128 of the messages left standing came from subscribers, and Twitch takes its cut of every subscription. The channel has 43,994 active subscribers and ranks 21st on all of Twitch (TwitchTracker, September 2026).
Twitch says it enforces one set of rules. Here is the same rulebook applied to other streamers, next to what Hasan said and what he got.
| Streamer | Offense | Twitch's sentence | Hasan, same offense |
|---|---|---|---|
| Destiny | Called trans debaters "inbred f**king disgusting losers" | IndefiniteSince 2022. Never lifted. | "Inbred" about Jews on camera, again and again: nothing |
| Adin Ross | Failed to moderate his chat | Indefinite2023 | His chat on October 8, 2023: "killing as many jews as possible." Left up: nothing |
| JiDion | Sent his chat to spam another streamer | IndefiniteRaised from 14 days | |
| Erobb221 | Threatened to beat up a viewer | 30 days2022 | Said Republicans "would kill Rick Scott," a sitting US senator: 1 day |
| Ethan Klein | Re-aired a compilation of Hasan's own clips | 30 days2025 | Said them: nothing |
| Denims & the TwitchCon panel | A "Loves Sabra" tier list | 30 days2024 | "Jewish KKK brigades," "bloodthirsty violent pig dog": nothing |
| Asmongold | Called Palestinians "an inferior culture" | 14 days2024 | Israel "a nation entirely comprised of messianic inbred ultra orthodox psychopaths": nothing |
Every suspension Hasan has ever received, to scale against a 30-day ban. Dates from the StreamerBans public tracker. His last two: one ran Friday to Monday, the other began on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend and ended on Memorial Day.
In November 2024, under pressure from Congress, Twitch added "Zionist" to its hateful conduct policy. It even gave an example of what is banned.
"We treat 'Zionists' as a proxy for Jews or Israelis if the word is used in a context to promote harm or violence, or when used to make dehumanizing comparisons or perpetuate antisemitic stereotypes."
"Rabid ultra-Zionist pigs"
Hasan Piker, January 29, 2026. Suspended 3 days, Friday to Monday."You fucking bloodthirsty violent pig dog"
Hasan Piker, October 2023. "I stand by this." No suspension."zionist pig dogs"
His chat, October 8, 2023. Left up by his moderators. Rule broken. Rule unenforced.Three days after Twitch published it, Hasan explained the rule to his own audience. Nobody can claim he did not know.
You can't say, you know, Zionist insert animal. For example, like that's something you cannot say.
Then: "It's a clear cut caving into capitulation to outside organizations, but you know, it is what it is."
You got these rabid ultra-Zionist freaks creating lists of people.
No suspension.
This is another big suck my dick to all the fucking Israel dick riders out there, you fucking rabid ultra-Zionist pigs.
The exact phrase Twitch's own example bans. Three days, Friday to Monday.
I got banned for calling someone a Zionist insert in bracket animal. Okay. Like an animal name.
He blames the ADL for the rule and keeps the channel.
"There is no place on Twitch for racism, hatred, or harassment of any kind, including antisemitism and Islamophobia."
Twitch CEO Dan Clancy, November 1, 2024"It's hard to sit there and talk for six hours straight and not step over the line."
Dan Clancy, March 2025, after Hasan's one-day ban for "kill Rick Scott"For a full year after October 7, Israelis could not sign up for Twitch. From October 2023 to October 21, 2024, account registration from Israel was shut off. Israelis who wrote to Twitch Support had their tickets closed without explanation. A streamer publicly flagged it in May 2024. Nothing changed.
Twitch reopened sign-ups within days of it becoming a news story, and called the year-long lockout an "unacceptable miss."
The answer to Rep. Ritchie Torres's letter naming Hasan was not action against the channel. It was a blog post and a new content label so viewers could filter out "Politics and Sensitive Social Issues."
Years of "resistance" talk on the biggest political channel on Twitch do not stay on Twitch.
On July 4, 2025, an armed cell attacked the Prairieland ICE Detention Center in Texas. Song shot an Alvarado police officer. A federal jury convicted him of attempted murder and providing material support to terrorists; he was sentenced to 100 years. According to Fox News Digital, he posted on X as @BubbleBreakBS. In 2021 he wrote to Hasan:
When chat raised Song's sentence, Hasan's answer on stream: people get prosecuted when a cop is shot "even if it's an act of self defense by the person who shot the cop," and the long sentences were "not appropriate." Clip in Part Two.
Streamer Alexandra Saber, one of Hasan's most prominent defenders, read Osama bin Laden's "Letter to America" on Twitch in November 2023. A federal complaint quotes her on that broadcast: "America deserved 9/11. I can't disavow facts man." and "[Bin Laden's] criticisms of the United States are all correct." Twitch's response: a one-day ban.
She sat on the TwitchCon panel that ranked streamers down to "Loves Sabra" in front of Chevron, Samsung and Capcom logos. Chevron complained publicly.
Twitch moved only when Congress wrote letters and advertisers made calls. It is owned by Amazon. Every lever below is public, legal and effective.
Ask them to cosponsor H.Res. 1239 and to demand Twitch explain, in writing, why its hateful conduct rules do not apply to Hasan Piker.
Ask for a Commerce Committee hearing on Twitch's enforcement record, with the comparison table on this page as Exhibit A.
When an ad runs on his channel, screenshot it with the stream visible and send it to the brand's customer or press contact. Brands pay Twitch to be next to this. Chevron already complained once.
Report the channel with the timestamp and quote the policy back to them: "Zionist [name of animal]" is not allowed. Make them put the refusal in writing.
The policyHow to reportTwitch answers to Amazon. Write to Amazon's investor relations and ask whether Amazon considers a terror-praising, "Zionist pig"-shouting channel a brand-safe asset.
Amazon IREvery clip, post and chat line on this page is verified. Send it to the people who still think he is just a leftist streamer.
Hasan Piker streams on Twitch as HasanAbi, at twitch.tv/hasanabi. On X (Twitter) he posts as @hasanthehun, and his YouTube channel is also HasanAbi.
"Abi" is Turkish for "big brother." Hasan Piker was born in New Jersey to Turkish parents and grew up largely in Istanbul and Ankara, and HasanAbi has been his Twitch name since he started streaming in March 2018.
Yes. Cenk Uygur, founder of The Young Turks, is Hasan Piker's uncle. Piker started at The Young Turks as an intern in 2013. In June 2026 the United Kingdom barred both men from entering the country.
On June 1, 2026, the UK Home Office cancelled Hasan Piker's travel permit, saying his presence "may not be conducive to the public good." He had been due to speak at SXSW London and the Oxford Union. Jewish groups had urged the government to bar him over antisemitic rhetoric weeks earlier.
Seven. Twitch has suspended Hasan Piker seven times since 2019, for about twenty days in total, and never for longer than seven days. The three most recent: one day in March 2025 for saying Republicans "would kill Rick Scott," one day in May 2025 for broadcasting the manifesto of the man who murdered two Israeli embassy staffers, and three days in January 2026 for calling people "rabid ultra-Zionist pigs."
His most recent Twitch suspension, on January 29, 2026, followed him calling defenders of a federal watchlist "rabid ultra-Zionist pigs," a phrase that matches Twitch's own example of banned hateful conduct, "Zionist [name of animal]." Earlier bans followed "kill Rick Scott" (March 2025), "improper handling of terrorist propaganda" after he broadcast the DC embassy killer's manifesto (May 2025), and the slur "cracker" (December 2021).
In his own words, yes. In January 2026, Hasan Piker posted that "hamas is a thousand times better than the fascist settler colonial apartheid state." Asked on Pod Save America in April 2026 whether he meant it, he said: "I do mean it. I'm a lesser evil voter and therefore I would vote for Hamas over Israel every single time." Congress cited both lines in H.Res. 1239.
On October 29, 2023, Hasan Piker said on stream: "October 7 was a retaliation for an ongoing apartheid. Okay. That's it." On another stream he asked "What rapes did fucking Hamas do?" and H.Res. 1239 quotes him saying "It doesn't matter if f-ing rapes happened on October 7th, like that doesn't change the dynamic for me."
During a Twitch stream in August 2019, Hasan Piker said "America deserved 9/11." The line is quoted in the 2026 congressional resolution H.Res. 1239, which condemns his antisemitic rhetoric.
On August 20, 2026, Hasan Piker said: "If Jews in America keep putting this idea out there that they are so singularly invested in Israel, eventually someone's going to come around and take action, not against the state of Israel, mind you, but against American Jews." In the same breath he called Israel "basically Jewish ISIS." House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries called the remarks "dangerous, malicious and antisemitic."
On September 6, 2024, Hasan Piker said Israel would become "a nation entirely comprised of messianic inbred ultra orthodox psychopaths with a nuclear arsenal." He has called settlers "the Jewish KKK brigades" and "inbred hicks," and in August 2026 called Israel "basically Jewish ISIS."
Asked his favorite flag on the Fear& podcast in June 2025, Hasan Piker named Hezbollah's: "It's got an AK on it and a fucking hand holding it up." On an April 2024 stream he said of Hezbollah, "As a resistance group they're pretty successful against Israel. I don't have an issue with them."
The U.S. House resolution H.Res. 1239 names Hasan Piker for antisemitic rhetoric, including calling Orthodox Jews "inbred." House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries called his August 2026 remarks about American Jews "dangerous, malicious and antisemitic." The ADL and AJC have both published dossiers on him, and StopAntisemitism named him a 2024 "Antisemite of the Year" finalist.
On September 10, 2026, attorney Larry Klayman filed a lawsuit against Hasan Piker in Palm Beach County Circuit Court seeking more than $150 million, alleging reckless endangerment, assault and intentional infliction of emotional distress over Piker's August 20, 2026 remarks that "someone's going to come around and take action" against American Jews.
Not as a political term. Since November 2024 Twitch treats "Zionist" as a proxy for Jews or Israelis when it is used to dehumanize, and gives "Zionist [name of animal]" as an example of banned speech. Hasan Piker explained the rule to his own audience on November 18, 2024, then called people "rabid ultra-Zionist pigs" on January 29, 2026.
HasanAbi had 43,994 active Twitch subscribers in September 2026, 16,534 of them paid and 11,138 gifted, according to TwitchTracker, ranking the channel 21st on all of Twitch.
Video. Each clip was transcribed from its own audio with Whisper, and every quote on this page matches that transcript. Contested words were re-run through the larger model. Clips that could not be confirmed word for word were left out.
Chat. Raw IRC logs for #hasanabi from the public archive at logs.ivr.fi, with Twitch's own message IDs, subscriber badges and moderation events (CLEARCHAT, CLEARMSG). A message counts as acted on if it was deleted, or its author was timed out or banned within fifteen minutes. Every message shown was read by hand; quotations of antisemites and condemnations of antisemitism were excluded. Messages Twitch's AutoMod held back never reach the log, so everything on the left was visible to the channel.
Long streams. Candidate moments were found by searching machine transcripts of 2,803 of his streams (transcripts.omnibased.xyz), then cut from the original VOD and checked against the audio. A hit where he was reading someone else's words was dropped.
Posts. Fetched from X by post ID. Suspensions. StreamerBans, cross-checked against news coverage of each ban.