Left-wing darling Hasan Piker has been booted from the streaming platform Twitch after he suggested that the Israeli Embassy shooting in Washington, DC looked like it could be a “false flag” operation.
Piker, 33, claimed his account, which has more than 2.8 million followers, was suspended because of his “critical examination” of the manifesto of suspected terrorist Elias Rodriguez, who was charged with executing two embassy staffers outside the Capital Jewish Museum on Wednesday night.
He said the attack outside the Jewish Museum had all the hallmarks of a “false flag operation,” although he said he did not believe it was one.
Piker announced the temporary ban with a post on social media.
“I believe this is a bad policy for news and press freedom,” he wrote on X, along with a screengrab showing the email he had received temporarily suspending him from the streaming platform on Saturday.
Piker, who streams under the handle HasanAbi, was suspended for “Improper Handling of Terrorist Propaganda,” and “Sharing content related to terrorist or violent extremist groups,” according to the grab of the message from Twitch shared on X.
But Piker’s high-minded statement was met with disgust by many, who accused the influencer dubbed the leftist Joe Rogan of peddling antisemitism.
“You called it a false flag. You hate the Jewish people and you are antisemitic,” one X user wrote in response, something Piker was quick to deny.
Twitch did not respond immediately to requests for comment.
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