Left-wing darling Hasan Piker has been booted from the streaming platform Twitch after he prompt that the Israeli Embassy taking pictures in Washington, DC seemed prefer it may very well be a “false flag” operation.
Piker, 33, claimed his account, which has greater than 2.8 million followers, was suspended due to his “critical examination” of the manifesto of suspected terrorist Elias Rodriguez, who was charged with executing two embassy staffers outdoors the Capital Jewish Museum on Wednesday night time.
He mentioned the assault outdoors the Jewish Museum had all of the hallmarks of a “false flag operation,” though he mentioned he didn’t imagine it was one.
Piker introduced the short-term ban with a publish on social media.
“I believe this is a bad policy for news and press freedom,” he wrote on X, together with a screengrab displaying the e-mail he had obtained quickly suspending him from the streaming platform on Saturday.
Piker, who streams below the deal with HasanAbi, was suspended for “Improper Handling of Terrorist Propaganda,” and “Sharing content related to terrorist or violent extremist groups,” in accordance with the seize of the message from Twitch shared on X.
However Piker’s high-minded assertion 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 person wrote in response, one thing Piker was fast to disclaim.
Twitch didn’t reply instantly to requests for remark.
