108 things Hasan Piker said, verbatim, from June 13, 2026 to October 17, 2026, each linked to where it ran. Grouped by the questions at issue, with who supported, disputed, or qualified each one.
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Jews in America who publicly identify with or support Israel are inviting antisemitic violence against themselves.
Supports
“If Jews in America keep putting this idea out there that they are singularly invested in Israel, eventually someone is going to come around and take action, not against the state of Israel mind you, but against American Jews,”
“Violence is not a cause. Murder is not a message. And a killer is certainly not a hero.”
Taylor Lorenz former Washington Post reporter Supports
“he’s a person who seems like he’s this morally good man, which is hard to find”
More on the record
Hasan Piker on The Middle East18
In their own words
“Donald Trump wants to increase pressure on Iran. Every act of war against Iran leads to increased volatility in the global energy markets, which then ends up giving Russia more leverage because it increases the cost of diesel”
on Trump's Russian diesel deal and pressure on Iran raising energy prices
“The same restrictions that existed for a potential ground invasion still exist to this day. If anything, it's gotten more difficult because every day that goes on, there's another American base that has to retreat because they're getting lasered by Iranian munitions, okay?”
on US bases retreating from Iranian strikes during the Iran war
“They consider their forces to be the Yemeni armed forces, and uh they are not a rebel group, especially at this point. They are the government, they are the de facto government of Yemen.”
“Charlie Kirk personally could feel suspicious about the events that transpired leading up to October 7th. But Charlie Kirk, the actor, was always going to tow the party line.”
on whether Charlie Kirk privately doubted the official account of October 7th
“It’s not even on some conspiracy s–t either, like The New York Times is openly covering it as such. It was classic Israel in the way that they did it, in the shameless way that they took ownership over it.”
“Because there is zero percent chance that whoever the elected democrat is that wins the primary will be pro-Israel in any way, shape, or form. You'll see.”
“I wouldn't even concede the idea that this is an option unless Trump, the people around him, and the military are willing to accept thousands of American casualties and killed, because that is what this would be”
on the scale of American casualties a US invasion of Iran would cause
“he has no jurisdiction to arrest the war criminal. It's a little bit of a oral loss, I'm not going to lie. I think people are just going to like clown on him a little bit.”
“We’re not giving another dime to Israel, hopefully an arms embargo, or at least pushing for one. We’re gonna make sure that we change the American trajectory.”
on pushing for a US arms embargo and end to aid to Israel
“Donald Trump has been far better on the Korea issue than Biden was. As a matter of fact, the fake coup d'etatah, one could even say, happened under the watchful gaze of the brandonian administration.”
“There is no way to look at those numbers and think, well, thank God they're anti-woke. They're saying slurs. That is 40 plus years of development perishing in a matter of months.”
on military recruitment numbers falling despite anti-woke policy changes
“You rarely ever hear American generals, not lower level, not like a lieutenant or something that anonymously delivers information to a journalist. We're talking about straight up highest ranks in the military.”
on top US generals anonymously criticizing Trump's strikes on Iran
“the American military is in some respects the last competent organization in this country and it has increasingly become incompetent and and has an over reliance on private uh private profiteers, private defense contractors”
on conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln and reliance on private defense contractors
“It's ‘Star Trek.’ It's the ‘Star Trek’ universe. They have a moneyless society. I feel as though that is definitely an honorable end goal to reach where we have all of our needs met,”
“is redefining and reorienting the classist politics that we currently have away from the capital-owning class, owning both the means of production and virtually every facet of power and redistributing it in a democratic fashion back to the largest class, the working class.”
“This is what it's about. This is the democratic socialist difference. Same with the initiatives that Zoran is engaged in with tenants organizers. The Bad Landlords Coalition, the naming and shaming of bad landlords in the city.”
“The thing about the American system is that the U.S. citizens are pretty well protected so far by the Constitution, but foreigners aren't. So immigration enforcement is the loophole to set up the secret police.”
on the New York ICE shooting and immigration enforcement
“ICE does not operate in a serious and normal law enforcement. Function, I want police, local police to arrest him after conducting an investigation. And I want him to go through the regular court process. This is what normally happens.”
on how ICE arrests should follow normal police and court procedure
“That’s a harrowing process for a lot of people. And for them, that is murder; for them, that is torture. And that is the reason why, I think, the reaction to Luigi Mangione, especially by younger generations, was not so negative,”
on reactions to Luigi Mangione and the UnitedHealth CEO killing
“It also makes sense, because like this is his signature thing, right? He ran on Medicare for All, he wrote a book about it. This is his area of expertise.”
on Abdul El-Sayed's Medicare for All expertise in the Michigan Senate race
“This is yet another example of the people that contribute the least to anthropogenic climate change receiving the worst impacts of anthropogenic climate change.”
on the Nepal Tibet glacier collapse flood hitting those least responsible for emissions
“I don't believe that AI has to be artificially intelligent, like truly artificially intelligent for it to actually be dangerous, especially considering that it can leave its network and try to hide its steps.”
on AI posing danger without needing true intelligence
“This Stuff is not working, and yet they're still hammering it over and over again. And part of the reason why it's not working is because Abdul is playing it perfectly, constantly reframing the conversation back to issues that matter”
on Abdul El-Sayed deflecting attacks by refocusing on substantive issues
“There's nothing that they can lean into. What are they going to talk about? The tariffs? Everybody hates that shit. They can't talk about the Iran war. Everybody hates that shit, too.”
on Republicans lacking popular issues like tariffs and the Iran war to run on
“I do not work for the Democratic Party. And Democrats find that to be unstable and dangerous because my purpose or my goals are not to simply prop up the Democratic Party in general”
“If the Democratic Party in Wisconsin consolidated support behind Crowley as opposed to Sarah Rodriguez, even though it would have made no sense at the time because he was like on the verge of dropping out because he was at like six percent or something, this race would have been over.”
on the Wisconsin Democratic governor primary between Crowley and Rodriguez
“There's an attitude of how popular this movement is and how much social and political capital exists for this movement outside here in this community versus the internal calculation that elected representatives are making.”
on the gap between grassroots movement support and elected officials' calculations, discussing AOC and 2028
“Mazel Tov @AbdulElSayed for winning a Democratic primary with a minority of Democratic voters. You will need everyone of your voters and @HaleyforMI voters to win a general. For that to be possible, you will need to move on from Piker. Guessing you won’t and I won’t be surprised when you lose,”
“The republican midterm strategy is to just say DSA Hassan Piker, communism, radical Islamic style terrorism, Al Qaeda 911. Which is good for us. It's good.”
on the expected Republican midterm messaging attacking progressives as extremists
“when Abdul ran in 2018, his platform was not dissimilar to his platform right now. But a part of the reason why it's a lot more appealing is because I think people got sick and tired of the arguments that establishment Democrats were presenting as an electability argument and constant pivoting to the center”
on Abdul's Michigan primary platform compared to his 2018 run
“Not only are we going to run up the numbers for Francesca Hong on Aug. 11, but we are going to take that victory to the general election to make sure that the Republican Tom Tiffany never gets a seat of power ever again!”
on defeating Republican Tom Tiffany in Wisconsin's governor race
“"I'll start blaming the voters when there is like a clear cut, discernible platform that is unbelievably good for the working class. And the voters still oppose it because they're just reactionary babies."”
on blaming working class voters only once a clearly pro worker platform exists
“No more to the fascist reactionaries, but no more to the Democrats who will collaborate and cooperate with the fascists, who will fund ICE, who will fund Israel, who will help poison the planet, who will stiff workers and help bosses.”
“That is curtains. That is the trifecta. Okay, that is the trifecta of a reliable allegation. It’s holy sh*t…I believe this, this accusation. I believe this allegation,”
“I was confident from the start and kept telling people ‘This is a 90-10 issue’ so if they come at me, then that’s great for me, and that’s great for [El-Sayed],”
“It showed that he’s not corruptible, he’s a fighter, he’s responsive, he has moral convictions, and he’s not doing this just because he wants to win an election. That translates to other issues.”
on why Hasan Piker backed Abdul El-Sayed's Michigan campaign
“People saw McMorrow and the opposition to El-Sayed either as evil because they are in support of Israel, or they saw them as unserious because they were focusing on a random Twitch streamer,”
on reactions to opposition against El-Sayed's Michigan campaign
“And that’s because the American people are tired of the same old business as usual politics — the corruption, the ineptitude, the feckless nature of the Democrats that don’t want to fight back against the growth of fascism in this country. This is Americans fighting back. It’s only the beginning.”
“By the end of these midterms, Zohran will seem unremarkable. Because by then, we will have elected so many brilliant fighters into legislative offices throughout New York City and the state,”
on Piker predicting more socialist candidates winning New York City and state races
“For the longest time, I thought we were so far away from socialism, and we might still be far away from socialism, but we do have an opportunity right here right now, more than ever before,”
on Piker saying the US now has a real chance to move toward socialism
“no one actually involved with this case is saying the husband did it. The judge doesn't believe the husband did it. The cops don't believe the husband did it. Lindsay Clancy doesn't believe the husband did it.”
on the Lindsay Clancy mistrial and claims about her husband's involvement
“I think that's because the walls are closing in. They're far too corrupt. They're far too incompetent. They haven't accomplished a single policy agenda”
on the White House press secretary being fired after five days
“Republicans will allow neo Nazis into their ranks. As long as they are pro Israel, or at least don't talk against Israel. They do not care about anti Semitism. They welcome anti Semitism.”
on Republicans tolerating antisemitism amid Milo Yiannopoulos's ICE arrest
“There's nothing to gain strategically from even attempting to assassinate Donald Trump or even assassinating successfully Donald Trump and and so much to lose in the process.”
on why assassinating Trump would offer no strategic gain
“The fall of the USSR was one of the great catastrophes of the 20th century. Mao Zedong is one of the great leaders of this world. Both are true. Both are objectively true statements,”
on Hasan Piker praising Mao Zedong while calling the USSR's fall a catastrophe
“I don't think it matters that much anymore — I think anti-Semitism is now, at least in the eyes of a lot of people, no longer seen as a big deal at all,”
on antisemitism no longer being widely seen as a serious problem
“I think this bigotry has exploded, and a big part of that is because antisemitism has been so cynically deployed and weaponized against all criticisms of Israel — accelerated in the last three years by institutions like the ADL.”
“The very fact that Debbie Wasserman Schultz carpet bagged into this black opportunity district to third into a safe blue victory for herself is disgusting. The very fact that the congressional black caucus has not called it out and has been noticeably absent from the conversation is honestly shameful.”
“Last election cycle, it was transgender panic. This election cycle, it is Islamophobia. Muslims are the new transgender. Now, of course, the trans panic hasn't gone away, make no mistake.”
on Islamophobia replacing transgender panic as a political target in Michigan's Senate race
“Everyone being like, ‘Abdul has a f*ck-ton of work to do mending bridges,’ here’s the f*cking take nuke for you: You are all unbelievably Islamophobic pieces of sh*t. You literally called the dude a f*cking terrorist for months on end,”
on CNN asking Abdul El-Sayed to renounce Hasan Piker, which he declined to do
“He could have pushed back and he would have been seen as a legend. He would have been regarded as a hero and instead he was spineless in a moment where it mattered.”
on whether Ed Sheeran should have resisted his band's removal
“This is a glaringly obvious example of that. This is straightforwardly a flex I think. It is straightforwardly a flex to be like, ‘Yeah, I can do this, f it.’ And I kind of think it is a little tacky, at best,”
“It's like the final goal. It's like the final evolution, a stateless, moneyless, classless society. A borderless society. We've never really had communism,”
