Left-wing streamer Hasan Piker has been banned from Twitch after claiming the DC terror attack looked like a ‘false flag’ operation. 

Piker, who has 4.5 million followers on streaming sites Twitch and YouTube, was dubbed the ‘Democrats answer to Joe Rogan’ in a glowing New York Times piece earlier this year.

He was described as a ‘very handsome man’ with ‘socialist politics’, a potential antidote to far-right streamers winning over young men.

But he was hit with a one-day ban by streaming site Twitch after discussing the motives of an anti-Semitic gunman who shot dead a young Israeli couple in Washington DC.

Elias Rodriguez, 31, shouted ‘Free Palestine’ after he killed the couple as they left an event at the Capital Jewish Museum on Wednesday evening.

‘Every single thing that he did in the aftermath of the shooting is so f***ing crazy that it’s like, you could not have f***ing designed an incident like this,’ Piker said during a live stream.

‘You could not have designed a better false flag incident like this. I’m not saying it is a false flag at all. I’m not saying that. I think this is just one dude who is genuine in his actions and maybe a little bit brain broken.’

Rodriguez allegedly published a manifesto which claimed: ‘Public opinion has shifted against the genocidal apartheid state, and the American government has simply shrugged, they’ll do without public opinion then, criminalize it where they can, suffocate it with bland reassurances that they’re doing all they can to restrain Israel where it cannot criminalize protest outright.’

Left-wing streamer Hasan Piker (pictured) has been banned from Twitch after discussing the motives of the DC terror suspect

The accused gunman, Elias Rodriguez, 31, shouted ‘Free Palestine ‘ after he shot and killed a young couple as they left an event at the Capital Jewish Museum

Piker shared an email he got from Twitch notifying him that his account was temporarily suspended for ‘improper handling of terrorist propaganda’ after reading from the manifesto during a stream.

‘I covered the motives of the Israeli embassy staff shooter. Twitch [terms of service] dictates a suspension for even critical examination of the manifesto,’ Piker said.

‘I believe this is a bad policy for news and press freedom. ill take the suspension, but hope twitch changes this policy in the future.’

Piker’s Twitch account, which is under the username HasanAbi, was still unavailable as of 10:30 a.m. Sunday. 

‘This channel is temporarily unavailable due to a violation of Twitch’s Community Guidelines or Terms of Service,’ the account stated.

Earlier this month, Piker said his left-wing views got him detained by agents with US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.

He said that upon his return from Paris on Sunday, he was confronted by border patrol agents before he could officially re-enter the country through Global Entry. 

Piker, who stressed that he is a US citizen, said that then snowballed into questions about what he covers on his online platforms and whether he talks about President Donald Trump. 

His New York Time’s profile piece left out a litany of Piker’s shocking statements and controversies.

Piker has called Miley Cyrus ‘a little sl*t’ and joked about pedophilia, told his fans to ‘kill Rick Scott’ the Florida senator, allegedly harangued his ex with calls to police, owns a ‘swastika sword’, gloated over support for terror groups including Hamas, and blamed Israel for Hamas’ murderous October 7, 2023 terror attack.

Piker, who has 4.5 million followers on streaming sites Twitch and YouTube, was dubbed the ‘ Democrats answer to Joe Rogan ‘ in a glowing New York Times piece

He was described as a ‘very handsome man’ with ‘socialist politics’, a potential antidote to far-right streamers, such as Rogan, winning over young men

He has also shown propaganda videos from Yemen terror group the Houthis on his channel, and conducted an interview with Yemeni Tik-Toker Rashid al-Haddad, who posed with Houthi pirates capturing a cargo ship in 2023 – nicknaming him ‘TimHouthi Chalamet’ over his resemblance to the curly-haired Hollywood star.

The Times’ profile of the left-wing influencer focused on his liberal credentials and a glowing description of his appearance: ‘6 feet 4 inches tall and built like a professional athlete, with a square jaw, a beard and a head of thick dark hair.’

The paper alluded to his past controversial statements, including a 2019 comment that America ‘deserved’ the 9/11 terror attacks – but added that Piker ‘blocks commenters for what he sees as overt hate speech’ on his stream.

But in the feature, the Times included a photo showing his computer screen in the background, in which one commenter could be seen writing: ‘I’d phuck this idf bitch to death and make his mother shove missiles up her a**. Pu**yy a** b**ches,’ referring to a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces.

When readers spotted the comment, the Times quietly cropped the photo and changed the headline from ‘A Progressive Mind in a MAGA body’ to ‘A Progressive Mind in a Body Made for the ‘Manosphere.’