Israel- and US-hating Twitch streamer Hasan Piker is set to speak at a sold-out Cornell University event planned by woke student organizations – as experts warn the upstate Ivy League school continues to be a “hotbed of antisemitism.”
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The Students Not Bombs Campaign – a student coalition demanding Cornell sever its ties to Israel – announced this week the controversial Turkish-American influencer will take the stage at the campus’ Sage Chapel on Sept. 24.
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The free event is open to all Cornell students, staff and faculty, and more than 450 people have already registered.
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people → register → students
Piker, 35, will also stream his presentation.
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Organizers from campus groups Justice for Palestine, Jewish Voice for Peace and Cornell’s Young Democratic Socialist Association (YDSA) did not disclose what the hatemonger will talk about – but his past comments targeting Jewish people and the US have sparked outrage.
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“Inviting someone like Hasan Piker to our community is not conducive to generative philosophical dialogue,” sophomore Sofia Eliasi, 18, of Cornellians for Israel, told The Post.
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“It is simply an invitation for students to emulate his behavior by finding their own antisemitic stages to preach from.”
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students → emulate → stages
The campus’ Hillel chapter wrote, “The University is a place to learn, to argue, to explore, and to debate.
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Mr. Piker’s views, however, go against our values as Americans and Jews, and this hateful rhetoric is repulsive.”
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A petition by SAFE Campus, a Jewish advocacy group, urged Cornell, state and federal officials to call off the event.
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Piker notoriously justified the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks, saying the massacre that killed roughly 1,200 innocents was a “direct consequence of Israeli actions” and that “it doesn’t matter if f–king rapes happened on Oct. 7.”
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rapes → justify → Oct.
He’s called Jews “inbred.”
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The longtime ally of Mayor Zohran Mamdani infamously said during a 2019 livestream that “America deserved 9/11.”
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Another resurfaced clip shows Piker shouting: “F–k the Constitution.
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I wipe my a– with the Constitution.
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It’s a piece of paper.
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And in an interview published Thursday, the prominent surrogate for Michigan Democratic US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed claimed that the US military “pound for pound” has committed more acts of terrorism than Al Qaeda, the Islamist network behind the 9/11 attacks.
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But some students said trying to prevent Piker from coming to their campus isn’t the answer.
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trying → say → campus
“We should not be, as a community, welcoming Hassan Piker – in any sense of the word,” senior Davian Gekman, 21, said.
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“But also, I do believe that debate should not be shut down.
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Kicking or trying to stop Piker from coming onto this campus does not serve the good of the Jewish community or the good of supporting Israel in my eyes.”
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Mardi Singleton, 32, another Cornell student, said she plans to attend the event despite “strongly disagreeing” with most of Piker’s stances.
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“I want to hear his views firsthand and better understand the perspectives of those who support him.
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I hope that others who share my concerns will do the same while remaining respectful of his right to speak and of our peers who have come to listen.”
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Piker has sparked similar controversy at the University of Texas, where college Democrats invited him to speak at yet another sold-out event Sept. 30.
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Democrats → spark → event
The New Jersey native has previously spoken at University of Southern California and Dartmouth University.
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“Just as university students would not invite a Jan. 6 rioter, nor recognize them as part of normative political discourse, they should apply that same standard to figures on the left,” said Josh Appel, Manhattan Institute policy analyst.
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“That they don’t, speaks to the rotten core of the university system.”
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She described the college — which welcomed back law professor Russell Rickford after he was filmed at an off-campus rally cheering on Hamas after Oct. 7 — as a “hotbed of antisemitism.”
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“First, one of their students, Austin Franco, refused a job interview online, by writing, ‘Not interested in working for a jew…’
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Now, it’s Hasan Piker, a more in-your-face antisemite, who famously said America ‘deserved’ to be attacked on Sep. 11, 2001,” she said.
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“So, to pretend ‘hate speech’ is harmless will have dire consequences when America is caught unprotected and vulnerable again.
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A Cornell spokesperson said the university is committed to “free and open” expression and that school officials will respond “appropriately” to reports of discrimination or disruption at the event.
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Justice for Palestine, Jewish Voice for Peace, Cornell’s YDSA and Piker did not return requests for comment.
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