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Hasan Piker detained at the border and questioned for hours over politics (www.usermag.co)

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Hasan Piker, the biggest progressive political streamer in America, was detained by Customs and Border Protection for hours of questioning upon returning to the U.S. from a trip to France this weekend. Piker posted about the incident on X and later talked about it on stream.

He was detained in Chiago and questioned for two hours about protected journalistic activities like who he’s interviewed and his political beliefs. He was asked whether or not he’d interviewed Hamas, Houthis, or Hezbollah members. He was questioned about his opinions on Trump and Israel and asked about his history of bans on Twitch. His phone and laptop were not confiscated.

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[+] Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip -108 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When did he platform the Israeli military?

[–] smol_beans@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Then every journalist at every media outlet who interviews israeli officials should be detained at the border by that standard

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Which ones? According to whose definition?

[+] Death_Equity@lemmy.world -37 points 1 day ago (2 children)

He has played terrorist propaganda that he relabeled as a music video. He has condoned and emphatically endorsed the actions of Houthis and Hamas. He parrots the claims of those groups and denies any validity to any contradiction of their claims.

They are considered terrorist groups by everybody. They kill civilians, commit sexual violence against innocent people, kill homosexuals/LGBTQ+,and commit acts of violence in order to further their political agenda.

Don't one man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter them, they don't want a free and democratic state. They want a religious theocracy that will kill anybody who isn't on-board with them.

And yes, I consider Israel a terrorist state.

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Hamas aren’t considered a terrorist group by everybody. Only by a handful of states. The UN and many others see their actions as legitimate self defense against a brutal illegal occupation since 1967.

You should learn some more, because you are clearly misled on both the Palestinians’ right to armed struggle, and on Hamas and what it stands for.

Palestinians have a legal right to armed struggle

Palestinian right of armed resistance

UN top court says Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories is illegal

Hamas presents new charter accepting a Palestine based on 1967 borders

Hamas accepts 1967 borders and their charter states they aren’t in a war with Jews. Likud refuses any Palestinian statehood anywhere between the river and the sea. Yet the leader of one is demonized and the other’s is welcomed with applause by the US congress.

Quotes from the charter follows:

The Palestinian people are one people, made up of all Palestinians, inside and outside of Palestine, irrespective of their religion, culture or political affiliation

The Palestinian cause in its essence is a cause of an occupied land and a displaced people. The right of the Palestinian refugees and the displaced to return to their homes from which they were banished or were banned from returning to – whether in the lands occupied in 1948 or in 1967 (that is the whole of Palestine), is a natural right, both individual and collective. This right is confirmed by all divine laws as well as by the basic principles of human rights and international law. It is an inalienable right and cannot be dispensed with by any party, whether Palestinian, Arab or international.

Hamas affirms that its conflict is with the Zionist project not with the Jews because of their religion. Hamas does not wage a struggle against the Jews because they are Jewish but wages a struggle against the Zionists who occupy Palestine. Yet, it is the Zionists who constantly identify Judaism and the Jews with their own colonial project and illegal entity.

Hamas rejects the persecution of any human being or the undermining of his or her rights on nationalist, religious or sectarian grounds. Hamas is of the view that the Jewish problem, anti-Semitism and the persecution of the Jews are phenomena fundamentally linked to European history and not to the history of the Arabs and the Muslims or to their heritage. The Zionist movement, which was able with the help of Western powers to occupy Palestine, is the most dangerous form of settlement occupation which has already disappeared from much of the world and must disappear from Palestine.

Full charter: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/hamas-2017-document-of-general-principles-and-policies

[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The entirety of US and Israel media is endorsing its actions and you have a problem with 1 guy doing the same on the other side. But you have problem now because it's been so normalized?

Who's to blame? The US/Israel state propagandists and media collaborating or the 1 guy doing the same on the other side?

"I choose the one guy because he's an easy target"

[+] bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works -13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hasan Piker is a very influential person with a big platform. What he says and how he behaves has far bigger effects than when you shit post here.

One thing Piker is not doing is actual thought about any political situation than “anti west is good”. He’s a tankie bro that often camouflages his power level. He is not a progressive. He’s an authoritarian leftist who also likes Islamists who hate everything the left and Hasan stands for because they also attack Israel at times ineffectively. Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis are murderous fanatics and authoritarians on a good day.

The internal government of Gaza was brutal after Hamas took over. Of course Hamas points at the PA to be helping Israel’s occupation. Their own oppression of Palestinians and aggressive policies have lead to the biggest disaster in Palestinian history. They care about one thing only: using violence against Israel. The well-being of Palestinians and giving them a better future is worthless to them if Israel exists as a neighbor. The political division among Palestinians and the political bankruptcy of their leaders is astounding. Palestine won’t be free and there will be justice for Palestinians if they don’t unfuck their politics.

Cheerleading Hamas only leads to more dead Palestinians. It makes people like Hasan feel warm and fuzzy about being revolutionary freedom fighter or something.

Hasan is the modern embodiment of champagne communist. A millionaire in a safe and comfortable place, who wants the noble savage people to die in some kind of symbolic struggle, he will never have to face any consequences from.

Palestinians deserve better supporters. The ones who see their deaths as a noble sacrifice against western imperialism or for the ummah, don’t actually care about improving the lives of Palestinians and building a better future.

Advocating for one unified democratic state is a bit ridiculous when Palestinians are themselves divided deeply and their democracy has been failing for decades now.

It’s wishful thinking not based in reality.

Palestinians deserve freedom, security, prosperity, and so on. It’s my firm belief after observing this clusterfuck for decades now: They will only achieve this if they focus on building their own society, institutions, and so on. Nobody is going to save them. Not Arab armies, UN resolutions, aid money from abroad, international courts.

If Israel doesn’t feel secure, it only enables the worst political narratives there.

Now, Israel has more power over the situation in general have ramped up the bad stuff. Don’t get me wrong. Israel’s population will not go “back to Poland”, if you fight them hard enough.

If life in Israel becomes worse, some will leave for Europe or America. That’s mainly your affluent secular class. Israel is on a trajectory of becoming just another middle Eastern authoritarian brutal regime. That is very bad news for Palestinians.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

Netanyahu addresses joint sessions of Congress.

Hasan interviews Yemeni Tiktoker.

I mean it's a tossup with power and influence.

[–] Brett@feddit.org -4 points 1 day ago

I'm not not from the us or israel. fuck both their current right wing governments and the media which enables them. but also fuck terrorists groups and hasan. just because he has some milquetoast lefty takes doesnt take away hes a fucking moron for some of the things he said.

[–] dan00@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Congratulations, you are an idiot. Got back to school and learn what terrorist and resistance mean. Then op on wikipedia and check the loooooooooong list of CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY and WAR CRIMES that Israel committed, including the EXPLICIT CALL TO KILL ALL PALESTINIANS, kids and women included.

I don’t like to repeat myself but you are a fucking idiot at best. A monster at worst.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago

Fash