Another Take: Twitch to politics – Hasan Piker on Gaza and the US right-wing
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Every Saturday, we revisit a story from the archives. This originally aired on August 19, 2025. None of the dates, titles, or other references from that time have been changed.
With nearly 3 million Twitch followers, Hasan Piker is one of the internet’s biggest political streamers. He blends humor, culture and masculinity talk with sharp political commentary, drawing young men away from the US alt-right. And on Gaza, he has become one of the loudest US voices for Palestine.
In this episode:
- Hasan Piker, @hasanthehun, online streamer
Episode credits:
This episode was updated by Tamara Khandaker. The original production team was Tracie Hunte, Sonia Bhagat Chloe K. Li, Phillip Lanos, Spencer Cline, Melanie Marich, Julia Muldavin, Kisaa Zehra, Farhan Rafid, Sarí el-Khalili, and our host, Malika Bilal.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our engagement producers are Adam Abou-Gad and Vienna Maglio. Andrew Greiner is lead of audience engagement. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer, and Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:09.7 | Hi, I'm Tamara Kondukar. |
| 0:12.4 | I'm a producer with the take, and this is another take, where we bring you episodes from the archives. |
| 0:19.3 | As we look back on our year in review, we're revisiting conversations |
| 0:23.9 | that defined 2025 at The Take. Today, we're republishing one of our favorites, an interview with |
| 0:31.2 | Hassan Piker, one of the most influential young political voices on the internet. With millions of followers on Twitch and YouTube, |
| 0:40.3 | Hassan blends humor, pop culture, and his own brand of masculinity |
| 0:44.3 | with sharp left-wing commentary that many see as a counterpunch |
| 0:49.3 | to the conservative mannosphere online. |
| 0:51.3 | And on Gaza, he's emerged as one of the loudest voices in the U.S. |
| 0:56.2 | calling for Palestinian rights. We talked to him earlier this year about power, platforms, |
| 1:02.5 | and the risks of speaking out. This episode originally aired August 19th. All dates and references |
| 1:09.4 | are from that time. |
| 1:25.6 | Today, the online streamer speaking out on Gaza and the alt-right pipeline. |
| 1:28.3 | I want to make America a better place. I want America to truly achieve its potential that I know it has, that I believed it had |
| 1:34.7 | when I first moved here when I was 18 years old. |
| 1:37.4 | So I just keep pushing. |
| 1:40.0 | Who is Hassan Piker? |
| 1:41.8 | And why is he making waves? |
| 1:45.5 | I'm Malika Bilalal and this is the take. |
| 1:55.0 | My name is Hassan Doan Piker or Hassan Doan Piquar. I am a Turkish-American political commentator and I talk about |
| 2:05.1 | politics on Twitch at twitch.tv.tv slash Hasanabi and I have my, my live streams rebroadcast to |
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