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Ritchie Torres
15th District of New York

1414 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
(202) 225-4361

Congress of the United States
House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515-3215

October 29, 2024

Daniel Clancy
Chief Executive Officer
Twitch
50 Bush Street
San Francisco, CA 94104

CC: Steve Boom
Vice President of Audio, Twitch & Games
Amazon.com, Inc.
410 Terry Ave N
Seattle, WA 98109

CC: Andrew R. Jassy
President and Chief Executive Officer
Amazon.com, Inc.
410 Terry Ave N
Seattle, WA 98109

Dear Mr. Clancy,

I am writing to express alarm about the amplification of antisemitism on Twitch at the hands of Hasan Piker, who is one of the largest political streamers with a following of 2.7 million. Since October 7th, there has been an explosion of Jew-hatred on social media platforms.

Hasan Piker has emerged as the poster child for the post-October 7th outbreak of antisemitism in America. Mr. Piker has demonized Orthodox Jews as “inbred”[1] and has dehumanized a Jewish man as a “bloodthirsty pig dog”[2]: the association of Jews with pigs and blood-thirst is textbook antisemitism. Mr. Piker has all but exposed himself as an apologist for the sexual violence and savage rapes of October 7th. “It doesn’t matter if rape happened on October 7th. It doesn’t change the dynamic for me,” Mr. Piker declares before finally admitting that “Palestinian resistance” (his euphemism for terrorism) is not perfect.”[3]

Mr. Piker has said he has “no issue” with Hezbollah,[4] the world’s the most heavily armed terrorist organization in the world, and has given a platform to a suspected terrorist from the Houthis.[5] The US government has declared Hezbollah a Foreign Terrorist Organization (in the

  1. ↑ https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UBBBDxXng7n8jNo4ej1W-8ONZrHETsSk/view?usp=sharing
  2. ↑ https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HdFYUsGLwYoZ1YPE7zHn3mCTFoLrL-7k/view?usp=sharing
  3. ↑ https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dyKD0-UlU-cECmvCUxa_fPFPOsGJi8Md/view?usp=sharing
  4. ↑ https://www.mediaite.com/politics/left-wing-pundit-hasan-piker-says-i-dont-have-an-issue-with-hezbollah-praises-yemens-houthis-for-seizing-ships/
  5. ↑ https://www.adl.org/resources/article/anti-israel-activists-applaud-houthi-violence
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