Hasan Piker Joins Infamous Anti Israel Chant as Cornell Crowd Roars

Socialist streamer Hasan Piker joined an anti-Israel chant at Cornell University on Thursday, capping a controversial appearance with a scene that quickly drew outrage, as reported by The New York Post.

Video showed much of the audience inside Sage Chapel loudly participating as Piker held a microphone near his mouth.

Piker, 35, had appeared before supporters of the Ivy League institution’s “Students Not Bombs” campaign. Before the chant began, he urged those gathered to “maintain revolutionary optimism, always.”

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“On that note, if you want to join me in a protest chant,” the event moderator, who wore a keffiyeh, told Piker and the audience.

She then began the familiar call that has been widely condemned as demanding the destruction of Israel.

“From the river to the sea…” the moderator chanted. The audience answered, “Palestine will be free.”

Piker raised his microphone and could be heard mumbling along with the response.

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The chant was repeated two more times before a man seated on the benches began another chant of “Free, free Palestine,” prompting Piker to raise his microphone again and mumble in response.

The streamer received loud cheers from the audience and was treated like a rock star as he departed.

The response inside the chapel stood in sharp contrast to the anger that erupted after footage of the event circulated.

Cornell’s Student for Justice in Palestine and Young Democratic Socialists of America movements organized the event.

It took place the same day Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani at the United Nations General Assembly over Mamdani’s friendship with Piker.

Critics responding to footage of the chants labeled Cornell a “bastion of hate.” One viewer said, “Pretty disappointed in Cornell for this one.”

A graduate offered a harsher rebuke of the university’s decision to host the streamer. “Disgusted that Cornell gave Hasan Piker a platform today,” the graduate said.

“As an alum, I am embarrassed and outraged. Cornell, what are you thinking? You can do better.”

Others expressed disbelief that the gathering was held in Sage Chapel. The chapel became the first nonsectarian chapel at a United States college when it opened in 1875.

Before Piker’s appearance, Cornell’s Hillel chapter said his views “go against our values as Americans and Jews.” The chapter also described his “hateful rhetoric” as “repulsive.”

SAFE Campus, a Jewish advocacy group, circulated a petition urging Cornell and state and federal officials to cancel the event.

The petition referenced Cornell’s claim that the university had taken “a clear and strong stand” against antisemitism following the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attacks.

Piker’s appearance occurred less than a year after Cornell agreed to pay $60 million in a settlement with the Trump administration.

The agreement resolved investigations involving campus antisemitism and resulted in approximately $250 million in federal research funding being unfrozen.

The New Jersey-born provocateur previously sparked fury in 2019 by claiming America deserved the Sept. 11 attacks.

He has also justified the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks, calling the massacre that killed roughly 1,200 innocents a “direct consequence of Israeli actions.”

Piker also said that “it doesn’t matter if f–king rapes happened on Oct. 7.”

His commentary on the Middle East has repeatedly raised eyebrows, including a claim earlier this month that the region “would be more stable” if Iran possessed nuclear weapons.

“I think Iran, much like any other sovereign nation, has a right to defend itself, regardless of its domestic policies,” Piker told Axios correspondent Alex Thompson.

The streamer has previously spoken at the University of South California and Dartmouth University.

Piker is the nephew of Cenk Uygur, founder of The Young Turks.

He has campaigned with Michigan US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed during the primary election and named far-left New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as his preferred candidate for the 2028 presidential election.

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