London festival invites speaker who said he would 'vote for Hamas over Israel' and 'US deserved 9/11'

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London festival invites speaker who said he would 'vote for Hamas over Israel' and 'US deserved 9/11'.

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A London festival has invited a controversial commentator to appear at the event despite saying he would "vote for Hamas over Israel" and that the "US deserved 9/11".Hasan Piker is listed among the speakers at "How the American Left Learned to Speak the Internet" at London SXSW in early June.Mr Piker has faced a backlash over some of his comments, including reportedly saying on a livestream in 2019 that "America deserved 9/11", which he later acknowledged as "inappropriate".He said last month he stood by comments that Hamas was "1,000 times better" than Israel, and that he "would vote for Hamas over Israel every single time" in an episode of Pod Save America.

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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say He insisted he is not antisemitic, but "anti-Israel", in an interview with Variety last year.One Labour MP has called for the US live-streamer, who has more than three million followers on Twitch and over 1.5 million on X, to be blocked from entering the UK to speak at the festival.Hemel Hempstead...

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