Twitch streamer Hasan Piker detained at the border and questioned for hours over politics
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"They straight up tried to get something out of me that I think they could use to basically detain me permanently"

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.

  • شاهد على إبادة@lemm.ee
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    14 days 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:

    1. The Palestinian people are one people, made up of all Palestinians, inside and outside of Palestine, irrespective of their religion, culture or political affiliation
    1. 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.
    1. 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.
    1. 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