Hasan Piker

These are Palestinians, right?

Of course, it's important to understand how they arrived at militant resistance, why they're doing it, and how their methods have also evolved and how such heinous acts of violence even take place.

A lot of people want to just believe that.

that Hamas did this because they're violent, barbaric anti-Semites.

I don't think that's the case.

Actually, I know that that's not the case.

This is, like, are there anti-Semitic people?

I'm about to say.

Of course.

Of course.

Now, of course, of course, there's anti-Semitic people within the Palestinian resistance.

There's anti-Semitic people in America.

There's anti-Semitic people everywhere.

But the anger or the goals of Hamas is to make the occupation as costly as possible while also simultaneously trying to negotiate with Israel at a time when Palestinians had been completely written off from the conversation and that it was all but over.

That ethnic cleansing was an inevitability.

I am, at the end of the day, someone who is engaging in, and this is a Marxist term that a lot of people get mad at because they don't understand that propaganda is supposed to be a neutral term in its inception, but this is agitative propaganda.

The entire point I'm making there is to cause you to second guess when we have this back-and-forth conversation, as I'm sure...

Many people who will be tuning in to listen to this conversation will maybe think about this perspective differently than they ever have.

The reality is Republicans get to portray themselves as authentic.

On the internet, authenticity is everything.