Popular Twitch Streamer Asmongold Gets Banned After A Rant Against Palestinians

Zack Hoyt, the popular streamer best known as Asmongold, has had one of his channels temporarily banned from Twitch after garnering backlash for a rant about Palestinians and the conflict in Gaza.

Going to Zackrawrr, the channel on which Hoyt primarily streams and where he made the remarks, now leads to a notification that says, "This channel is temporarily unavailable due to a violation of Twitch's Community Guidelines or Terms of Service." Another one of Hoyt's channels, Asmongold, is still live, although he hasn't streamed on that channel since last year.

"If you want to consider it genocide as a systematic killing of a group of people, they have genocide built into Sharia law right now," Hoyt said during the stream. "So no, I'm not going to cry a f*cking river when people who have genocide that's baked into their laws are getting genocided. I don't give a f*ck. They're terrible people. It's not even a question. It's crazy that people don't see it that way."

"They'd (Palestinians) be doing the same thing," he continued. "'And how much did they kill?' As many as they can. They're not able to kill as many people as Israel because they don't have as many bombs and as many weapons. But if they did, they'd be doing the same thing... These people are not your allies. They are not the same as us. They come from an inferior culture that is horrible, it kills people for their identity, and it is directly antithetical to everything Western values stand for, and it is an inferior culture in all ways. It is that simple."