During a highly charged Twitch broadcast on March 26, 2025, popular streamer HasanAbi, whose real name is Hasan Piker, launched a fierce critique against YouTube personality and H3 Podcast host Ethan Klein. This intense exchange was rooted in their ongoing discord regarding the complex dynamics of the Israel-Palestine conflict, with both figures holding sharply contrasting perspectives.
Piker and Klein, once considered friends and co-hosts, have not engaged in a formal debate, yet they frequently provide commentary on each other’s remarks across their platforms. A particularly viral moment from HasanAbi’s stream involved him labeling Klein a “monster,”a comment that quickly spread through social media channels such as X.
In the viral clip, HasanAbi condemned Klein, declaring his moral character questionable while critiquing Ethan’s comments about the situation in Gaza. He stated:
“Look man, 17 months of ethnic cleansing. If you’re still justifying bombing hospitals with f**king fake bullsh*t that Israel never provided evidence for, you’re a monster. You’re not a good person. You are a f**king bad person, okay? It’s not about debates, it’s not about beef. It’s not about f**king drama. It’s not about your dying career, okay? You are just a bad person.”
Moreover, HasanAbi accused Klein of misleading his audience by circulating misinformation regarding Israeli military actions in Gaza:
“Not only are you a bad person, but you’re actively also deluding your f**king fans who are not bad people themselves. But simply deluded and misguided stans into agreeing with bad positions. You are using the remainder of the influence that you have over an increasingly smaller audience to fill their heads chock full of misinformation at the behest of establishing a defensive posture for a genocidal apartheid state. It’s f**king awful.”
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HasanAbi further denounced Klein’s talking points, equating them with Nazi rhetoric and expressing sorrow over their past friendship:
“That can’t feel good. Deep down inside there has to be a dude that I met, that I knew, that’s going, ‘Ughh, don’t do this. This is maybe a bridge too far.’ You cannot be this f**king deluded. This is straight forward N*zi sh*t, dude. One step removed from Lebensraum.”
What Prompted HasanAbi’s Accusations Against Ethan Klein?
The feud between these two online personalities has included numerous remarks on various topics, but the specific call-out of Klein as a “monster”stemmed from HasanAbi’s reaction to a segment of Ethan’s H3 Podcast. The contentious clip was shared on March 26 by the X user @Disinfo_Tracker, during which Klein discussed the controversial allegation that Hamas operates military installations beneath hospitals.
In the video, Ethan Klein commented:
“They literally put f**king command centers under hospitals. That’s not even debated. They were keeping some of the hostages in the hospitals too, it’s like a lot of them were ran through hospitals. That’s it, logical right? That’s their best play, that’s all they have. And so they do it. So I say god protect these brave Gazans.”
It was following this segment that HasanAbi began his evaluation and criticism of Klein’s viewpoints, marking a significant moment in their ongoing public dispute.