Twitch streamer Asmongold has been banned from the platform following deeply racist and genocidal statements he made during a stream Monday evening. Asmongold has been a streamer and YouTube creator for over a decade and has amassed 3.5 million Twitch subscribers on his main account.

Comments made by Asmongold

Asmongold claimed, without evidence, that the genocide of the Palestinians was enshrined in Sharia law and that he had no sympathy for a people with such an ideology being “genocided.” The banner went on to claim that the Palestinians were a “terrible people” and that if they possessed the same amount of weapons as Israel, they would be responsible for the same level of carnage currently inflicted on the people of Gaza and the West Bank. Supporters of the Israeli government often invoke such counterfactuals to justify the violence inflicted by the regime and to mask the violence under the guise of self-defense.

Asmongold went on to say that Palestinians should not be treated as allies because they “are not the same to us” and come from an “inferior culture.” Such blatant Islamophobic comments forced Twitch to take action against the streamer. However, the platform has not released a statement regarding the ban.

Asmongold speaks with Hasan Piker

After making these comments, he joined Hasan Piker’s Twitch stream to discuss the ongoing crisis in Gaza. Piker attempted to show his guest how these comments reflected the language used by the Nazis during the Holocaust and explained that half of Gaza’s population would have been too young to vote for Hamas in the last elections held in 2005 .

Asmongold thought it wise to send an apology, reflecting on the position his remarks had landed him in. “Come to think of it, I was way too much of an asshole about the Palestine thing. My fault.”

Throughout his apology, he downplays the violence in his language and attributes it to “saying stupid shit,” adding that he “would do better.”