Being named from the rostrum of the United Nations General Assembly is not the kind of attention most internet personalities angle for. But that is what happened to streamer Hasan Piker this week, according to a column by J.R. Dunn in American Thinker, which argues the mention was less an honor than a warning.
During his address, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu turned to the question of American Jewish security, singling out cities like New York where, in his telling, many Jews no longer feel at home. Dunn quotes the prime minister’s remarks: “Many Jews no longer feel safe in New York. They talk to me. They tell me, this isn’t the city we remember. It changed so quickly. Now it’s no wonder. You count as friends people like Hasan Piker, who said America deserved 9/11.”
Dunn, writing in the outlet’s blog section, frames the moment with more than a little irony — noting that, for whatever reason, New York Mayor Mamdani did not follow through on a promise to have Netanyahu arrested during the visit. The columnist lets the question hang rather than answering it.
Piker’s Response, in His Own Livestream
Piker did not let the moment pass. On his podcast, in a segment Dunn describes as rambling and near-incoherent, the streamer processed the experience aloud. Dunn reproduces his reaction: “And every single person kept saying, yeah sure dude… He just hates you organically, it’s not Israel. Where are we at now? Is it normal, ya think, for the f******* prime minister of Israel to mention me at the UN General Assembly…”
The question, as Dunn sees it, answers itself. He suggests Piker seemed unnerved — and perhaps with reason. The columnist points to another moment from the same broadcast, in which Piker addressed viewers directly: “…people have asked in the chat, do you feel that the Israeli government is watching your moves? Yes. And this is perhaps more proof.”
Dunn’s take is blunt: of course they are. In his telling, Israel maintains tabs on antisemites around the world, and he places Piker among the most prominent such voices online. He goes further, suggesting the streamer might be wise to be more paranoid than he already is, arguing that since the Holocaust, Israel has shown little hesitation in dealing with Jew-haters however it sees fit.
A Long Memory, and a Longer Reach
Much of Dunn’s column is devoted to that history, which he presents as context for why a UN name-check carries weight. He recalls the postwar campaign by Jewish survivors to pursue those responsible — a campaign, he writes, whose full details we will likely never know. Survivors memorized the names and personal details of especially brutal camp guards and, in his account, dispatched teams to their hometowns to settle accounts. That threat, he argues, is largely why smuggling networks like ODESSA existed, moving SS personnel out of Europe. He cites one group of Lithuanian Jewish resistance fighters, Nakam, which he says successfully poisoned 2,200 SS prisoners in Nuremberg.
From there, Dunn traces what he describes as decades of Israeli pursuit of Nazis worldwide, led principally by the Mossad. The best-known case was Adolf Eichmann, a senior administrator of the Final Solution, abducted by Mossad operatives in Argentina in 1960 and smuggled to Israel, where he was tried and executed. Josef Mengele, the Auschwitz “Angel of Death,” escaped that fate — but Dunn notes that the hunt reduced him to a wreck who spent his nights in a tower attached to his Paraguay farmhouse, staring wildly into the dark.
The same resolve, Dunn writes, has been directed at Islamic terrorists. He points to the gunmen who killed the Israeli Olympic team in Munich in 1972, and, more recently, to the effort to track down those who planned and carried out the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack. He singles out footage of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar futilely throwing a piece of wreckage at the Israeli drone closing in on him, calling it peculiarly satisfying.
Where the Column Lands
Dunn is careful — up to a point — to say he is not predicting a Mossad hit team will visit Piker. But he does suggest the streamer should read Netanyahu’s speech as a shot across the bow, and he reminds readers that there are many ways short of that to make a person’s life miserable. He credits Piker with knowing as much.
The column closes on a note that ties the episode to a broader theme running through American Thinker’s pages: the importance, as the outlet puts it, of the ability to speak one’s mind to the republic it cherishes. It is a framing that sits somewhat at odds with the piece’s own suggestion that a streamer might have reason to look over his shoulder — a tension the publication does not attempt to resolve, and which readers are left to weigh for themselves.
What is clear from the source material is the sequence of events: a prime minister used a UN address to name an American streamer; the streamer responded on his own platform; and a columnist for a conservative outlet decided the exchange said something worth writing about — about speech, about security, and about who ends up in the crosshairs of a national memory that does not, by Dunn’s telling, forget.
Source: www.americanthinker.com — https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/09/hasan-thinks-twice/