Asmongold: Twitch streamer suspended after Palestinian rant

Twitch’s community guidelines state the streaming platform does not allow behaviour “that promotes or encourages discrimination”.

It also bars streamers from making content which “expresses inferiority based on a protected characteristic”.

Asmongold has faced a backlash from his fellow Twitch streamers, with BrookeAB, who has 1.3m followers on the platform, calling his comments, external “straight up racism”.

And Hasan Piker, who streams as HasanAbi, spoke to Asmongold on a stream before the ban – but he did not back down from his original comments.

In the same conversation, he said he did not support Israel.

Asmongold was streaming on his Zachrawrr channel, where he often talks about news stories or trending topics, and has 1.9 million followers.

His other channel has 3.5 million followers but is used far less often.

However, Twitch community guidelines do not allow suspended users to use their other accounts while they are banned.

Asmongold has not commented on the suspension.