Twitch streamer and famousĀ YouTuber Zack ā€œAsmongoldā€ HoytĀ has had hisĀ zackrawrr accountĀ banned after a racist rant about Muslims and Palestinians killed in Gaza went viral on social media. ā€œMy bad,ā€ he shared on X (formerly Twitter) following an online backlash. ā€œLooking back on it, I was way too much of an asshole about the Palestine thing.ā€ His other Twitch channel,Ā Asmongold, remains up.

In addition to playing games, Hoyt frequently livestreams extended chat sessions where he comments on other peopleā€™s YouTube videos or whatever topics are gaining traction on his dedicated subreddit. In the midst of a recent livestream, he began talking about Israelā€™s war on Gaza, which the Gaza Health Ministry says has killedĀ over 40,000 Palestinians since it beganĀ just over a year ago following the October 7 attack by Hamas.

ā€œIf you want to consider a genocide as a systematic killing of a group of people they have genocide built into Sharia law right now so no Iā€™m not going to cry a fucking river when people who have genocide thatā€™s baked into their laws are getting genocided,ā€ Hoyt said duringĀ a portion of the stream that was clippedĀ and shared on social media (the original VOD doesnā€™t appear to be online). ā€œI donā€™t give a fuck. Theyā€™re terrible people. Itā€™s not even a question. Itā€™s crazy people donā€™t see it that way. Theyā€™d be doing the same thing.ā€