Hasan Piker and Ethan Klein (H3) Debate

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Overview

The Hasan Piker and Ethan Klein Debate is an upcoming debate between streamer Hasan Piker (Hasanabi) and YouTube podcaster Ethan Klein of the H3 Podcast. The debate is inspired by the ongoing feud between Piker and Klein regarding the Israel-Hamas conflict, the falling out of their podcast Leftovers and Klein's opinion that Piker supports terrorist groups like Hamas and the Houthis in his support for Palestine, thus radicalizing his viewers and fostering antisemitism online.

This is detailed in Klein's "Content Nuke" video on Piker. Conversely, Piker believes Klein, who insists on a two-state solution regarding Israel-Hamas, is a zionist and that his sympathy towards Israel and his criticism of pro-Palestinian voices hurts the pro-Palestinian cause. Currently, the debate is purportedly set to take place on both the H3 Podcast and Piker's Twitch stream on Friday, May 2nd, 2025 at 12:30 PST.

History

On April 23rd, 2025, Ethan Klein said during an episode of the H3 Podcast on YouTube^[1] that he was ready to talk with Hasan Piker regarding their ongoing feud. Originally, Klein's plan was to first talk with leftist political commentator Sam Seder, then Piker. Klein predicts that Piker will find a way to get out of the debate.

Prior to this, Klein had agreed to debate Piker after he watched his "Content Nuke" video, however, Piker continuously refused to watch it on-stream.

On April 29th, Ethan Klein made two posts to his Instagram Story.^[2] In the first, he shares an article by the Free Press^[3] that criticizes Hasan Piker for many of the same reasons that Klein does. Klein writes that while he doesn't agree with the pro-Israel slant of the article, he shared it because "no one else in the media is talking about this serious problem of Hasan and Twitch glamorizing terror orgs." At the end of the post he writes, "Hasan, I believe it would be a good time to finally speak, would you like to come on the show on Friday?"

In the second Story post, he writes that Hasan agreed to call in and proposed a time of 12:30 PST on Friday, May 2nd, 2025.