What the video shows
On Sept. 24, 2026, political commentator and streamer Hasan Piker appeared at Sage Chapel at Cornell University. The Cornell Daily Sun reported that the event ran from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., was open to ticketed members of the Cornell community and was hosted by the Students Not Bombs campaign.
At the end of the event, Adriana Vink, a Cornell student and co-president of Cornell Students for Justice in Palestine, led the chant, "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free." Piker and members of the audience joined. The Cornell Daily Sun, whose reporters covered the event, documented the same sequence.
The short video later circulated on X is edited. The words "Free Palestine with Hasan Piker" appear as an added overlay, but no primary source reviewed for this article establishes that phrase as the event's official title.
https://x.com/StopAntisemites/status/2103857414642528646
Who organized the event
Advance and on-scene reporting identifies Students Not Bombs as the host. The coalition included Cornell Students for Justice in Palestine, Jewish Voice for Peace and Cornell Young Democratic Socialists of America.
Cornell provided the venue and security procedures, and an assistant dean of students opened the program with a reminder about the university's expressive activity policy. The available record, however, identifies student groups as the political organizers. It does not establish that Cornell University endorsed the speakers' views.
The Cornell Daily Sun identifies Vink as Class of 2027, an opinion columnist and an SJP co-president. She also moderated the question-and-answer portion of the event.
The claims attached to the clip
StopAntisemitism's Sept. 26 post said Piker had previously stated that America "deserved 9/11." The core quotation is documented. Piker made the remark during a 2019 discussion of U.S. foreign policy and military intervention. He later described the wording as inappropriate and said his argument was directed at American foreign policy rather than the victims of the attacks.
The post also said Piker "denied the Hamas-led sexual violence of 10/7." The surviving record is more specific. Piker has disputed claims of Hamas-directed or systematic mass rape, challenged some eyewitness accounts and argued that post-attack evidence handling compromised the evidentiary record.
In an April 2026 interview with The New Republic, however, Piker said sexual violence does occur in such situations and that there was testimony of sexual violence involving hostages. That makes an unqualified statement that he denied all sexual violence on Oct. 7 broader than the material currently supports.
A 2024 United Nations mission found reasonable grounds to believe that conflict-related sexual violence, including rape and gang rape, occurred in at least three locations during the Oct. 7 attacks. It also reported clear and convincing information that hostages experienced sexual violence in captivity, while noting significant evidentiary limitations.
What the StopAntisemitism post adds
The X post went beyond documenting the event. It told "future employers" to take note and asked whether Vink was someone they would want representing their organizations. That is advocacy by the account publishing the post, not a factual detail about what happened at Cornell.
As of the publication check, no specific public response to the StopAntisemitism post had been located from Vink, Piker or Cornell University.
The slogan "From the river to the sea" is itself heavily contested. Critics often interpret it as a rejection of Israel's continued existence, while supporters may describe it as a call for Palestinian freedom or equal rights. The video establishes the words that were chanted and who joined them. It does not, by itself, establish the precise interpretation each participant intended.
