Gloria Allred has criticised the New Yorker for inviting a Hamas rapist apologist to speak at an event.

Hasan Piker, an influencer described by the New Yorker as a “commentator”, will participate in a “round table event” on the “New Political Arena”.

Mr Piker has made a slew of anti-Semitic remarks, describing Orthodox Jews as “inbred” and played down the sexual assault of women on October 7.

“It doesn’t matter if rapes happened on October 7,” he said during a Twitch stream. “It doesn’t change the dynamic for me even this much.”

Twitch is an Amazon-owned site where users typically livestream themselves playing video games. Mr Piker has approximately 2.9 million followers on the site, under the username Hasanabi, according to TwitchTracker.

His channel is the 22nd most popular on the streaming platform.