University event with Hasan Piker in Texas draws backlash from both sides of the aisle

Piker, who hosts hours-long streams on a daily basis, is known for his incendiary rhetoric, anti-capitalist views and anti-Israel stance. The streamer has recently become a source of an offline debate over how Democrats engage with voters.

"Jewish students at UT should not be made to feel targeted or unsafe on their own campus," he added.

In a statement provided to Fox News Digital, Cruz said that Piker's appearance at an event by University Democrats was a statement about the status of the Democratic Party.

"Hasan Piker is an America-hating Marxist who has said that America deserved 9/11 and celebrates political violence against Republicans," Cruz's statement read. "Americans are entitled to free speech, but it is incumbent upon good people to condemn Piker's incitement. Instead, some Democrats are bringing him to college campuses, while almost all other Democrats are conspicuously silent or worse. It says everything about the state of their party."

Andrew Mahaleris, press secretary for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, also chimed in, telling Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) that "Terrorist sympathizers have no place in Texas."