The University of Washington has canceled an event with anti-Semitic streamer Hasan Piker, which was scheduled for January, the public school recently told JNS.

JNS had reported that not only did the university plan to host the hateful commentator, upon whom it heaped praise in the description of the event, which two of the university’s schools planned to co-host, but the public school had also suggested that attendees pay $10 each for tickets.

Free speech?

“I’m happy that the University of Washington, for literally the first time ever, has made the correct decision to not have an America-hating communist spread his hatred and terrible ideology to young people at our taxpayer-funded universities,” Travis Couture, a Republican state representative, told JNS.

“Obviously universities are a place for First Amendment free speech, but someone who said that America deserves 9/11 and that capitalist blood should spill in the street should not be someone we are promoting with our tax dollars,” Couture said.

“Every elected official and taxpayer-funded organization should be asked to condemn socialism, communism and Democratic Socialists of America people like Hasan Piker,” Couture told JNS. “If they will not condemn those people, actions and extreme ideology, then they should be disqualified from serving the people of Washington state.”