Braden Peters, the 20-year-old American streamer known online as Clavicular, arrived in Tel Aviv this past weekend and promptly ran into two Israels. At the Loullie beach club on Saturday night, staff identified him, asked him to leave, and confirmed the account to Israeli media after he was removed. A short walk along the coast, Jewish and pro-Israel creators were lining up to film content with him, his livestream chats filled with antisemitic taunts from his own audience, and a senior adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talked with him at the Shlavata beach bar.
The trip, Peters’ first to Israel, has opened a public split inside the pro-Israel creator community. Some frame it as a chance to redirect a large young audience toward Israel at a moment when the country is widely seen as a pariah. Orthodox, hasbara, and Arab-Israeli voices inside the same world counter that welcoming a streamer with a documented record of singing along to Ye’s “Heil Hitler” alongside white supremacist Nick Fuentes is a self-inflicted blow to the credibility they spent years building against antisemitism.
From Loullie to Shlavata: One Night, Two Responses
Israeli influencer Aaron Morali, who rose to fame as a cast member on “Love Island Israel,” was at Loullie with friends on Saturday when he recognized Peters drawing a crowd outside the club. He told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency he knew Peters had appeared alongside Nick Fuentes singing along to “Heil Hitler” and otherwise consorted with antisemites. “We thought maybe he was a big influencer supporting Israel,” Morali said. “But we very quickly understood that he wasn’t.”
Loullie confirmed to Israeli media that Peters and a companion entered the venue and that the companion began confronting patrons and filming with a light. When the companion refused a request from the venue’s security officer to stop and turn off the camera, the club removed them both. Morali’s video of Peters standing outside the club, captioned “We don’t need any antisemites here. Am Israel Chai,” spread quickly online.
A short distance down the beach, the response ran the other way. Crowds of young Israelis gathered around Peters as he livestreamed from beaches and nightclubs, his chat filling with viewers accusing him of selling out and taunting him to “kiss the wall,” a reference to the Western Wall that has become a taunt in some far-right online circles. Overnight Saturday into Sunday, Channel 13 reported, Peters spoke briefly with Topaz Luk, a longtime adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the Shlavata beach bar. Luk told the network he met Peters “at an event by coincidence” and that Peters “said sorry for his antisemitic remark.” Luk separately told the Walla outlet that Peters claimed he planned to meet Holocaust survivors and issue a public apology. “We’ll wait and see,” Luk told Walla.
| Venue | Response |
|---|---|
| Loullie beach club | Staff identified Peters and asked him and his companion to leave when filming continued; club confirmed the account to Israeli media |
| Shalvata beach bar | Netanyahu adviser Topaz Luk spoke with him and said Peters apologized for antisemitic remarks; Luk told Walla he would “wait and see” |
The Welcome That Split the Pro-Israel Creator World
The collaborations began within hours of Peters landing. Rabbi Yossi Farro, who built a social media following by wrapping tefillin on celebrities and what he calls “powerful Jews,” met Peters for lunch at the Royal Beach Hotel in Tel Aviv. He posted a video of the exchange online, presenting Peters with a necklace combining the OpenAI logo and a Star of David and joking that the piece amounted to ChatGPT mogging David, internet slang meaning to outshine someone. Farro later wrote that Peters was “loving Israel and Israel is loving him.” Farro did not respond to multiple requests for comment from JTA.
Influencer Shira Braun, whose bio says she is “representing Jewish & Israeli women,” appeared in videos with Clavicular in which she was presented as his girlfriend. Braun said she had received death threats as a result. Several other Israeli creators posted clips of themselves with Peters at beaches and nightclubs, framing the trip as a chance to reach his audience at a time when Israel has been locked out of much of the global influencer circuit.
Peters told The Free Press he had come to Israel because it was “unexplored territory” for major influencers, few of whom have broadcast from the country, which he said was “viral.” In response to backlash from his own followers, he told the outlet he is “not a political guy.” The trip was not, he said, about the Israeli-Palestinian debate. JTA could not reach him through multiple other channels. His STATUSMAXING post from the Tel Aviv beach drew the same divided comments.
The collaborations drew the criticism Hallel Abramowitz-Silverman had already named in writing before most of them happened. Her Jerusalem Post column, published during the trip, called it a growing culture within parts of Israel’s advocacy and creator community that mistakes influence for integrity. The same warning has surfaced before, including among groups like an earlier pro-Israel creator delegation’s brush with online threats.
Critics Inside the Community Draw the Line
The pushback inside the pro-Israel creator world was as public as the welcome. Orthodox Jewish influencer Golda Daphna posted a series of Instagram videos criticizing Peters during his visit. In one, she played a recording of Peters saying, after being shown a photo of an Israeli woman, “Does she want to have sex? Just tell the girls I’m looking to have sex in a bathroom.” Daphna wrote in another post: “Whoever gives this behavior a platform, in my opinion, has ended their career.”
Eden Sisson, an influencer involved in hasbara, the public diplomacy work done on Israel’s behalf, urged Israeli women not to appear in Peters’s videos. “Don’t give him the attention he’s looking for. If he approaches you with a camera, think twice before participating,” Sisson wrote. “Someone who has chosen to use Nazi slogans and symbols in the past does not deserve your trust.” Channel 12 personality Hagar Amgar echoed the warning on Instagram: “A few seconds of footage can be edited, taken out of context, and shared with millions of people.” Arab-Israeli activist Yoseph Haddad went further and publicly called for Peters to be deported.
The opposition cut across the usual lines of Israeli advocacy. Daphna is Orthodox; Sisson works on hasbara; Amgar is a mainstream TV personality; Haddad is one of the most prominent Arab-Israeli voices online. Their shared message was that the cost of the welcome lands on the people the collaborations put in front of Peters’s cameras and on the credibility of creators claiming to oppose antisemitism.
Somewhere along the way, we started believing that if someone has enough followers, we should be grateful they’re willing to talk to us at all, even if they have spent years platforming hatred, extremism, or misogyny.
Hallel Abramowitz-Silverman, writing in The Jerusalem Post, July 12, 2026.
Why He Got In When Tyler Oliveira Did Not
The trip has revived a question about how Israel decides who enters. The Ministry for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism declined to comment on Clavicular’s entry into Israel. The same ministry has, in recent months, urged the Population and Immigration Authority, which has the power to permit or deny entry, to bar prominent figures on both the right and left with records of antisemitic and anti-Israel activity. In May, that policy produced its highest-profile result: the deportation of right-wing YouTuber Tyler Oliveira’s deportation from Ben Gurion Airport.
Oliveira had made the Hasidic community in Kiryas Joel, New York, and the Orthodox community of Lakewood, New Jersey, the targets of his content, drawing more than 9 million views on individual videos. Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli confirmed the decision on X, resurfacing a month-old post in which Oliveira had asked whether Israel would let him into the country, and replied with one word: “No.”
The contrast with Peters is the puzzle. Peters has been filmed singing along to “Heil Hitler” alongside avowed antisemites, repeatedly called Israeli women “Stacys” on stream, and shared a post by Fuentes during his Israel trip. The Diaspora Ministry’s statement about Oliveira’s case described the bar as activity that “goes beyond legitimate freedom of expression” and includes “inciting statements against Jews and the dissemination of content with antisemitic characteristics.” Asked to explain why Peters was admitted, the ministry did not respond.
The same Population and Immigration Authority has used entry denials in recent years on political as well as antisemitic grounds, blocking European Union lawmakers Lynn Boylan and Rima Hassan over support for the boycott Israel movement last year and US Representatives Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar in 2019. Asked which criteria it applied in admitting Peters, the ministry did not respond.
Peters’ U.S. Record: A January Nightclub and Three Open Cases
The Israel trip is the latest entry in a record that has produced criminal cases as well as online uproar. On January 17, 2026, Peters appeared in a video at the Vendôme nightclub in Miami Beach singing along to Ye’s “Heil Hitler” alongside Nick Fuentes, Sneako, the Tate brothers, and Myron Gaines. The venue apologized and fired staff after the footage circulated. Asked at the time whether he was sorry, Peters said on stream: “I am not sorry. I don’t apologize for what I did. I would do it again today.”
In Florida, he was charged with unlawfully discharging a firearm after a livestream appeared to show him shooting a dead alligator in the Everglades. That case resolved in May 2026 through a plea deal carrying six months of probation and 20 hours of community service. Separately, he was arrested in Arizona on suspicion of drug possession and using a fake ID. On February 11, 2026, the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office dropped those charges. The office cited “no reasonable likelihood of conviction.”
He is also being sued in civil court in Miami-Dade County by Aleksandra Mendoza, an 18-year-old influencer who alleges he sexually assaulted her when she was 16. The complaint includes battery, fraud, and emotional distress claims. Peters’ lawyer has denied the claims, calling them unproven.
Braden Peters’ recent legal record
- January 17, 2026: filmed at Miami Beach’s Vendôme nightclub singing along to Ye’s “Heil Hitler” alongside Nick Fuentes and others; venue apologized and fired staff
- February 11, 2026: Maricopa County prosecutors drop drug possession and fake ID charges, citing “no reasonable likelihood of conviction”
- May 2026: resolves Florida alligator-shooting case with a plea deal, six months of probation, and 20 hours of community service
- Civil suit pending in Miami-Dade County: an 18-year-old influencer alleges sexual assault; Peters’ lawyer calls the claims unproven
The Cost the Welcome Hands to Israeli Women
The loudest objection inside Israel has been that the collaborations put Israeli women in front of a creator whose content treats them as material. Peters has repeatedly referred to Israeli women as “Stacys”, looksmaxxing slang for attractive women, on stream during the trip, and the audio Daphna played included an open request for Israeli women to meet him in a bathroom for sex. Daphna and Sisson, the hasbara influencer, both urged women not to appear in his videos, with Sisson warning that his past use of Nazi slogans and symbols made him untrustworthy. The risk, critics say, runs through the footage itself. Clips can be pulled out, recombined, and shipped back into the same corner of the internet that already amplified the “Heil Hitler” video in January.
The strategic case for engaging Peters, that his audience is large and Israel has been locked out of much of the global creator circuit, was named most clearly by Abramowitz-Silverman as the case she was answering. Her counter, written as her own community was filming the collaborations: “The internet doesn’t distinguish between a private collaboration and an official welcome.” Inside the pro-Israel creator world, that line is now the one everyone is choosing a side on. Luk, the Netanyahu adviser, told Walla he would wait to see whether Peters makes the promised public apology and visits Holocaust survivors. On Peters’s own Sunday livestream, viewers were still asking whether he had “kissed the wall” yet.
