Turkish-American political commentator Cenk Uygur said he has been barred from entering the United Kingdom after authorities revoked his travel authorisation ahead of planned events in London and Oxford this week.
Uygur has repeatedly criticised Israel’s military campaign in Gaza and described its actions as genocide.
Political commentator and Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, Uygur’s nephew, said on social media that British authorities had also revoked his visa.
“The UK has revoked my visa as well,” Piker wrote, alleging the decision was made “at the behest of Israel”. Piker is also scheduled to appear at SXSW London this week. South by Southwest (SXSW) is an annual film and music event.
“Antisemitism”
Herr Schtarmer
Out of all the shit he says, his Israel takes are the sanest.
Yeah I’d ban Cenk for being a known genocide denier and possible genocide supporter. (*‘The Young Turks’ were ethno-nationalists into racial purity…) rather than his takes on Israel.
ok ms lane, but dont those accusations of bias pale in comparison to accusations of actual mass murder? One is a transgression of manners and one is well, mass murder. Not even close to in the same league, but you focus exclusively on the genocide denial and antisemitism as if they were the most important thing. Seems to me that the fact of mass murder renders talk of bad manners as a trite waste of time and a misdirection from those weightier issues. Consider just a single instance of murder, 5 year old Hind Rajab. Can you weigh Cenk’s words against her murder? Why arent the IDF members who shot Rajab (murders ordered by IDF Lieutenant colonel Beni Aharon) and the medics who came to aid her banned from the UK? No. Are you demanding that they be banned from the UK like you are demanding for Cenk? No, you’re sure not. Why not?
Is anyone on the zionist side going to die if Cenk speaks at SXSW about Israel’s genocide of Palestinians? No. They wont. They will just be peaved that they arent getting their way in media and dominating the narrative.
They block these two for speech but they dont block israelis for actual mass murder. Seems like an illegitimate government.
What did they say? I hate news that describes that somebody did such and such bad and therefore consequence, but they don’t actually say what they said so you can’t judge for yourself whether it was legitimate or bullshit.
On his Twitter account. The article links the tweet
https://x.com/hasanthehun/status/2061206542205198701
These tweets are just saying they got banned. I was referring to the actual tweet that got them banned. What did they say, and was it actually offensive, or was it just anti-israel and anti-IDF?
I’ve listened to Cenk many times and he has never been anti-jewish, only anti-israel and anti-idf. Both of those takes I think are totally justified, but I’m still curious what someone else judged to be so bad that their Visa was revoked.
Would be great if you didn’t post jpost slop here tbh
Don’t disagree but I’m not seeing any other sources on this so far
Wait actually MEE just got an article out I’ll change it to that
Appreciate it!
Words haven’t meant anything in earnest in the West since at least the days of Orwell but this is just ridiculous. The fuck.
Oh honey! It was way before then!
They banned him for the wrong reason, but either way I don’t really care what this animal abuser has to say.
Because you are most likely a MAGA who falls for Zionist propaganda like the shock collar bullshit. Why would anyone give a fuck what someone that stupid has to opine? You are easy to manipulate, like, really easy.
I am not from the US, don’t support Israel, and I am as far left as you can get. If on anybody, you don’t agree with it, you are throwing Maga and Zionist, I would be surprised if anybody took you seriously. But I get it. It’s really easy. I sometimes catch myself do that too.
There are videos of Hassan:
Dragging his old dog by the tail.
His old having bloody/hurt neck under collar. Most likely it was too tight, or he was pulling it too hard.
There are more examples and videos of him forcing his current dog to lay in one place for 4-8 hours. Doesn’t matter to me if it was only vibration option on the collar.
And in the other videos of the dog, she is just watching him from behind for a long time when she wants to do anything. It’s like asking for permission and being afraid of him and as soon as he just twitches towards her, she goes back to her place immediately.
There is a video of him with his current dog, as a puppy, in a cage with some other dog and they are fighting, not playing, they are fighting, and his dog is squealing, and he is just out loud laughing a calling her dumb.
This alone is enough for me to call him animal abuser. And on top of that, there are pretty convincing reasons to believe he was actually using the shock option.
I wasn’t active Hassan watcher, but I tuned in for ±3 hours every month before this.
Tell me, why should I only believe what Hassan says and not believe my eyes?
Just because he is not Maga and has harsh words for Israel makes him automatically good person and person to emulate?
You are calling me stupid and easily manipulated but did you look into the mirror and ask yourself if you aren’t being manipulated by hassan and his circle?
