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”
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.
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!
Herr Schtarmer
They banned him for the wrong reason, but either way I don’t really care what this animal abuser has to say.
They block these two for speech but they dont block israelis for actual mass murder. Seems like an illegitimate government.
