The Young Turks’ chief pundit Cenk Uygur was barred from entering the United Kingdom over government concerns his presence would not be “conducive to the public good,” The Times reported on Sunday.
Uygur was set to appear at the SXSW London festival later this week. But British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood decided the leftist commentator was not fit to enter the country, due in part to his rants against Israel.
The Times reported:
> The decision to block Uygur from travelling to the UK is understood to have been based on several grounds, including fears that his presence would risk exacerbating antisemitism due to his rhetoric since the October 7 attacks in 2023.
> This has included repeating classic antisemitic tropes, such as the claim that Israel controls America. He falsely claimed on his podcast in July last year that the Israeli lobby gave more to Congress than any other.
Uygur confirmed he was banned from entering the UK in an X post on Sunday. He said it was for “criticizing Israel.”
“Are we free anymore?” he continued. “This is oppression of Western citizens by our own governments on behalf of a different country!”
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Anonymous06/01/26(Mon)11:53:20
His nephew, popular streamer and former TYT commentator Hasan Piker, said he was banned from entering the UK as well during a livestream on Sunday.
“I didn’t want to talk about it, but uh, my visa has also been revoked,” Piker said. “We just found out… I don’t know who to reach-out for this.”
Piker has made headlines for a number of claims over the years, including saying America “deserved” to be attacked on September 11.
He has also called Hamas “the lesser of two evils” when comparing the terrorist organization and Israel. And last month during an appearance on Pod Save America, Piker branded the Republican Party the “biggest domestic terrorist” organization and the “biggest terrorist internationally.”
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Anonymous06/01/26(Mon)12:08:55
>>1517600(OP) >Uygur was set to appear at the SXSW London festival later this week. But British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood decided the leftist commentator was not fit to enter the country, due in part to his rants against Israel. Lmao even muslims suck israeli dick, now
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Anonymous06/01/26(Mon)12:15:14
>>1517605 Not really that surprising considering the UK basically invented the modern state of Israel.
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Anonymous06/01/26(Mon)12:17:37
>>1517600(OP) What a shame. I feel so sorry for that animal abusing piece of shit. Guess he's stuck in this racist country that doesn't arrest people for criticizing Israel. Isn't the 1st amendment just horrible?
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Anonymous06/01/26(Mon)15:34:06
>>1517600(OP) >"This is oppression of Western citizens by our own governments on behalf of a different country!" - brown foreigner >Brown >Western citizen >OUR government So we're just saying shit now.
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Anonymous06/01/26(Mon)15:43:07
>>1517631 Literally no one cares if they're brown except chuds.
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Anonymous06/01/26(Mon)16:26:45
>>1517631 the whole thing is just an excuse for the esl shill to post about their favorite twitch streamer
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Anonymous06/01/26(Mon)20:05:25
>>1517634 The chuds always win though, anon. We are undefeated and everybody knows it. That is why you can’t stop talking about them.
>>1517600(OP) >“Are we free anymore?” he continued. “This is oppression of Western citizens by our own governments on behalf of a different country!” LMAO you can't make this shit up.
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Anonymous06/01/26(Mon)21:48:06
>>1517673 You're 'winning' right now and it's the most disastrous shit any of us have ever seen in our lifetimes.
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Anonymous06/01/26(Mon)21:52:35
>>1517673 >Winning is paying $5/gal for gas and not being able to afford anything while Trump agrees to pay $300B to the people he claimed to beat
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Anonymous06/01/26(Mon)21:55:06
>>1517685 I have never heard him say anything antisemitic. I must be uninformed, surely he has many antisemitic utterances on the public record. The British would never make things up or commit any kind of perfidious act surely not.
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Anonymous06/01/26(Mon)22:01:27
>>1517689 Even if they did make it up, you have to appreciate the irony of someone who talks shit about the western world for a living, and then cries about how oppressed they are when one of those western nations doesn't want them in their country.
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Anonymous06/01/26(Mon)22:09:29
>>1517690 Imagine cheering for countries that bar you from entering for criticizing Israel
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Anonymous06/01/26(Mon)22:11:02
>>1517691 >You're such a racist, nazi, hitler, fascist, white supremacist- >Okay get out of my house. You're banned. >WHA- YOU CAN'T DO THAT!!!
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Anonymous06/01/26(Mon)22:12:29
>>1517692 They banned him for saying bad things about Israel, and that’s when he (rightly) started calling the British government a bunch of fascists being over for Israel
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Anonymous06/01/26(Mon)22:19:52
>>1517693 It's not fascism to ban people for being an asshole. You're not entitled... I know this is a really mind-blowing concept, but let me emphasize this as best as I can... you're not entitled access to every Western nation on the planet. Just because leftists support mass-migration and letting in millions of people who hate Western nations, doesn't make it a rule that you can go wherever you want.
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Anonymous06/01/26(Mon)22:26:46
>>1517693 Did you cry fascism when all the Tommy Robinson supporters got banned from entering the country for their anti-Islam views? Did Cenk?
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Anonymous06/01/26(Mon)22:44:33
>>1517694 Throwing out freedom of speech on behalf on another country is unacceptable and fascist behavior
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Anonymous06/01/26(Mon)22:48:40
>>1517698 >Throwing out freedom of speech That thing that britbongistan never had? Again, were you this outraged when those racist white supremacists were getting banned, jailed, deported, etc. for their anti-Islam speech?
Or is it (D)ifferent when it happens to you?
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Anonymous06/01/26(Mon)22:52:41
>>1517699 >racist white supremacists were getting banned, jailed, deported I hate seeing this happen, because it implies that racist white supremacists weren't already getting the shit kicked out of them.
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Anonymous06/01/26(Mon)22:53:17
>>1517700 they seem to just do it to themselves these days
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Anonymous06/01/26(Mon)23:08:32
>>1517700 Of course you can't answer the question. Which further demonstrates the hypocrisy of people like you and Cenk.
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Anonymous06/01/26(Mon)23:09:46
>>1517710 isn't it funny how you're the snowflakes now
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Anonymous06/01/26(Mon)23:11:29
>>1517711 >now lets not pretend they haven't always been the snowflakes
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Anonymous06/01/26(Mon)23:13:36
>>1517690 The irony is that Israel needs to be protected from western values.
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Anonymous06/01/26(Mon)23:17:32
>>1517696 Anti-Islam is against freedom of religion which is a thing in Britain. Cenk wasn’t being against freedom of religion for criticising a foreign government. Cenk isn’t a racist either, and fwiw I prefer racists and any kind of anti-religious nutjobs not be allowed into my country. So no you can’t equate criticism of a government with anti-religion sentiments.
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Anonymous06/01/26(Mon)23:21:37
>>1517699 They do have a free press in the UK. This argument that there’s no free speech in the UK is a bit silly, really.
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Anonymous06/01/26(Mon)23:24:50
>>1517715 >So no you can’t equate criticism of a government with anti-religion sentiments. No I can and I will. Cenk had no fucking problem, and neither did you, with people on the right getting banned. Now Cenk wants to cry about it when his leftist ass gets banned when he built his entire career off of shit-talking every Western nation. It was all cool until it happened to him. And the bitch of it all is he still has a platform to keep whining about it because the country he lives in, that he hates, allows him to do so.
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Anonymous06/01/26(Mon)23:25:50
>>1517716 >This argument that there’s no free speech in the UK is a bit silly, really. Tommy Robinson?
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Anonymous06/01/26(Mon)23:31:47
>>1517720 >Robinson has a history of criminal convictions,[5] including for crimes such as assault,[6] threats,[7] harassment,[8] and fraud,[5] as well as contempt of court rulings relating to his videos, and has served five prison terms between 2005 and 2025.
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Anonymous06/01/26(Mon)23:33:14
>>1517721 >We have freedom of speech in the UK >except for that guy. He doesn't count. You don't have free speech.
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Anonymous06/01/26(Mon)23:44:33
>>1517722 Maybe he shouldn't have assaulted or defrauded people.
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Anonymous06/01/26(Mon)23:51:02
>>1517727 Maybe you don't have free speech. >tfw even criminals in America are allowed to have an opinion without going to jail over it
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Anonymous06/01/26(Mon)23:52:15
>>1517733 Crimes compound other crimes. Sorry you don't get it.
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Anonymous06/02/26(Tue)00:09:53
>>1517734 Sorry you don't get free speech. And you bongs never will. >This argument that there’s no free speech in the UK is a bit silly, really. >spends the entire thread justifying removing free speech from Tom lol fucking eurocucks.
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Anonymous06/02/26(Tue)00:34:55
>>1517737 >poor Saint Tommy dindu nuffin >he a good boi >he didn't mean to instigate a riot and physically assault people >but Cenk is the devil for saying jews did genocide kek
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Anonymous06/02/26(Tue)00:41:57
>>1517748 >>but Cenk is the devil for saying jews did genocide >shit I didn't say You know you're losing when you have to strawman.
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Anonymous06/02/26(Tue)01:31:15
>strawman heh, not man need straw as tampon for their lady bleeding! HURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
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Anonymous06/02/26(Tue)01:34:37
>>1517716 Neither of them actually care about free speech and have called for the censorship of rightwingers for years.
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Anonymous06/02/26(Tue)01:41:08
>>1517754 >Neither of them actually care about free speech thats just your opinion
>called for the censorship of rightwingers for years whats the problem with this again?
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Anonymous06/02/26(Tue)02:07:33
>>1517600(OP) UK is already at end stage progressivism I see. It's just a matter of time at this point..
>>1517688 Gas is down like $.50 since yesterday. Using this angle is going to be like complaining about egg prices in a week or two. It's amazing when the actual adults are in charge and they don't create multi year disasters with their dumb policy mistakes.
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Anonymous06/02/26(Tue)02:47:51
>>1517756 >whats the problem with this again? Free speech is a universal principle. Hasan is doing the commie thing of just wanting to oppress other people. The Young Turks is the name of a genocidal regime by the way.
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Anonymous06/02/26(Tue)02:53:42
>>1517767 >Free speech is a universal principle. Bongland doesn't have the first amendment Pedophilia will remain censored in America regardless You'll rage about both of these facts in perpetuity
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Anonymous06/02/26(Tue)02:55:17
>>1517768 >Bongland doesn't have the first amendment You're retarded. Free speech isn't just a legal concept. A society cannot be democratic if the people living within it cannot speak freely.
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Anonymous06/02/26(Tue)03:01:30
>>1517769 >democracys are only real if they're faaaaaair >communism hasn't been properly implemented yet
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Anonymous06/02/26(Tue)03:03:13
>>1517769 >A society cannot be democratic if the people living within it cannot speak freely. Which bongistan doesn't allow.
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Anonymous06/02/26(Tue)03:27:31
>>1517770 >I don't know what the point of a democracy is please rape my face
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Anonymous06/02/26(Tue)03:33:28
>>1517770 >>1517772 It's more funny since he'll make any excuse for how inherently corrupt capitalism is proving horseshoe is real. Also the bongs proving the Labour party is just as right wing as the Tories.
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Anonymous06/02/26(Tue)04:55:53
>/news/chuds don't know they're extremist minorities and shunned by normal society
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Anonymous06/02/26(Tue)05:31:40
>>1517600(OP) terrorist supporter, human right violator, infidel, enjoyer of brothels using trafficked women, dog abuser, nepobaby. man the list goes on and on, its funny how he has an audience of actual incels like those disgusting male feminist sex pest types
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Anonymous06/02/26(Tue)05:34:01
>>1517715 He's a racist to me, so what does your opinion matter bigot? yes and that's why racists like him hasan and you should be exiled from the motherland forever.
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Anonymous06/02/26(Tue)05:36:15
>>1517688 oil contracts are down 15% from its 2nd peak around 2 weeks ago. i get you just want to whine but how do you think its reasonable complaining about oil prices going up for 2 months, but ignoring the bidenflation?
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Anonymous06/02/26(Tue)06:22:31
>>1517787 really weird strawman you have going there
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Anonymous06/02/26(Tue)07:22:59
>>1517719 You really can’t equate criticism of a government with anti-religious sentiments, or to put it another way; attacking freedom of religion is not comparable to criticism of a government.
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Anonymous06/02/26(Tue)07:28:05
>>1517786 I don’t see any evidence that or reason to believe he is a racist. Screeching that he is to you isn’t proof, it just means you’re possibly not a sane person. I think I know why they blocked him, I think it’s because they worry that him speaking against Israel will potentially incite antisemitic attacks, it’s nothing he did it’s just they’re trying to protect the children from hearing anything bad about anyone and misinterpreting it