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\n\tLeft-wing political commentator Cenk Uygur and his nephew, Hasan Piker, have been denied entry to the U.K. by the government\u2019s Home Office, The Hollywood Reporter <\/em>has confirmed. It\u2019ll mean they can no longer make their scheduled SXSW London appearances.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe Home Office said in a statement to THR <\/em>on Monday that the pair\u2019s Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA) has been cancelled on the grounds that their \u201cpresence in the U.K. may not be conducive to the public good.\u201d They added: \u201cDecisions to refuse or cancel an\u00a0ETA\u00a0on these grounds are based solely on an assessment of the potential risk an individual may pose to U.K. Society.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOn social media, Uygur, host of populist political talkshow The Young Turks<\/em>, said that he was banned for \u201ccriticising Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI tried to get on a flight to London to attend SXSW London and give a speech at Oxford. I\u2019ve been banned for criticising Israel,\u201d he wrote. \u201cAre we free anymore? This is oppression of Western citizens by our own governments on behalf of a different country.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPiker responded to his uncle\u2019s post, adding: \u201cThe U.K. has revoked my visa as well. All at the behest of Israel,\u201d and saying the West is \u201cbetraying \u2018liberal values\u2019 for a genocidal fascist foreign government.\u201d Both men have condemned Israel for its war on Gaza following Hamas\u2019 October 7, 2023, attack at an Israeli music festival. Since then, 70,000 Palestinians have been killed, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to The Times,<\/em> the decision to block Uygur\u2019s entry is understood to have been based on concerns his presence would risk \u201cexacerbating antisemitism.\u201d He has been accused of pushing antisemitic tropes through his platform, such as that \u201cIsrael controls America.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe SXSW team describes Piker, who has over three million followers on Twitch and more than 1.5 million on X, as \u201credefining what political commentary looks like in the digital age.\u201d He has previously said Hamas is \u201c1,000 times better\u201d than Israel and attracted criticism over his claim that he \u201cwould vote for Hamas over Israel every single time,\u201d on an episode of Pod Save America<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\n\tUygur was meant to appear at a SXSW London session on Wednesday edtitled \u201cTechno-Feudalism is Here. Who Are the Lords?\u201d Piker\u2019s planned panel on Thursday was called \u201cHow the American Left Learned to Speak the Internet.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAsh Sarkar, a journalist for Novara Media who was due to chair Piker\u2019s SXSW London session, said on X\u00a0that the decision was evidence of an \u201cauthoritarian turn motivated by Labour\u2019s fear of being called antisemitic, and fear of being called out for their position on the genocidal war on Gaza\u201d, adding: \u201cYou don\u2019t foster community cohesion by having the government ban people from speaking.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tU.K.-based Jewish organization the Community Security Trust urged SXSW last week to \u201cact responsibly\u201d and not allow the U.K. to be a \u201cplatform\u201d for Piker.<\/p>\n

\n\tYou might recall that Kanye West\u2019s ETA was revoked shortly before he was set to headline the now-scrapped Wireless music festival in April, over the rapper\u2019s historical antisemitism.<\/p>\n

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\nTHR <\/em>is out to SXSW London for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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