TWO FAR LEFT MUSLIM AMERICAN commentators banned from entering Britain by Muslim Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood

The decision to bar “The Young Turks” founder Cenk Uygur and his radical Muslim nephew, streamer Hasan Piker, from traveling to Britain is “understood to have been based on several grounds,” including that his presence in the UK would “risk exacerbating anti-Semitism.” British Muslim Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood ruled his appearance wasn’t “conducive to the public good.”

Forbes Piker, 34, is a left-wing political commentator who regularly streams on Twitch, where he has more than 3 million followers. Uygur, a 56-year-old Turkish American, is the co-creator of the progressive news commentary program “The Young Turks,” which has more than 6 million subscribers on YouTube, and he briefly launched a long-shot presidential bid in 2024.

Piker is Uygur’s nephew, and got his start working at “The Young Turks.” Both commentators are popular among the American left wing, but they have both courted controversy for their views on Israel and have drawn allegations of antisemitism both in the United States and abroad.

Uygur has sparked fury after claiming Israel’s response to the October 7 attacks was “genocide” and “barbaric.” Uygur tried to convince his viewers that the Jews were responsible for 9/11

“I’ve been banned from the UK. I tried to get on a flight to London to attend SXSW London and give a speech at Oxford. I’ve been banned for criticizing Israel. Are we free anymore? This is oppression of Western citizens by our own governments on behalf of a different country!” Uygur said in an X post on Sunday, which Piker shared.

Piker is the nephew of “The Young Turks” founder Cenk Uygur, who has also been blocked from entering the UK ahead of this week’s South by Southwest festival in London. The UK has revoked my visa as well,” Piker said. “All at the behest of Israel. The west is betraying ‘liberal values’  for a genocidal fascist foreign government. Soon we will all become Israel.”

Piker has drawn controversy for past comments saying he would “vote for Hamas over Israel every single time” and that “America deserved 9/11.” Piker has been positioned as a possible left-wing version of Joe Rogan, but some Democrats don’t believe he should be closely connected with the party, with some, including Sens. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., saying they would not appear on his livestream.

A bipartisan resolution introduced in April, Reps. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., and Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., condemned online antisemitism and named Piker as an Internet personality who has spread “applauded Hamas’ terrorism” and downplayed the Oct. 7 attacks.