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01 Jun 2026, 08:39 GMT+10
Left-wing political streamer Hasan Piker was scheduled to speak at an event in London
US left-wing political streamer Hasan Piker, a vocal critic of Israel, says he has been barred from entering the UK after MPs and Jewish groups urged the government to revoke his visa.
Piker, who has 3 million followers on Twitch and 2 million on YouTube, was scheduled to speak at the SXSW London festival on Thursday. In a post on X on Sunday, he said that his visa had been revoked "at the behest of Israel."
"The West is betraying 'liberal values' for a genocidal fascist foreign government," he added.
Cenk Uygur, co-founder of the political commentary show The Young Turks and Piker's uncle, earlier said that he was also barred from entering the UK. He was due to speak at the same event as Piker.
"I've been banned for criticizing Israel. Are we free anymore?" he wrote on X. In a later livestream, he said the British government deemed him "a serious risk to public order."
In April, US rapper Kanye West was banned from entering Britain over anti-Semitic remarks. Like many Western countries, the UK has experienced an increase in anti-Semitic incidents amid the conflict in Gaza and broader tensions in the Middle East.
Piker and Uygur have long criticized Israel's war in Gaza, which they have described as genocide. Jewish groups, including the Anti-Defamation League and the UK's Jewish Leadership Council, have accused Piker of anti-Semitism and of justifying terrorism, including Hamas' October 7, 2023 attack on Israel.
"I would vote for Hamas over Israel every single time," Piker said on the Pod Save America podcast in April. UK Labour MP David Taylor said such statements demonstrate that Piker's presence would be "not conducive to the public good."
Fox News Digital reported in May that the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) had subpoenaed Piker over his participation in a Cuba media tour for left-wing influencers. Cuba has been under a US-imposed fuel blockade since earlier this year. Piker told Fox on Sunday that he had not been served with any papers.
(RT.com)
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