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Protect someone the way the UK protects genocide: “Cenk Uygur, Hasan Piker Banned From UK After Israel Criticisms: ‘This Is Absolutely Kafkaesque’
The Young Turks co-creator says he found out while trying to board a flight to London for a speech at Oxford”

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Cenk Uygur, co-founder of the Young Turks and a resolute critic of Israel, and his nephew Hasan Piker, the left-wing political commentator and influencer, both said Sunday that they had been banned from traveling to the U.K., stating that British authorities cited their public criticisms of Israel.
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“I’ve been banned from the UK,” he wrote. “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 Weste

Cenk Uygur, Hasan Piker Banned From UK Over Israel Criticisms: 'This Is Absolutely Kafkaesque'

Cenk Uygur, co-founder of the Young Turks, and Hasan Piker, the left-wing political commentator and influencer, both said Sunday that they had been banned from the U.K.

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in reply to Aral Balkan

Zach Perlman

in reply to Aral Balkan • 2 weeks ago • •

Do you think people in the UK would get in trouble for sharing this museum proposal? palestinememorial.org

This project is something which should be achievable in a place like California. Los Angeles already has museums documenting the Armenian genocide, Japanese American incarceration, the Jewish holocaust, and the African American experience. But the Palestinian experience has no such institution.

Palestine Memorial Museum: Memorial & Documentation Center, Los Angeles

A proposed nonprofit memorial and documentation center in Los Angeles, preserving the memory of Palestinian lives lost across generations and educating the public on a history reaching from displacement to the crisis in Gaza.

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