Support for Palestine that isn’t completely toothless requires supporting their right to violently resistance their occupation. Because the UK gov proscribes any group that attempts to achieve that end, they have effectively barred support for the Palestinian right to freedom from the occupation.
Comment on Hasan Piker, Cenk Uygur Denied Entry to UK Over Palestine Support
frankPodmore@slrpnk.net 14 hours ago
I actually agree with Novara that Piker shouldn’t be barred from entering the UK but this headline is very misleading.
The UK government has said the ban is because of his use of ‘“antisemitic tropes, such as the claim that Israel controls America” and comments about grooming gangs he made on Piers Morgan’s YouTube show’ and because of his support of a ‘proscribed terror group’ (i.e., Hamas). Nothing to do with his support of Palestine (I don’t think that Hamas represents Palestinian.s any more than I think that Putin’s party represents Russians).
zedcell@lemmygrad.ml 11 hours ago
theo@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I actually agree with you, but this comment is misleading. The UK Government has said none of those things and has not made any statement on this as referenced by “The Home Office has been contacted for comment.”
The first quote was from The Community Security Trust, and the second from The Times.
frankPodmore@slrpnk.net 1 hour ago
Well, I actually agree with you, but actually the first quote was from The Times and the second quote was from Labour MP David Taylor.
I just thought it was fair to extrapolate that the reasons the government banned him were the same as those who publicly called for the ban, not separate reasons that no one who actually supports the decision has cited.