Cenk Uygur

So I went to LAX in Los Angeles, going to Heathrow.

Didn't think twice about it.

I have that ETA last two years.

And since I'd come to speak at Oxford last year, it was still in effect.

I couldn't log on from my computer, which I found to be a little bit strange, but I thought, oh, I'll probably have to give the ETA number at the terminal.

So I go to the terminal and a woman comes to help me and she tries to check me in through a kiosk and says, oh, that's weird.

I can't check you in.

Let's go look at my computer terminal.

And she does.

And she says, oh, wow, I've never seen this.

You've been rejected by the British government.

We're not allowed to put you on the plane.

You can't board because the British government has withdrawn your ETA and said you're not allowed to enter the country.

Well, at first I thought it was a bureaucratic snafu.

I was like, well, that can't be right.

That's absurd.

I was just there, right?

And there's no reason to ban me.

Then that piece from The Times came out about 15 or 20 minutes after that.

I had said that America is controlled by Israel and in reference to how the Israeli lobby has given more to American Congress than any other lobby in the last election cycle.