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Kiran Stacey

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183 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Today in Focus
Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker: the US commentators banned from the UK

He thinks that Hamas is a thousand times better than Israel.

Today in Focus
Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker: the US commentators banned from the UK

He has described Orthodox Jews as being inbreds, and he's also claimed that America deserved 9-11.

Today in Focus
Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker: the US commentators banned from the UK

As you say, none of these are particularly new comments, but you can see, especially with Hamas being a prescribed entity, why support for what is essentially regarded in the UK as a terrorist organisation might have been flagged at high levels within the Home Office.

Today in Focus
Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker: the US commentators banned from the UK

For Cenk Uygur, it's slightly different.

Today in Focus
Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker: the US commentators banned from the UK

His language has been less clear cut.

Today in Focus
Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker: the US commentators banned from the UK

The things that have been flagged with him are he has repeatedly framed Israel's actions as genocide, barbaric and savage, particularly in Palestine.

Today in Focus
Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker: the US commentators banned from the UK

He's accused Israel of using Jews as human shields.

Today in Focus
Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker: the US commentators banned from the UK

Also, there was one exchange on Uncensored with Piers Morgan in which you guys seem to dismiss evidence relating to grooming gangs in towns in the north, such as Rotherham.

Today in Focus
Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker: the US commentators banned from the UK

This has become quite a sensitive racial issue in the UK.

Today in Focus
Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker: the US commentators banned from the UK

And what Hugo went on to say on Piers Morgan's show was, well, these aren't really such a big issue.

Today in Focus
Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker: the US commentators banned from the UK

And he said, in fact, that concerns about this themselves were Islamophobic.

Today in Focus
Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker: the US commentators banned from the UK

Now,

Today in Focus
Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker: the US commentators banned from the UK

I think it is a pattern here from the Home Office of drawing the line potentially further lower down than it might have done in the past as to what constitutes unacceptable language.

Today in Focus
Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker: the US commentators banned from the UK

Yes, we're told that that is the case.

Today in Focus
Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker: the US commentators banned from the UK

I mean, I would say that the CST is in regular contact with the government and will always flag people coming into the country that it regards as being anti-Semitic and should not be here.

Today in Focus
Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker: the US commentators banned from the UK

That's fairly open.

Today in Focus
Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker: the US commentators banned from the UK

That's what they do.

Today in Focus
Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker: the US commentators banned from the UK

I would say that politically part of the sensitivity around this is that the British police have been accused and in fact are being accused again as we speak of so-called two-tier policing.

Today in Focus
Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker: the US commentators banned from the UK

And that's basically of treating right-wing people differently from left-wing people or in certain occasions white people differently from non-white people.

Today in Focus
Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker: the US commentators banned from the UK

And I think the government's quite sensitive about this.