Kiran Stacey
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He thinks that Hamas is a thousand times better than Israel.
He has described Orthodox Jews as being inbreds, and he's also claimed that America deserved 9-11.
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.
For Cenk Uygur, it's slightly different.
His language has been less clear cut.
The things that have been flagged with him are he has repeatedly framed Israel's actions as genocide, barbaric and savage, particularly in Palestine.
He's accused Israel of using Jews as human shields.
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.
This has become quite a sensitive racial issue in the UK.
And what Hugo went on to say on Piers Morgan's show was, well, these aren't really such a big issue.
And he said, in fact, that concerns about this themselves were Islamophobic.
Now,
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.
Yes, we're told that that is the case.
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.
That's fairly open.
That's what they do.
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.
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.
And I think the government's quite sensitive about this.