Cenk Uygur discusses being banned from UK on Piers Uncensored

You've been probably my most regular guest on on the census since we began and sometimes I'm concerned about your blood vessels but when it comes to what you say about Israel I've been you know listening very intently you've always been very careful to maintain your criticism of Israel and its government in particular and its decisions but I've never heard you espouse any anti -semitism never heard you be hateful about Jewish people or anyone because of their faith or their ethnicity.So I just don't understand what rationale the UK government could possibly have for banning you.Have you been able to find out any more?

Yeah, so let's break it down.So I go to the airport and they just say that I've been rejected by the British government and I'm not allowed to enter and hence I can't board the plane.They don't give any stated reason.Then about 20 minutes later that Times article that you mentioned, Pierce, comes out and it says because I criticize Israel in the wrong ways.Now, I don't know if the British government is going to put out a list of the acceptable ways to criticize Israel and the unacceptable ways to criticize Israel.That might be helpful, because apparently we're going to need it.

Over 60 percent of Americans are critical of Israel.Will we all be banned from the UK?Should everyone be careful about traveling to the United Kingdom, because they might ruin your plans at the end if a different government is unsatisfied with you?Can they list, can they put out a list of things you're not allowed to say about Israel?And what's amazing is that you're allowed to say anything you want about the United Kingdom, or about America, or any other country, and they said the only thing they could grasp at, because I've never said anything anti -Semitic, because I don't believe that, in fact I believe the opposite, And it is that they said that I said that America is controlled by Israel, the Congress is, because they're the top donor in this last election cycle.Well, that is empirically true.

That is a fact.So are facts anti -Semitic now?Are news people not allowed to deliver facts to people?And if you say, hey, someone who is deeply anti -Semitic says the Jews are terrible and it's their fault and Hitler's good, et cetera, is in the same camp as a guy who says, no, this has nothing to do with Jewish people.In fact, 63 % of Jewish Americans are opposed to the current Israeli government.And I make that distinction on The Young Turks almost every day.

You made it on this show regularly.And if you put us in the same category, well, you know, you're destroying the idea of combating actual bigotry.It's almost like pulling a Jussie Smollett on a national level and saying, we don't care.And it's also deeply ironic to say that we're going to ban you for criticizing Israel by saying that our governments are controlled by Israel.