'Absurd and Cowardly': Labour Government Slammed for Barring Hasan Piker, Cenk Uygur From UK | Common Dreams

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : "All at the behest of Israel.
44% : " "Let us call this what it is," Corbyn added, "an attack on the freedom to criticize Israel, as well as the UK government's own complicity in genocide." Jemimah Steinfeld, chief executive of the Index on Censorship, told The Guardian that the ban is "paternalistic" on the government's part because it "assumes we are just passive consumers of views rather than people who can think, judge, and challenge.
35% : " "Think about it," Uygur added, "if I had said that the Israeli government controls the British government so thoroughly that they'll ban someone from coming to the UK just for criticizing Israel, they would have said that was an antisemitic statement.
34% : "They broke the irony record by saying it was because I said Israel might control other governments.
31% : The UK government is drawing heavy criticism for barring Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker, two prominent critics of Israel, from entering the country.
30% : If you say: 'I'm glad Israel wiped Gaza from the face of the earth,' in you come!" Jeremy Corbyn, former leader of the UK Labour Party, the current ruling party whose government decided to bar the two Israel critics, described the move as "an absurd and cowardly decision from an increasingly authoritarian government.
29% : "I didn't get banned for criticizing the UK, but for criticizing Israel," Uygur wrote.
25% : " UK commentator Owen Jones noted the "double standard" in the UK's decision to bar Israel critics such as Uygur and Piker, but not applying the same restrictions to Israeli politicians who have engaged in genocidal rhetoric against Palestinians. "An Israeli politician who oversaw genocide?

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