Hasan Piker Banned From UK Travel: Free Speech Debate Over Anti-Semitism and Violence

[00:00] Guess who's back in the news again?

[00:02] >> Hassan the Hun.

[00:03] >> Hassan. The Nepo baby has been

[00:06] banned from traveling to the UK or at

[00:10] least his sort of visa which it's

[00:14] there's a system in the UK where you can

[00:16] travel to the UK from America without

[00:18] actually getting a visa. So unclear

[00:21] whether or not he would be approved if

[00:23] he applied for an actual travel visa.

[00:25] But the automated system has said no,

[00:28] you are not welcome. the welcome mat has

[00:30] been moved. Same with his uncle Jenk

[00:33] Waguer who is somebody I've met in the

[00:36] past that was uh actually at Amfest with

[00:39] Charlie and they had a discussion on

[00:40] stage a much a much uh I don't know if

[00:43] celebrated it was very controversial

[00:45] when they had it on both sides.

[00:46] >> It was a lot of fun.

[00:47] >> It was after the 2024 win and we wanted

[00:49] to see you know what were the learnings

[00:52] on the left after Kamla got uh destroyed

[00:54] by President Trump. So anyways, he's

[00:56] been blocked apparently from traveling.

[00:59] He was planned. So it's an electronic

[01:00] travel authorization called ETA and it's

[01:03] a permit that allows Americans to enter

[01:05] the UK without applying for a visa.

[01:07] Okay, so he says, "I've been banned from

[01:10] the UK." told viewers, "I've been

[01:12] to the UK on numerous occasions. All the

[01:14] things they're complaining about now are

[01:15] things I've said before." The so

[01:18] self-described socialist commentator

[01:20] said he had been scheduled to speak at

[01:21] the South by Southwest London event, a

[01:23] live podcasting speaking engagement at

[01:26] Oxford Union. described the

[01:29] decision as shocking and repeatedly

[01:31] questioned why British authorities had

[01:33] suddenly moved against him after years

[01:35] of allowing him to travel to the UK

[01:38] freely. "It's effing ridiculous," he

[01:40] told viewers. Uh anyways, so what are

[01:43] the allegations, Blake? Do you know? I

[01:46] know. Well, what they say is the

[01:48] allegations prepared the allegations

[01:50] from the British government.

[01:50] >> Well, the British British government

[01:51] >> Well, the British government, all they

[01:52] just said is that he has been kept out

[01:54] as his presence in the UK may not be

[01:56] conducive to the public good.

[01:58] >> Right. So,

[01:59] >> he claims that it's the Zo mafia kept

[02:02] him off.

[02:03] >> It's the dog.

[02:05] >> So, so he might be right actually in

[02:08] some on some level. Now, I just want to

[02:10] preface and say that I think Hassan

[02:14] is not good for public discourse.

[02:17] I do not think he contributes to

[02:18] societal good, but we have concepts and

[02:21] freedoms and liberties that to hold in

[02:23] the balance. So, let's get into this.

[02:25] So, the Times of Israel back on May 16th

[02:29] reported that Jewish groups call on UK

[02:32] to bar dangerous quote unquote Hassan

[02:35] amid anti-semitic attacks. Now,

[02:37] anti-semitism is on the rise in many

[02:39] Western nations in the United States.

[02:41] >> Shocker. I wonder why.

[02:42] >> And in the UK. So, it says UK Jewish

[02:45] groups are demanding Britain deny entry

[02:47] to farleft streamer Hassan who

[02:50] has compared Zionists to Nazis and

[02:54] called Orthodox Jews inbred. Uh, by the

[02:56] way, you know, it's interesting. I think

[02:58] um Jenk, who's his uncle, admitted that

[03:01] he and Hassan's uh grandparents were

[03:04] first cousins. It's very common in the

[03:06] Islamic world. It's a very it's a very

[03:08] rich criticism to make. I think uh UK

[03:10] Pakistanis are one of the most inbred

[03:12] groups in the world. Lots of

[03:14] >> lots of cousin marriages.

[03:15] >> Yeah, lots of cousins marriages. So,

[03:16] it's an interesting accusations to hurl

[03:18] at the Orthodox Jews. Um per uh has uh

[03:22] troubled many US Jews uh by this

[03:25] speaking engagement. The UK's Jewish

[03:27] Leadership Council said inviting

[03:29] amid recent terror attacks on British

[03:31] Jews was dangerous given the streamer's

[03:34] sympathy for Hezbollah and Hamas and his

[03:36] denial of the atrocities committed by

[03:39] Hamas on the out on the onslaught of

[03:42] October 7th.

[03:43] >> Denial unless he's celebrating them.

[03:45] >> What's that?

[03:46] >> Denial unless he's celebrating,

[03:47] >> right? Okay, fair enough. Yeah, he's

[03:49] either he's he he goes back and forth

[03:51] between denial and celebration. So

[03:52] Hassan should not be allowed to

[03:54] enter the UK to spread his 7th October

[03:57] deniialism and apparent support for

[03:59] terrorist or organizations to a British

[04:01] audience. The JLC said in a statement u

[04:04] the Community Security Trust, a British

[04:06] Jewish nonprofit that assists in

[04:08] securing communities against

[04:10] anti-semitic attacks, said in a separate

[04:12] statement quoted by the Jewish News that

[04:14] per rhetoric is entirely unacceptable,

[04:16] particularly given his large online

[04:18] following at a time of record levels of

[04:20] anti-semitism. They say in the UK, it is

[04:22] vital that all institutions, including

[04:24] event organizers, act responsibly and

[04:26] consider the potential impact of this

[04:28] kind of rhetoric. The UK should not be a

[04:30] platform for individuals who spread

[04:32] hatred or legitimize extremism.

[04:35] So, is that why he got banned? He has

[04:38] been able to go there in the past. And

[04:41] is this a good reason for him to be

[04:42] banned? Blake, you have thoughts?

[04:45] >> What I will say is Britain used to be

[04:48] America level in terms of free speech.

[04:50] It's where we got the freedom of speech.

[04:52] It was just a It was just a British

[04:53] tradition that a man should not be

[04:55] arrested for his opinions. There is

[04:57] actually an amazing piece by George

[05:00] Orwell during World War II on the

[05:01] English people. And he says that in

[05:03] Britain, it is just a part of the

[05:05] English national character that a man

[05:06] should not be punished or censored for

[05:10] his honestly held beliefs. And Britain

[05:13] is not that country anymore. Britain has

[05:15] imported a huge number of people from

[05:17] the third world, from the Islamic world.

[05:19] They have created, they have embraced a

[05:22] nightmare of their own making. And they

[05:24] found the only way they can keep a lid

[05:26] on this disaster of a society they've

[05:29] created is to suddenly have the world's

[05:31] most repressive speech laws. You have

[05:33] more people getting harassed by the

[05:35] police for things they say online,

[05:36] things they say in public in Britain,

[05:38] than you do in the People's Republic of

[05:40] China. You have more people getting

[05:41] harassed by the police for things they

[05:42] say than they were per capita in the

[05:45] Soviet Union. Yeah, the Soviet Union

[05:46] would send you off to a labor camp, but

[05:48] it was a handful of people that they

[05:49] were doing that to after the Stalin era,

[05:52] whereas Britain, it's just everyone has

[05:53] to live in fear of stuff they post on

[05:55] Facebook. And this is manifesting as

[05:57] well in who they let into the country. I

[05:59] feel I hear a lot more about Britain

[06:01] banning people from visiting than I do

[06:03] just about anywhere else. So, I would

[06:06] say personally, I would prefer countries

[06:09] that don't restrict who visits based on

[06:11] just speeches they're going to give. But

[06:13] I am frankly kind of glad that a

[06:15] left-winger got caught in the blast

[06:17] radius this time because a lot of

[06:18] conservatives get caught in the blast

[06:20] radius.

[06:20] >> You've helped create this culture. You

[06:22] okay, so Hassan just to go over

[06:25] some of his greatest hits. Let me say

[06:27] this first too. Ava Vardingerbrook,

[06:30] she's a conservative European. She's

[06:32] >> really really embracing that Dutch name.

[06:34] >> She's uh she's been banned from the UK.

[06:37] Ezra Leavant, who is a conservative

[06:39] journalist out of the UK uh out of

[06:41] Canada. Don Keith, Valentina Gomez, uh,

[06:45] all these people are have been banned

[06:47] from the UK. I'm not I actually agree

[06:49] with Blake.

[06:49] >> Honestly, I think Charlie would have

[06:51] gotten banned from the UK.

[06:52] >> I'm wondering if I'm if I tried to

[06:54] travel to the UK if I would suddenly be

[06:56] blocked. Um, but it, you know, so

[06:58] listen, there's been a lot of people

[06:59] that have been banned from the UK and

[07:01] nobody says anything. All of a sudden,

[07:02] Hassan is, you know, one of these

[07:05] people and it's a big deal. Nobody would

[07:07] even be talking about if it was just his

[07:09] uncle Jenk. Nobody would be talking

[07:11] about this. Um, but this is interesting.

[07:13] So, uh, let's just play a couple of the,

[07:16] uh, greatest hits of Assam Let's

[07:18] play, uh, him telling his followers to

[07:20] kill capitalist 48.

[07:23] >> Poor people that they can they they can

[07:25] afford housing in Berkeley. I don't know

[07:27] how that

[07:28] >> my Well, my understanding is that the

[07:30] property owners who have properties

[07:31] there choose just not to rent it at all.

[07:33] >> YEAH. KILL THEM. KILL those and murder

[07:36] those mother in the street. Let the

[07:37] streets Let the streets soak in their

[07:40] red capitalist bloods, dude.

[07:43] >> All right. Um, he keeps going. There's

[07:46] another clip. 47.

[07:49] >> I'm sick and tired of it. Left-wingers,

[07:52] liberals, you need to be showing your

[07:55] opponent's guts on there, okay? You need

[07:58] to be gutting them. You need to be

[08:01] shanking these and letting their letting

[08:05] their intestines just ride on stage.

[08:08] What the man? Slice them up.

[08:13] Slice them and dice them.

[08:15] >> Yeah.

[08:16] >> This is the most popular online

[08:18] personality on the left. By the way, I

[08:19] feel it's worth noting that because I

[08:21] think if you're over 40, people don't

[08:23] generally don't know who Hassan

[08:25] is. If you're under 25, this guy is

[08:30] insanely popular. Tens of thousands of

[08:32] people watching every time he goes

[08:34] online, millions watching clips of him

[08:36] on every platform. He is a leading voice

[08:39] for the Modern Left.

[08:39] >> Well, and Charlie Charlie was going to

[08:41] debate him at Dartmouth. Dartmouth

[08:43] >> Dartmouth only about a week after the

[08:45] Utah Valley event. It would have been it

[08:47] would have been quite the event. I

[08:48] >> was interesting though. I was talking to

[08:50] somebody about a very prominent

[08:52] conservative debater. Um, and it was

[08:55] just just like two weeks ago and I said,

[08:58] you know, you should debate Hassan

[09:00] cuz somebody needs to put this guy in

[09:02] his place, right? And to have a really

[09:05] skilled debater on the right take him on

[09:06] and kind of show all of his hypocrisy

[09:08] would be a powerful thing, I think. And

[09:10] he said, I won't debate Hassan. And I

[09:12] said, why? He said, well, I draw the

[09:14] line at, you know, uh, so like people

[09:18] that are calling for the death of

[09:20] conservatives. Like, this guy wants me

[09:22] dead. I'm not I'm not going to I'm not

[09:24] going to do this. Right. Um and to make

[09:28] matters worse, Hassan has been

[09:31] absolutely celebrated and platformed by

[09:34] the New York Times. Uh and this is a

[09:37] guy, remember the profile? It was like

[09:39] MAGACoded left-winger cuz he likes guns

[09:42] and stuff like that. And what's let me

[09:44] show show this. This was his reaction to

[09:46] getting banned from UK. This is just a

[09:47] screen grab of his tweet 178. Um, so

[09:51] this is Chank says, "I've been banned."

[09:53] And then, uh, Hassan replies back, "The

[09:55] UK has revoked my visa as well. All at

[09:57] the behest of Israel. The West is

[09:59] betraying quote unquote liberal values

[10:00] for a genocidal fascist foreign

[10:02] government. Soon we will all become

[10:04] Israel." I don't know what the he means

[10:06] by that final line. So, I I don't I

[10:08] don't get it. But what's funny about

[10:11] this is that uh, Hassan was born in

[10:14] America. He's basically an anchor baby.

[10:16] Then he was raised in Turkey and then he

[10:19] came back to the US for college. So

[10:22] yeah, he's technically an American

[10:23] citizen, but he was raised in his

[10:25] formative years in Turkey. Everything

[10:28] about Hassan is an indictment of how

[10:31] America has

[10:34] I don't even want to say pursued because

[10:35] it seems to have just been inflicted on

[10:37] us almost by accident that he has he's a

[10:39] citizen for life because of birthright

[10:42] citizenship. He is granted this

[10:44] citizenship which he only uses to hate

[10:47] on America, tear down America, advocate

[10:50] violent overthrow of America in favor of

[10:52] an economic system that he doesn't

[10:53] believe in because in fact he's

[10:54] spectacularly wealthy, has always been

[10:57] wealthy and continues. Yeah. He's a

[10:58] trust fund baby who lives incredibly

[11:00] wealthfully and then demands communist

[11:02] revolution. Millions of such cases.

[11:03] >> Well, and and this is what really pissed

[11:06] me off a little while ago cuz he's

[11:08] advocating for something called social

[11:10] murder. and we'll explain it on the

[11:11] other side if you haven't heard about

[11:12] it. 49.

[11:15] Engles wrote about the concept of social

[11:19] murder and Brian Thompson as the United

[11:23] Healthcare CEO was engaging in a

[11:26] tremendous amount of social murder, the

[11:29] systematized forms of violence, uh the

[11:32] the structural violence of poverty, uh

[11:35] the the for-profit uh paywalled

[11:40] uh system of of healthcare in this

[11:42] country and the consequences of that are

[11:46] tremendous amounts of pain, tremendous

[11:48] amounts of violence, tremendous amounts

[11:50] of deaths. And that was a fascinating

[11:53] story from for me because America's very

[11:56] draconian about crime and punishment.

[11:59] They're very black and white on this

[12:00] issue. And yet because of the pervasive

[12:05] pain that the private health care system

[12:10] had created for the average American, I

[12:13] saw so many people immediately

[12:16] understand why this death had taken

[12:19] place.

[12:21] >> So he's justifying the assassination of

[12:24] Brian Thompson, the CEO of United

[12:26] Healthcare at the hands of Luigi Manion.

[12:30] cold-blooded killing in the middle of

[12:31] the street out of nowhere because of a

[12:34] concept from angles. Now, who is angles?

[12:36] That is Karl Marx's co-conspirator from

[12:39] the 19th century. And they talked about

[12:41] social murder. So, we have a private

[12:43] healthc care or largely private it's

[12:46] it's it's partly socialistic right now.

[12:49] We have the ACA, right, that's still in

[12:51] place where you get subsidized health

[12:53] care if you are poor. uh which is

[12:55] causing a ton of problems by the way in

[12:57] our healthcare uh industry.

[13:00] Nevertheless, he says that it's the

[13:03] health insurance companies. They're not

[13:05] all perfect. I'm not suggesting that

[13:06] they are, but it is part of a legal

[13:09] system. Brian Thompson was the legal CEO

[13:12] of a company operating within the legal

[13:14] bounds of a legal system. Now, you could

[13:16] advocate to change that. But I would

[13:18] advocate to go back to more of a

[13:20] privatebased uh health care system. Not

[13:22] the singlepayer healthare system that

[13:24] Hassan wants that they have in the

[13:26] UK they have in Canada that is rife with

[13:28] problems. But okay, fine. That's your

[13:30] perspective. But then to use that to

[13:32] justify the assassination of a CEO of a

[13:35] company is disgusting. It's truly

[13:38] grotesque. And here he is doing this.

[13:41] He's calling for the blood capital's

[13:42] blood to soak the streets. He's calling

[13:44] for people gutting people and their

[13:46] intrails flooding out. If you don't if

[13:48] you don't agree with their politics,

[13:49] he's justifying social murder. There's

[13:52] clips of him on stage with Taylor Lorent

[13:55] talking somebody's got to do it in

[13:56] reference to this the assassination of

[13:58] Donald Trump.

[14:00] This is not a good guy. This is a guy

[14:02] that to Blake's point is a total trust

[14:05] fund baby. He's a nepo baby. He's a

[14:07] foreigner. He is living at the laress of

[14:11] uh the American economy and system while

[14:14] hating it while advocating for its

[14:16] destruction for a political revolution

[14:18] to overtake the America that we know and

[14:20] love. So should he have been banned from

[14:24] the UK because a couple Jewish groups

[14:25] got upset? I don't know. Maybe not. I I

[14:28] kind of agree with Blake, but the fact

[14:30] that it's him, I'm not going to cry over

[14:32] it. But yeah, okay, sure. People should

[14:34] be allowed to have bad ideas and to

[14:36] espouse them and to spout their

[14:38] nonsense. Sure. But can we can How about

[14:40] this? I would take this trade. He is

[14:43] allowed to speak in the UK and spout his

[14:45] nonsense if we're allowed to

[14:46] denaturalize him as a citizen. I will

[14:48] take that trade. That is what I would

[14:50] like because I'm sick of this birthright

[14:52] citizenship. To Blake's point, it's a

[14:53] complete and utter indictment of a

[14:55] failed system that has been inflicted

[14:57] upon us without a vote and we're trying

[14:59] to fix it right now. I just pray it's

[15:01] not too late. Any last thoughts, Blake?

[15:04] >> No. Hassan,

[15:07] tough tough cookies. Let us know what

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