{"id":48504,"date":"2026-06-02T11:26:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=48504"},"modified":"2026-06-02T11:26:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:26:31","slug":"the-dumbest-ban-ive-ever-seen-uk-targets-cenk-hasan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/the-dumbest-ban-ive-ever-seen-uk-targets-cenk-hasan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dumbest Ban I&#8217;ve Ever Seen: UK Targets Cenk &amp; Hasan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Dumbest Ban I&#039;ve Ever Seen: UK Targets Cenk &amp; Hasan\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qu8o7MGsoEc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@therationalnational\">The Rational National<\/a> Jun 1, 2026 Political commentators Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur have both been banned from the UK, apparently over their criticisms of the Israeli government. I break down what we know, their reactions, and past comments. Time Stamps: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qu8o7MGsoEc\">00:00<\/a> Intro <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qu8o7MGsoEc&amp;t=189s\">03:09<\/a> Corbyn &amp; Polanski react <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qu8o7MGsoEc&amp;t=237s\">03:57<\/a> Hasan Piker at Oxford Union <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qu8o7MGsoEc&amp;t=366s\">06:06<\/a> Cenk&#8217;s 2025 defence <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qu8o7MGsoEc&amp;t=509s\">08:29<\/a> Cenk&#8217;s reaction to ban <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qu8o7MGsoEc&amp;t=683s\">11:23<\/a> What they did <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qu8o7MGsoEc&amp;t=864s\">14:24<\/a> Hasan&#8217;s reaction <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qu8o7MGsoEc&amp;t=966s\">16:06<\/a> Rightwing reaction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rational National Jun 1, 2026 Political commentators Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur have both been banned from the UK, apparently over their criticisms of the Israeli government. I break down what we know, their reactions, and past comments. Time Stamps: 00:00 Intro 03:09 Corbyn &amp; Polanski react 03:57 Hasan&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/the-dumbest-ban-ive-ever-seen-uk-targets-cenk-hasan\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1880,1879],"tags":[1966,1263,1967],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48504"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48505,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48504\/revisions\/48505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}