The United Kingdom’s Home Office has banned US political commentators Cenk Uygur and his nephew Hasan Piker from entering Britain to perform at an arts festival and meet left-wing leaders, which the pundits claim was due to anti-Israel rhetoric.

What happened: Uygur, 56, host of the online left-wing political talk show "The Young Turks," and Piker, 34, a prominent Twitch streamer, have been stopped from appearing at the SXSW London festival. Uygur said he had also been scheduled to speak at a student-organized event at Oxford University.

“I’ve been banned from the UK,” Uygur said on the X platform. “I tried to get on a flight to London to attend SXSW London and give a speech at Oxford. I’ve been banned for criticising Israel. Are we free any more? This is oppression of western citizens by our own governments on behalf of a different country.”

Responding to his post, Piker said, “The UK has revoked my visa as well. All at the behest of Israel. The west is betraying ‘liberal values’ for a genocidal fascist foreign government. Soon we will all become Israel.”