Zack Polanski is fuming over the Home Secretary’s decision to ban two internet-famous Israel haters from the UK. It’s ‘really grim’, he says of the exclusion from our shores of the leftist blowhards Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur. It will drag us further down the ‘dangerous road’ of tyranny, he cries. Hold on. Is this the same Zack Polanski who supported the arrest of Graham Linehan by literal armed cops for the crime of cracking a joke?
The left paved the way for the exclusion of Piker and Uygur by so egregiously failing to defend the right to speak
Why, yes it is. Polanski’s love of the liberty to utter was nowhere to be seen in September. Back then he was waving his pom poms over the cornering of a funnyman by five armed officers at Heathrow Airport. ‘It was proportionate to arrest him’, he said of the despotic nabbing of Linehan over his mick-taking of the trans lunacy. So it’s tyranny to cancel the visas of two loudmouth Yanks but fine to send a modern-day Stasi to persecute our favourite Irishman?
The left’s bluster over the banning of Piker and Uygur has been maddening. It feels like a tsunami of cant. These are people who stared at their shoes when women had their collars felt for saying people with penises are male. And who whooped when McCarthyite mobs of silver-spoon students hounded ‘hard-right’ speakers off their campuses. And who either stayed silent or smirked when 11 non-Brits were barred from attending Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom rally just last month.
