Ben Shapiro Slams Right-Wing Critics of Israel
Some on the right have a problem with pro-Israel censorship. Shapiro has a problem with them.
Even as pro-Israel billionaires buy up American media with an expressed interest in silencing pro-Palestinian voices, conservative commentator Ben Shapiro has declared that right-wingers who acknowledge Israel’s outsized influence in the US are “extraordinarily conspiratorial.” Several recent developments prove otherwise.
Prominent Israeli political figures, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself, have openly mused about taking control of TikTok and X in order to convince Americans that leveling Gaza and slaughtering tens of thousands of children (at a minimum) with US-funded bombs is a noble cause. According to Shapiro, simply acknowledging Israel’s influence makes one a wild-eyed conspiracy nut who just resents “the Jews” for their work ethic and success.
“There are a lot of very wealthy, powerful, rich people in American society who are Jewish,” Shapiro said in a recent interview with the Jerusalem Post. “Therefore they’re in control of all the things [right-wing conspiracy theorists] don’t like,” he continued. “That’s being promoted unfortunately day and night by a certain contingent inside the right.”
Shapiro engages in a common and repulsive trick where he intentionally conflates the secular nation state of Israel, which is currently engaging in unspeakable atrocities in Gaza and the West Bank, with the entire Jewish population in order to smear Israel’s critics as antisemites.
In reality, he’s wrongly grouping in the entire Jewish population, many of whom are also critical of Israel, with the war criminals in Israel’s current government, in addition to the Evangelical Christians who vociferously cheer on their atrocities. No one should fall for it. This isn’t about Jewish people. It’s about a foreign government’s crimes and its unacceptable stranglehold on US foreign policy and media.
While there certainly are deplorable antisemites across the political spectrum, those aren’t the people Shapiro is talking about. He’s more interested in addressing member of his own party who take issue with Zionist billionaires swaying US foreign policy to the detriment of the American people.
Some also have problems with the people buying up legacy and social media to impose censorship on behalf of a foreign country. I share those concerns because they are valid. Anyone attempting to smear Americans who voice similar objections should be ignored.