Daily Wire founder Ben Shapiro is publicly at odds with Candace Owens, one of the news company’s leading personalities, for her refusal to back the Israeli government over its war with Hamas. Owens has stated she wishes America to stay out of the conflict, claiming “the lack of humanity that I have seen from both sides has been very troubling for me.”
This equivalence-drawing between Israel and Hamas has drawn Shapiro’s ire, and comes in addition to Owens raising issues with universities and donors taking action against anti-Israel students. She suggested on her Daily Wire show that people are asking “why Jews are so special” and argued white gentiles have had to “endure much worse” in terms of “rampant BLM, white man can’t do anything right actively being taught in the classroom” for years, without any comparable action. She also issued a mock endorsement of Nikki Haley “for President of Israel”.
Shapiro, who is an Orthodox Jew, revealed he regards Owens’s position as “absolutely disgraceful,” accusing his of adopting a position of “faux sophistication” which is “ridiculous” in a leaked video.
“Everybody can see the moves that she’s making and the things that she’s saying, and I find them disreputable,” he said.
Shapiro noted Owens “still works for my company” – although it is unclear whether or not that may change in the near future.
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