{"id":320595,"date":"2025-12-28T08:30:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T08:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=320595"},"modified":"2025-12-30T08:24:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:24:32","slug":"adl-goes-ballistic-after-megyn-kelly-says-bari-weiss-ben-shapiro-are-making-antisemites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=320595","title":{"rendered":"ADL Goes Ballistic After Megyn Kelly Says Bari Weiss, Ben Shapiro Are &#8216;Making Antisemites&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Tyler Durden \u2013 Zero Hedge Sept 27, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is furious with journalist Megyn Kelly after she accused prominent Jews in the media &#8211; Ben Shapiro and Bari Weiss &#8211; of &#8220;making antisemites&#8221; through their attempts to censor criticism of Israel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(If you don&#8217;t care about any of these people, feel free to\u00a0<strong>stop reading here&#8230; <\/strong>fair warning)<\/p>\n<p><strong>To bring you up to speed: <\/strong>Following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, podcaster Candace Owens pointed the finger at Israel, suggesting that Kirk&#8217;s shifting views on Israel made him a target &#8211; and suggesting that Israel and France plotted Kirk&#8217;s death. This drew sharp criticism from the\u00a0<em>Daily Wire<\/em>&#8216;s Ben Shapiro (Owens&#8217; former boss), journalist Bari Weiss, and the ADL &#8211; with Shapiro further accusing Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson of amplifying &#8216;antisemitism&#8217; by platforming Owens and refusing to condemn her claims, while Kelly says attempts to censor criticism of Israel is in fact &#8216;making&#8217; people into antisemites.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So &#8211; a lot going on here.\u00a0<\/strong>Prominent Jews are condemning conservatives who haven&#8217;t condemned Candace Owens &#8211; accusing them of fueling antisemitism, while Megyn Kelly says that\u00a0<em>in general<\/em>, attempts to label conservatives critical of Israeli policy as &#8216;antisemites&#8217; is actually creating antisemites.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tensions peaked at Turning Point USA&#8217;s AmFest conference last week<\/strong>, where Shapiro downplayed the 1967 USS Liberty incident in which Israel attacked a US Navy ship and killed 34 Americans &#8211; calling it a &#8216;mistake&#8217; that&#8217;s now largely irrelevant because it happened so long ago:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The TPUSA AmFest audience erupted in cheers after a young White attendee questioned Ben Shapiro about Israel\u2019s 1967 attack on the USS Liberty.<\/p>\n<p>Shapiro\u2014who frequently invokes the Holocaust\u2014dismissed the incident as largely irrelevant today because it occurred so long ago.\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TkuYLT6scM\">pic.twitter.com\/TkuYLT6scM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AF Post (@AFpost) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AFpost\/status\/2001858022872879435?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 19, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To which Carlson suggested that Shapiro&#8217;s deflecting the question vs. debating it wasn&#8217;t what the movement should be about:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Tucker Carlson bashed Ben Shapiro for calling a young man who posed a question about the USS Liberty as a \u201cHitlerite\u201d moments prior.<\/p>\n<p>Follow: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AFpost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AFpost<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xSEwL5nUr2\">pic.twitter.com\/xSEwL5nUr2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AF Post (@AFpost) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AFpost\/status\/2001869211866665421?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 19, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The next day, Shapiro escalated during a speech at the Heritage Foundation in which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/mAaLLq_7DZI?si=yt-zkoPdvcIqF3DJ&amp;t=794\">he called Carlson an &#8220;enemy of the conservative movement&#8221;<\/a> for promoting conspiracies.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in a concurrent <em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/VN1s0\">Vanity Fair<\/a><\/em> interview, <strong>Megyn\u00a0Kelly accused\u00a0Shapiro and Weiss of &#8220;making antisemites&#8221; by aggressively labeling critics<\/strong>, <strong>calling Shapiro &#8220;Israel first,&#8221; and criticizing their alleged efforts to &#8220;cancel&#8221; her from the movement<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>To recap the drama:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Moments after Kirk\u2019s widow, Erika Kirk, opened the conference with a speech calling her late husband a \u201cpeacemaker\u201d and urging an end to the squabbling, <\/em><strong><em>Shapiro issued a blistering jeremiad <\/em><\/strong><em>that recalled William F. Buckley Jr.\u2019s attempted excommunication of the far right. \u201c<\/em><strong><em>The conservative movement is in serious danger,\u201d Shapiro said<\/em><\/strong><em>, \u201cfrom charlatans who claim to speak in the name of principle but actually traffic in conspiracism and dishonesty, who offer nothing but bile and despair.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><em>He denounced Candace Owens<\/em><\/strong><em>\u2014a podcaster he once employed at The Daily Wire, the media company he co-founded\u2014who has emerged as the chief purveyor of conspiracy theories about Kirk\u2019s murder. Her videos investigating the killing, infused with all the drama of a true-crime documentary, have been viewed millions of times.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Shapiro extended his criticism to those he said have \u201crefused to condemn Candace\u2019s truly vicious attacks,\u201d <\/em><strong><em>naming Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson, and Steve Bannon<\/em><\/strong><em>. A few hours later on the same stage, Carlson fired back. \u201cTo hear calls for like, de-platforming and denouncing people at a Charlie Kirk event, I\u2019m like, what?\u201d Carlson said, with an air of annoyed confusion. \u201cI mean, this kind of was the whole point of Charlie Kirk\u2019s public life, and I think that he died for it.\u201d -Vanity Fair<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And Kelly&#8217;s comments on Shapiro etc. &#8216;making antisemites&#8217; for quashing criticism of Israel:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>&#8220;What Charlie and I saw at the same time was that the country is turning,&#8221; Kelly said. &#8220;<\/em><strong><em>And young Republicans are turning on Israel.<\/em><\/strong><em>&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><em>She argued that figures like Shapiro and Weiss are actually fueling the rise of antisemitism through their attempts to censor criticism of Israel.<\/em><\/strong><em> \u201cThey are making antisemites,\u201d she said. \u201cTucker is not making antisemites. They are.\u201d -Vanity Fair<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The ADL replied to Kelly&#8217;s in a thread on X (with replies closed to anyone they don&#8217;t mention or follow):<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">1\/ Megyn Kelly&#8217;s recent comments cross a dangerous line. Accusing Jews of &#8220;making antisemites&#8221; blames Jewish people for the hate directed against them\u2014a classic victim-blaming trope. \uf9f5 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OU0JCzYoEf\">https:\/\/t.co\/OU0JCzYoEf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ADL (@ADL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ADL\/status\/2003486076850290792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>continued&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">2\/ This accusation also in no way\u00a0excuses\u00a0the rhetoric of Tucker Carlson who has been spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories for years and as recently as this past weekend:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/k8L5PKm8pg\">https:\/\/t.co\/k8L5PKm8pg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ADL (@ADL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ADL\/status\/2003486078976819544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kelly fired back<\/strong>, telling the ADL &#8220;Nice try but these labels don\u2019t work anymore,&#8221; adding &#8220;Instead of attacking me they should listen to me. Or keep on keeping on &amp; create more enemies!&#8221;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p>&gt;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Nice try but these labels don\u2019t work anymore. The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ADL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ADL<\/a> has defanged itself. Instead of attacking me they should listen to me. Or keep on keeping on &amp; create more enemies! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WM6T8lNtvh\">https:\/\/t.co\/WM6T8lNtvh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/megynkelly\/status\/2003954452374667622?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 24, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As a somewhat funny aside,\u00a0pro-Israel accounts are calling Kelly <strong>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/search?q=grandma%20groyper&amp;src=typed_query&amp;f=top\">Grandma Groyper&#8230;<\/a>&#8216;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>If you read this far, it&#8217;s kinda on you at this point.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/adl-goes-ballistic-after-megyn-kelly-says-bari-weiss-ben-shapiro-are-making-antisemites\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rifts open among American conservatives between the likes of Ben Shapiro and those he accuses of \u201cmaking anti-Semites\u201d, such as Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and Megyn Kelly  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":320597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320595"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320601,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320595\/revisions\/320601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/320597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}