Klein himself has defended antisemitic behavior by other digital media personalities in the past, including in 2017 the YouTuber PewDePie, who had used his channel to make jokes about Jewish genocide and Nazis to more than 76 million subscribers at the time, Klien said PewDePie is “a great guy” and “not an antisemite.” The two met at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Israel while Ethan was on a Birthright trip and Hila was on leave from the Israel Defense Forces. Klein is Jewish and an Israeli-American dual citizen, and he launched his digital media presence alongside his wife Hila Klein, an Israeli-American YouTube personality and fashion designer. But I’ll shed no tears for a person who has routinely engaged in cancellation of others.”Ī link to the video in which Klein made his comments was removed from the platform as of Friday, with a note saying it “has been removed for violating YouTube’s policy on harassment and bullying.” The audio was still available on various podcast channels. Shapiro himself later criticized Klein’s suspension, tweeting, “I don’t believe Ethan Klein should be suspended from YouTube for his awful garbage. EIC realDailyWire, host of 'The Ben Shapiro Show podcast and syndicated radio, author of 1 NYT bestseller 'The Right Side of History,' NRO Unofficial Ben Shapiro. Klein was suspended from YouTube shortly after, and claimed on social media that “a few white supremacists” had reported him for going after Shapiro, whom he said “was happy to perform a purity test on me and declare me a bad Jew for criticizing Israel.” (On Twitter, Shapiro had dug up comments Klein had made last year following the outbreak of war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, in which he wrote, “The Israeli government is making me sick” and “I wish the settling and repossession of Palestinian land would stop.”) Klein then responded: “Sure, in poor taste, but not as poor taste as you platforming antisemites who spread dangerous conspiracies that leads to REAL violence against Jews.” This week, Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and President Joe Biden cut a deal to raise the debt limit. Please enjoy the following column by Ben Shapiro. In the meantime, Klein’s own comments about Shapiro were amplified on social media by conservative figures, leading to Shapiro to respond on Twitter: “If there were another Holocaust, I would hope that Ethan and his family escaped. Ben Shapiro 12:01 AM on JAP Photo/Evan Vucci Attention readers: Dennis Prager is off this week. Shapiro has also more forcefully denounced West’s comments, saying on Wednesday that the rapper was spouting “ Der Stürmer -type antisemitism, and that is about as ugly as it gets, and nobody should be defending that.” Since Shapiro’s first tweet about West’s comments, the rapper has said he was being targeted by a “ Jewish underground media mafia ” (while also apologizing to “the people that I hurt” ). I’d be surprised if Shapiro himself didn’t understand this contradictory dynamic, and actively seek public humiliation, on a regular basis, for the sake of his career.Īnd in that regard, Shapiro is certainly succeeding.Conservative pundit Ben Shapiro speaks during a conference of Israeli conservatives in Tel Aviv, July 20, 2022.

The recommendation algorithms on social media might be complex and somewhat mysterious, but they generally favor engagement thus, controversy, followed by mass-mockery, is an ideal way to attract an incredible amount of attention. Retweets, comments, jokes, and memes (and articles like this) only serve in Shapiro’s favor. Shapiro has, seemingly, only benefited from the mass mockery sparked by his deliriously bad takes. Yes, the man talks like a VHS tape on fast-forward, has an abundance of poorly thought-out opinions, and a puritanical attitude to fun music videos.īut being the punchline of a joke has never negatively affected Shapiro’s ability to reach millions on social media (o n Facebook, Shapiro is followed by 7 million people, and almost 3 million on Twitter). But the world has been making fun of Shapiro for years, and it's starting to get stale.

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