Ben Shaprio has pushed back on conservative commentators who have widely embraced Kanye West, with Shapiro saying West’s anti-Semitism is undeniable.
West wrote on Twitter that he was “going death con 3 on Jewish people” saying “I actually can’t be anti-Semitic because black people are actually [Jewish]”. West’s Twitter and Instagram accounts were subsequently suspended.
In a tweet, Shapiro called West’s sentiments “disturbing” and “clearly anti-Semitic”.
The comments from Shaprio, who is Jewish, come after several conservative pundits embraced West before his anti-Semitic comments.
Candace Owens, who works for The Daily Wire — which Shapiro co-founded –, said “if you are an honest person, you did not think this tweet was anti-Semitic. You did not think that he wrote this tweet because he hates or wants to genocide Jewish people. This does not represent the beginning of a Holocaust. That’s if you’re an honest person, you’ll admit that, right? If you’re an honest person, when you read this tweet, you had no idea what the hell he was talking about. I had no idea, when I read this tweet, what the hell he was talking about.”
