Ben Shapiro has spent his career defending the very movement now turning against him.

Peloni:  Some things need to be clarified in all of this.  Ben Shapiro has not been an advocate of Trump’s full vision for America, and he came to support Trump in spite of most of his policies rather than being a forward advocate in support of them.  However, with regards to Trump’s Israel policy, Shapiro has been a constant supporter, even during times in which he had divorced himself from supporting Trump, which I believe has officially occurred at least twice.  Yet, the very thing for which the anti-MAGA crowd are attacking Shapiro is the very issue upon which he and Trump agree most soundly.  In fact the nuances of this reality is what makes the description of Carlson and his allies being termed ‘anti-MAGA’ far more accurate than terms such as ‘Far Right’, which is a complete misnomer, and ‘Woke Right’, which also misses the mark entirely.  The anti-MAGA crowd intend to split the most philosophic movement in US history on the very basis of it support for Israel and Jews, leaving supporters of Israel, ie Christian & Jewish Zionists like Trump and Shapiro, on one side, with Carlson and his anti-MAGA, Islamist friendly, allies on the other.  A lot of Trump supporters will vividly recall Shapiro’s opposition of  Trump’s policies to include issues of Ukraine to trade to Trump’s persona.  While none of this is relevant to the debate being twisted against Shapiro today by the Anti-MAGA clique, it is all quite relevant in what is playing out on social media.  Yet, Avi is quite correct when he states, “Ben Shapiro’s ordeal is not just his fight. It’s the fight for America,” leaving the choice for MAGA to be between Shapiro and the anti-MAGA clique, with perhaps too much animus towards the former and far too little animus towards the latter.

Avi  Abelow | Nov 12, 2025

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Ben Shapiro has spent his career defending the very movement now turning against him.

He helped rebuild modern American conservatism for a new generation, confronting the left’s cultural dominance, guiding young Americans in the Biblical foundation to the founding of America, and standing firmly for Israel and Western civilization. Through The Daily Wire, a whole movement of conservatives found a voice rooted in faith, reason and moral clarity. For that, Shapiro became a pillar of the right.

And yet today, @benshapiro is under fire, not from the left, but from his own ideological home.

The conservative movement he helped fortify is fracturing, morally, spiritually, and intellectually. Jew-hatred, once largely the domain of the radical left, is now rising inside the conservative right. The convergence of hatred from both wings is forming a perfect storm.

In recent months, @TuckerCarlson has repeatedly framed Ben Shapiro’s vocal support for Israel as a test of his loyalty to America, a dangerous insinuation echoing one of the oldest antisemitic tropes in history.

@RealCandaceO, once his colleague, has trafficked in insinuations bordering on conspiracy, including the grotesque suggestion that @MrsErikaKirk and TurningPointUSA leadership was somehow involved in @charliekirk11‘s assassination. When Shapiro condemned that as dangerous nonsense, Owens and @megynkelly accused Shapiro of lying.

Think about that: the man defending truth is branded the traitor, and those spreading lies are hailed as “free thinkers.” That reversal of moral order tells you everything about where the movement is heading.

I say this as a committed supporter of President @realDonaldTrump, the most pro-Israel U.S. president in memory even with all the mistakes I call him out on, and as someone who has long sounded the alarm about Jew-hatred on the left (since the Obama years).

This is no longer just left-wing Jew-hating antisemitism or stray incidents on the right.

It’s the two converging: the left labeling Israel and Jews as oppressors, those on the conservative right adopting conspiracy and grievance as its language. The Jews and the State of Israel are caught in the middle. And bridging those two sides? The growing influence of American jihadi Muslims on American politics.

Here’s a disturbing subplot: while we focus on ideological battles, powerful foreign interests have been quietly funding and influencing parts of the movement that ought to defend Israel and even Jewish conservatives.

Qatar, in particular, orchestrated a sophisticated campaign aimed at “Trump influencers” — individuals who command ears in the Trump-era conservative ecosystem. According to multiple reports (including disclosures tied to the The Wall Street Journal), in 2017 and 2018 Qatar spent millions lobbying the U.S., targeting a list of around 250 “influencers” close to Trump.

Why does this matter? Because the influence operations are not neutral. They’re designed to shift policy and perception. When foreign money enters circles of “conservative influencers,” it can subtly (or not-so-subtly) shape the agenda, including attitudes towards Israel and Jewish identity, and White House policy.

When you add this to the internal breakdown on the right (antisemitic factionalism, mainstream media normalization of Jew-hatred), you get a troubling picture: voices on the conservative movement are not just ignoring the threat, they may be enabling it.

Few stories capture this turning point more clearly than Tucker Carlson’s decline.

Carlson, once the articulate voice of conservative values, pro-Israel sentiment, and anti-jihadi Islam, has morphed. His recent, unchallenged interview with extremist Nick Fuentes, a known admirer of Stalin, Hitler, denier of the Holocaust, was not balanced journalism. It was legitimization. Carlson offered a platform with no moral pushback.

Contrast that with Carlson’s well known interviewing zeal: he famously interrogated Senator @tedcruz over his Biblical support for Israel, challenging Cruz’s sincerity and whether his faith-based alignment could conflict with “America First.” Carlson pressed the Christian conservative defending Israel, yet ignored the fascist praising Hitler. That is not neutrality. That is moral inversion.

Rod Dreher’s recent report, “What I Saw and Heard in Washington,” confirmed what many of us feared: Jew-hating antisemitism is no longer confined to the fringe.
After conversations with senior GOP staffers, Dreher revealed that 30 to 40 percent of young Republican aides now admire Nick Fuentes.

“The Groyper thing is real… it has infiltrated young conservative Washington networks to a significant degree,” he wrote. “Irrational hatred of Jews (and other races, but especially Jews) is a central core of it.”

These are the next generation of policy staffers, speechwriters, and campaign managers. And they are being radicalized by a figure whom Tucker Carlson just legitimized to millions of viewers.

This is how a movement’s moral core erodes.

Shapiro has been one of the movement’s moral backbone. For defending Israel, for building institutions, for mentoring youth. Now he is under internal attack.

On one side you have extremists (the groypers), on another you have mainstream figures willing to side with them or ignore them. Political and media elites who once defended Shapiro now accuse him of disloyalty for speaking a truth they’d rather avoid. When your best allies are under threat from your own side, that’s not healthy. It’s a collapse.

Let’s remember the prelude. On the left, under President Obama, Israel became a target. Zionism was re-defined as racism. Jewish identity was recast as privilege. Universities became battlegrounds. The progressive political class weaponised Jew-hating antisemitism under the banner of social justice.

Now, parts of the right are adopting those same Jew-hating antisemitic tropes, camouflaged with nationalist rhetoric, conspiratorial language, or coded “globalist” talk. It’s the same old hatred, just new packaging.

Both extremes also weaponize U.S. military aid to Israel, pretending it’s a one-way handout. That’s a lie repeated by the far left and now the far right.

In truth, U.S. “aid” to Israel is a joint defense investment that benefits America first. Roughly 75% of that funding is spent in the United States, supporting American jobs and strengthening the U.S. defense industry. Israel, in turn, provides battlefield-tested intelligence, cybersecurity innovations, and weapons technology that saves American lives.

Iron Dome, drone systems, and missile defenses, many of the tools now used by the U.S. military, were born in the U.S.–Israel partnership.

And in fact, many Israelis are pushing to change the arrangement from an “aid package” to a trade partnership, precisely to end the false perception that Israel is a dependent. The reality is the opposite: Israel is one of America’s greatest strategic assets.

Yet Jew-hating antisemites on both ends of the spectrum twist that truth into a weapon.

The Perfect Storm

The danger today is not just Jew-hating antisemitism on the left or right, it’s their convergence together with the growing jihadi Muslim population in the USA.

* The left says Jews are oppressors of “palestinians.”
* The far right says Jews are globalists, traitors, or part of some “other” agenda. Different language. Same ancient hatred.
* The jihadi Muslims assisting both sides, (in their jihad to destroy America!)

When influence operations (like Qatar’s) seed doubt inside conservative circles, when leading voices normalise Jew-hatred, and when institutional conservatism fails to push back, the perfect storm gathers.

This moment must be a wake-up call, for the Jewish people, for the State of Israel, and for every American conservative who still believes in moral clarity.

We must call out the growing Jew-hating antisemitism on the conservative right just as vigorously as we’ve fought the left’s.

The trajectory is clear, it is going to get much, much worse, for US Jews, for the conservative movement, and for America.

The conservative movement is at a crossroads. One path leads back to faith, truth and moral clarity. The other leads into darkness, into the same hatred that has destroyed civilizations before.

Ben Shapiro’s ordeal is not just his fight. It’s the fight for America.

The left, right and jihadis are converging against the Jewish people in America, and they also all want to destroy America as we know it, all for different reasons.
It’s a perfect storm.

The only way to save America from what’s coming is for Americans to first wake up to what is happening.
Then…
* Name the poison. Jew-hating Antisemitism is not “populism.” It is evil that destroys societies.
* Expose the enablers. Whether it’s platforming Jew-haters or enabling them through silence or foreign funding, everyone must call it out.
* Defend the builders. Ben Shapiro, Mark Levin, Jewish conservatives, Israel allies, they are not liabilities. They are Allie’s.
* Reframe the U.S.–Israel alliance. Stop the “aid”. Start turning it into strategic partnership and shared values.
* Educate the next generation. Conservative youth must rediscover the Biblical foundation that made Western civilisation great — not the nihilism of tribal conspiracists.