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Tucker Carlson, Piers Morgan Punch Back At Ben Shapiro Over Israel Feud

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Daily Caller News Foundation co-founder Tucker Carlson and host Piers Morgan criticized Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro during a Friday interview after he accused both of platforming antisemites.

Shapiro accused Carlson and Morgan of platforming so-called antisemites and critics of Israel, including Nick Fuentes. While Morgan argued on “Piers Morgan Uncensored” it is his journalistic responsibility to hear the perspectives of these individuals, Carlson said that Shapiro supports eliminating free speech in order to penalize Americans for expressing their opinions about Israel.

“And Ben Shapiro and people in the administration would like to make that the law here. This is the last hold out of free speech on planet Earth, the United States. It’s encoded in our Constitution,” Carlson said. “Also, I would say in the American DNA, we have a right to say whatever we believe is true. Period. And that very much includes criticism of a foreign country. You’ll never hear me saying from the river to the sea because I’m not exactly sure what that means. However, if I want to say from the river to the sea, I certainly will. And I’ll do that until I die because that’s my birthright. That’s a right given to me by God, not the U.S. government.”

“And Ben Shapiro and a lot of these people are saying it out loud,” Carlson continued. “We need to penalize antisemites with the law. What does that even mean? You can never, in the United States, prosecute or even persecute someone for his beliefs. For your beliefs. You have the right of conscience in this country.”

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Morgan argued that Shapiro’s accusations of people being antisemitic allow the real antisemites to get away with their rhetoric. Carlson stated that Shapiro appears to lack basic understanding of how the American justice system works.

“If you criticize a government and you get branded antisemitic for criticizing the government for policies that many people think are wrong, then you what you’re doing, you’re allowing the genuine antisemites, the genuine Nazi sympathizers to just ride under the radar because, you know, if you go on social media now, everyone’s an antisemite, according to Ben Shapiro and these guys,” Morgan said. “Once everyone becomes something, even though the vast majority are not that thing, then the ones who really are that thing, get to operate much more freely, I think.”