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Things came to a dramatic head Wednesday when conservative firebrand and The Daily Wire host Candace Owens took to social media to respond to her boss Ben Shapiro, the media outlet's co-founder, who urged her to quit over there disagreement on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
The feud apparently started because Shapiro did not like Owens' position on the recent month-old war between Israel and Gaza-based terror group Hamas. The 34-year-old pregnant mother of 3 has condemned excessive use of force by the Jewish state which has killed thousands of Palestinians in Gaza. The military response has generated fierce criticism worldwide and for the first time among many influential commentators on the American right.
The Owens-Shapiro feud began earlier this week, when a video surfaced on X showing Shapiro harshly criticizing her stance on Israel.
“I think her behavior during this has been disgraceful, without a doubt,” Shapiro says in the video. “I think that her faux sophistication on these particular issues has been ridiculous.”
Following the circulation of the provocative video, Owens apparently decided to take the high road. “Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God,” she wrote on X, partially quoting a Biblical verse in The Book of Matthew. “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”
Shapiro, an orthodox Jew, was bizarrely offended by Owens' innocent post; and responded on Wednesday, by urging her to resign. “Candace, if you feel that taking money from The Daily Wire somehow comes between you and God, by all means quit,” he wrote on his X.
While Shapiro is a co-founder, co-owner and currently the “editor emeritus” of The Daily Wire, he has stated in the past that he does not have the authority to fire Owens, who hosts the Daily Wire’s “Candace Owens” talk show. CEO Caleb Robinson has hiring and firing power at the company.
Owens apparently frustrated by Shapiro's public meltdown and attacks on her, hit back. “You have been acting unprofessional and emotionally unhinged for weeks now,” she wrote on X. “And we have all had to sit back and allow it and have all tried to exercise exceeding understanding for your raw emotion.”
In an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson on his X show published on Wednesday, Owens said she would not be making “ad-hominem attacks” against Shapiro, who should be “embarrassed” over his handling of the situation.
“I would hope that amongst colleagues, it would always be civil disagreements,” she said. “I would hope that it would remain respectful, and that you wouldn’t throw your colleagues under the bus, so to speak.”
Owens, like increasingly many leaders on the American right, has condemned Israel's disproportionate use of force. “No government anywhere has a right to commit a genocide, ever,” she wrote on her X account earlier this month. She didn’t mention Israel, though. “There is no justification for a genocide. I can’t believe this even needs to be said or is even considered the least bit controversial to state.”
Among many on the American right who have been largely sympathetic to Israel in the past, there's a growing frustration in recent years, with Israel and neo-conservative Jewish globalists.
Critics point to the Jewish nation's public support for LGBTQ degeneracy and abortion on-demand, both vehemently opposed by conservatives in America.
Conservative critics also point out the funding of pro-open borders organizations and far-left politicians in the west, by mostly Jewish billionaires like George Soros.
Following the recent escalation of the Israeli-Palestine conflict, and the emotional and slanderous reactions to the anti-Israel protests in the west by some commentators and politicians, many critics have started asking why there're no such passionate reactions to domestic problems facing western citizens on a daily basis.
"I'm an American," Carlson said in the interview with Owens. "Our country is being invaded right now. Over 100,000 Americans die every year of fentanyl. Those are real tragedies. I've never seen anything like the emotion from any commentator around those tragedies as I'm watching about a foreign tragedy."
Other conservative critics also called out the hypocritical interest among some Jewish Americans in the protests happening on campuses and across the west against Israel. Anti-white racist protestors and activists have been condoned by mainstream media and Jewish groups like the far-left Antidefamation League, ADL.
There are signs that many are growing impatient with the blatant double standard and hypocrisy as Owens and Carlson pointed out in Wednesday's interview.
X owner and Tesla chief Elon Musk also weighed in on the debate on Wednesday.
An X user wrote that “Jewish [communities] have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.”
To which Musk replied: “You have said the actual truth.”
Another X user complained that “Everyone is allowed to be proud of their race, except for white people, because we’ve been brainwashed into believing that our history was somehow ‘worse’ than that of other races…If we really want to do the comparing game, white people have also done A LOT of good for the world.”
Musk replied, “Yeah, this is super messed up. Time for this nonsense to end and shame ANYONE who perpetuates these lies!”
In another post, the SpaceX CEO wrote: "And, at the risk of being repetitive, I am deeply offended by ADL’s messaging and any other groups who push de facto anti-white racism or anti-Asian racism or racism of any kind. I’m sick of it. Stop now."
WATCH Candace Owen's appearance on Tucker On X