How can I "want Zionists to control the message" when I don't even control it on my own site? There have been tons of idiotic anti-Semitic conspiracy rants out here over the years, and I've never deleted them.
The latest Hamas stuff is just an excuse for Jew haters to bash Israel and justify killing Jews. It ignores the clear pattern of modern and semi-modern history of Islamic terror groups killing Jews and westerners for religious reasons, and not as a form of uprising or freedom fighting.
For decades, apologists of Islamic terrorists have projected western thinking upon these barbarians, trying to explain that the terrorists are simply tired of being oppressed and abused by more powerful forces. But that has rarely been the case, and it wasn't the case on 10/7. Hamas has always been a terror group with the goal of destroying Israel. If they had a button they could press to kill every Jew in the world and take over the entire land of Israel, they would. This was a coordinated suicide attack meant to murder Jewish civilians for religious reasons. The men who went through and over the fence were on a 1-way mission, and indeed the vast majority of them died that day. The rapes and other brutality reported that day were real. Why wouldn't it be real? Do you think these terrorists were good and moral people?
If you want to make the case that Israel's response has been overaggressive with too much collateral damage, I won't agree, but at least I can understand the reasoning. If you want to make the case that the US shouldn't provide any aid, I won't agree, but again I can understand the reasoning.
Unfortunately most anti-Israel people take the most extreme position possible. "Hamas was just fighting years of oppression, Israel is using this as an excuse to commit genocide, everything Israel claims about 10/7 is full of lies, Hamas reports are all reliable and we should believe them, Zionists are suppressing the truth so they can continue world domination", etc.
It's a bunch of bullshit, and most of it makes no logical sense.
Islamic terror groups have nothing in common with either western left or western right ideology. They are anti-individual, anti-freedom, and very oppressive of women and gays. They are very authoritarian and believe in killing both non-believers and their opposition. These are not good people one should be taking up to defend.
Candace Owens can spout her crap, but a serious conservative network shouldn't be carrying it. That's more the territory of an alt-right network where a healthy chunk of the audience hates Jews enough to make excuses for Islamic terrorists. Funny enough, this message would also be popular on a far left network. That should speak volumes.
My criticism of Daily Wire here goes back to 2020. They made a bad hire. Owens did not fit. This was a disaster waiting to happen, and the end result was predictable. Once already done, they found themselves in a bad spot. Either let Owens keep ranting and piss off both Shapiro himself and much of the network's audience, or fire her and piss off a lot of the alt-right, which they were quietly trying to bring into their audience fold for the past 3+ years. They chose the latter, and here we are.
There is indeed a chance that this will create a ripple effect against Daily Wire, and could fall out of favor. This could have all been avoided if they just stayed away from personalities like Owens, and let her do her own thing separately.
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