Daily Caller News Foundation co-founder Tucker Carlson and Sirius XM’s Megyn Kelly on Thursday slammed a bipartisan push to censor so-called “hate speech” online.
Republican New York Rep. Mike Lawler and Democratic New Jersey Rep. Josh Gottheimer introduced a resolution on April 29 which urges social media platforms to combat so-called “antisemitic rhetoric” online. On “The Megyn Kelly Show,” Carlson and Kelly accused these lawmakers, along with CNN’s Jake Tapper, of wanting to suppress the speech of anyone who criticizes Israel or the Iran war.
“I am opposed to violence against innocents. It’s the main thing I oppose,” Carlson said. “It’s why I oppose Jake Tapper and that shill for Israel Lawler guy and the Gottheimer from New Jersey. It’s not that I dislike them personally. I feel sorry for all three of them. It’s that I don’t agree with their program of hate and violence. And it’s just so interesting that they whip it around be like, No, no, no. Anyone who criticizes ethnic cleansing in Gaza is guilty of hate and embedding violence.’ It’s like, come on. I’m not falling for that. It’ll work. By the way, they’re absolutely going to censor the internet, of course, at the urging of the Israeli government using our tax dollars.”
“I mean I really hope that the social media companies have learned their lesson because remember they were censoring all talk about you know the trans issue,” Kelly said. “For years, they were censoring. You couldn’t say that it’s a sickness. You’re unwell if you have this gender confusion. You couldn’t say that a man cannot become a woman … So like this cannot become the new one where this powerful lobby comes and holds this cudgel over the you know heads of the social media companies saying that’s the new hate speech. Like this whole thing about hate speech is very dangerous because I was also told for years you can criticize Israel. You can criticize Israel and not be called an antisemite.”
Kelly added that the Israel First activists conflate criticisms of Israel and antisemitism, even though the two are not mutually exclusive.
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“But that pro-Israel first crowd does conflate the two. And that’s what this resolution is, conflating the two. That if you say hateful things about Israel or this war, these guys want to censor you,” Kelly continued.
The resolution called out podcasters Hasan Piker and Candace Owens over their comments about Jews and Israel. It condemned Owens for stating that the U.S. government is controlled by “satanic pedophiles who work for Israel,” calling it an “antisemitic claim.”
To combat the so-called hate speech, Lawler and Gottheimer called for social media platforms to “take appropriate steps to enforce their policies against hate speech and prevent the spread of antisemitic content.”
Fox News host Mark Levin said on “Liberty’s Voice” that social media companies should de-platform so-called “Nazis” and claimed those criticizing Israel are espousing violence.
Carlson, Kelly and others clashed with President Donald Trump over the Iran war, with Carlson calling the war with Iran an “absolutely evil and disgusting” violation of Trump’s campaign pledge to not enter any new foreign wars. Trump called Carlson and Kelly “low IQ” in an April 17 Truth Social post and accused them of seeking “cheap publicity” for their podcasts.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli officials convinced Trump that war was necessary during a Feb. 11 meeting at the White House, The New York Times reported. The State Department openly admitted in an April 21 government release that the U.S. entered the conflict on behalf of Is
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