by Jonas E. Alexis, The Unz Review:
If there is one commentator who has inadvertently revealed the underlying ideology driving much of neoconservative activity, it would be Ben Shapiro. Though Shapiro presents himself as a conservative voice in American media, he functions primarily as a Jewish activist whose commentary consistently defends Israeli policies and advances a distinctly Talmudic perspective—that is, one that prioritizes the interests of the Israeli state over Palestinian lives.
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By 2003, for instance, Shapiro argued that Israel should expel Palestinians from Judea, Samaria, and Gaza. His historical justification for this position invoked the post–World War II expulsions of Germans by the Allied powers, which he cited as a moral precedent. As he wrote at the time, “Transfer is not a dirty word.”[1] Shapiro declared then: “expelling a hostile population is a commonly-used and generally effective way of preventing violent entanglements.”[2]
Shapiro further contended that “the ideology of the Palestinian population is indistinguishable from that of the terrorist leadership.”[3]
Shapiro obviously implied that Palestinians as a whole are equivalent to terrorists and thus could be justified as targets for removal—whether by expulsion, termination, or other means. Although Shapiro later attempted to revise his characterization of Palestinians, his underlying ideological stance has remained largely unchanged. In 2010, for example, he stated, “Israelis like to build. Arabs like to bomb crap and live in open sewage.”[4]
One might ask whether Shapiro expresses any concern for civilian casualties in the Middle East, where Israel’s protracted conflicts have repeatedly devastated regional populations. The answer appears to be no. In 2002, he wrote: “I am getting really sick of people who whine about ‘civilian casualties’… when I see in the newspapers that civilians in Afghanistan or the West Bank were killed by American or Israeli troops, I don’t really care.”[5]
We knew that Shapiro has been playing fast and loose with the facts for years. For example, in his 2005 book Porn Generation, Shapiro condemns Hollywood for selling sex to young and naïve teenagers. He writes:
