When antisemitism stops shocking people, something sacred has been lost. That’s what makes this story so disturbing.
In an era when antisemitic rhetoric is spreading across campuses, online platforms, and even political movements, the failure of respected conservative voices to condemn hate is more than disappointing — it’s dangerous.
According to Honest Reporting, Megyn Kelly’s recent interview with Ben Shapiro highlighted this moral confusion. Kelly defended Tucker Carlson after he gave a friendly, uncritical platform to Nick Fuentes, a Holocaust denier and white supremacist who has called for violence against Jews.
Instead of drawing a clear line, Kelly brushed it off, calling Fuentes a “podcaster civilian” who didn’t need to be cross-examined. As Honest Reporting wrote, “Kelly downplayed the danger of normalizing antisemitic rhetoric under the guise of open dialogue.”
Ben Shapiro — who has endured years of antisemitic attacks from Fuentes and his followers — refused to remain silent. He called Carlson “an ideological launderer of bad ideas” and warned that “failing to challenge Fuentes’ rhetoric normalized extremist views for a mainstream audience.”
Kelly pushed back, insisting that even voices like Fuentes deserve airtime and that the answer to hate speech is simply “more speech.” But this is where moral clarity gets clouded by false equivalence. Not all “ideas” are equal. Not every voice deserves a microphone.
When you invite a man who glorifies Hitler and denies the Holocaust into mainstream conversation, you are not exercising free speech — you are enabling evil.
And when other voices, even well-intentioned ones, defend that choice, they participate in the normalization of hatred that Scripture calls us to resist.
“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness.” (Isaiah 5:20, NIV)
This isn’t only a media story. It’s a spiritual one.
It reflects how moral relativism has crept into both the political left and right, creating a “horseshoe effect,” as Honest Reporting described, where extremists from opposite sides converge around a shared hostility toward Israel and the Jewish people.
Today, we see antisemitism repackaged as “anti-Zionism,” defended as “activism,” and excused as “free debate.” But as Christian Women For Israel, we know the truth: these are old lies dressed in new language.
The same spirit that drove hatred of the Jewish people in the 1930s is stirring again — not only in the streets of Europe and America but in hearts that have forgotten what happens when good people stay quiet.
Our movement believes in free speech. But we also believe that freedom without truth leads to chaos. Silence in the face of hate is not neutrality. It’s surrender.
When voices on the right — people who claim to defend morality — look the other way when antisemitism appears among them, they lose credibility and moral authority. Christians are not called to balance good and evil; we are called to discern between them.
There is no moral equivalence between those who defend Israel’s right to exist and those who excuse its destruction. There is no neutrality between truth and lies.
As modern-day Esthers, we are not here to flatter kings or appease crowds. We are here to speak truth, defend God’s people, and refuse to normalize hatred — no matter which “side” it comes from.
Today’s Prayer
Lord, give us courage to speak truth with conviction and compassion. Protect Your people from those who twist freedom into license and disguise hate as opinion. Expose lies that seek to harm Israel and weaken faith. Strengthen voices of righteousness in media, politics, and faith — and awaken hearts to defend what is good, pure, and true. Amen.
