Ethan Klein wished death on conservative Jewish pundit Ben Shapiro during a controversial livestream where he insisted that the Daily Wire reporter would be gassed in the next Holocaust. Following backlash the video was taken down by YouTube and Ethan Klein received a strike and was banned for 1 week.
Hasan ‘HasanAbi’ Piker, Klein’s friend and fellow podcast co-host, confirmed that Ethan received a strike and a one-week ban from YouTube for his anti-Semitic remarks about Ben Shapiro.
During a contentious broadcast, Ethan Klein stated that he hoped Ben Shapiro, a Jewish conservative political journalist, will be the first to be gassed in the next Holocaust. Some thought Klein’s remark was a death threat veiled as a joke aimed at Shapiro.
Klein responded by calling Shapiro a snowflake and accused him of sending his “white supremacist” supporters to mass report his channel.
“A few white supremacists successfully lobbied YouTube to suspend me, a Jewish dual citizen of Israel & USA, for anti-semitism. Ben Shapiro & friends can virtue signal all they want but ultimately they are the ones platforming dangerous anti-semites. All I did was point it out,” Ethan Klein tweeted.
He continued: “Our current lawsuits with Ryan Kavanaugh seeks to accomplish the same. I will not back down or be silenced by bad faith provocateurs. I make no apology. As Ben Shapiro says, facts don’t care about your feelings. If only he meant it.”
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