Megyn Kelly blasts Ben Shapiro, Bari Weiss, claims ‘they are making antisemites’

Megyn Kelly blasted Ben Shapiro for what she called his “betrayal” after he publicly singled her out at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest — then turned her fire on Bari Weiss for amplifying his speech as the conservative movement’s internal feud spilled onto the main stage.

Kelly told Vanity Fair that Shapiro’s onstage broadside left her “flabbergasted” and accused Shapiro and Weiss of fueling antisemitism by trying to shut down criticism of Israel.

“They are making antisemites,” the former Fox News primetime host said in the article published Monday.

Shapiro, the prominent conservative commentator who hosts his own podcast with Daily Wire, sparked the blowup after using his AmericaFest address to warn that the conservative movement was “in serious danger” from “charlatans” and “grifters.”

He later named Kelly among those he said had “refused to condemn” Candace Owens — a move Kelly said blindsided her and shattered what she believed was a personal friendship with Shapiro.

“Friendship with public figures who say or do evil things is not an excuse for silence on the matter,” Shapiro said at the event this past weekend.

“The same holds true of Megyn Kelly, a person I consider a friend, characterizing Candace as a young mother and thus shying away from condemning her actions,” he continued.

“That is a non-starter. Meghan Markle is a young mother. Ilhan Omar is a young mother. That doesn’t matter.”

Weiss, who became editor in chief of CBS News in the fall, praised Shapiro on her X account and linked to a story on her Free Press news site that included his speech word for word.

“Ben Shapiro: Only Cowards Tolerate Conspiracy Theorists,” the headline on the Free Press site read.

Kelly reacted angrily to Shapiro’s comments on Friday, telling her podcast audience: “He had the nerve to call me a friend right before he called me ‘a despicable coward.’”

“So I don’t think we are friends anymore.”

Owens, who left Daily Wire after publicly feuding with Shapiro over Israel, has come under fire over recent comments suggesting that there was a conspiracy to assassinate Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk.

Kelly said the call to denounce Owens mirrored the kind of ideological loyalty tests she has long rejected, comparing Shapiro’s demands to progressives’ shaming rituals and saying she had no intention of submitting to what she described as manufactured outrage over acceptable speech.

“I resent that he thinks he’s in a position to decide who must say what to whom and when,” Kelly said on her SiriusXM show on Friday, mocking Shapiro’s suggestion that he could determine who belongs in the conservative movement.

“I found it kind of funny that Ben thinks he has the power to decide who gets excommunicated from the conservative movement,” she added, likening the situation to a middle-school popularity contest.

She argued that Shapiro’s approach — and Weiss’ apparent move to promote it — was accelerating divisions within the right, particularly among younger conservatives who may be skeptical of US support for Israel.

Kelly also revealed that Shapiro’s public attack came just days after she said she went out of her way to support him.

“I gave him the most kind introduction I could possibly give him,” she said, claiming she did so because she knew he was “losing subscribers — a lot.”

Kelly also accused Weiss of leveraging Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, to advance her own standing in conservative media, calling Weiss’s handling of a recent CBS town hall “sick” and “disrespectful.”

During the event in which Weiss interviewed Erika Kirk, Hunter Kozak — the man who asked Charlie Kirk his final question before he was fatally shot — asked the widow about whether President Donald Trump’s rhetoric fuels violence.

Kelly said Weiss, whom she noted has no relationship with Kirk or Turning Point USA, staged the moment to elevate her own role at CBS.

“I will not be taking lessons from Bari Weiss on how to treat Erika or anyone else,” Kelly said.

The Post has sought comment from Owens, Weiss and Shapiro.