The Ben Shapiro Show - September 22, 2026


Ms. Rachel's Choice of Friends Should Alarm You

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Ben Shapiro
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Motaz Azaiza Miss Rachel Mehdi Hassan Alba Zoran Mamdani Greta Thunberg Rashida Tlaib Mahmoud Abbas Motez Azaiza Mutazza Ziza Mataza Ziza Uncle Tom Friedman Muhammad Rogers Laura Daev
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13 minutes

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224

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00:00:00.000 Well, when we talk about the failures of journalism, I'm not sure there's ever been a greater failure of journalism than what you have learned from the media about what happened in the Gaza Strip. 0.76
00:00:08.000 In the Gaza Strip, the people whose pseudo journalism you are reading are stringers for Hamas. 0.98
00:00:13.000 That is why you are allowed into the Gaza Strip. 0.97
00:00:16.000 All the fake news that you're reading about the Middle East is just that fake news. 0.72
00:00:19.000 There was no genocide in Gaza by any standard of the word genocide.
00:00:23.000 Zero genocide in Gaza.
00:00:26.000 The Israeli Defense Forces had the best combatant.
00:00:30.000 To civilian kill ratio in the history of urban warfare.
00:00:33.000 There was no genocide in Gaza.
00:00:35.000 More food was shipped into Gaza than into any wartime environment in the history of mankind.
00:00:40.000 There was no genocide in Gaza.
00:00:41.000 And yet, the predominant view in America is that there probably was a genocide in Gaza.
00:00:44.000 Because there were a lot of ugly pictures on TV, and people think ugly pictures are genocide.
00:00:44.000 Why?
00:00:48.000 Or you will get a photo, an aerial photo of destroyed buildings, and people will say, This is what a genocide looked like.
00:00:53.000 No, actually, what a genocide looks like is the mass killing of innocent human beings at scale in an attempt to exterminate the entire population.
00:01:00.000 That's what a genocide looks like.
00:01:02.000 A bombed out building is what a bombed out building looks like.
00:01:06.000 Again, about 70,000 people were killed in the Gaza Strip.
00:01:09.000 The number of buildings destroyed in the Gaza Strip was far higher than that. 0.77
00:01:13.000 If there was a genocide, the numbers of people would be higher killed than the number of buildings destroyed because buildings are usually filled with people. 0.59
00:01:22.000 The Israeli government made an attempt to move all those people out of the buildings before they destroyed the buildings so they could then fight the terrorists. 0.80
00:01:28.000 Anyway, the people who pushed all of this are liars and propagandists.
00:01:32.000 And many of them are pushed by some of America's most prominent cultural figures who then hide behind their sort of clickbait popularity in order to promote their political agenda.
00:01:41.000 So, for example, Miss Rachel. 0.98
00:01:42.000 So, Miss Rachel is a sort of blues clues, Mr. Rogers knockoff who cosplays as a child with her cutesy voice in order to promote idiot slop on YouTube for children. 1.00
00:01:53.000 Okay, that's her show. 1.00
00:01:55.000 She also happens to be a radical political activist. 0.97
00:01:58.000 So, here she was on her Instagram introducing a pseudo journalist.
00:02:03.000 Named Motaz Azaiza, introducing the letter M for her friend Motaz.
00:02:07.000 The letter T is for terrorism, gang.
00:02:10.000 Here she was in an original Instagram collab video posted July 2025.
00:02:14.000 Hi, friends.
00:02:16.000 What's the letter of the day?
00:02:18.000 It's M. Hi, Miss Rachel.
00:02:20.000 Hi, yes, it's M for my friend Motaz.
00:02:25.000 Yay.
00:02:26.000 Hi.
00:02:28.000 Motaz loves terrorism.
00:02:30.000 As it turns out, Motaz loves terrorism.
00:02:33.000 He was named again, and it's not just her. 0.98
00:02:34.000 I don't want to blame just Miss Rachel, who's a duller.
00:02:37.000 It was literally all of mainstream media promoting this person, Motaz Azaiza.
00:02:42.000 He was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in 2024.
00:02:46.000 He received a Lucy Award in 2023.
00:02:48.000 He was named GQ's Middle East Man of the Year in 2023.
00:02:52.000 He was awarded the Prix Liberté in France for fighting for human rights.
00:02:55.000 He has met with Zorhan Mamdani.
00:02:57.000 He has met with Greta Thunberg.
00:02:58.000 He has met with Macklemore, of course, Rashida Tlaib, Mahmoud Abbas, diplomats from the UNRWA at the UN in New York.
00:03:05.000 Mehdi Hassan and visit Colombia in the time since October 7th. 0.77
00:03:09.000 Well, now it turns out that this pseudo journalist was working with Hamas.
00:03:14.000 Oh, there's a shock.
00:03:16.000 Oh, there's a shock.
00:03:18.000 It turns out that he has now admitted he buried footage of Israeli hostages being beaten by a Palestinian mob on October 7th in order to protect the terrorists.
00:03:27.000 He also revealed that all media in Gaza was controlled by Hamas through a single WhatsApp group, according to the New York Post.
00:03:33.000 So here is an interview that he did.
00:03:35.000 Where he talks about how he got goosebumps when he saw the 10 7 video.
00:03:41.000 He got goosebumps.
00:03:42.000 That's how excited he was when he saw this stuff happening.
00:03:45.000 He says, I woke up.
00:03:47.000 No, there was no fear.
00:03:48.000 He still didn't understand.
00:03:49.000 I didn't understand.
00:03:50.000 He's smiling, by the way.
00:03:51.000 Let's get up.
00:03:51.000 It looks like the war has started.
00:03:52.000 So I got up and went to the roof.
00:03:53.000 Like every time they're showing, rockets were coming out from everywhere.
00:03:58.000 I thought, could something have happened to that rocket system?
00:04:01.000 Did it malfunction?
00:04:04.000 Could spies have done this?
00:04:05.000 Could a special force have entered?
00:04:07.000 What happened?
00:04:10.000 Suddenly, I was standing at home listening to Daev's speech when he came out and gave it.
00:04:15.000 When he spoke, and I saw what I saw in the videos, honestly, I won't hide it.
00:04:20.000 I got goosebumps.
00:04:21.000 I was getting goosebumps from what was happening.
00:04:24.000 He's smiling while this is happening, by the way.
00:04:26.000 That day was very big, very big.
00:04:31.000 What a photojournalist.
00:04:32.000 What an objective journalismer.
00:04:33.000 And again, it's stringers like this who work for mainstream media outlets.
00:04:36.000 Understand, when you read a photojournalist byline or even a written media byline from the Gaza Strip and it's dateline Gaza Strip, that means someone had the report pre approved by Hamas.
00:04:46.000 That is the way that it works in the Gaza Strip.
00:04:48.000 Here he was talking in January 2025 about how he was filming Palestinians hit and spit on Israeli hostages on October 7th.
00:04:58.000 They stopped everywhere and people saw the kidnapped soldiers.
00:05:04.000 People are filming, some hitting them, some doing this, some spitting on them, and I'm filming.
00:05:10.000 Now, as a Palestinian, you want to vent your anger. 0.89
00:05:12.000 I mean, these are dogs. 0.99
00:05:13.000 They killed us and destroyed us and burned us. 0.96
00:05:15.000 And he's smiling. 0.96
00:05:16.000 He's smiling and laughing.
00:05:19.000 I'm afraid of the phones, the people filming.
00:05:21.000 I know how that will be used afterward.
00:05:22.000 I don't want to seem hostile to these people.
00:05:25.000 But M is from Motaz, according to Miss Rachel. 0.70
00:05:28.000 Again, these were the journalismers.
00:05:30.000 You have been lied to, you've been bamboozled, they were lying to you.
00:05:35.000 Motez Azaiza admitted in podcasts that the Gazans were hoping for the war to start so that they could get NGOs and media to talk to them and push out their propaganda.
00:05:45.000 Let me tell you a secret.
00:05:46.000 I don't know if you'll keep it in.
00:05:49.000 A lot of people in Gaza were wishing the war would come.
00:05:53.000 You want the truth?
00:05:55.000 One of them, Allah rest him.
00:06:01.000 From all the pressure, he'd say to me Allah willing, a war will come and change the whole situation.
00:06:09.000 Things had reached the point in Gaza where the situation was frozen.
00:06:24.000 A lot of young men sitting around, sitting at home, doing nothing in the street.
00:06:29.000 When a war or an escalation comes, the NGOs talk to you.
00:06:36.000 There's a job opportunity. 1.00
00:06:39.000 Murder Jews. 1.00
00:06:40.000 It's a job opportunity. 1.00
00:06:42.000 People only know us through war.
00:06:44.000 Well, I wonder why. 0.93
00:06:45.000 I wonder why people only know Gazans through war.
00:06:49.000 Could it be because they elected Hamas, an actual terrorist group, which then pursued the greatest slaughter of civilians since 9 11 and the greatest attack on Jews since the Holocaust?
00:06:57.000 Could it be that?
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00:08:18.000 Okay, and again, Mataza Ziza admits, I mean, like, it's amazing.
00:08:21.000 This person, his real journalism is the stuff he's saying now, right?
00:08:24.000 All the stuff I'm playing for you, that's real journalism because he's telling the truth.
00:08:27.000 But that was the stuff he hid.
00:08:29.000 That was the stuff he hid.
00:08:30.000 He admitted that men would burn themselves and create fake wounds to get stipends from Hamas.
00:08:35.000 Do you think that didn't happen during the Gaza war to get members of the media to cover it?
00:08:38.000 Literally, the entire media covered a starvation narrative that was totally false because people were taking their children who had genetic conditions and having them photographed as though they were starving to death in the Gaza Strip. 0.57
00:08:52.000 Here again is Mutazza Ziza in January 2025.
00:08:55.000 So there are a number of people because what he wanted was the stipend.
00:09:03.000 He'd take an iron rod and put it into his leg.
00:09:08.000 He'd burn his leg with an iron rod so it looked like a gunshot wound. 0.77
00:09:13.000 Because they'd pay a stipend, a thousand shekel. 0.90
00:09:15.000 And he admits, by the way, that if you are in the Gaza Strip and you dissent, then people will murder you.
00:09:22.000 And this was the stuff that no one would cover.
00:09:25.000 He says, We are torn apart to begin with. 0.72
00:09:31.000 Israel doesn't have to lift a finger.
00:09:32.000 We divide ourselves.
00:09:37.000 What happens to you?
00:09:37.000 You caused it.
00:09:41.000 I tell him we have a division. 1.00
00:09:44.000 800 Palestinians of ours were killed by Palestinian hands.
00:09:49.000 They threw people off rooftops.
00:09:51.000 They shot people in their legs.
00:09:53.000 They burned people, Palestinians, on each other. 1.00
00:09:57.000 And they still are to this day.
00:09:58.000 Who kills people in Gaza?
00:10:03.000 For what?
00:10:03.000 Because he spoke.
00:10:05.000 Okay, but he hasn't spent his time speaking out against Hamas. 0.70
00:10:08.000 He's spent his time propagandizing against the Israelis.
00:10:12.000 Again, and he points out Gazan journalists won't even cover Palestinians who blame Hamas.
00:10:17.000 This is how the media were done.
00:10:18.000 This is how the media have been done for years.
00:10:20.000 So it's no surprise.
00:10:21.000 You know what it took?
00:10:22.000 It took a full scale lawsuit.
00:10:24.000 It took a full scale lawsuit for Al Jazeera to fire 24 pseudo journalists and staff members who worked for Hamas.
00:10:30.000 Okay, that's actually what happened.
00:10:32.000 According to the Jerusalem Post, Al Jazeera, again, one of the pseudo journalistic outlets, Which is a propaganda outlet for terrorism on behalf of Qatar, has fired 24 journalists and staff members who worked for the network in the Gaza Strip amid a lawsuit filed in the U.S. accusing the Qatari broadcaster of providing support to Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, according to YNET.
00:10:53.000 In a statement June 25th, the Committee to Protect Journalists said it had removed 20 names from its database after confirming those individuals had worked for Hamas or PIJ.
00:11:02.000 And again, when you hear propagandists and liars in the legacy media, Or in the online media, talk about Israel is targeting journalists, and then they show a picture of somebody who worked for Hamas.
00:11:12.000 This is why.
00:11:13.000 You know, and why people don't trust the media?
00:11:15.000 This would just be another reason. 0.94
00:11:17.000 So again, the media will lie to you about what political Islam is and what it actually does in the world.
00:11:22.000 They'll just lie to you outright.
00:11:23.000 And then quietly in Arabic, they'll say what they actually mean. 0.97
00:11:27.000 This is why, by the way, people are so pissed off about our new release, Run, Hide, Fight, Infidels, because yeah, it's fun, and yeah, it's a kick, and yeah, it's a great action film, but also it has radical Muslim terrorists doing what they actually do, which is kill people at scale. 0.83
00:11:38.000 And so people are very, very upset about it. 0.78
00:11:40.000 Mehdi Hassan and team are very upset about it.
00:11:41.000 They're saying we're mischaracterizing the terrorists.
00:11:44.000 They're saying that doctrinally we're mischaracterizing, not that they kill people at scale, that doctrine is a little bit mishkabobbled. 0.86
00:11:50.000 Okay, fine.
00:11:50.000 Okay, but let's be clear about what actually is going on here.
00:11:53.000 The reason people are upset about Run, Hide, Fight, Infidels is because it shows radical Islam doing radical Islam things.
00:11:58.000 That is the problem that they're having. 0.97
00:11:59.000 And it is the biggest entertainment hit we have ever had at Daily Wire.
00:12:02.000 You should go check it out right now.
00:12:03.000 It is in the zeitgeist as well.
00:12:04.000 It should be.
00:12:05.000 Head over to dailywire.com right now.
00:12:07.000 Every significant movement in history has started with protesting.
00:12:09.000 You're not afraid.
00:12:10.000 It's Uncle Tom.
00:12:11.000 This is our generation's civil rights.
00:12:13.000 I have no idea what the protest is about.
00:12:15.000 Bingo.
00:12:15.000 Given the current climate, should a figure as polarizing as Clay Saunders even be allowed on campus?
00:12:20.000 Oh, can you hear me okay?
00:12:22.000 Saunders is a close personal friend of Chancellor Friedman.
00:12:24.000 This is a decision I cannot fight. 1.00
00:12:26.000 Islam will conquer the West. 1.00
00:12:28.000 Assalamualaikum. 1.00
00:12:30.000 Are we paying attention?
00:12:35.000 They've taken over the building.
00:12:36.000 They're downstairs and they've blocked the doors.
00:12:39.000 I seek forgiveness from Allah the Almighty.
00:12:43.000 We cannot run and hide.
00:12:45.000 Muhammad is the messenger of God.
00:12:48.000 There is no God but Allah.
00:12:51.000 What do you say? 1.00
00:12:53.000 We turn those SOBs into a fine red mist. 0.99
00:12:58.000 As we move, one man will cover while the other guys go. 1.00
00:13:01.000 They call that leap project.
00:13:02.000 Stretch them while we listen.
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