Rare Conservative Self-Flagellation
Matt Walsh Rants Against Anti-Israel "Rot" on the Right
Matt Walsh just detonated a nuke inside the MAGA tent: a blistering, no-holds-barred takedown of the anti-Israel obsession rotting the Right, declaring that some “conservatives” would gladly watch America drown in open borders if it meant more Israel-haters on the voter rolls.
On Friday, on The Matt Walsh Show (Daily Wire podcast, Episode #1,284), Walsh unleashed a scorching takedown of what he calls the "antisemitic rot" festering in MAGA circles.
He blasted fringe right-wingers who obsess over hating Israel to the point they'd "happily let our country succumb to a 3rd world invasion if it meant we would have more people here who don’t like Israel." It's Walsh channeling his inner Ben Shapiro (minus the yarmulke), and in a year of right-wing Israel fatigue, it's landing like a gut punch.
Walsh, 38, the bearded provocateur behind anti-trans docs like What Is a Woman? (2022), didn't hold back - he's fed up with the "America First" crowd morphing into "Israel Last" overnight.
Key pulls:
"There are some people ostensibly on the Right for whom hating Israel is literally the only issue that matters. The ONLY one. They would happily let our country succumb to a 3rd world invasion if it meant we would have more people here who don’t like Israel."
He pivots to Charlie Kirk's September 10, 2025, assassination (the Turning Point USA founder gunned down at a Utah rally), accusing anti-Israel podcasters of "dancing on his grave" because Kirk was a vocal Zionist. "Charlie was murdered, and these ghouls are out here celebrating because he supported the Jewish state? That's not conservatism; that's cosplaying as Nazis."
Walsh name-drops no one directly, but the subtext screams Candace Owens, his ex-colleague fired in 2024 amid her AIPAC rants and "Jews killed JFK" vibes and Tucker Carlson, whose 2025 Israel skepticism (e.g., "end all aid") has him feuding with Shapiro.
The clip ends with Walsh thundering: "If your 'right-wing' worldview boils down to 'screw the Jews and let the migrants flood in,' you're not saving America, you're auditioning for Hezbollah."
It's vintage Walsh: Blunt, hyperbolic, and meme-ready, clocking 2.1 million YouTube views by today (Sunday).
A Crack in the MAGA Monolith?
Walsh has been a walking contradiction on Israel since January 2025, when he tweeted that "countries that cannot function without US foreign aid should simply not exist" (a clear jab at the $3.8B annual package, sparking a DW civil war with CEO Jeremy Boreing clapping back: "I disagree, but that's okay").
In addition, he's hosted Tucker Carlson (May 2025 interview where he "silenced" him on aid cuts) and griped about the IHRA antisemitism definition as "criminalizing criticism of Israel" (May 2024 House bill backlash).
But post-Kirk's death and Owens' Epstein-Mossad spirals, Walsh's swung pro-Israel harder, echoing Shapiro's moral clarity line while shading the "paleocon" isolationists like Carlson and Nick Fuentes (whom he's called "actual Nazis" since 2023).
This rant fits a 2025 trend: The right's Israel divide is widening amid Gaza fatigue and Trump's "America First 2.0" (he's waffled on aid cuts).
Walsh's pivot? Smart branding, Daily Wire's Jewish-heavy audience (Shapiro's the face) loves it, and it really makes the point that he is one of the last sane conservatives amid Owens' Macron assassination fanfic and Von's JFK gaffes.
Critics like Andy Schmitt (Orthodoxy and Order blog) slam him as "reductionistic" for ignoring global ripple effects, but pro-Israel voices (e.g., White Rose Magazine's open letter) hail it as a "line in the sand."
The Daily Wire star draws a brutal red line: choose the Jewish state or admit you’re cosplaying as a Nazi. The right-wing civil war just went thermonuclear.