After Inside Edition reporter Zoey Tur threatened to send Breitbart Editor-at-Large Ben Shapiro “home in an ambulance,” Tur took to Twitter to continue her attack.
In one tweet, Tur questioned Shapiro’s piety, stating, “He treated all the women on [the] show with contempt. Jewish men are taught to respect women”:
A few hours later, however, Tur appeared on a radio show to assail Shapiro for his faith and called Orthodox Judaism a “very misogynistic cult.”
As soon as the conversation with KFI AM640's Bill Carroll began, Tur pointed out Shapiro is an “ultra Orthodox Jewish man.”
During the interview, Tur continued to bring up Shapiro’s faith.
Tur, speaking on behalf of all Jews, called Shapiro an “embarrassment” to Judaism:
“You know, look, I’m Jewish. Even we Jews have our embarrassments. We have our racists. We have our bigots. We have our transphobes, our homophobes. Ben Shapiro is one of those people.”
While discussing the popularity of the “Dr. Drew on Call” fiasco, Tur again referred to Shapiro’s religion by stating people are fascinated by the incident because “little Ben Shapiro is seen as very right-wing, ultra-religious, ultra-Orthodox Jewish man that really sings to the choir with the ultra-Republican right.”
Tur asserted Shapiro’s rationale against transgenderism was “biblical” and implied Shapiro’s police report against Tur for battery prompted by his religion:
“He tries to interpret the Torah. But he comes from a very misogynistic cult anyway, where women are treated differently. They’re not allowed to touch men. So maybe that’s the ‘battery.’ Maybe a woman touched him and put her hand on his shoulder, or on the back of his neck, and that’s prescribed in the ultra-Orthodox religion. Maybe that’s the ‘battery’ he’s talking about.”
Tur also disputed claims of anti-Semitism on-air: “I’m Jewish! In Israel, during the last war with Lebanon, with Hamas, I saved an Israeli soldier’s life—an IDF [Israeli Defense Forces] soldier’s life—during a rocket attack. How can I be anti-Semitic?”
Tur denied these same claims of anti-Semitism on Twitter by repeatedly referencing being Jewish and saving the life of an IDF soldier:
Additionally, according to Twitter’s location services, Tur sent out a tweet regarding the Shapiro situation from Israel:
