Condemned
“What is wrong with you people? I'm sorry, that's America hatred. It's West hatred.”
Shapiro condemned El-Sayed's causal framing as hostility toward the United States and the West.
- Speaker
- Ben Shapiro
- Capacity
- Host of The Ben Shapiro Show
- Observed
- September 5, 2026
- Published here
- September 5, 2026
- Targets
- Abdul El-Sayed
- Classification rationale
- He directly rejected the disputed phrase immediately after playing it and treated it as evidence of ideological sympathy rather than neutral explanation.
Surrounding material
Full context
Before the quotation
Shapiro introduced El-Sayed as a Michigan Senate candidate and played the portion of his Temple Israel response containing the phrase 'hurt people hurt people.'
After the quotation
He continued by describing the attacker as aligned with Hezbollah and criticizing El-Sayed's account of the assailant's family losses.
Evidence
Complete source record
Ben Shapiro Show transcript — April 10, 2026 (opens in a new tab)00:44:01–00:44:10
Searchable transcript archive preserving Shapiro's direct reaction immediately after he quoted El-Sayed's disputed Temple Israel framing.