Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro denounced Tucker Carlson for platforming controversial people at Turning Point USA's AmericaFest 2025 conference.

The energy in the room was more than a bit nervous Friday night in Phoenix at a Shabbat dinner held for attendees of TPUSA’s AmericaFest. About a mile away in the Convention Center, Steve Bannon was calling Ben Shapiro a cancer, underscoring a debate over Israel that is the conference's only major distraction.

The fight is getting ugly and emotional, and the underlying issue, as always, it seems, is: When does legitimate criticism of the Jewish state of Israel cross into antisemitism? It's a question nobody has ever really known the answer to.

At the Shabbat dinner, several speakers praised Shapiro’s opening night Amfest speech calling out antisemitism and railed against Tucker Carlson’s rebuttal. But Rabbi Pesach Wolicki, who presided over the dinner, took a somewhat different approach.

Wolicki, for the most part, stuck to religion, praying, singing and explaining the power of the sabbath, which, as it turns out, is also the subject of TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk’s latest and final book.

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I asked the rabbi about Bannon’s remarks as the dinner wound down, because Wolicki is a friend of his and a regular guest........

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