The late conservative activist Charlie Kirk joined Megyn Kelly’s podcast on Aug. 6 for a session in which both of them griped about the heat they were taking from Jews and friends of Israel because they wouldn’t distance themselves from former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, someone they both regarded as a friend. Today, that conversation is part of what Kelly and many on the far left and far right claim is a debate on free speech.
The truth is that what’s at stake in this argument has nothing to do with any American’s First Amendment right to say what they like. It is one about whether antisemitism should be treated as legitimate discourse.
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