Conservative podcaster Megyn Kelly picked a powerful opponent this week: Pop superstar Taylor Swift.
Swift, the undisputed number-one pop star in the world and Time Magazine’s Person of the Year, recently leveraged her celebrity to back a fundraiser for a Gaza aid group — one whose resources are likely to end up in the hands of Hamas.
Kelly and her guest went nuclear on the pop star, and it quickly went viral.
“Taylor Swift, who has been out there tweeting about her support for the L-G-B-T-Q community. You know what they do to that community in Gaza, Taylor, that you now wanna support?” Kelly asked. “They’ll throw ’em off the top of a building. That’s what you’re contributing to.”
“You know what Hamas likes to do to women? You think we have equal rights over there, Taylor, that’s what you’re supporting at your little fundraiser for Gaza? They’re taking the money that … international forces are designated to help the suffering people of Gaza, and Hamas is using it to create more weapons,” she pointed out. “All this has been documented, but Taylor Swift would like to help raise funds for Gaza.”
“Has this benevolent woman … said one word about the mass murders that happened on 10/7 of Jews? Has she said anything about rape and sexual violence being used against Israeli women as a tool of war, which in any world is a war crime?”
Kelly’s guest, Andrew Klavan, said it was a career move — and because of her celebrity status, Swift won’t be held accountable for downplaying the Hamas atrocities.
“The question is really whether she’s gonna be held to account for this absurdity as she, like the others, tries to paint herself as a warrior for women and L-G-B-T-Q people in Gaza,” Klavan said. “I seriously doubt she’s gonna be held to account at all. She is at the pinnacle of her career at the pinnacle of anybody’s career.”
“War is a terrible thing,” he continued. “Innocent people are going to be killed, children are going to be hurt and killed and displaced. But we all know that … humanitarian aid never makes it to the humanitarian causes in Gaza.”
“It goes right to the terrorists. They use it to build up their weaponry and their systems of escape, which put civilians in danger,” he said.
“And this thing about the sexual violence of the Hamas attack is really important,” he said, pointing out that liberal groups have largely ignored the mass rape and sexual violence Hamas has committed.
No one “on the left is paying attention to the purposeful attacks on women, ” Klavan said. “Raping them to death, mutilating them as they rape them, purposely putting forward to … soil them and dirty them and make them into prostitutes in their twisted vision of the world. All of that has been utterly ignored.”
“Taylor Swift is not gonna be held in to account,” Klavan predicted. “She’s too powerful, she’s too big, and she’s too likable. I mean, she’s a likable pop star. And I guess all I can say about that is, ‘I don’t turn to my pop stars for political wisdom. I wish they would shut up and sing and do what they do.'”
“She made, I believe, a career-based decision that she had to start speaking out” about liberal causes, Klavan pointed out. “She made an entire documentary … about how she came to speak out against Donald Trump.”
“I have no doubt that her political opinions tilt left, but the idea that she suddenly had to come out and talk about these things, I think was throwing off the shackles of any blacklist,” he said. “I don’t think the success that she’s had would’ve been possible if she had continued to maintain silence about her political opinions, which she did for quite a long time.”
In a powerful moment, Kelly called on Americans — especially Jewish Americans — to boycott Swift over her support of this group.
“I hope young Jewish women who paid exorbitant amounts to go to her concert, who paid more money still to go see her movie, understand that Taylor thought it would be a great idea to support … a group that NGO Monitor has described as: Highly political presenting, has a highly biased view of the Israel-Palestine war, ignoring any Palestine responsibility for hardship, and contributing to the demonization of Israel,” Kelly said.
“That is the group” that Swift and her celebrity friends endorsed.
“Taylor Swift thought it might be fun to help raise money for,” Kelly said. “And she owes Israelis and Jewish Americans an apology. I hope they boycott her events until she issues it because attending this thing was wrong. It was wrong!
“Do some Googling. See what they do in Gaza to gays. See about women’s rights in Gaza, Taylor,” she concluded. “When it comes to talking about those issues, you clearly know nothing.”