{"id":460539,"date":"2026-10-08T22:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T22:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/460539\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T22:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T22:20:13","slug":"ben-shapiro-criticizes-talarico-palestinian-activism-at-ut-austin-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/460539\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Shapiro Criticizes Talarico, Palestinian Activism at UT-Austin Event"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro rebuked Palestinian activism and Democrat U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico<\/a> during an event at the University of Texas at Austin Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n

Shapiro urged attendees of the Turning Point USA event to vote for Republican candidates in November and keep Democrats out of power.<\/p>\n

The Daily Wire host argued Palestinian flags represent \u201chatred of the West\u201d on the anniversary of the October 7 massacre.<\/p>\n

Shapiro said that Palestinian activism unites otherwise disjointed causes, such as LGBT activism, anti-law enforcement activism, and open-borders activism, in a shared desire to \u201ctear down the West.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also castigated Democrat U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico, who he said \u201ccosplays as a Christian.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anger with GOP politicians \u201cdoes not mean you hand power to people who are far worse,\u201d he told the audience.<\/p>\n

The event also featured Jeff Metcalf,<\/a> whose son, Austin, was murdered by Karmelo Anthony in a high-profile 2025 case.<\/p>\n

Metcalf spoke about the need for attendees to develop \u201cself-command\u201d as a means to \u201cde-escalate\u201d situations such as the one in which his son was murdered.<\/p>\n

He shared a series of practical techniques to defuse tense situations, including deep breathing and slowing down speech. \u201cCalm is contagious.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Turning Point event follows a recent appearance<\/a> by leftist provocateur Hasan Piker. The juxtaposition of these two events has drawn controversy due to allegations from organizers of the Piker event that university officials had worked to impede their event while easing the way for Turning Point.<\/p>\n

Multiple reporters from left-wing media outlets have also alleged<\/a> that Turning Point officials asked them to leave the event, although these reports are unconfirmed.<\/p>\n

UT-Austin is a component<\/a> of the University of Texas System. The UT System is overseen by a Board of Regents<\/a> that is appointed by the governor and confirmed by the Texas Senate. Kevin Eltife<\/a> of Tyler is the current board chair.<\/p>\n

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\n Adam Cahn is a journalist with Texas Scorecard. A longtime political blogger, Adam is passionate about shedding light on taxpayer-subsidized higher education institutions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro rebuked Palestinian activism and Democrat U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico during an event at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,289],"class_list":["post-460539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-higher-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}