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Ben Shapiro Called Mehdi a ‘Terror Hugger.’ Mehdi Brings Receipts.

21 claims checked · Published August 2026 · Checked August 2026

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  1. Claim 1
    Attributed toMehdi HasanAuto-approvedUnverifiable78% confidence▶ 0:00
    “Ben Shapiro finally devoted an entire 13-minute video to responding to a tweet of mine.”

    Ben Shapiro devoted a 13-minute video to responding to the speaker's tweet.

    The existence and approximate length of a response video may be checkable, but no reliable, independently accessible source located for this review establishes that the entire video responded to this specific tweet.

    No supporting links were returned for this claim.

  2. Claim 2
    Attributed toMehdi HasanAuto-approvedAccurate99% confidence▶ 0:05
    “the co-founder and editor emeritus of the now-struggling Daily Wire”

    Ben Shapiro co-founded The Daily Wire and is its editor emeritus.

    The Daily Wire identifies Shapiro as its founding editor-in-chief and editor emeritus, while its corporate history says the company was conceived and launched by Shapiro and Jeremy Boreing in 2015.

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    • 1Ben Shapiro

      SupportsBen Shapiro is founding editor-in-chief and editor emeritus of The Daily Wire and host of “The Ben Shapiro Show,” the top conservative podcast in the nation.

    • 2About

      SupportsConceived by Ben Shapiro and Jeremy Boreing, The Daily Wire was meant to be something unique in the right-of-center media landscape — a truly for-profit business with an emphasis on distribution and marketing.

  3. Claim 3
    Attributed toMehdi HasanAuto-approvedAccurate50% confidence▶ 0:11
    “the Daily Wire's new action movie run, hide, fight infidels”

    Run Hide Fight: Infidels is a new action film produced by or associated with The Daily Wire.

    Multiple reports identify Run Hide Fight: Infidels as a 2026 Daily Wire action thriller, and The Daily Wire itself identifies the film by that title.

    Sources

  4. Claim 4
    Attributed toMehdi HasanAuto-approvedAccurate97% confidence▶ 0:17
    “about an ISIS attack on a U.S. college campus”

    The film's trailer depicts Islamist or ISIS-linked terrorists taking over an American college campus.

    The Daily Wire describes the film as depicting ISIS taking over a liberal American university, and independent coverage describes radical Islamic terrorists hijacking a liberal college campus.

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  5. Claim 5
    Attributed toMehdi HasanAuto-approvedUnverifiable50% confidence▶ 0:17
    “about an ISIS attack on a U.S. college campus which begins with references to Allah, moves onto images of Muslims on prayer mats and ends with the literal Islamic call to prayer.”

    The trailer begins with Islamic and ISIS-related imagery, includes Muslims praying on mats, and ends with the Islamic call to prayer.

    Coverage confirms that the trailer opens with terror and ISIS imagery and contains the call to prayer, but reports that its ending is the ISIS-flag campus image and tagline. That contradicts the claim that the call to prayer is the trailer's literal ending.

    Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned False and the second Accurate. Recorded as Unverifiable.

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  6. Claim 6
    Attributed toMehdi HasanAuto-approvedAccurate50% confidence▶ 1:42
    “the hero, the ex-American special forces soldier played by Jonathan Majors”

    The film's hero is an ex-American special forces soldier played by Jonathan Majors.

    Independent coverage identifies Majors as playing a Delta Force veteran in the Daily Wire film, matching the description of an American special-forces veteran.

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  7. Claim 7
    Attributed toMehdi HasanAuto-approvedAccurate99% confidence▶ 1:46
    “the actor who incidentally was convicted of assaulting and harassing his former girlfriend.”

    Jonathan Majors was convicted of assaulting and harassing his former girlfriend.

    A Manhattan jury found Majors guilty of one misdemeanor assault charge and one harassment violation arising from a dispute with his then-girlfriend, Grace Jabbari.

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  8. Claim 8
    Attributed toMehdi HasanAuto-approvedUnverifiable90% confidence▶ 2:19
    “a subsequent quote tweet that has since been seen by over a million people”

    The speaker's subsequent quote tweet had been seen by more than one million people.

    The claim concerns a platform view count that may have changed and was not independently documented by a reliable source located for this review.

    No supporting links were returned for this claim.

  9. Claim 9
    Attributed toMehdi HasanAuto-approvedUnverifiable82% confidence▶ 2:49
    “Shapiro posted another YouTube video titled, Are You Prepared for the Islamic Invasion?”

    Ben Shapiro posted a YouTube video titled “Are You Prepared for the Islamic Invasion?” the day before his response video.

    Searches located contemporaneous discussion of Shapiro's Islamic-invasion messaging, but did not locate a reliable, independently accessible record confirming that exact YouTube title and its posting date.

    No supporting links were returned for this claim.

  10. Claim 10
    Attributed toMehdi HasanAuto-approvedAccurate98% confidence▶ 3:31
    “Still, Ben Shapiro, the man the New York Times once praised as the cool kid's philosopher,”

    The New York Times once called Ben Shapiro “the cool kid’s philosopher.”

    A contemporaneous account describes Shapiro as having been “anointed as ‘the cool kid’s philosopher’ by the New York Times.”

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  11. Claim 11
    Attributed toBen ShapiroAuto-approvedMisleading86% confidence▶ 3:46
    “Muslims have been the main villains in Hollywood for decades, even predating 9-11.”

    The speaker says Muslims have been Hollywood’s main villains for decades, including before September 11, 2001.

    Research documents a long history of negative Hollywood portrayals of Arabs and Muslims, including before 9/11, and reports that television series portrayed Muslims as potential terrorists. However, that evidence does not substantiate the stronger and less precise assertion that Muslims were Hollywood’s main villains for decades.

    Omits: The claim conflates Arabs and Muslims and treats negative or stereotypical portrayals as equivalent to being the main villains; the cited research does not establish that Muslims were the main villains in most Hollywood films.

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  12. Claim 12
    Attributed toBen ShapiroAuto-approvedUnverifiable90% confidence▶ 3:53
    “You could probably count on one hand the number of movies, major movies, where Muslims are the villains.”

    The number of major Hollywood movies in which Muslims are villains could probably be counted on one hand.

    The claim depends on undefined terms, especially “major movies” and what qualifies as a Muslim villain. No agreed list or operational definition makes the exact one-hand threshold objectively testable as stated.

    No supporting links were returned for this claim.

  13. Claim 13
    Attributed toMehdi HasanAuto-approvedAccurate96% confidence▶ 4:18
    “when film historian Jack Shaheen examined over a thousand Hollywood movies released over the course of a hundred years, and before 9-11, featuring Muslim or Arab characters, 936 of them, 936, had negative depictions of Muslims or Arabs.”

    Jack Shaheen found that 936 of more than 1,000 Hollywood films featuring Arab or Muslim characters had negative portrayals, in a sample ending before 9/11.

    Shaheen’s study is commonly summarized as covering 1,000 films from 1896 through 2000, with 936 negative portrayals and 52 neutral and 12 positive portrayals. The sample therefore predates September 11, 2001, although the research concerns Arab and/or Muslim characters rather than Muslims exclusively.

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  14. Claim 14
    Attributed toMehdi HasanAuto-approvedAccurate50% confidence▶ 6:06
    “who openly defends Israeli terror”

    Ben Shapiro openly defends Israeli military actions in Gaza, which the speaker characterizes as Israeli terror.

    Shapiro has publicly said, “I don’t just condone the actions of the Israeli Defense Force and the Israeli government. I celebrate and laud them,” which verifies the substantive claim that he openly defends Israel’s military and government actions. The characterization of those actions as “terror” is the speaker’s legal and rhetorical label, not necessary to establish the underlying fact of Shapiro’s support.

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  15. Claim 15
    Attributed toBen ShapiroAuto-approvedUnverifiable78% confidence▶ 6:17
    “the man who just insisted to Bill O'Reilly the other day that being a practicing Jew requires caring about the state of Israel”

    Ben Shapiro said that being a practicing Jew requires caring about the State of Israel.

    Available sources verify that Shapiro is a practicing Orthodox Jew and has strongly argued that Jews should care about Israel, but I could not verify this precise alleged statement to Bill O’Reilly or establish that he said such support is a religious requirement.

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  16. Claim 16
    Attributed toBen ShapiroAuto-approvedUnverifiable50% confidence▶ 6:22
    “the man who once said he'd love for Benjamin Netanyahu to be president of the United States.”

    Ben Shapiro once said he would like Benjamin Netanyahu to be president of the United States.

    I could not locate a reliable primary or independent source confirming that Shapiro made this exact statement. The claim is specific and potentially verifiable, but the available search evidence was insufficient to authenticate it.

    Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Unverifiable and the second Accurate. Recorded as Unverifiable.

    No supporting links were returned for this claim.

  17. Claim 17
    Attributed toMehdi HasanAuto-approvedUnverifiable90% confidence▶ 6:27
    “The reason why Ben Shapiro and The Daily Wire are making films about ISIS right now, is to distract Western audiences from Israel's genocidal crimes in Gaza, and to instead ensure that we stay afraid of Muslims and Arabs.”

    The Daily Wire’s films about ISIS are intended to distract Western audiences from Israel’s genocidal crimes in Gaza and keep people afraid of Muslims and Arabs.

    The claim attributes a specific coordinated motive to Shapiro and The Daily Wire, but no reliable evidence establishes that this is why the films were made or that their purpose is to induce fear of Muslims and Arabs. Publicly describing the films’ themes does not prove the alleged hidden intent.

    No supporting links were returned for this claim.

  18. Claim 18
    Attributed toMehdi HasanAuto-approvedUnverifiable50% confidence▶ 6:38
    “from Israel's genocidal crimes in Gaza”

    Israel has committed genocidal crimes in Gaza.

    This is an established legal characterization with opposing conclusions from credible institutions. The UN Commission of Inquiry and Amnesty International have concluded that Israel is committing genocide, while Israel’s government and military categorically reject that conclusion; the ICJ has issued provisional measures but has not made a final merits judgment in the genocide case.

    The checker found this claim contested — credible institutions have reached opposing conclusions and no ruling has settled it. This site is not yet publishing that verdict, so it is recorded as unverifiable rather than judged either way.

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  19. Claim 19
    Attributed toMehdi HasanAuto-approvedAccurate84% confidence▶ 6:43
    “a study commissioned by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs found that Israel's best tactic to combat growing anti-Israel sentiment in the West is to foment fear of radical Islam and jihadism”

    A study commissioned by Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs found that fomenting fear of radical Islam and jihadism was Israel’s best tactic for combating growing anti-Israel sentiment in the West.

    The cited reporting describes leaked research commissioned by Israel’s Foreign Affairs Ministry and says the study identified fomenting fear of “Radical Islam” and “Jihadism” as Israel’s best tactic for combating anti-Israel sentiment. The evidence comes from secondary reporting about leaked documents rather than a publicly released official study.

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  20. Claim 20
    Attributed toMehdi HasanAuto-approvedUnverifiable50% confidence▶ 7:01

    Ben Shapiro is one of Israel’s biggest cheerleaders in the United States.

    Shapiro is demonstrably a prominent U.S. supporter of Israel, but “one of the biggest” is an undefined comparative ranking. No objective measure or authoritative ranking establishes that he belongs among the biggest U.S. cheerleaders for Israel.

    The intensifier “biggest” is judged as stated; it requires an agreed comparison set and metric that the transcript does not define.

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  21. Claim 21
    Attributed toMehdi HasanAuto-approvedUnverifiable50% confidence▶ 7:04
    “He's also one of the biggest purveyors of Islamophobia in the United States.”

    Ben Shapiro is one of the biggest purveyors of Islamophobia in the United States.

    Shapiro has made statements about Islam and Muslims that critics have characterized as Islamophobic, but the claim’s superlative ranking is not operationally defined. Without a specified dataset, time period, or definition of “purveyor,” it cannot be verified or refuted as stated.

    The intensifier “biggest” is judged as stated; the transcript supplies no operational definition or ranking for measuring who most promotes Islamophobia.

    No supporting links were returned for this claim.