Ben Shapiro: My Editor's Statement That "Jew-Hatred is Inherent in the European DNA" Was "Metaphorical"

Ben Shapiro on Wednesday addressed Daily Wire editor-at-large Josh Hammer's bigoted comment that "Jew-hatred is inherent in the European DNA" by claiming he "meant it metaphorically."

Shapiro issued a statement to Mediaite on Wednesday saying: "I just spoke with him about it; he realized it was a bad tweet and deleted it before I even heard about it from you. He meant it metaphorically in the same way that Barack Obama was being metaphorical when he said racism was in America's DNA, but he realized it could be misinterpreted and taken literally."

Hammer actually made the comment at least three times.

On Monday, Hammer tweeted: "Europe will never change. Jew-hatred is inherent in its collective DNA."

Earlier this year, he criticized "Euros who have anti-Semitism in their very DNA."

For his part, Ben Shapiro in the past denigrated all Palestinian Arabs as radically "evil" and "rotten to the core."

Shapiro also tweeted: "Israelis like to build. Arabs like to bomb crap and live in open sewage. This is not a difficult issue. #settlementsrock."

Shapiro also advocated for ethnically cleansing all "5 million Palestinians and Israeli Arabs" from Israel in a column titled, "Transfer is not a dirty word."...

Shapiro later said his comment about Arabs liking to live in open sewage was taken "out of context" and he was referring to "Arab leadership."

He also condemned his column calling for Palestinians to be ethnically cleansed as "stupid and immoral."

Shapiro defended his column labeling Palestinian Arabs as radically "evil" and "rotten to the core" by categorizing it as something "the left doesn't like that happens to be true."