Yair Netanyahu, the son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and British broadcaster Piers Morgan engaged in a heated exchange of X/Twitter posts on Friday, trading accusations over a BBC report on the situation in the Gaza Strip.
The dispute began when Morgan reposted a video clip citing a BBC report stating that there are over 100 alleged cases in which children were shot in Gaza. Morgan captioned the post saying, “Most moral army in the world.”
Netanyahu responded sharply, calling the BBC's reporting “medieval-style blood libel” and accusing Morgan of bias. “You guys went full Nazi Mode. I hope Qatar is paying well,” he wrote.
Netanyahu added, “By the way, hasn't your brother served in Afghanistan and Iraq? Tens of thousands of innocent children were killed by NATO and [the] British army there.”
Morgan responded by shifting the focus to Netanyahu’s father, saying, “Hi Nair (sic), when you've stop spewing your usual extremist crap, can you ask your father to stop duking my interview requests as he has done since October 7? I have a few questions for him. Thanks.”
Netanyahu fired back, escalating the rhetoric, “Extremist? You literally platform on your show every possible Nazi antisemitic lunatic you find on Twitter!”
Netanyahu does not interview 'for Hezbollah TV'
He then went on to say, “My dad doesn't interview for Hezbollah TV, Ayatollahs TV etc. Why would he give an interview to the antisemitic Nazi version of the Jerry Springer show?”
Netanyahu continued, referencing Morgan’s previous interviews with his father, “Yes, I know he gave you interviews before, but that was before you went full Nazi clown mode."
“Why won't you interview your boss, the Qatari dictator about how he fund and hosts Hamas, al-Qaeda, Taliban, and ISIS? About how it's a criminal offense in his country to practice Christianity, bring in a Christian bible, or build a church?
“About how being LGBT in his country is punishable by death? About how he holds millions of slave 'foreign workers' in his country and worked them to death before the World Cup?
“About how he's funding American Ivy League universities and wash[es] the brains of American youth to hate America, Israel and Christianity and to burn American flags in their pro-Palestinian protests?"
Netanyahu concluded by repeating his earlier question about Morgan’s brother’s military service, “Why won't you interview your brother and ask him why tens of thousands of civilians were killed by the British army (as part of NATO) in Afghanistan and Iraq? Does it make the UK and NATO the bad guys and the Taliban and ISIS the good guys?”
Neither Morgan nor Netanyahu offered further comments following the exchange, which has since drawn significant attention online.
Yair Netanyahu's recent X/Twitter clash with Joe Rogan
Yair Netanyahu claimed that Joe Rogan refused to have his father on his podcast The Joe Rogan Experience, he posted on X/Twitter last Friday.
In his post, Yair Netanyahu said, "He gave [a] platform to every single neo Nazi antisemite on this plant[et], but he refuses to have my father on his show, because he knows that he doesn’t stand a chance against him, and all those years of antisemitic propaganda will go to waste."
Fraidy Moser contributed to this report.