Left-wing host Ana Kasparian caught in screaming match with woman over Israel issue while walking her dog
Daily Mail, UK
- Kasparian clashed with a woman while walking her dog this week
- She accused the woman of trying to get her husband fired from his job
Controversial political commentator Ana Kasparian got into a screaming match with another woman while walking her dog this week.
Kasparian, 39, who is the host of left-wing news show The Young Turks, claimed that a woman tried to ‘sic her dog’ on her and that the altercation was driven by her pro-Palestinian views.
The woman denied the alleged attack after being confronted by Kasparian in a shocking video that was aired on The Young Turks.
Kasparian has come under fire from pro-Israel groups since the October 7 terror attacks over her continued criticism of the Israeli government.
The outspoken star has publicly accused the IDF of war crimes on multiple occasions and backed up statements from groups like Amnesty International and The International Association of Genocide Scholars that Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza.
Kasparian was recently accused of performing an antisemitic trope by pro-Israel group the Canary Mission after she did an impression of Jewish billionaire Larry Ellison on an episode of The Young Turks that some deemed offensive.
Due to the backlash over her Ellison impression, Kasparian now claims that she’s the target of a ‘propaganda campaign’ to falsely paint her out as an antisemite, and believes that this contributed to her altercation with the woman this week.
Posting about the situation on X, formerly Twitter, Kasparian wrote, ‘A woman sicced her dog at me this morning as I was walking my dog. When I asked what was going on she regurgitated lies propagated by an ongoing propaganda campaign carried out by Canary Mission.’
Kasparian went into more detail about the incident on The Young Turks on Monday and claimed that the woman she was arguing with wanted her husband fired from his job over his failure to publicly condemn her in the wake of her statements against Israel.
‘I’m minding my own business, I’m trying to avoid her, and then when she’s coming at me with her dog I take my headphones out and I’m like, “What’s going on?”‘ she explained.
‘And she’s like, “You’re a Jew hater.” And I’m like, okay, obviously there’s a misunderstanding, so let me have a conversation with her.’
Kasparian then claimed that the woman was ‘screaming’ at her and that she was enraged by Kasparian’s impersonation of Ellison.
The pair continued to argue until, according to Kasparian, she tried to leave with her dog Charlie, only for the woman to then bring up Kasparian’s husband, Christian.
‘So as I’m walking away, she says to me, “Good luck to your husband dealing with you.” And I say, “My husband loves me,” and she responds with, “And that’s why we’re trying to get him fired!”‘ Kasparian claimed.
Kasparian then said that there was a campaign to have Christian fired from his job because ‘he refused to put out a statement condemning his wife’ over her criticism towards the Israeli government and her impression of Ellison.
After returning home to fetch her husband, Kasparian returned and started to film the women with her phone.
In footage aired on The Young Turks, Kasparian can be heard asking the woman, ‘Do you think it was appropriate for you to try and sic your dog on me?’
The woman fires back, ‘I did not! I told you to stay away from me because my dog is barking.’
She continued, ‘I told you to stop following me! I told you to get away from me. I told you my dog is barking.’
Kasparian continued to question the woman, snapping, ‘Why did you try to sic your dog on me? Because you don’t like my political views?’
She can also be heard calling the woman ‘psycho’ and ‘totally insane.’
‘Now you’re acting different because you’re being recorded, right?’ Kasparian continues.
As the woman tries to leave with her dog, Kasparian can be heard shouting, ‘You called me a Jew hater!’
Kasparian’s husband can also be heard strongly speaking to the woman and at one point he asks, ‘Wait, so you’re trying to get me fired?’
The woman then responds, ‘No. I did not. I said I’m telling everybody about her,’ as she points towards Kasparian.
The woman continues and then seemingly admits to Kasparian’s accusation, saying, ‘I said everyone is trying to get him fired.’
Kasparian then continued to shout at the woman from across the street until the video cuts off.
This is far from the only clash that Kasparian has been in this year.
Last month, Kasparian torched former Democratic senator Kyrsten Sinema after Sinema tried to shut down a debate on whether or not the US should go to war with Venezuela.
The pair hashed it out on the online political talk show Her Take, which Kasparian co-hosts.
In a previous episode of the show, Kasparian also got into a fight with conservative podcaster Adam Sosnick over the Israel-Palestine issue.
Their clash culminated with Sosnick attacking Kasparian’s husband and throwing a tampon at her.
At one point, Kasparian also called Sosnick ‘literally r*tarded’.
Also last month, Jillian Michaels sensationally quit her gig on the show following a disastrous clash with Kasparian over Charlie Kirk and Israel.
In the episode, Michaels lost her cool when a conversation about Kirk’s memorial turned into criticism of Israel.
The former Biggest Loser host became particularly incensed after an unsubstantiated claim was made that Benjamin Netanyahu had offered Kirk’s Turning Point USA organization $150 million to take on a more pro-Israel stance.
‘There’s no proof of that, in fact the opposite is true!’ Michaels said, clearly exasperated by the topic.
‘Where is your proof that $150 million dollars was offered from Bibi Netanyahu? Where is the proof?’ she snapped at panelist Lindy Li.
‘I didn’t want to cover this and you guys insisted, and I told you if you cover this s**t I’m gonna rip you apart. Where is the proof?’
As the conversation continued to heat up, Michaels and Kasparian started to fight, with Kasparian eventually screaming, ‘Hold on! Let me finish my f***ing thought!’
Finally fed up with the ongoing back and forth, Michaels said, ‘I don’t know how every show ends up being about how do we bash Israel.’
Snatching up her laptop and pulling off her mic, she continued, ‘This is not for me. I’m not interested in this. I love you guys, I’m sorry. I have zero interest in doing this.’
Talking over her, Kasparian said, ‘Let’s be good about precious Israel! The country committing a genocide.’
With that, Michaels stormed off the set and quit the series.
