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Political commentator Ben Shapiro says the rise of anti-Semitism globally in the wake of the October 7 Hamas attacks is “shocking” and has condemned the “enormous backlash” against Israel.

“If you’d told me that there’d be hundreds of thousands of people marching in solidarity with Hamas in various capitals, or that college campuses would become hotbeds of anti-Semitism, I would have found that shocking, even as cynical as I am about politics,” Mr Shapiro told Sky News Australia host Piers Morgan.

“In the wake of such massacres typically, people tend to rally to the side of the people who’ve been massacred.

“In this particular case again, there’s enormous backlash against Israel that began literally the day after.

“‘There were protesters taking to the streets against Israel before Israel had even launched any retaliatory strikes in the Gaza Strip.”