‘I Don’t Care About Your Sex Lives!’ Piers Morgan Rips Guests As Fiery Israel-Hamas Debate Collapses Into Chaos

Despite Piers Morgan’s best attempt to keep the debate between scholars Rabbi Shmuley and Mohammed Hijab civil on Thursday, order quickly broke down as both men went head-to-head on the Israel-Hamas war.

The debate on TalkTV’s Piers Morgan Uncensored was structured around several themed questions, each allowing the debaters a 1-minute time slot each way to engage with the issue. On almost every occasion, however, the debate descended into a shouting match. So much so, that by the end of the debate Morgan reprimanded both participants for having “let themselves down.”

Notably, during the second portion of the debate the conversation took a personal turn when Morgan asked whether Israel had gone too far in its military response to Hamas. Shmuley delivered his minute, arguing that Israel was in favour of a “surgical response” to Hamas while also mentioning British wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s “carpet bombing” of German cities like Dresden in World War II as a legitimate strategy.

In response, Hijab questioned the precision of the Israeli bombing campaign, quoting statistics which tallied that for every one Hamas member killed over 100 Gazan civilians had been killed.

“This man is being more slippery than the lubricants that he sells in his daughter’s sex shop,” Hijab said of Shmuley. “And that’s the reality of the situation.”

Shmuley’s daughter Chana Boteach opened a kosher sex shop in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 2019, selling clothes and sex toys. Her orthodox father is famous for having authored books on sex for Jewish couples, including Kosher Sex: A Recipe for Passion and Intimacy.

The rabbi laughed out loud at first, then retorted to Hijab to: “Get your head out of the Jewish bedroom. Sexual lubricant?”

“You sell dildos don’t you?” Hijab taunted. “You sell dildos don’t you?”

Morgan attempted to ground the debate.

“Why are you shaking?” Hijab continued to Shmuley. “I think he’s got a vibrator in his pocket. I think he’s got one of his daughter’s vibrators in his pocket.”

“You are just humiliating yourself,” Shmuley said in return.

Bringing the conversation back to point, Morgan said he agreed with Hijab that “many more Palestinian civilians, innocent people, are getting killed as retribution than Israelis on October 7th.” Morgan then asked about Shmuley’s Churchill comparison.

“Churchill was wrong!” Hijab said.

“Was he a war criminal?” Shmuley asked.

“Yes he was,” Hijab replied.

On this, both participants began shouting over one another. Scmuley listed names of historical figures from that era while Hijab replied that “they all were criminals. All of them.” “Collective punishment,” he continued, referring to the bombing campaigns in Germany.

Calling order as the debate descended into shouting again, Morgan asked: “You think Winston Churchill in standing up to the Nazis, who killed 12 million people, that by doing what he did was a war criminal?”

“By killing babies… In Dresden and Hamburg? Indiscriminate killing? Collective punishment? My morality says that’s impermissible,” he replied.

“So you believe that any retaliation…” Morgan pressed further.

“Retaliate to the man, not the babies,” Hijab continued.

At this point Morgan pushed back on Hijab’s ratio argument, asking what the ratio of victims to Nazism and civilian deaths in the Allied bombing campaigns was. Hijab didn’t know.

“When you call Winston Churchill a criminal,” Morgan said, “You’re basing it on ratios and you don’t even know what they are.”

“Whatever the number,” Hijab responded, “if it’s indiscriminate, I’m against it.”

At this stage, Shmuley cited the numbers of civilians dead in the Dresden bombing before he blasted Hijab for disrespecting Churchill. To which Hijab demanded he “stay on topic.”

Later, in closing, Morgan couldn’t help but show his disappointment at the heated back and forth.

“I found that a dispiriting hour, I’ve got to be honest with you.” Morgan said in closing. “I thought both of you let yourselves down. I gave you a great opportunity here.”

“We gave you an opportunity as well, Piers,” Hijab said, packing his papers. “We gave you an audience, you gave us an audience.”

“It’s not just about the audience,” Morgan replied. “It’s about a big audience seeing people have a conversation. No one has seen you even try to come together. It’s dispiriting. Try harder.”

No sooner had he finished and both men set about one another again, finishing with another round about sex and Shmuley’s sex books, before Morgan shouted over them exasperated to end the show: “I don’t care about your sex lives, either of you.”