Conservative pundits Candace Owens and Megyn Kelly are publicly feuding online about the movement toward blacklisting Harvard students who signed a letter blaming Israel for the barbaric Hamas attack last Saturday.

Owens argued that students may change their position with time and education, while Kelly argued that regular good people do not back terrorist organizations. Owens in turn called Kelly’s position ‘disingenuous’ and Kelly encouraged the Daily Wire host to hire some of the pro-Palestinian protestors.

Following of one such statement from a coalition of Harvard students, billionaire hedge fund manager and Harvard grad Bill Ackman asked the university to release a list of the members of each of the 31 students organizations that signed the statement.

He wrote that the goal of releasing names would be to ‘insure that none of us inadvertently hire any of their members.’

‘One should not be able to hide behind a corporate shield when issuing statements supporting the actions of terrorists, who, we now learn, have beheaded babies, among other inconceivably despicable acts,’ wrote Ackman.

At least a dozen CEOs have publicly agreed with Ackman and said they too would like to know names so as not to mistakenly hire a terrorist sympathizer.

Members of the Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee protest for the liberation of Palestine. Since putting out the statement, the group has doubled down on the message and claimed they have received death threats

Bill Ackman, CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management (pictured), led the charge to name the students in the Harvard organizations who put out a statement blaming Israel for the Hamas attack

In the wake of the anti-Israel statement, a number of high-profile donors have also pulled out of their financial commitments to Harvard University. 

Members of the online conservative community have been debating for several days whether Ackman’s proposal is just. 

While some – like Megyn Kelly – agree with the CEOs, others – like Candace Owens and presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy – say they don’t support ‘canceling’ a group of college students who signed a letter with which they may come to disagree.

The text of the statement released in the direct aftermath of the radical Palestinian terror attack that killed 1,400 Israelis and counting read, in part: ‘We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely accountable for all unfolding violence.’

‘For the last two decades, millions of Palestinians in Gaza have been forced to live in an open-air prison,’ and ‘in the coming days, Palestinians will be forced to bear the full brunt of Israel’s violence.’

The Kelly/Owens back-and-forth began on Sunday when Kelly chastised Vivek Ramaswamy for embracing the position that ‘it’s not productive for companies to blacklist kids for being members of student groups that make dumb political statements on campus.’

‘You’ve got to be kidding me. They sided with terrorists who murdered children and old women. You’re not clear on this as someone who wants to be president?’ responded the host of The Megyn Kelly Show.

Ramaswamy argued that the correct response is to educate the university students: ‘Persuasion is better than force, let’s stick to principle,’ he wrote.

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Kelly shot back: ‘If they are not ‘persuaded’ that murdering babies is wrong, there is no ‘persuading’ them. We don’t hire those who do the killing & we don’t hire those who applaud the killers while the savagery is underway.’

The two conservative pundits sparred online over the Bill Ackman-led movement to blacklist student signers of a vehemently anti-Israel statement

Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy initially elicited a response from Megyn Kelly when he argued that the ‘dumb’ college students should be afforded some grace

At this point, Owens joined the fray with a lengthy response to Kelly, arguing that the anti-Israel students don’t actually ‘want babies to be murdered.’

‘College kids are stupid,’ wrote Owens, pointing out that she was at one time extremely pro-choice and her beliefs have since flipped radically.

‘Being liberal is not the same as taking to the streets to cheer murdered babies and blame said murders on the victims,’ wrote Kelly, saying that Owens is free to staff her operation with as many of the student signees as she pleases.

The exchange went on, each message growing more fraught than the last.

Owens repeatedly argued that students need to be allowed to make mistakes and reverse their ideology as they become better educated. She wrote that she ‘almost exclusively hired reformed BLM activists to work for my charity, BLEXIT.’

‘They actually proved to be the most dedicated employees to the cause because the mission was personal to them.’

Kelly argued that supporting terrorists is beyond-the-pale and something that anyone who knows the difference between right and wrong would not support.

‘I’ll be hiring the ones who saw murdered grandmas and entire families burned in their homes and easily identified this as a terrorist attack they would never in a million years defend,’ she said.

Since the terror organization Hamas, who were at one time democratically elected by the Palestinian people to lead Gaza, attacked Israel last Saturday, slaughtering some 1,400 Israelis and injured at least 3,600, death tolls have climbed on both sides.

The Gazan Ministry of Health reported that the Palestinian death toll has climbed above 2,300, a figure that will surely increase if Gazans are not free to move out of the area Israel has explicitly told them to vacate. 

Israel reported Saturday that 258 of its soldiers had been killed so far.