Braden Eric Peters, known online as Clavicular, left a Monday interview midway after being pressed by Channel 13's Bar Shem-Ur about his recent antisemitic incidents, which involved being kicked out of a club in January alongside the white supremacist Nick Fuentes for singing Ye’s “Heil Hitler.”
The American content creator was speaking about how he was "having a great time in Tel Aviv" when Shem-Ur asked him if he "came here to apologize."
Clavicular then explained that he and his team came to Israel to "explore Tel Aviv, and kind of show that it is a really fun city, because there are a lot of misconceptions about it."
"When you look up online for Mikonos, Ibiza, or frequently summer spots for Europeans, you see tourists things like clubs and great things in the city to do. But when you look at Israel, obviously it's stuff about war, when in reality it's a really fun city," he said.
"Came to show everyone that this is the reality of Tel Aviv," he added. He was then asked if he knew about the online comments about his visit and what Israelis thought about him coming to the country, to which he answered, "Everyone is talking about what we are doing that is good, so for you to start the interview in a negative manner doesn't really make sense."
Clavicular: 'Why don't you talk about how much I do for this country'
After being pressed about the antisemitic incidents that were reported back in January, he asked, "Why don't you talk about how much I have done for this country's reputation? Because it's in outer shambles."
"You go on TikTok, on any social media page, the amount of propaganda and misconceptions is what's doing the real damage, not anything I've done. We are here, trying to set everything straight, even if I don't have to be in Israel," he added.
"This is the most ridiculous thing ever. I just woke up, and I don't want to be talking to someone who is going to be rude. Because I'm here to do good things," he said, claiming that Shem-Ur had to ask about the "good things he is doing so that there is no bad PR."
When asked further about the online comments, he first said he didn't understand Hebrew and then added that he didn't have time to check everything with a translation tool. "I'm here for a good thing, and you are trying to drag me to the mud and damage my reputation. This interview is over," he added before leaving the interview.
Not a PR firm, Shem-Ur says after failed interview
"So I got to interview the streamer Clavicular for our show “Hatzinor” on Channel 13. Contrary to what he and his supporters say, we gave him enough time to present his talking points. But we are journalists, not a PR firm," Shem-Ur said in a post on X/Twitter.
"We don’t care who gave him money to come here. We want to hear the truth and find out if he really came here in good faith. We feel that he didn’t. Not apologizing while in Israel for singing 'Heil Hitler' just a couple of months ago is shameful," he added.
He then explained that, during his visit, Peters was streaming while "talking trash to Israeli girls," while he also lied during the interview about getting an apology from the club owner that kicked him out after the antisemitic incident.
"We don’t need people like this doing 'Hasbara.' In my view, cooperating with this kind of person is more damaging to Israel than helpful," he concluded.