That's a pretty decent summary of the entirety of the Fuentes/Candace Owens interview drama.

I was more referring to specifically that Owens & Carlson tried to involve Dave Smith in absentia in their attempts to smear Nick at the time, implying that there was more bad blood between Fuentes & Smith then actually existed.

I've now listened to the majority of the Smith/Fuentes interview here. It was very cordial. About halfway through, Smith does mention that he did take it personally that Fuentes implied that Dave got platformed on Rogan/Carlson, etc simply because he was a safe moderate Jew criticizing the Israeli state but not the Jewish people or their diaspora.

Smith seemed to be trying to thread the eye of the needle with his complaint to Nick implying he had more leeway to criticize Jews as Jew. Smith did admit that their is certainly more freedom to criticize without backlash as a member of the ingroup.

But he also seemed to take it personally with Fuentes' insinuation that being Jewish opened doors to him to mainstream exposure. Nick later responded by watering it down saying that Smith was platformed more while he was canceled everywhere not because he's Jewish, but because his moderate Zionist criticism is more palatable in the mainstream (doesn't criticize Jewish individuals, blames "neocons" as being the real puppetmasters. Smith countered that Fuentes isn't necessarily uninvited because of his harsher criticism of Jews & Israel. But because he has nuclear takes such as "Hitler has aura" that scare normies away.