Peloni: Here are two important essays by Fitzgerald which give proper context to the report of Carlson having chosen not to applaud the return of the hostages during Trump’s inaguration speech, something which was made all the more apparent given his prominent seating and the fact that everyone else present joined in the standing ovation. Beyond what Fitzgerald relates, recall also Carlson statement about being “shocked by how little they care about our country” in reference to Ben Shapiro and others pro-Israel supporters in the US.
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During his years on Fox News, the one word that was almost never mentioned on his 8-9 p.m. show was “Israel.” Carlson knew that many conservatives In his audience were Israel supporters, and he didn’t wish to alienate them. But after he was let go by Fox, and started his podcast on X, he began to unmask himself as an antisemite — for only an antisemite would provide a platform for such beyond-the-pale antisemites as Darryl Cooper, Candace Owens, and Munther Isaac. In recognition of Carlson’s happily providing a platform for such people to spread their nonsense and lies, Amichai Chikli, the Israeli Minister for Diaspora Affairs, tweeted his own message. “Tucker Carlson Giving ‘Leading Platform’ to Jew-Hatred, Chikli Says,” by Joseph Feldman, JNS, December 17, 2024:
Congratulations to Tucker Carlson for becoming the leading platform for fringe Holocaust deniers, conspiracy theorists and blood libel enthusiasts who oppose the State of Israel,” Chikli wrote on Tuesday….
Joel Pollak, senior editor-at-large at Breitbart News, wrote that the conversation was “the third rabidly anti-Israel interview Tucker has done, and at this point it is fair to ask why.”
In March, Owens’ podcast was suspended by YouTube for antisemitic conduct, including her claim that “Jewish people control the media.” She has attacked the “exaggerated” stories about the Holocaust. Owens has called the diabolical “medical experiments” on Jewish and other prisoners carried out by Dr. Josef Mengele during World War II “bizarre propaganda.”
The Rev. Johnnie Moore, meanwhile, a well-known American evangelical pastor, has called Munther Isaac the “high priest of antisemitic Christianity.” So these are the guests that Tucker Carlson has been providing with a platform on his podcast: Cooper, the Holocaust denier; Owens, the antisemitic racist, and Munther Isaac, the West Bank “Palestinian” who denies the Jewish connection to the Land of Israel and justifies the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023 as a response to long-term oppression.
Carlson reveals his own antisemitism not only in the company he keeps, but in the remarks he makes about world leaders. He has described Ukrainian Volodymr Zelensky, who is Jewish, as “rat-like”: “‘He Likens Jews to Rats’: Jewish Groups Condemn Tucker Carlson’s Description of Ukrainian President Zelensky,” by Andrew Bernard, Algemeiner, June 7, 2023:
The American Jewish Committee (AJC) and B’nai B’rith International on Wednesday condemned right-wing talking head Tucker Carlson for his description of Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky as “rat-like” and a “persecutor of Christians,” along with other antisemitic tropes during the debut of Carlson’s new opinion show.
“Given his history of incendiary statements, it is no surprise that Carlson would traffic in antisemitic tropes in criticizing the Jewish leader of Ukraine,” AJC told The Algemeiner. “But it is also no less vile when he likens Jews to rats. Hate can inspire antisemitic acts. Carlson must recognize the impact of his hatred.”
Speaking on the debut of his new Twitter-based show on Tuesday, Carlson accused Ukraine of being responsible for destroying the Russian-controlled Kakhovka Dam. In doing so, Carlson also criticized the character and appearance of Zelensky, who is Jewish, using what are widely regarded as antisemitic tropes.
“Now if you see him on television, it’s true you might form a different impression,” Carlson said of Zelensky. “Sweaty and rat-like. A comedian turned oligarch. A persecutor of Christians. A friend of BlackRock.”
The founder and CEO of the investment company BlackRock, Larry Fink, is Jewish.
Carlson also added that Zelensky was “shifty” and “dead-eyed.”
What Christians has Volodymyr Zelensky “persecuted”? And in a part of the world where government corruption is common Zelensky is known for his scrupulous honesty, and for the rapidity with which he has dismissed officials who have been found to be corrupt.
Who will Tucker Carlson invite next as an honored guest, given an hour or two to speak on his podcast about Israel, the Jews, the Holocaust? After Darryl Cooper, Candace Owens, and Munther Isaac, what about Rashida Tlaib? Or Linda Sarsour? Or Ta-Nehisi Coates? And what political figures, disgusted at the antisemitic speakers he so blatantly welcomes and never challenges, will call out his sinister proclivities, and urge others to join in a boycott of the quite unnecessary Tucker Carlson?
What’s the Matter with Tucker Carlson?
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As President Trump gave his inaugural address in Washington, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who now has his own podcast after having been fired by Fox News, chose to remain seated while all around him stood up when the President — while mentioning that the Israeli hostages are “coming back home to their families”— pointed to family members of hostages, and hostages who had previously been released, standing near the podium. No one should have been surprised at seeing Carlson remain seated, for he has a long history of anti-Israel animus. He has criticized Christian leaders in the United States, arguing that they are “not being more critical of the destruction in Gaza.”
Here is one of Carlson’s tweets on Israel:
The IDF has not been “blowing up churches” in Gaza nor has it been “killing Christians.” It’s a made-up charge.
Carlson has invited as guests on his podcast a series of flagrant antisemites. He had a “Holocaust distortionist” on his show, one Darryl Cooper, a “podcast historian” whom Carlson has described as “the best and most honest popular historian in the United States.” He allotted a full two hours for Darryl Cooper to spread his venom. Carlson declined to take issue with any of the false claims made by Cooper during their conversation, and even now he continue to refuse to criticize Cooper’s views or apologize for having given him such a platform. Cooper claimed that “millions of prisoners of war” had “ended up dead” in concentration camps, implying that Jews should not be regarded as the victims of genocide, but rather as POWs (Jews being “at war” with the Nazis), and millions of them were not deliberately murdered by the Nazis, but had died of disease or malnutrition because the Nazis were “unprepared” for the war, and thus had not been able to properly house, to clothe, or to feed such prisoners taken in the war. According to Cooper, World War II was caused by Winston Churchill, whom he called the “chief villain” of that war. Most of those in Nazi custody died, Cooper maintains, from typhus and other diseases.
More on Tucker Carlson can be found here: “Tucker Carlson remains seated during standing ovation for hostages in Trump’s inaugural address,” by Haley Cohen, Jewish Insider, January 20, 2025:
Carlson, who received one of the most sought-after seats in Washington to attend the inauguration in the rotunda — which has a limited capacity of about 600 people — drew unusually fierce criticism from several Republican lawmakers over his decision last September to host Darryl Cooper, a Holocaust distortionist who called Winston Churchill the “chief villain” of World War II, on his show.
Three months later, Carlson held another controversial interview with Jeffrey Sachs, the Columbia University professor who, in a lengthy discussion with Carlson, espoused a litany of conspiracy theories about Israel and the broader Middle East….
Jeffrey Sachs was once taken seriously as an economist, but in recent years has become an obsessive exponent of conspiracy theories, including his belief that Israel runs American foreign policy. Sachs claims that the fall of Syria’s dictator Assad — whom Sachs apparently thought well of — was not the result of Assad’s countrymen rising up to topple him, but was, rather, the culmination of a decades-long plot led by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to oppose any Middle Eastern government supporting the creation of a Palestinian state. “The United States goes to war on his behalf,” he said of Netanyahu, arguing that “Israel has driven so many American wars.” Sachs also claimed that the U.S. “gave over Middle East foreign policy to Israel a long time ago, not to U.S. interest, but to Israel’s interest. That is the Israel lobby, and we don’t hear questioning of this at all.” Carlson seemed to agree.
@Laura
Not by me if you recall.
I’ve been on to him for a while back when he was on FOX, but I was dismissed by conservatives who hung on every word he said back then. Isolationists are almost always antisemites.
A video which was posted by Trump on Truth Social.
Jeffrey Sachs is a lifelong communist. Acard-carrying member of the U.S. Communist party for something like 40 years. After it more or less disappeared for lackof members, he joined a number small communist splinter groups. He lived in Russia on and off for many years, supposedly doing “research” there. That NYU employed him as a professor of economics and social sciences is a disgrace to NYU. Which has employed many bad apples over the years.
Carlson has always claimed to be a conservative. Interesting that he feels comfortable with a communist because of their shared hatred of Israel.
Sachs is a Jew. But an antisemitic Jew, like many Jewish communists.
Maybe he’ll be the anti-Semite of 2025. He did interview the anti-Semite of 2024, Candace Owens. I doubt she ever responded to the letter Dennis Prager sent her, which was very kind, but wanted to know what had happened to her. Dennis rebutted her Jewish libel statements. Watch and see what happens to Tucker because Hashem always keeps His promises.