Tucker Carlson, the Provocateur
Criticisms of Israel, invocation of classic antisemitic cliches, and lack of theological credibility
By Victor Mezhinsky, October 30, 2025 9:00 am
Tucker Carlson’s shift from provocative media personality to a figure openly giving platforms to Holocaust revisionism and coded antisemitic tropes shows a troubling trajectory. His kind of criticisms of Israel, invocation of classic antisemitic cliches (such as Jewish conspiracies and collective guilt), and lack of theological credibility undermine any claim to being a genuine Christian defender of Judeo-Christian values. Real Christians support Israel, and many conservative thinkers have long resisted Carlson’s frameworks of victim-blaming, replacement theory and false equivalencies. His recent actions show how hidden antisemitism can suddenly reveal itself — and with influential amplifiers.
During his June 18, 2025 X-podcast show, Carlson asked Senator Ted Cruz if the modern state of Israel was the same as Israel in the Bible, and why does Ted Cruz, a devout Christian, support Israel? Mr. Cruz responded by saying: “Growing up in Sunday school, I was taught from the Bible, those who bless Israel will be blessed and those who cursed Israel will be cursed. I want to be on the blessing side.”
Pastor John Hagee said the same on March 10, 2024, “Growing up in Sunday school, I was taught from the Bible, those who bless Israel will be blessed and those who curse Israel will be cursed.”
Pastor Hagee has consistently emphasized the importance of standing with Israel as a nation. His message is rooted in biblical, historical and prophetic reasons, highlighting God’s eternal covenant with the Jewish people and the significance of Israel in America’s future.
During the October 13, 2025 edition of the popular Australian political commentator Erin Molan Show, Ms. Molan interviewed Dinesh D’Souza (creator of the film The Dragon’s Prophecy). D’Souza told Molan, “Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens are advancing outlandish theories to gain respectability that are outside the bounds of Christianity for 2000 years. I think deep down Carlson knows that he is somewhat of a shallow and superficial person. He has a very clever sort of technique… to inject a lot of stupidity and poisoning into the debate. That is prevocational tactics to me.”
Yet on Carlson’s October 4, 2025 podcast, he said that: “Israel is a tiny country and is not critical to the US national security.” This statement reveals Carlson’s bias and ignorance.
Our own government confirms Israel’s importance. On the U.S. Department of State.gov website it states: “Israel has been designated as a U.S. Major non-NATO Ally under U.S. law.” Moreover, the prestigious Heritage Foundation stated: “The U.S. – Israel relationship is one of America’s most strategically vital partnerships, anchored in shared democratic values and common threats.”
Carlson’s interview with a Holocaust revisionist shows how he got away with mainstreaming bigotry for so many years. On September 2, 2024, Carlson’s podcast on X featured self-described “historian” Darryl Cooper, who claimed that the Nazis “didn’t intend for” the Holocaust to happen — arguing instead it was the result of logistical failure rather than a planned genocide. Carlson did not push back on Cooper’s claims and even called him “the most important popular historian working in the United States today.” Because Carlson gave a platform to someone who claimed the deaths of millions of Jews were unintended, he engaged in what many regard as clear baiting of antisemitic revisionism. That conduct — especially from someone who purports to hold Christian and conservative values — reveals a far deeper level of antisemitism, previously hidden or at least less overt.
During Carlson’s eulogy at Charlie Kirk’s September 21, 2025 memorial, he made a comparison between the assassination of Charlie Kirk and killing of Jesus Christ. “And there’s always one guy with the bright idea, and I can just hear him say, ‘I’ve got an idea. Why don’t we just kill him? That’ll shut him up, that’ll fix the problem” Carlson said, before bursting into laughter.
Carlson should have known that the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) formally addressed this issue in their Nostra Aetate. The document clarified the Church’s stance on Jewish culpability, stating that Jews as a whole cannot be blamed for Jesus’ death. Subsequent popes, including Pope Francis, have reaffirmed this position.
On the subject of relationship between Christians and Jews, which Carlson tries to damage, it is worth remembering the words of the Catholic Pope Jone Paul II (Pope Karol Wojtyla, 1978-2005). He emphasized the shared heritage of Christianity and Judaism in his teachings and said about Jews, “You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.”
This article was originally published in American Thinker.
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It’s a ironic that California’s Democrat legislative Jewish Caucus has done absolutely NOTHING to stop the rampant antisemitism and attacks against Jews at California’s publicly funded educational institutions. In fact, Democrat legislative Jewish Caucus co-chairs Senator Scott Wiener and Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel, recently released a statement backing Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom in a billion-dollar battle tied to the Trump administration’s crackdown on antisemitism at UCLA. The Trump administration froze UCLA’s research money, citing an inadequate response to antisemitism on campus.
(https://jewishcaucus.legislature.ca.gov/news/jewish-caucus-backs-newsom-billion-dollar-fight-trump-over-ucla)
Maybe radical leftist Democrat politicians who hide behind Judaism in their abuse of power deserve to be criticized?
Sorry, but this article is complete neocon nonsense meant to divert people from listening to topics that we aren’t supposed to talk about because it’s damaging to a certain group of favored people. Tucker Carlson has repeated over and over again that he does not “blame all Jews” as being culpable for the problems that some people who happen to be Jewish have caused. Yes, he is critical of atheist Jews (aka “Jews in Name Only”) who have pushed for policies harmful to American society and security, much like Billy Graham did and many others who were never labeled “antisemitic” have. He is also critical of the fact that America sends billions of dollars in aid to Isarael every year and often puts that nation’s interest above those of America while the US gets little to nothing in return for this relationship other than perpetual unrest in the Middle East and putting a huge target on the back of every American. He is also Critical of people who are US citizens but claim that their allegiance to the US is contingent on the US’s allegiance to, and material support of, Isreal (such people are obviously not US patriots). And with respect to his comments at Charlie Kirk’s memorial, he was reminding us that the Pharisees (who happened to be Jewish) sought to kill Jesus because they viewed Him as a threat to them for saying things that undermined their control on the people (much like how the author of this article views Tucker Carlson as a threat for mentioning things that people in power don’t want mentioned as it undermines their political positions).
As for some Christians and their misguided, fanatical support for a modern geopolitical entity that calls itself “Isreal” even though it bears no resemblance to the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah as depicted in the Old Testament, Tucker Carlson is right in calling this out. The oft quoted passage from Genesis 12:3 that Christian Zionists use to justify this support, that “those who bless Israel will be blessed” is taken completely out of context and has no relevance to the modern State of Israel. The New Testament makes it clear that the only people who are “God’s Chosen People” (His Church) are those that accept the sacrifice He made as Jesus Christ by dying for our sins on the cross and obey His commands (the Gospel of John is explicit in this regard) while anyone who rejects this, including Jews who don’t accept Christ as the messiah and the Son of God, are living in inequity and are in mortal danger of enternal damnation. And let’s not forget that the Modern State of Isarel endorses many sinful practices (for example, Tel Aviv is a major destination for homosexuals) that any Christian must reject wholeheartedly. Also, for anyone that actually reads the Bible, they know that God refers to Jews as a “stiff necked and rebellious people” and was constantly punishing them for their wicked ways, up to and including raising up the Babylonian Empire and (then the Greek and Roman Empires) against them, which destroyed their temple and enslaved the people of Isarel all because they turned their heart from God and where disobedient to Him. So why should any Christian feel that they should be compelled to be so fanatically supportive of the Modern State of Israel as many seem to be? This is what Tucker Carlson is attempting to call out. Clearly, it has struck a chord with some within the “conservative movement’ who don’t want the quiet part said out loud. And this article is a perfect example of this attempt to silence those who speak about uncomfortable truths.
Thank you for your poignant and potent articulation of much ignored facts.
No doubt Newsom’s troll Eyeinthesky was at a lame No Kings protest wearing a Grantifa shirt and holding a “Free Gaza” sign ignoring the fact President Trump had already brokered a peace deal that ended the two-year conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza?
California Globe still shilling for that foreign country? This grows tiresome. Read the room dude.
I used to like carlson’s program on fox news, but anymore I ignore him, as I do most of the chattering class. I’m sure that will infuriate some, but I don’t care.