Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson, formerly of Fox News, provides the “leading platform” for Jew-hatred, according to Amichai Chikli, the Israeli Minister for Diaspora Affairs.
“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.
Carlson, with whom Fox News “agreed to part ways” on April 24, 2023, hosts an eponymous show on social media, where he has 15 million followers.
Chikli’s criticism came shortly after Carlson ran a two-hour interview with Jeffrey Sachs, an economist at Columbia University and director of its Earth Institute’s Center for Sustainable Development.
Sachs accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of creating Hamas and Hezbollah to expand the Jewish state’s borders and achieve “greater Israel.”
“We gave over Middle East foreign policy to Israel a long time ago, not to U.S. interests but to Israel’s interests, that is the Israel lobby,” Sachs said. (Elon Musk told his more than 207.5 million followers that it was a “very interesting interview.”)
“They should call this the horseshoe episode,” wrote David May, the research manager and a senior research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. “The conspiracy theories of the nationalist right meet the conspiracy theories of the socialist left for a party—a national socialist party.”
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 September, Carlson hosted the historian Darryl Cooper, drawing criticism from all 24 Jewish members of the U.S. House of Representatives, who said that they were “appalled” that Carlson hosted a “Nazi apologist and Holocaust denier.”
In April, Carlson hosted Munther Isaac, pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem, who has a long history of antisemitism.
