Jew-haters and the Conservative Movement ✎

Around Halloween, appropriately, the online algorithms furnished an interview between Tucker Carlson & Nick Fuentes.

I watched it.

It’s one of the most disturbing things I’d seen in a very long time.

I was shocked by Fuentes’ shameless effrontery: he doesn’t even pretend to camouflage his insane views, including on the subject of women.

It was frightening when Tucker didn’t push back against Fuentes’ assertion that organised Jewry in America is a challenge to America’s problems and that Jews can’t be assimilated. The inference is that Jews have no place in America! 

These online discussions may appear as the odd irritation but, as the recent National Review editorial (“A Time for Choosing on Antisemitism”) points out, it may be an attempt to reshape the discussions in the Republican party post-Trump.

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I think lot of conservatives tend to follow the “no enemies on the right” line. As strategically defensible as it may be, antisemitism is nature’s way of telling us that the holder of those views has an empty mind and a nasty heart.

Of all the brilliant minds Tucker could pick, he chooses some YouTuber/influencer whose sole contribution to conservatism is rehabilitating the worst despots of the 20th century and, all-the-while, blaming Jews for our problems.

I’m all for debate and discussion and I don’t believe in no-platforming people, but when you give such a clown softball-questions in an interview (while conducting such a nasty & argumentative interview with Ted Cruz earlier this year over Israel) - then your bias is fairly plain to see.

Almost seventy years ago, one of my heros, William F. Buckley Jr. expelled the Jew haters and the Birchers from the American conservative movement. 

Buckley was an intellectual and a deep thinker. And sorely needed today. 

Fuentes is a virus and Carlson is the carrier.

I also think JD Vance may be more sympathetic to Tucker than the National Review editors appreciate. As such, for me, I would prefer Marco Rubio getting the Trump endorsement in 2028.

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A Time for Choosing on Antisemitism
By The Editors
October 30, 2025 6:30 AM

Tucker Carlson, knee-deep already, has taken another step into the muck with a friendly interview with Nick Fuentes.

The issue isn’t merely that Carlson “platformed” a white-nationalist influencer.

This framing allows Carlson and his defenders to portray the interview and others like it as an effort at open debate, as a good-faith attempt at engagement with alternative views.

The deeper problem is that Carlson didn’t actually challenge any of Fuentes’s noxious views that he has spelled out quite clearly over the years. Fuentes has engaged in Holocaust denial, called Adolf Hitler “really f***ing cool,” and said that if his movement gained power, it would execute “perfidious Jews.”

Carlson didn’t even need to go back through old clips to find objectionable statements. In his appearance, Fuentes stated that the “big challenge” to unifying the country against tribal interests was “organized Jewry in America,” and he expressed admiration for Soviet butcher Joseph Stalin. He did not receive any pushback from Carlson.

It also can’t be said that Carlson’s interviewing style is simply to let his guests speak. In June, Carlson held a combative interview with Senator Ted Cruz that descended into an extended shouting match. Why would Carlson choose to take an oppositional tack to a senator who has been fighting for conservatism for decades, but not to a podcaster who praises Stalin? The obvious answer is that Fuentes is an avowed Jew-hater while Cruz is a staunch supporter of Israel.

Carlson stated during his interview that he thinks Cruz, Mike Huckabee, and other figures who are Christian and support Israel have been infected by a “brain virus.” About these “Christian Zionists,” he said: “I dislike them more than anybody. Because it’s Christian heresy, and I’m offended by that as a Christian.”

It would be easy to dismiss Carlson, and his now-extensive history of promoting antisemitism, as the handiwork of another personality desperate for attention in the online economy. But Carlson is one of the nation’s most prominent and influential commentators. After the death of Charlie Kirk, Carlson has become a leading speaker for the organization that Kirk founded, Turning Point USA. When Vice President JD Vance subbed in as a host on Kirk’s podcast after the assassination, Carlson was his guest.

Carlson’s sway, though, is currently limited by the fact that President Trump — who happens to like Jews and who has been the strongest supporter of Israel of any U.S. president in history — is in charge of the Republican Party and ultimately defines MAGA.

In June, Trump ignored Carlson and joined Israel’s effort to take out Iran’s nuclear program, which was successful in neutralizing a threat that had been looming over the Middle East for decades without any U.S. casualties. Carlson had predicted that it would trigger World War III and that it could kill thousands of Americans within a week. Trump dismissed him as “kooky Tucker Carlson.”

Trump won’t be around forever, though. Which is one reason that Carlson, Fuentes, Candace Owens, and other online influencers are pushing so hard to try and remake the Republican Party and the conservative movement into one that is hostile toward Israel and the Jewish people.

The idea that it should be seen as the America First position to oppose Israel and American Jewry is not only a moral abomination; it makes no sense. Israel is a technologically innovative, staunchly pro-American nation in the heart of a strategically important region. Over the past several years, with U.S. support, Israeli actions have weakened the anti-American terrorist group the Houthis; neutered Hezbollah (the terrorist group that slaughtered 241 U.S. servicemembers in the 1983 Marine Barracks bombing); and crippled the nuclear program of a nation that has for decades vowed “Death to America.” It isn’t pro-Israel protesters in the U.S. who are burning American flags and calling for the “total eradication of Western civilization” — it is the so-called pro-Palestine movement. It wasn’t Israelis who handed out candy to celebrate the September 11 attacks — that was Palestinians.

George Washington, in a famous letter to a Jewish congregation in Newport, R.I., in 1790, wrote, “May the Children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants.” American Jews have enjoyed more security and freedom here than at any place in world history and rewarded that welcome by making positive contributions to the nation in just about every field imaginable. A version of America that is no longer safe for Jews to live in securely, and that is overtaken by anti-Israel zealots, is not an America that any conservative should want to live in.

Tucker Carlson’s cretinous antisemitism ✎

Tucker Carlson has become an antisemitic crank. 

Whenever he pops up in a story, he exhibits an embarrassing decline in intellect alongside an outlandish propensity for conspiracy theories (invariably with an antisemitic bent).

For example, why describe the podcaster (i.e. non-historian) Darryl Cooper as “the best and most honest popular historian in the United states” giving him platform for his revisionist history that Winston Churchill was the “chief villain of the Second World War”; and, not Hitler. 

Recently on the Epstein debacle and the so-called “client list”, he said in a speech that Epstein was “working on behalf” of Israel:

... Where did all the money come from? And no one has ever gotten to the bottom of that because no one has ever tried. And moreover, it’s extremely obvious to anyone who watches that this guy had direct connections to a foreign government. Now, no one’s allowed to say that that foreign government is Israel because we have been somehow cowed into thinking that that’s naughty. There is nothing wrong with saying that. There is nothing hateful about saying that. There’s nothing anti-Semitic about saying. There’s nothing even anti-Israel about saying that ... You have the former Israeli prime minister living in your house. You have had all this contact with the foreign government. Were you working on behalf of Mossad? Were you running a blackmail operation on behalf of foreign government? ... (Excerpted)

And, of course, all of this from his intellectual safe house of “… just asking questions ...” - the unmistakable refuge of the demagogue.

As we know, eventually, all such conspiracy theories devolve to some Jewish angle. 

The Epstein conspiracy is no different and it seems it won’t be easily killed.

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The reasons why the Mossad-Epstein conspiracy is ridiculous:

• It doesn’t make any sense for Israeli intelligence to connect itself to Epstein. Israeli intelligence is one of the few places on Earth in which idiots aren’t running things. He was investigated in 2005 and convicted in 2008. Why would Mossad be concerned with Mr Epstein’s island? What spy-trade skills did he possess? And who would Mossad be hoping to honey-trap - Mahmoud Abbas? It's ridiculous and would unnecessarily implicates Israel in his (by then) known pedophilia and sex scandals.
• Following the Jonathan Pollard espionage fiasco, Mossad & Israel must be aware of the serious repercussions involved in underhanded activities to US-Israeli relations.
• Former Israeli PM Ehud Barak met with Jeffrey Epstein “dozens of times, flew on private plane about 30 times in 2013-2017, including 2014 private flight in Florida” — and so what? Epstein met Clinton, did that make him a CIA spy? Also met Prince Andrew and the Duchess of York? And what does that prove?

The antisemites on the right ✎

Very interesting comments by Jeffrey Blehar in “The Wail of the Israel Haters“ (National Review):

And as soon as the first Israeli strikes were announced on Thursday, the weirdos scuttled out from behind the woodwork and poured forth over Twitter/X, chirruping angrily and helplessly about Israel, about Jews, and about worldwide conspiracy theories to yoke America to the Zionists. Yes, old-fashioned nuttery was once again out in the open, as all the most obvious suspects ran rampant.

There was Candace Owens — a woman who swears she is not an antisemite even as she “just asks questions” about the myth of Simon of Trent — reverting perfectly to form upon hearing the news: “Get ready, white American men! It’s time for you to go die for Israel again.” There was Tucker Carlson’s favorite “historian,” Darryl “MartyrMade” Cooper, offering prayerful words of consolation to his followers: “Don’t worry, friends: as arrogant and invincible as he may seem, in the end the devil and all his children are cast into the lake of fire.” (Remember, my friends: Cooper — who also believes that Churchill was the villain of World War II and that Europe would have been better off had Hitler won — insists that he is in no way an antisemite.)

As if to top them all, purported comedian Dave Smith — last seen sidekicking as a wild-eyed conspiracy theorist spouting accusations of Israeli genocide in Gaza on Joe Rogan’s hyperpopular podcast — went one step further. Referring to reports that Trump is fully supporting Israel’s action, he called Trump a traitor to his own movement:

If this is true, Trump is the most impotent b**** of a leader imaginable. He’s allowing one side of a war, who clearly wants to drag us in, to lie about our involvement while not correcting the record.

Either way, Trump has betrayed MAGA and every principle of America First. He is no longer worthy of any of our support. He probably never was.

I am as worried about the potential outcome in the Middle East as any sane man would be. (In particular, I would be very careful about breezily calling for immediate “regime change” without further consideration of what a post-mullah Iran, brought to heel by Israeli military action, would look like.) But it does my heart good to see all the worst people absolutely enraged, and in such repulsively sputtering ways, about Israel’s success to date.

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For those who don’t know, Dave Smith is a total moron. I’ve heard him “debate” on the Israel-Gaza conflict and he knows nothing. He would babble about a two-state solution on the popular 1967 borders until he realised Egypt and Jordan occupied Gaza and Judea and Samaria from 1948. And even if we pretend that there was a country called “Palestine”, and that we could revert to the 1967 borders, or even the 1948 borders; why did the Arabs reject every single partition plan before these borders were demarcated and tried to take the entirety of the land by force? No answer. These people parrot “ending the occupation” or “from the river to the sea” which is an antisemitic dog whistle. It means the eradication of Israel and the Jews. 

Tucker Carlson is an isolationist conservative. The problem here is that this inclination is apt to sometimes involve conspiracies about the Jews and world dominion. Tucker did also “interview” Putin and, worst of all, gave Darryl Cooper a platform on his show for his deplorable David Irving historical revisionism of WW2.