by Gerald A. Honigman
Having served as a specialist consultant for a much better led ADL in the ‘70’s, with a strong doctoral background in both Middle Eastern and National Security Policy Studies, I’m extremely careful when I speak of antisemitism and its closely attached flip side, anti-Zionism, because I don’t want the accusation used loosely.
To deny the four millennia old Jewish People, since Abraham purchased a burial site for the Hebrew Patriarchs and most of their Matriarchs, the same rights that all other peoples have in their own ancestral homelands is just another manifestation of antisemitism.
No more “special treatment” for Jews.
And regarding antisemitism, there’s certainly no sense “crying wolf” when he’s not actually there.
By the way, on the balance sheet, wolves have more to fear from man than vice-versa. They’ve been mercilessly hunted and trapped, and entire ecosystems have been harmed by this disruption in predator-prey relationships.
Back to the age-old bloody animus towards Jews as the G_d killing, spawn of the Devil, perfidious people of the Church, or killers of Prophets “kilab yahud” Jew dogs of the Arabs’s Qur’an, there’s just too many real cases of the world’s oldest hatred still around which impacts today’s reality to dabble in false accusations. So let’s see what makes folks like Carlson tick, and I’d love to be invited on his show. Really…
I did meet Tucker briefly at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University when he was being interviewed as its guest in its prestigious Presidents Series. No mention about Jews or Israel came up in our brief conversation. I was an early admirer of sorts of his television appearances.
I had been on that same ERAU podium a few years earlier when my forever timely book, http://q4j-middle-east.com , made its official appearance in Florida after its debut in academia at the Association For the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) conference in Washington, D. C.
The following should be reviewed carefully to understand what has driven this hatred of Jews for so long…
“Pope Francis’ Balance Sheet regarding Israel and the Jews”
https://share.google/m8a6WLPnnjx144KlE
Raised on such “religious” teachings for millennia, Jew-hatred became almost genetically passed on to future generations.
Tucker Carlson is probably a product of the above and his own personal, warped ideas.
Here’s some input about him from a variety of sources…
Joshua David Washington: Israel-Africa Relations:
Charlie Kirk and Israel (It’s Complicated)
https://share.google/8w0fB4iAtU7BP4zxl
Source: ADL
https://share.google/7yuJjqR6m7ZhngkjP
“Czar Tucker and the Antisemitic Right — What Really Matters w/ Walter Russell Mead”— Tablet Magazine
Source: Tablet Magazine
https://share.google/4l1uWsRgzg9b2RIZm
https://cst.tau.ac.il/perspectives/tucker-and-the-jews/
“Tucker Carlson spreads antisemitic message in interview with Candace Owens” CNN
https://share.google/InBALkcnYOukVNF2I
There are many other corroborated sources reporting Carlson’s obvious problems with Jews (he’s referred to some as rats, a page right out of Nazi propaganda, persecutors of Christians, and so forth). Having said this, like with any other people, there are probably Jews who are worse than rats…George Soros, for example.
Charlie’s organization, Turning Point USA,would be wise to not use people like Carlson to promote its cause.
The following was texted to me below…
Hi Gerald, it’s Tucker Carlson.
I don’t write messages like this often, but after losing Charlie, I can’t stay quiet. I loved Charlie Kirk. He was more than a leader – he was my friend.
Losing him has been devastating… But if you knew Charlie, you would know exactly what he would say to us right now:
“Don’t you dare quit.” He poured his life into Turning Point USA to save this country…
Now, Gerald, it’s our duty to keep that mission alive. Will you give today in Charlie’s honor to grow the movement he gave everything for?
Make your gift now: tpointusa.io/i1ru77
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Antisemites Who Blame Israel for Charlie Kirk’s Death
https://ibsi.substack.com/p/antisemites-who-blame-israel-for?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=514279&post_id=173800726&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1q2uiq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
I blogged about Tucker years ago after some of my right wing, conservative Jewish friends were considering that he should run for president!
I too was a fan of his more or less simply because I found his shows then to be more interesting and different than the other Fox news shows like Hannity or Ingraham. But also noted that he never mentioned Israel and how Jews everywhere were under attack, this despite him purporting to fight for the little guy. Unlike his colleague Hannity, Tucker never invited Bibi on his show. I thus predicted that he was NOT our friend and more than likely he hid his antisemitism under the cover but in due time it would become overt. It certainly has and I admonish the Kirk family and more importantly the Trump administration to distance themselves from him and call him out as the real antisemite that he is.
I blogged about him here: https://leonupsidedown.blogspot.com/2023/11/tucker-carlson-candace-owens-and-ben.html
I completely agree with you Leo. I got that same impression when watching his show on FOX some years back. I recall when Ilhan Omar made her antisemitic comment “all about the Benjamins”. It was a major story on every FOX show other than Carlson’s where it was completely ignored. His silence about it was very telling for me. Also, his isolationism and criticism of Trump’s killing of solamani was also very revealing.
I have a proverbial “bee in my bonnet” about the almost 2000-year influence of the Roman Catholic church. I emphasize “Roman” because it was the Jew-hating emperor Constantine who formed the church around 400 years after Jesus died.
It seems to me that Constantine had all the space he needed to create a fantasy that had the Jews as the perennial “bad guys”. Not only did his meeting at Nicea turn Judaism upside-down but it made a special effort to avoid the mention that Jesus was a Jew.
This is not to say that those who wish to do so could not in fact worship Jesus (Yehoshua), but that the church became the focal point – the only focal point for many years – of this worship; to the point where the church itself was worshipped. And still is.
But now the seeds have been sown for many countries in the world to be overrun and ruled by Islam, and it appears that with a few exceptions the Muslims are being supported by the church. Why so? Because the Muslims hate the Jews just as the church does.
A simple choice… Jews (the religion of Jesus) or Muslims… I wonder how it will work out for the church…