Thank you, Tucker Carlson!

By Sha’i ben-Tekoa

Tucker Carlson. Photo by Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America – Tucker Carlson, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia

Thank you for your display of a mental pathology worthy of the label “anti-Jewitis,” a thought-disorder that manifests as obsessing with beliefs about Jews that have no basis in reality.

Like a Rorschach test that can hint at psycho-pathological tendencies in the testee, Carlson read the Book of Esther which tells the story of a thwarted campaign by a king and his vizier to murder all Jews in the vast Persian Empire spreading over 127 countries. The king is petitioned to cancel the campaign, which was impossible in Persian law, but the king could and did license the Jews to defend themselves and survive, which they did, slaying 75,000 of their would-be murderers.

Conversely, Tucker Carlson sees in the Book of Esther the Jews committing genocide against the Persians and exposes his misunderstanding of the word genocide.

In his defense, the term has been terribly corrupted in recent years. For example, Barack Obama appointed Samantha Power, born in pathetically antisemitic Ireland, to speechify in the UN in the name of the United States people because she wrote a book, one of whose effects was to deflate the uniqueness of the German Holocaust. She wrote of what she claimed were some half-dozen other humongous massacres which simply were not genocidal. The word is not a synonym for massacre.

Carlson is also astonishingly silent on the shameless Persian scheme in the text to commit genocide against the Jews, meaning, murder them all.

Contrarily, he accuses the Jews of Persia of committing genocide against the Persians. One can only wonder about Carlson’s College Board SAT scores. Those tests include prose selections to be read by the testee and then tested on his comprehension of what he has read. Could there be a misunderstanding more warped than this?

The forefathers of today’s Iranians, almost a thousand years before the rise of Islam, plotted the extermination of the Jewish nation in their empire. The Jews defended themselves, killing 75,000, but that is not genocide.

The term was constructed by Jewish Holocaust victim Raphael Lemkin from the Latin word “gens” for “nation” and the common suffix -cide referring to killing e.g. fratricide, suicide, pesticide, infanticide. The German crusade in the 20th Christian century was to conquer the whole world in order to find and murder every living Jew so that in the future there would be no more Jews as individuals and no more nation of Jews.

Which is why the couplet “Armenian Genocide” is unfortunately in error, because it was not. Don’t misunderstand: not being genocide does not diminish in the least the horror of what was done to millions of Armenians. Jews possess no monopoly on human suffering and pain. The Jewish woman raped by a Nazi thug in 1935 did not suffer more than the Armenian woman raped by a Muslim Turk in 1915.

But the contexts were completely different. The rapacious Turks wanted the territory to their east occupied by millions of Armenians, and being merciless Muslim savages, they had no scruples about doing anything and everything to drive them off.

However, there is no evidence the Turks had their sights on all Armenians in the world because they believed Armenians were a menace to mankind. The Turks said nothing of killing all Armenians because they were a menace to the human race as the Germans said of the Jews, a mongrel race that does not practice racial purity.

Nazi propaganda likened Jews to disease-bearing, swarming rats and even gigantic microbes with the amazing ability to look and behave like human beings. What the Turks did to the Armenians on the scale of human cruelty to individuals was indeed comparable to what the Nazis did to Jewish individuals — but that still is not genocide — versus Jewish history in which there have been eight attempts to kill them all, starting with Pharaoh’s command to drown every male Jewish new-born in the Nile.

The Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks and Romans, also wanted to destroy the Jewish people (in different ways). The Russian technique was to recruit Jewish boys into the army for 25 years to keep them away from knowing anything about being a Jew.

Carlson’s misreading of the Book of Esther is evidence of what Jew-hatred can do to the human mind’s ability to think clearly and rationally. Within days of the events of October 7, 2023, anti-Jews were accusing Israelis of wanting to commit genocide of the “Palestinian” people – and never mind that the Hamas covenant and Muslim preachers in their mosque pulpits without number have called for that for decades.

We have heard for a near half-century from Iran, “Death to America, Death to Israel” but never out of Israel “Death to the Palestinians.” Islam these days is synonymous with striving for the extermination of the Jewish state and Jews everywhere, but in Carlson’s mind, the Book of Esther is about the Jews in ancient Persia genociding the Persians.

It has been (possibly) an act of antisemitism by the American Psychiatric Association that has never included in their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) antisemitism when that always manifests in delusions of the Jews committing monstrous crimes with no basis in reality, e.g. the Jews murder gentiles for their blood needed for Passover matza, or the Zionists stole Palestine from the Palestinians, when in history there never was such a people in residence in historic Palestine calling themselves “Palestinians” and being called that by others. Jew-hatred, as acted out by Tucker Carlson, is evidence of the power of this psychological and emotional disorder to wreck the normal mental circuits of human cognition and comprehension.

There is, nonetheless, great benefit in the current eruption of antisemitism a la Tucker Carlson and we should thank him for that. He has done us the favor of exhibiting the uncanny power of Jewish existence to impact some people like him –millions (?) billions (?) that disrupts the normal functioning of their brains.

Antisemitism unwittingly acknowledges and validates the vitality of the Jewish nation (however negatively impacting Jew-haters.) Adolf Hitler believed that the 1% of the German population who were Jews were so powerful, they were able to stab the German people in the back, make them lose the Great War and suffer the onerous domination of the post-war victors. Hitler made his career over that one lie; the Jews stabbed the Fatherland in the back and made Germany lose the war!

What other ideology/philosophy/religion has this effect on others?

So, thank you, Tucker for your literally insane misunderstanding of the wonderful Book of Esther in which the Persians plot the extermination of all the Jews in the empire, and you see instead the Jews guilty of that crime.

In a way, Carlson’s Christianity is also marred by a similar mental distemper. The Romans crucified thousands of Jewish rebels, including Jesus whom they saw as a rebel, mocking him as “King of the Jews.” But because the Early Church was persecuted by Rome and feared even worse oppression, they chose not to blame Rome for Jesus’s crucifixion.

They blamed the Jews, the eternal scapegoat people (“scapegoat” being a translation of a Hebrew term).

Jesus was the eternal Jew who at the moment of his passion was laden with all the sins of mankind, the guiltiest man in the world.

The Jews are always the guilty party.

Sha’i ben-Tekoa’s PHANTOM NATION: Inventing the “Palestinians” as the Obstacle to Peace is available at Amazon.com in hard cover or a Kindle ebook. His podcasts can be heard on www.phantom-nation.com.