Tucker and Candace escalate their war against the Jews

Peloni: I think it is important to see Trump disowning Carlson as we have seen in the past days, but the reality is that Trump exclusively addressed Carlson’s opposition to the Iran war and his lack of intelligence but failed to address Carlson’s rampant and accelerating promotion of Jew Hatred.  Is this the limit of how Trump wants to define himself apart from Carlson?  Of course, Trump made the correct choice in distancing himself and his movement apart from Carlson’s movement, but among the points which clearly distinguishes the two men and the movements they are respectively advancing is the issue relating to antisemitism, to which Carlson gives lip service and in the same breath invents the Chabad movement as the masterminds of world domination.  Trump needs to stop ignoring this damaging and dangerous rhetoric advancing Jew Hatred.

This time, they’re back with a theory that would delight the authors of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, one of the foulest hoaxes ever written.

Andrea Widburg | Am Thinker | March 5, 2026

Tucker Carlson interviews Candace Owens. 2023. Screengrab via Youtube

Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, whether driven by genuine Nazi-level antisemitism or sheer opportunism, have escalated their antisemitic and anti-religious rhetoric. They’ve now gone after Chabad, a Jewish outreach movement that seeks to help all Jews return to the fold through core values. The Tsar’s secret police, who wrote one of the most damaging hoaxes ever—The Protocols of the Elders of Zion—would be proud of these new American descendants.

To appreciate just how evil this dastardly duo is, you need to know a little about Chabad. It began 250 years ago in the shtetls of Russia, places where Jews were frequently persecuted and lived in tremendous poverty. Despite this, the Jews were unyielding in their fealty to the Torah (the first five books of the Bible), and dreamed of the Messiah’s return and the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem.

The point of the movement is to know God’s word:

The word “Chabad” is a Hebrew acronym for the three intellectual faculties of chochmah—wisdom, binah—comprehension and da’at—knowledge. The movement’s system of Jewish religious philosophy, places great emphasis on the need for intellectual understanding and recognition of the Creator, the divine purpose of creation, and the important role and unique mission of each creature. This philosophy guides a person to refine and govern his or her every act and feeling through wisdom, comprehension and knowledge.

When I can attend services (although work often precludes me from doing so), I go to our local Chabad synagogue. This may seem like a strange choice for someone raised entirely outside of the faith (although inside an intensely culturally Jewish home). However, I find it much more meaningful than a Reform service, with its generic Kumbaya quality or even a conservative service, which increasingly tends to lean toward leftist shibboleths. (See, e.g., Adrienne Skolnick’s struggles.)

We’re also blessed here in that the rabbi is exceptionally erudite (although I believe all Chabad rabbis are), and a clear, thoughtful communicator, and a man with a great sense of humor. His sermons are not about world domination. Instead, they are about incorporating the Bible’s moral teachings into our lives. In addition to the sermons, there are the weekly prayers celebrating God’s greatness, munificence, and love, and the reading of the weekly Torah passage.

Speaking of the rabbi, the local Chabad is a project that he and his wife run jointly, which is how all Chabad synagogues operate. They are family affairs.

You may remember hearing about a family-run Chabad in Mumbai, India, in 2008 when a Pakistani Islamic terror group launched a massive attack in that city, killing 175 people. Among the victims were the Chabad rabbi and his wife (who was six months pregnant), along with four other people.

Two things stood out about this part of the attack: First, they were geographically separate from the rest of the terrorist acts. In other words, they weren’t a target of convenience; instead, they were a deliberate target. Second, the victims were tortured. It was a preview of October 7, 2023.

It didn’t stop there. In 2019, a Hitler supporter attacked a Chabad synagogue in Poway, California, killing a congregant and wounding three others. In August 2024, in Brooklyn, a man carried out a stabbing attack in front of the Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters while yelling, “Free Palestine.” Just this January, someone rammed the same building with a truck.

But it’s not just open Muslim extremists and white supremacists who hate the innocuous, learned Jews of Chabad. It’s also Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens.

They have created out of whole cloth a bizarre narrative that turns Chabad into the ultimate agent of evil in the world, exerting a web of control everywhere (but especially controlling the innocent, naïve Donald Trump). Having created this sick, antisemitic fantasy, Carlson and Owens are using their broad platforms to disseminate the same type of lies that powered pogroms and, ultimately, the Holocaust:

? EXCLUSIVE — Tucker Carlson claims that a sect of Judaism called Chabad is ultimately behind the military strikes on Iran.

This might be Tucker's most absurd claim to date.

And it's yet another shot at Trump.

Why? Well, @jaredkushner & @IvankaTrump have belonged to Chabad in… pic.twitter.com/AnrslkJCtN

— Joel Mowbray (@joelmowbray) March 5, 2026

(The above is an essay-length tweet, so I won’t reprint it here. I urge you to click on it, though, because it’s easy to understand, to the point, and nails the evil person Carlson has become.)

This insanity is par for the course for Candace, but it’s new for Tucker. Indeed, it’s also relatively new for Candace. This is what she had to say after the Poway shooting:

Looking at this kind of thing, you really have to wonder whether Tucker and Candace were always this hate-filled and just hid well, or if their brains have broken. Regardless of the cause, thanks to these demented attacks, the danger to Jews around the world just increased dramatically.

But here’s one good thing: Trump is no longer remaining silent about Tucker. He has finally broken with him…going so far as to attack Tucker’s intelligence (the ultimate Trump insult):

In a lengthy conversation just now, President Trump hit back at Tucker Carlson who called the Iran war “absolutely disgusting and evil.”

“Tucker has lost his way,” Trump told me. “I knew that a long time ago, and he’s not MAGA.  MAGA is saving our country. MAGA is making our country great again. MAGA is America first, and Tucker is none of those things. And Tucker is really not smart enough to understand that.”

More MAGA people need to make this very, very clear. (Think of this as William F. Buckley and Barry Goldwater denouncing, and effectively destroying, the John Birch Society.)