Peloni: Carlson’s antisemitic alignment has been growing for some time now. It was troubling to see him given a position speaking at the Republican Convention, and is still being treated with significant deference and support from key Republicans, even among those going into the new Trump administration.
US media personality Tucker Carlson is currently providing the “leading platform” for Jew-hatred, according to Israel’s minister of diaspora affairs and combating antisemitism, Amichai Chikli.
“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 posted on social media on Tuesday.
Chikli’s comment came one day after Carlson, a right-wing commentator and former Fox News host, hosted economist Jeffrey Sachs for a lengthy interview in which both men gave credence to the antisemitic idea that Israel “controls” US foreign policy, among other controversial comments.
During the interview, Sachs floated the notion that former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s recently toppled regime was largely harmless and that the US opposed the authoritarian ruler “on behalf of Israel.” Sachs argued that American foreign policy hawks and the Israeli government have embarked on a joint mission to “remake the Middle East.”
“And so what happened last week in Syria was the culmination of a long-term effort by Israel to reshape the Middle East in its image,” Sachs said, claiming that Assad’s fall was largely orchestrated by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) because “Israel has run American foreign policy in the Middle East for 30 years.”
Sachs continued rattling off a series of unsubstantiated conspiracy theories regarding Israel. He suggested that Israel also encouraged America to start the Iraq War in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and asserted that the Jewish state has abandoned the concept of “land for peace,” which Sachs claimed would yield the establishment of a Palestinian state. He also said that Israel has masterminded a plan to push the US into a military confrontation with Iran
Sachs, an economist with an extensive track-record of anti-Israel rhetoric, criticized the former Obama administration’s antagonism toward the Syrian government, claiming that the country was not a “threat” to US interests. He stated that America only implemented anti-Assad policies to benefit Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s goal to “control the Palestinian people” and prevent the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.
“Syria was a normal, functioning country at the time, despite whatever you read, whatever propaganda,” Sachs said.
Assad, who was closely allied with Iran and Russia, was widely considered to be one of the world’s most brutal and ruthless dictators. He has been accused of killing civilians in chemical attacks, forcing Syrians into notoriously brutal prisons on specious charges, and dropping indiscriminate bombs on the county’s population.
On Monday, the head of a US-based Syrian advocacy organization said that a mass grave outside of Damascus contained the bodies of at least 100,000 people killed by Assad’s former government.
Assad fled the capital of Damascus earlier this month as a coalition of rebel groups stormed the capital, ending his family’s five-decade rule.
During Monday’s interview on Carlson’s eponymous show on social media, Sachs claimed that Israel provokes wars against any neighboring government that supports the Palestinian people, suggesting that Jerusalem has attempted to thwart pro-Palestinian governments because they hinder the Jewish state’s alleged goal of territorial expansion.
Sachs stated that “[Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu’s crazy ambition” is to complete the establishment of “greater Israel,” which he described as at the bare minimum controlling or annexing the West Bank, Gaza, and Golan Heights and in a more extreme version seizing all the territory from the Nile to the Euphrates River.
“This greater Israel idea says ‘we can’t make peace with the Palestinians. So anyone that supports the Palestinians is by definition a mortal threat to us.’ And when you have a mortal threat, you must destroy it.”
Sachs has previously claimed that US lawmakers are influenced by a so-called “Israel lobby” and repeatedly blamed Israel and the United States for implementing “crushing sanctions” on the Assad regime and attempting to “seize” Syrian oil.
Beyond Israel, Sachs has rationalized Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, claiming that the prospect of NATO expansion into Ukraine threatened Russia’s safety. To resolve the conflict, Sachs has suggested that Ukraine surrender wide swaths of its territory to Russia in exchange for peace.
Since his 2023 ouster from Fox News, Carlson has adopted a pattern of platforming guests on his podcast deeply hostile to Israel who have also pushed antisemitic conspiracy theories. Carlson drew outrage in September when he hosted a so-called “historian” who downplayed the horrors of the Holocaust and pushed Nazi talking points about World War II.
Carlson also sparked backlash last year after he compared Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky, who is Jewish, to a “rat” and asserted that he “persecutes Christians.”
@Adam
Sachs is a fellow traveler of Soros. He is all about ‘sustainability’ BS. He also is pro China. I find it amusing how Tucker has had him on repeatedly over the years and never takes issue with him. Then again, he has him on almost exclusively (until last week) to discuss the Ukraine war, where they share some common ground. I would have expected Carlson to loathe this guy.
By the way, I have seen a bit of Carlson’s interview with Liel Leibovitz of Tablet just a few weeks back (the segment was on Rumble.). The segment I saw was of Liel saying how US aid to Israel comes with a price which is to Israel’s detriment. I don’t subscribe to Tucker’s site so I couldn’t view the whole thing. I wonder if anyone here has seen the whole thing and could elaborate more on what was discussed.
@ Peloni, Laura
re: Mearsheimer
I recently viewed a Meirsheimer lecture to a university student audience. Probably 2-3 years old. He repeatedly suggested that they should get their information from 972Mag. Need I say more. Cancer can’t come fast enough.
@ Peloni
“As to Carlson, his opinion of Zel is quite meaningless to me. His wall art contains the image of Fatima of Islamist import,…”
I am not familiar with ‘Fatima of Islamist import.’ Please explain. Are you saying Tucker has some Islamist stuff on his office wall?
We should not forget that Jeffrey Sach’s is a lifelong Communist. Even for many years a paid-up member of the U.S. Communist Party. He is a frequent guest no only with Carlson but with Russian television and internet stations such as RT. He is also a professor at New York University for several decades, hence his reputation as a “respected economist.” Of couse the ecomics he teaches to NYU students has a distinctly Marxist tilt. Interesting that he and Carlson get on so well, considering that Carlson has always depicted himself as a man of the right.
@fquigley
I rescued it
Peloni try to find my post to Inna
Russia needed to invade in February 2022 and a lot more beside.
But the Putin leadership is a continuation of the revisionism of revolutionary socialism by Stalin and the Stalinist bureaucracy. All words are important here. I try to be careful with words
Inna. Have you heard of the Monroe doctrine. No…then you are ignorant and foolish
Yes but you disregard it
Then you are a knave.
In actual fact Ukraine never had any right to exist.
No nation has a right to exist as a vehicle for carrying on hatred of another nation. That is Ukraine.
There is another example of this. I give you another dead sutr example… PALESTINE
UKRAINE unedited by soppy minds = PALESTINE unedited by soppy minds
No matter what way you come at this they are exactly equal.
They are both lethally dangerous but I place the Ukrainian menace as at least 1000 times more dangerous
For human life
For all life
For a future
@Felix
Describing Jews as rats is a well known antisemitic trope, and while it might be argued that this was not Carlson’s intent in doing so, I think his embrace and attempts to mainstream antisemites and antisemitism with increasing vigour would argue otherwise.
As to the need to “eliminate” Zel, no, I do not agree that he needs to be eliminated, as in executed. I think he needs to be brought to justice, held to account for his cirmes, and removed from power for his gross violations of civil rights and electoral violations, but no, I do not support his execution. I also do not believe that Zel is himself a Nazi, but he is in fact supported by and held in power in obeyance to the Nazi elements in his own military, which you may see as a distinction without relevance, but I do believe it is relevant. Ukraine has a Nazi problem. Zel actually tried to take on the Nazi’s during the Zelote affair if you recall, and appointed a close ally who tried to change the hearts and minds of Ukrainians in pursuit of peace and reconciliation between the Monist and minority factions of his country. Of course, being the feckless opportunist which he is, Zel abandoned this policy of reconciliaton as the Nazi’s physically attacked Zel’s ally on live TV, and in true representation of Ukrainian justice, no charges were brought against the perpetrators, even as their identies were well known and documented on the video.
So, no. I do not believe Zel is a Nazi. He is a corrupt, war profiteering, immoral miscreant, riding the wave of Yankee dollars flooding his country while pursuing policies supported by his Nazi allies, while also ignoring the slaughter of his people as a consequence to his leadership failures, but this, in and of itself, does not support the notion that he is a Nazi. What is more relevant, though, is that should he be eliminated as you hope to occur, it should be understood that the Nazi’s will not have any less control over the state, and likely their import will grow stronger rather than weaker with the removal of their pandering Jewish poppet.
As to Carlson, his opinion of Zel is quite meaningless to me. His wall art contains the image of Fatima of Islamist import, while he spews and popularizes Jew Hatred among the American masses. How could his opinion on any topic be relevant, particularly with respect to any Jew. Even if his opinion might be aligned with my own, I would argue that the support gained by his perspective should be understood to be quite specious and not relevant to any factual basis so long as it relates to Jews, Israel, or antisemitism.
So, this is where I am on all of this.
@Inna1
This is not an accurate description of the Budapest Memorandum which people like to cite without having either read it or understood its meaning. The BM is a short and legible document which can be read hear:
https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%203007/Part/volume-3007-I-52241.pdf
As is true of all agreements, there are distinguishing guarantees made which by all parties, not just one, must abide, of which Ukraine’s territorial rights are just one. The BM contains just six short clauses, and the US violated two of these clauses prior to any Russian invasion with their US sponsored coup, and they facilitated the violation of a third clause within hours of their Nazi infiltrated govt taking power by the Rada passing a bill which altered the language rights of the Ukrainian minorities, and not just Russian minorities but all minorities. This was later followed by the assault on the ethnic Russian protestors on May 2 at the Trade Union building in Odessa, properly described as the Odessa Massacre.
These violations of Ukraine’s minority rights are violations of guarantees stipulated in the BM in Clause 1 by Russia, the US, & Britain. While recognizing the US role in carrying out the Coup in Ukraine, it should also be understood that the US failed to wield its newly gained control over the Ukrainian govt to support the rights of Ukraine’s minorities, while Russia acted in support of those minorities. Hence, what you describe as Ukraine’s “internal business” was actually a clear violation of Clause 1 which clearly requires that the signatory parties respect Ukraine’s sovereignty and borders “in accordance with the principles of the CSCE Final Act”, of which minority rights are specifically cited several times among these principles, the first of which states
“The participating States on whose territory national minorities exist will respect the right of persons belonging to such minorities to equality before the law, will afford them the full opportunity for the actual enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms and will, in this manner, protect their legitimate interests in this sphere.”
https://www.csce.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Helsinki-Final-Act.pdf
I am not sure why we keep having this conversation. Ukraine did not have the right to roll back the language rights of its minorities, nor to close its Russian schools, nor to shutter the Orthodox Russian churches, nor to imprison the clergy of those churches, all of which have now come to pass. Yet, even while you seem to believe that the gross violation of the BM by the 2014 coup in which the US was clearly involved and whose capacity building financial involvement via USAID and later US funding of Ukraine’s entire govt, have implicated the complicity of the US in these severe violations, which are in fact violations not just of the BM and the Final Act but of numerous other international agreements which also cite the guarantees made to minorities. Hence, the implication of abandoning any enforcement of these breaches of minority rights in neither a minor nor an “internal” matter as you suggest. If the BM is not considered to have been vitiated by the US involved coup, which is of course not reasonable, it is only Russia of the signatories of the BM who has pursued any action on behalf of the affected minorities via negotiations with the West which were confessed to have been conducted in bad faith by the West, per the relative representatives of Germany, France and Ukraine.
So, do explain further about the lack of relevance of the “internal business” or exactly how Russia is not the only party of the BM which has acted in good faith on behalf of these minorities. All that was needed to avoid war was good faith negotiations. Millions of people are either dead or destitute due to the faithless regard by which the US initially violated with the US sponsored coup, and which it still violates to this day with its support of an unelected govt which refuses to respect, not just the minority rights of Ukraine’s citizens, but now too the electoral rights of all of Ukraine’s citizens, which further violates more international agreements than just the BM.
I will look for your reply with interest.
I came across this in passing:
— https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/haaretz-today/2024-09-03/ty-article/.highlight/the-israeli-minister-who-loves-to-bait-subvert-and-sabotage-jews/00000191-b860-dd1b-a7db-bffe1e750000
@fquigley
Wow, you are blaming Laura for her “hate of Russia”? It is strange. Russia attacked independent Ukraine, it is a fact. What can you do to counter this fact? In 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed, Ukraine became a sovereign state. The Budapest Memorandum of 1994, signed by Russia, UK and the USA, pledged security assurances to Ukraine. Russia is an aggressor. What is going on inside Ukraine is internal business of Ukraine, and does not give Russia the right to invade.
What Laura is for is hatred of Russia, she is a hater of the valiant Russian people
She therefore has no place writing on the pages of israpundit.
Is Laura a Nazi. I would have to say so in that she exhibits extreme Russia hatred.
Entertainment of Nazis…this cannot be accepted Ted and Peloni
The trouble with Peloni is that we do not know if you stand at the side of Russia
You praise Cory Walker above and Walker is big bad news
You Peloni ignore this…
Walker writes
“Carlson also sparked backlash last year after he compared Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky, who is Jewish, to a “rat” and asserted that he “persecutes Christians.”. ”
The thing is Carlson is right. Zelensky is indeed a nazi and I get tucker calling Zelensky a rat, but rats are innocent creatures
A rat is an animal and is problematic often
But Zelensky is a nazi on a promotional service to the Nazis of the Maidan
So Zelensky is a nazi and needs to be eliminated.
And good for Tucker in pointing that out
So where are YOU Peloni on this?
Anti-American, Antisemitic Tucker Carlson
https://substack.com/home/post/p-153376591?source=queue
This is a bullshit argument. Russia is not the victim, it is the aggressor. Stop buying in to this Kremlin propaganda. As I said, Mearsheimer and his ilk are consistent in their claims that the attacked nations, that would be Israel and Ukraine are in his warped view, the aggressors. My earlier comments stand.
Mearsheimer denies the right of Israel and Ukraine to defend themselves. He regards the aggressors, ie Russia and hamas, as in the right.
@Laura
At no time did Mears or any of his ilk make the argument which you describe above. In fact, you claim there is a consistency in their approach to these two wars based on your approach which they correctly reject.
Ignoring your own arguments which Mears does not support in the slightest, Mears et al stipulate that Russia was and continues to be isolated by a hostile and aggressive NATO presence on her borders to which Russia has an inherent right to self defense, even preemptive self defense. Meanwhile, Mears et al simultaneously deny Israel the right to self defense at all, even after being attacked in a most inhumane and savage manner which is beyond dispute. These are the inconsistencies which characterize the dichotomous views of Mears et al – mind you, these are THEIR arguments, not my view or your views, but their views. So, with a clear understanding of this fact, pray do tell how there is any consistency in these two approaches, particularly given that Mears himself admits their isn’t any.
Reader
The more I see the more to me personally it is obvious that Mearsheimer et Al proceed with very great weakness on Russia History
Especially writing the struggle of Leon Trotsky OUT so it becomes superficial
But then with Israel hatred wilful disregard of Jewish history is more of the same
Ignoring Trotsky is their downfall and that leads into Antisemitism
Or to put it even more clearly the roots of the Antisemitism of Mearsheimer is to be found in how he treats Trotsky in Russia history
So at the deeper level he and these types are being consistent . This is a very extensive layer from left to right
Peloni
“with regards to their assessment of the war in Gaza, is it terribly surprising to you that their comments on Israel prove both wide of the mark and not even a little convincing? ”
That is the whole point. Lots of what Mearsheimer et Al say about Zelensky et Al is pretty logical. Pretty factual.
But when they come to Israel and Jews it is total lies and doesn’t hold up for a split second.
So in the Ukrainian issue they are factual and logical leading in the process of giving weight to the phenomenon of Banderaism reappearing in the Maidan protests and yes the videos show this unmistakably.
But with Israel they ignore history the total history and engage in prejudice
Best definition of Antisemitism you will ever find.
Laura, Michael and Adam to their disgrace perfectly reverse this and just as lethally.
To the extent they won’t discuss observed and undeniable evidence about this war.
That is AS treacherous.
@Laura
Ukraine was WAY better off under Russian domination over its nation.
It was never a state until it became a republic within the USSR if you ignore that joke of a government during the Civil War.
In fact, google the stats for any of the former Eastern Block countries and see how well they have been doing since the late 1980s.
Actually, there’s a consistency in their approach to the wars in Ukraine and Israel. That was my point. In both cases you have American allied countries that were attacked being condemned and their aggressors defended by the likes of Mearsheimer and his ilk. There is no dichotomy in Mearsheimer, Carlson and like-minded people’s approach to the wars in Ukraine and Israel. They are consistently anti-American and antisemitic.
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Correct Peloni even though I struggle to follow your complicated sentence construction.
More to the point Laura is whitewashing NATO, all US presidents from Clinton on, and especially the key influence of Banderaism as the prevailing poison in Ukraine
And saying if you don’t support NATO against Russia … You Shut Up … Laura roars
And if Israeli intelligence wants to do real good… discuss on air with Tucker so we all can learn
@Laura
Pompeo? The same Pompeo who lead the CIA while the Russia Hoax was ongoing under his watch? The same Pompeo who chose his successor to lead the CIA to be nonother than Haspel, who was the CIA station chief in England while the Russia Hoax was initiated? That Pompeo?
Such allies as Pompeo, Haley, Pence and Cheney, all of whom supported the faked Jan 6 Commission and the imprisonment of Trump on trumped up charges,
must be understood to hold their support of Israel in obeyance to being secondary to maintaining the power of the Establishment. And while their support of Israel may not be in question, their support of a Trump presidency clearly was. Hence, Trump was wise to not include Pompeo in his administration in any role. If Carlson made this argument to Trump, he was wise to do so, but the greater likelihood is that Trump needed no such instruction as to keep the likes of those listed above on the sidelines as he enters his second term.
@Laura
It seems to surprise you to think that those who can rationally consider the war in Ukraine might simultaneously become irrational and devious with regards to anything touching on the subject of Israel. I think Mearsheimmer explained this dichotomy best when he was asked to provide a consistency of approach in his analysis of the war in Ukraine and the war in Gaza. Indeed, Mearsheimer stated quite unequivocally and unabashedly that
and of course, he doesn’t.
I would argue that this admission by Mears is key to understanding the clearly divergent interests of a great number of commentators who follow his lead in holding dichotomous perspectives with regards to these two wars. Hence, if I would find value in the approach that is employed by Mers et al in discussing the war in Russia while they use an altogether different approach with regards to their assessment of the war in Gaza, is it terribly surprising to you that their comments on Israel prove both wide of the mark and not even a little convincing?
Capitalism is descending into war mode because it’s system is in sharp decline. War is an expression of this unstoppable decline. And the threat of nuclear war for the world does not come only from Iran
That doesn’t make Iran less of a problem for humanity.
Those who deny the nuclear war danger from Iran are not following hard evidence.
Those who do THAT, and also proceed to cast blame on Israel for defending Israel and Jews – are engaging in crude Antisemitism.
Tucker and the other loudmouth Jeremy Sacks do exactly that.
Nothing could be clearer!
What’s ridiculous is to compare 21st century Ukraine to that of WW2. Because putin claims modern day Ukrainians to be nazis doesn’t make it truth. What putin means by “nazis” is anyone who opposes Russian domination over their nation. To putin, being a Ukrainian nationalist amounts to being a “nazi”.
If Trump is giving this antisemite such power, I may come to regret having voted for him. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/tucker-carlson-s-influence-grows-as-he-helped-kill-possible-defense-secretary-s-nomination-report/ar-AA1w6HTW?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=fc34034a60e94ef0bd1838679d8a0cfa&ei=38
It gets ridiculously complicated.
This may not sound useful, but while the Russians have been miserable to the Jews (Who hasn’t), the Ukrainians have been to the Jews essentially on the same level as Hamas, or close to it, during WWII. This may stick out in the memories of us Jews, especially as the Ukrainians are still on their Nazi path and are very proud of it. I believe Putin mentioned this ‘way back.
There is a pattern of commentators who oppose arming Ukraine and support Russia and who absurdly blame America for provoking Russia’s invasion, who also oppose Israel. This is why I’m perplexed over people on Israpundit backing Russia and opposing Ukraine.
As to what motivates fucker carlson, you only need to look to who is funding his little media company, Omeed Malik. But I suspect Carlson has also been a closeted antisemite anyway or he’s a greedy sociopath and knows unfortunately there’s money to be made on social media spreading antisemitism. You would have to be a sociopath to defend assad. He’s also anti-American. He’s Russia first, not America first.
And why would that be a problem?
EvRe1
“What motivates Tucker Carlson in offering his platform for antisemitic propaganda…” Read my stuff below… and between the lines if necessary.
Let me quote Einstein: “There are two things that are infinite: The Universe and Human Stupidity… And I’m not sure about The Universe.”
I have seen this antisemitic set of ideas coming out of both the left and the right about “the Israel lobby” and about Israelis being an ancient cult wanting to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem. When I have seen this latter theory written about I suggest to the author[s] that they visit Israel to find out to what extent their ideas about Israel and Israelis are true.
Sachs has been outspoken about the war in Ukraine as being the fault of the US government under Biden.
But his statements about Israel and the “Israel lobby” are simply antisemitic and not a whole lot different from when Representative Ilhan Omar said, “It’s all about the Benjamins.”
I don’t see any evidence backing Sach’s claim. If Israel was so powerful, why did the October 7th massacre happen? If Israel was so powerful, how could Biden delay or prevent shipping arms to Israel that Israel paid for in the midst of an existential war for the survival of Israel? If Israel was so powerful how is it that the rockets and bombs of Hezbollah caused thousands of Israelis to have to leave their homes in the north?
What Sachs appears not to understand is that the US Intelligence community has been actively engaged in regime change operations to various degrees in countries such as Libya, and Syria, but also the countries of Ukraine, Georgia, Romania, and Slovakia. The latter three countries do not want to participate in the EU project of mass uncontrolled immigration and the war against Russia. They want to put their country’s needs first. The President of Slovakia wanted to get to the bottom of the efforts to force COVID vaccination on their people, and was shot a day after he made these statements. Fortunately he is still alive.
These regime change operations have not been engaged in because Israel wanted these countries’ leaders to be undermined. The US has been actively involved in funding al Qaeda and ISIS in Syria since Obama was President. Obama did not do this to please Netanyahu or to empower Israel, or to give Israel more territory.
The Sachs argument falls apart when looking at the facts.
What motivates Tucker Carlson in offering his platform for antisemitic propaganda is difficult to ascertain. Perhaps he isn’t able to distinguish propaganda from facts when it comes to Jews and Israel.
Why do I get the impression that there’s some kind of relationship between the thinking of Candace Owens and the thinking of Tucker Carlson?
The two seem to correlate well in both attitude and timing.