Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens think about Israel more than I do. More than most Jewish people I know. More than any AIPAC lobbyist. They’ve made Jews and Israel the center of everything they do for five straight years, finding them in every topic, every tragedy, every conspiracy, every war. They call it America First. There’s another name for it.
They’re Israel First. Not in the way their supporters use that phrase as an accusation against Jews. No subject exists for them that doesn’t eventually lead back to Israel and the Jews. COVID. Ukraine. The Federal Reserve. JFK. 9/11. Charlie Kirk’s assassination. The war in Iran. Every road. Same destination. Every time.
Ted Cruz said it to Tucker’s face, on Tucker’s own podcast: “It’s a very weird thing, the obsession with Israel. You’re not talking about the Chinese, the Japanese, the Brits. You’re asking: ‘What about the Jews? What about the Jews?’”
Tucker’s response: “Oh, so I’m an antisemite now?”
That’s not a denial. That’s a man who knows Cruz is right and has no answer. A man who isn’t obsessed doesn’t need to deflect. He just answers the question.
Tucker says he doesn’t like talking about Israel. He says this on his own podcast, after five years of talking about almost nothing else.
Tucker Carlson Has Been Talking About Jews for Five Years
In 2021 Tucker was the most-watched host in cable news. He was also promoting the Great Replacement theory in over 400 episodes, a belief white supremacist movements have claimed as their own. The ADL demanded Fox fire him. Fox refused. Tucker’s response was to use Israel’s immigration policy as his defense. The neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer celebrated with a headline: “Tucker Nukes Israel: Says Jews Have Same Policy They Claim is Racist for Whites.” White supremacists called it a full redpill. Tucker called it a discussion about voting rights.
The man who says he doesn’t like talking about Israel was using Israel to defend white supremacist theory on the most-watched cable show in America.
When Fox fired him in 2023, Tucker flew to Moscow. Sat across from Vladimir Putin, an ICC-indicted war criminal responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians. Came home calling him honest.
By the fall of 2024 he was hosting Darryl Cooper, a Holocaust revisionist, and calling him “the best and most honest popular historian in America.” Cooper’s argument: Churchill was the chief villain of World War II, the Nazi atrocities downplayed. Tucker also defended Oswald Mosley, the British fascist who wanted to surrender Britain to Hitler, calling him a war hero. Mosley wasn’t a war hero. He wanted to hand Britain to the man trying to destroy it. Tucker didn’t mention that part. He never does.
Then came October 28, 2025. Tucker hosted Nick Fuentes, an avowed antisemite, Holocaust denier, and Hitler admirer, for a two-hour friendly conversation. Fuentes, asked who in the conservative movement needs to be taken down, answered: “These Zionist Jews.” He continued: “As far as the Jews are concerned, you cannot actually divorce Israel and the neocons from Jewishness: ethnicity, religion, identity. I see Jewishness as the common denominator.”
Tucker’s response: “I’m not that interested in ‘the Jews.’”
He said this for two hours, nodding along to every word. He invited Fuentes. He set the table and let him run.
Ben Shapiro the next day: “No to the Groypers, no to the cowards like Tucker who normalized their trash.” Kevin Roberts, the head of the Heritage Foundation, defended Tucker. That was the conservative movement in October 2025, not debating whether to condemn antisemitism, but whether Tucker had gone too far by hosting a Hitler admirer for two hours to talk about Jews.
Just weeks later Tucker accused Ben Shapiro of “usury.” Usury, the trope medieval authorities used for centuries to justify expelling Jews from England, France, and Spain. Tucker aimed it at an Orthodox Jewish man on a public platform and moved on.
Then came Charlie Kirk’s memorial service. Tucker described the murder of Jesus in a way that pointed in one direction: Jews killed Kirk. He named a specific Jewish movement as the secret killer of a conservative icon. People applauded.
Tucker flew to Doha, Qatar, in December 2024 and again in December 2025. Qatar has hosted Hamas’s political leadership since 2012 and transferred hundreds of millions of dollars to Gaza. Tucker headlined the Doha Forum both years, interviewed the Qatari Prime Minister on stage, and came home calling Israel evil. In December 2025 he announced from the stage that he’s buying a home there. “I like it here a lot.” The firm that arranged his interview with the Qatari PM, Lumen8 Advisors, receives $180,000 a month from the Qatari Embassy in Washington. The contract is public record. Tucker denies payment. The contract exists. Ted Cruz started calling him #QatarFirst.
Moscow. Doha. Doha again. Follow the itinerary.
In December 2025 StopAntisemitism named Tucker Antisemite of the Year. His response, days later at the Turning Point USA convention: “Not only am I not an antisemite. I’m not an antisemite because antisemitism is immoral in my religion.” He said this days after hosting the man who called “these Zionist Jews” the enemy. The audience applauded.
Then in February 2026, Tucker flew to Israel, stayed in the terminal at Ben Gurion Airport, never entered the country, recorded an interview with Ambassador Huckabee, posed for one photo, and left. He’s spent years telling America that Israel is the problem. He was standing at the door and wouldn’t go in. Afterward he claimed Israeli security detained him. Israeli authorities said it was standard entry screening. The U.S. Embassy said the same thing. Tucker doubled down on the lie.
The next day he asked Huckabee why Jews shouldn’t undergo genetic testing to prove their connection to the land. Pushed the Khazar theory, a discredited antisemitic conspiracy used for a century to deny Jewish connection to Israel. Said Netanyahu’s family is “from Poland” so “how do we know he has a connection to the people who God promised the land to?”
Tucker flew to Israel, stood at the door and wouldn’t go in, and told the American Ambassador to Israel that Jews have no legitimate claim to the land Jews have lived on for three thousand years. Ted Cruz called him obsessed. Huckabee watched him deny Jewish history from inside a Jewish state. Those are not the same thing.
When the Iran war began in early 2026, Tucker blamed Chabad-Lubavitch, the international Jewish outreach movement known for feeding the homeless and running university Hillels, for secretly orchestrating the entire war to destroy al-Aqsa Mosque and rebuild the Third Temple. His evidence: IDF uniform patches. Gerard Filitti, senior counsel at the Lawfare Project, examined the evidence and called it “fabricated or unverified.” The patches didn’t belong to Chabad. Tucker didn’t correct it. He repeated it. Rabbis across America received threats. Chabad houses reported security concerns. Tucker moved on to the next guest.
That guest was Joe Kent, who’d just quit as National Counterterrorism Director and went on Tucker’s show and insinuated, without evidence, that Israel murdered Charlie Kirk and claimed Israel “manufactured” the Iraq war and the Syrian civil war. Tucker hosted him anyway and was also calling AIPAC, a lobbying organization funded by American citizens, “a continuous humiliation ritual” for Congress and demanding it register as a foreign agent. Tucker had the law wrong. AIPAC doesn’t take foreign government money. Tucker didn’t correct that either.
From the Great Replacement theory in 2021 to the Chabad blood libel in 2026. Five years. One destination. Every road leads to the same address.